The Cold War continues: Four torpedo gun boats of the Navy of the communist Democratic People’s Republic of (North) Korea, seize the spy ship USS Pueblo, commanded by Commander Lloyd M. Bucher.

       [restored 10/21/2022]

Subsequent Events:

5/15/1975                   11/4/1979                    1/24/1988

References:

“Today in History,” Orange County (California) Register, 23 January 2011, News:20. 

Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 408.  

Mitchell B. Lerner, The Pueblo Incident: A spy ship and the failure of American Foreign Policy, (Lawrence, Kansas: Univeristy of Kansas Press, 2002), 73.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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