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In what becomes known as the Monroe Doctrine, President James Monroe stakes out the Western Hemisphere as a U.S. sphere of influence by warning Europe not to interfere in the affairs of any of the American nations that have recently become independent while stating concomitantly that the United States will not interfere in European affairs.

US and Germany partition Samoa into Eastern and Western halves, with the US taking the Eastern (still a US colony) and Germany the Western (which gained independence in 1962). The Samoan people, obviously, were not consulted.

"On December 2, 1980, four U.S. churchwomen working in El Salvador—Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, Ita Ford, and Dorothy Kazel—were seized, raped, and murdered by members of the Salvadoran National Guard. This crime was extremely inconvenient to the Carter administration, which was supporting the Salvadoran junta as an alleged “reformist” government and trying to convince the public and Congress that that government was worthy of aid.

Habré "drove his Mercedes straight onto one of the Lockheed L-100 Hercules transport planes he'd gotten from the United States, loaded his close aides, and took off."