War(s) and Remembrance(s)

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Seems to me that 2005 is a year fraught with several significant anniversaries:

• 60th anniversary of the Soviet Union's liberation of Auschwitz (27 January 1945)
  
  
• 60th anniversary of U.S. forces' first discovery of a Nazi concentration camp (5 April 1945)
  
  
• 90th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
  
  
• 30th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge's takeover of Phnom Penh and the start of the dictator Pol Pot's bloody reign in Cambodia/Kampuchea (17 April 1975)
  
  
• 10th anniversary of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City (19 April 1995)
  
  
• 1st anniversary of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal (28 April 2005)
  
  
• 60th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi Germany's first concentration camp, Dachau, by U.S. forces (29 April 1945)
  
  
• 30th anniversary of the U.S. pullout from Vietnam and the fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese (29-30 April 1975)
  
  
• 60th anniversary of the surrender of the Nazi and Fascist regimes (V-E Day: 8 May 1945)
  
  
• 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima (6 August 1945)
  
  
• 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki (9 August 1945)
  
  
• 60th anniversary of the surrender of Japan (V-J Day: 15 August 1945)
  

And, on a lighter note:

• 400th anniversary of the first publication of Miguel Cervantes' Don Quixote
  
  
• 40th anniversary of the first appearance of Marvel Comics' Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. series (in Strange Tales, Vol. 1, #135; issue dated Aug. 1965)