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Israeli forces operate in the Baalbeck area of northeast Lebanon which is about 50 miles from Lebanese capital, Beirut and near the Syrian border. |
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The Discovery Channel presents recent research on Christopher Columbus using a DNA test developed for the victims of 9/11. Combined with the fact that Columbus never wrote in Italian, the research concludes that Christopher Columbs was not the Genovese Italian, but rather a Catalan Mercenary who ha ... |
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Citing the required participation in Patriot Act Watch Lists, ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero writes a letter to Combined Federal Campaign Director Mara Patermaster declaring that "John Ashcroft and this administration have created a climate of fear and intimidation that undermines the health ... |
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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge raises the terrorism threat level to orange, or high, for the financial services sector of New York City, northern New Jersey and Washington, DC. In his comments, Ridge cited "new and unusually specific information about where al Qaeda would like to attac ... |
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The Sudanese cabinet condemns the 30-day deadline for action on Darfur as set by the UNSC. Instead, it says it will implement the 90-day programme agreed upon earlier with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. |
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Six car bombs explode outside churches in Iraqi's capital of Baghdad and in the northern city of Mosul, killing at least six people, in a coordinated assault on Iraq's Christian minority. |
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France deploys 200 troops along the border between Chad and Sudan to prevent the Arab Janjaweed militia from spreading the Darfur region violence. In the past, the Janjaweed has pursued refugees over the border, and observers say militias may soon attack refugee camps in Chad for food. |
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Two former WorldCom execs, Scott Sullivan and David Myers, are charged with masking WorldCom's increasing losses in a multi-billion-dollar accounting fraud which ultimately drove the company into bankruptcy. |
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CEO Dick Cheney retires from Halliburton during the presidential campaign and receives a severance package worth $20 million. |
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Michael Johnson runs the 200 meters in 19.32 at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta. This beats the old world record by over 0.3 seconds. |
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Fujimori completes a noisy divorce from his wife Susana Higuchi (who publicly denounces his corruption) and formally strips her of the title of Peruvian First Lady and appoints his eldest daughter to the position. |
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Senior KGB official Vitaly Sergeyevich Yurchenko defects to the West and divulges that Edward Howard and Ronald Pelton were two former CIA employees who sold Western secrets. |
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DOS 1.0 is released. This is the initial version that Microsoft developed and enhanced down the road to workplace dominance. It was licensed to IBM as PC-DOS and if acquired from Microsoft directly, it was called MS-DOS. Its original medium was a cassette tape. |
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The first video played by MTV is "Video Killed The Radio Star" by Buggles. |
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John Manke becomes the first to fly the X-24B in a gliding flight. He will later fly the first powered mission on 15 November 1973. |
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Israel annexes East Jerusalem. |
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Charles Whitman shoots 15 poeple from a tower at the University of Texas in Austin. |
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The North American Aerospace Defense Command or NORAD is founded by the US and Canada. |
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Ten bombers of the U.S. Strategic Air Command are sent to Guam to leave atomic bombs. |
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The Polish Warsaw Uprising begins with Polish Home Army attempts to liberate Warsaw from German occupation and Nazi rule. They will resist until October 2nd, 1944. |
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Anne Frank makes the last entry in to her diary. |
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Lt. Kennedy's PT-109, cruising west of New Georgia near the Solomon Islands, is rammed by a Japanese Destroyer. Lt. Kennedy, despite grave injuries, leads the survivors through perilous waters to safety on an island. |
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First flight of the Grumman TBM-3 Avenger. Designed in only five weeks, it becomes one of the best naval fighters ever produced. |
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The 1936 Olympic Games begin in Berlin, Germany with Adolf Hitler in attendance and with the Coca-Cola Company as a sponsor. |
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The People's Liberation Army is founded during the Nanchang Uprising of the Chinese Civil War between the Communist and Nationalist forces of the Kuomingtang. The PLA was originally named the Red Army. |
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The "Fokker Scourge" begins when Max Immelman scores his first aerial victory with an E.I Eindecker fitted with interrupter-gear machine guns. |
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In response to Russian mobilization, Germany declares war on Russia in the opening moves of World War I. |
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The United States Signal Corps forms an aeronautical division to oversee "all matters pertaining to military ballooning, air machines, and all kindred subjects. |
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Colorado is admitted to the Union as the 38th U.S. state. |
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Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk and Fox Indian Tribes, surrenders on the Mississippi River near the mouth of the Bad Axe River. |
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Horatio Nelson engages the French navy under Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers on the opening day of the Battle of the Nile. |
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Settlers in the Monongahela Valley of western Pennsylvania are now in open rebellion against a federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks. Thousands begin to move toward Pittsburg, |
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Gen. Burgoyne reaches the Hudson after a grueling month spent crossing 23 miles of wilderness separating the southern tip of Lake Champlain
from the northern tip of the Hudson River. |
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The US Declaration of Independence is formally signed. |
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Columbus discovers the Orinoco River and Venezuela. |
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Justin appoints Petrus Sabbatius to become associate Byzantine Emperor, Justinian I. Later, as sole Emperor he codifies the Roman law in the Codex Justinianus and the Novellae Constitutiones and sends his general Belisarius to reconquerNorth Africa from the Vandals and recapture Rome in 536. |
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