Guinness has defined âlargest manufacturerâ as the company which has delivered the most number of offshore rigs in a year. The official record was awarded by Guinness after it completed a thorough assessment of supporting documentation provided by Keppel FELS. 21 rigs in one year
(CNN) -- It took decades to fully integrate the U.S. military, but there is general agreement that what President Harry Truman did 50 years ago this weekend helped ignite the country's civil rights movement and put its largest armed service, the Army, in the forefront of race relations.
The U.S. Army was founded on 14 June 1775, when the Continental Congress authorized enlistment of riflemen to serve the United Colonies for one year. The 14 June date is when Congress adopted the American continental army after reaching a consensus position in The Committee of the Whole. This procedure and the desire for secrecy account for the sparseness of the official journal entries for the day.