![]() Eisenhower resigned as Supreme Allied commander in Europe he was succeeded by Gen. In 1952, war with Japan officially ended as a treaty signed in San Francisco the year before took effect. In 1947, a six-man expedition set out from Peru aboard a balsa wood raft named the Kon-Tiki on a 101-day journey across the Pacific Ocean to the Polynesian Islands. In 1945, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, were executed by Italian partisans as they attempted to flee the country. In 1788, Maryland became the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States. secrets to the Soviet Union and then Russia, pleaded guilty to espionage and tax evasion, and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. ![]() On April 28, 1994, former CIA official Aldrich Ames, who had passed U.S. ![]()
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