The World and Everything in It - Feb. 9, 2013
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Hour B, Segment 5
The History Book
Feb. 9, 1943—The battle of Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific ends with an American victory over Japanese forces.
Feb. 11, 1945—President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin wrap up a conference at Yalta in the Crimea by signing a series of agreements on the governance of post-World War II Europe.
Feb. 11, 1990—Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.
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