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1903 Jul 4
 The first cable across the Pacific Ocean, spliced between San Fancisco Honolulu, Midway, Guam and Manila, allowed Pres. Teddy Roosevelt to send the first around the world message. It took 9 minutes to circle the globe. Roosevelt had placed the atoll of Midway Island under Navy supervision. The Commercial Pacific Cable Co. (later AT&T) set the cable across the Pacific via Midway Island.
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1941 Dec 23
 US Marines and Navy defenders on Wake Island capitulated to a second Japanese invasion. In 1995 Brig. Gen. John F. Kinney co-wrote “Wake Island Pilot: A World War II Memoir.”
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1942 Jun 4
 The Battle of Midway began. It was Japan’s first major defeat in World War II. Four Japanese carriers were lost. The carrier USS Yorktown was hit by 3 Japanese bombs and put on tow to Pearl Harbor. It was torpedoed three days later and sank in waters 16,650 deep. The Yorktown was found in 1998 by a team led by oceanographer Robert Ballard, who had also found the Titanic and the Bismarck. The story of the Battle of Midway was told by Walter Lord in "Incredible Victory." In 2005 Alvin Kernan authored “The Unknown Battle of Midway.”
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1969 Jun 8
 President Nixon met with Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam, and informed him that US troop levels were going to be sharply reduced. During a joint press conference with Thieu, Nixon announced a policy of 'Vietnamization' of the war and a reduction of US troops in Vietnam. The first phase of 'Vietnamization' was to include the withdrawal of 25,000 American military personnel.
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2016 Sep 1
 President Barack Obama visited Midway Atoll, the remote coral reef that serves as a reminder of both modern global climate challenges and the dominance the United States has held in the Pacific since its World War Two victory there.
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