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ISM Manufacturing Index for Nov 2003 at 61.3; Oct was 57.0. |
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Four Trials (ISBN 0-74324-4974) a biographical book focusing on the legal career of North Carolina Senator John Edwards is published. |
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A huge slick of fuel oil from the sunken tanker Prestige starts to wash up on the Galician coast - bringing more environmental devastation. |
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The Boeing Sonic Cruiser project is finally abandoned in favor of the slower but fuel-efficient Boeing 787 Dreamliner. According to Boeing's own estimates, the Sonic Cruiser would burn 15-20% more fuel than conventional aircraft, but that it would burn roughly the same amount of fuel as a conventio ... |
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Exxon and Mobil confirm their plans to merge, creating the world's largest oil producer. |
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British and French workers digging the Channel Tunnel between their respective countries finally meet in the service tunnel after knocking out a passage large enough to walk through, 22.3 km from the UK and 15.6 km from France. |
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Albania severs all ties with the USSR and allies itself with communist China. |
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Rosa Parks refuses to relinquish her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. |
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The first issue of "Skin Diver Magazine" debuts. |
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Fanta is invented by the Coca Cola company's major German bottler Max Keith of GHBH to enable trading to continue within Nazi ruled areas. |
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The US Navy opens a Flying School at Pensacola, Florida |
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The Gulf Corporation opens the first drive-up, consumer gasoline station in Pittsburgh, PA. It features free air, water, restrooms and a lighted sign touting "Good Gulf Gasoline." |
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The continuously moving assembly line introduced by Henry Ford at his plant in Highland Park Michigan, becomes capable of generating a car every 2 minutes and 38 seconds.
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Thomas Edison Copyrights The Great Train Robbery, the first film to tell a story. |
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John D Rockefeller begins anti oil war |
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Sir George Everest , the British military engineer and geodesist, dies. He worked on the trigonometric survey of India between 1818 and 1843. The tallest mountain in the Himalayas was renamed in his honour in 1865. |
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French Emperor Napoleon marries Joséphine of Martinique |
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Pasha Muhammad ibn Farukh, the tyrannical Governor of Jerusalem, is driven out . |
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Northern towns in Lombardy area of Italy form the Lombard League to resist Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I who was appointing German officials in all Lombard towns. Ten years later, in 1176, the League defeated Frederick at Legnano. |
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Pope Adrian I is elected. |
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