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oct 1, 1983 - Reagan takes Grenada

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Reagan ordered United States military forces to Grenada in October 1983, after a military group staged a coup and installed a government sympathetic to Communist Cuba. The official aim of the invasion was to safeguard several hundred American medical students on the island.

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oct 1, 1983
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~ 42 years ago

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