OCTOBER 25
1955:Dinner will never be the same again! The Tappan Stove company
introduces the first microwave oven for home use. The newfangled
contraption, the brainchild of Raytheon engineer Percy LeBaron Spencer,
sells for a hefty $1,300.
1944: Lt. Yukio Seki leads the Kamikaze Special Attack Force,
composed of 24 specially trained pilots, in their first mission,
attacking U.S. Navy escort carriers at the Battle of Leyte Gulf and
sinking the carrier USS St. Lo. The kamikaze bombers introduce a
terrifying yet ultimately unsuccessful tactic designed to turn the tide
in the Pacific theater of World War II.
1971: The United Nations General Assembly votes to accept the
communist People's Republic of China as a permanent member nation and
expel nationalist Taiwan. The U.N. has recognized the PRC as the sole
legitimate government of China ever since.
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