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| 1942: Chiang Kai-shek meets with Sir Stafford Cripps, the British viceroy in India. |
| 1943:
The Red Army takes back Kursk 15 months after
it fell to the Germans. |
| 1946: Stalin announces the new five-year plan for the Soviet Union, calling for production boosts of 50 percent. |
| 1951: Actress Greta Garbo gets U.S. citizenship. |
| 1953: The French destroy six Viet Minh war factories hidden in the jungles of Vietnam. |