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After US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld suggested that a US withdrawal from Iraq would be the equivalent of handing Germany back to the Nazis, Retired Major General Paul Eaton declares that Rumsfeld "has shown himself incompetent strategically, operationally and tactically, and is far more th ... |
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On the second anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraqi, rebels gun down a police officer heading to work in the city of Kirkuk, then bombed the funeral procession carrying his corpse. Four police officers and a police chief are killed in total. |
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Approximately 45,000 Britons marched from London's Hyde Park past the American Embassy to Trafalgar Square in protest of the US led invasion of Iraq. |
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Citing national security concerns, Army drops charges against Muslim Chaplain Capt. James Yee |
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Ana B. Montes, the Pentagon's leading expert on Cuba pleads guilty to charges that she engaged in espionage for Havana for 16 years. She states her disagreement with U.S. policy towards Cuba as her reason. |
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Satellite imagery analyzed at NSIDC reveals that the northern section of the Larsen B ice shelf has completely shattered and separated from the continent.
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On his 50th birthday, former Luftwaffe Ace Adolf Galland buys himself a Beechcraft Bonanza. |
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Future German ace Adolf Galland is born in Westerholt, Wesfalia. |
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Orville Wright opens the first commerical flying school, the Wright Flying School, at Montgomery, Alabama. It eventually becomes Maxwell Air Force Base. |
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The battleship U.S.S. Oregon leaves San Francisco, CA on its famous voyage to the Caribbean Sea and Cuban waters. |
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Jacques Cartier was assigned the mission of "undertaking the voyage of this kingdom to the New Lands to discover certain islands and countries where there are said to be great quantities of gold and other riches" |
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