1942 -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is born. He took power after his father Kim Il-sung, founder of the communist country, died in 1994.

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Two warring factions try to be the first to connect a railroad from the Columbia Gorge to the booming timber town of Bend.

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Explorer and Wisconsin hunter Roy Chapman Andrews sets off into the Korean countryside to hunt down a man-eating tiger.