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On This Day ... in 1922 & 1949

1922: The new RAF Staff College was opened at Andover.

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1949: The North Atlantic Treaty was signed, the basis for NATO.

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Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe in 1581. Knighted by Queen Elizabeth I
Charles Stuart issued the Declaration of Breda 1660 which set out his conditions for accepting the crown of England as Charles II
Sir Henry Walpole becomes first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1721.

NATO....it was once a great thing. Now some members are combat shy.

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