112th Congress, 2nd Session
March 17, 1948
On this date, President Truman, Harry S. addressed European security and condemned the Soviet Union before a hastily convened Joint Session of Congress.
October 13, 1949
Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru of India addressed a House Reception.
October 10, 1951
On this date, the Mutual Security Act of 1951 was signed into law by President Harry S. Truman.
January 17, 1952
Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom addressed a Joint Meeting of Congress in the House Chamber
September 01, 1983
On this date, Representative Larry P. McDonald of Georgia, along with 268 other passengers and crew aboard Korean Airlines Flight 007, was killed when a Soviet fighter plane shot down the unarmed civilian Boeing 747 airliner near Sakhalin Island after it had strayed into Russian airspace.
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