Richard and Maurice McDonald open the first McDonald's restaurant in San Bernadino, California on May 15, 1940
The brothers were born into poverty in Manchester New Hampshire. Their parents were of Irish immigrants, most likely Ulster-Scots.
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On this day, May 15, 1988 the Soviet Union began to withdraw its 115,000-strong army from Afghanistan. They had been eight years in Afghanistan. 14,453 Soviet troops were killed in action in the country.
Afghanistan is the United States longest war. It began on October 7, 2001 and was codenamed Operation Enduring Freedom.
US combat operations officially ended in December 2013 but approximately 14,000 US troops remain in the country.
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