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In a letter to Scooter Libby’s lawyers, Patrick Fitzgerald says he has learned "that many e-mails from Cheney’s office at the time of the Plame leak in 2003 have been deleted contrary to White House policy." Administration cirtics suggest this would implicate Vice President Cheney in criminal obstr ... |
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Following a search for contraband, American forces open fire to put down a riot at Camp Bucca, a prison camp in southern Iraq. Four inmates are killed and six are wounded. |
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Israeli scientists at the Hebrew University of Jersusalem reiterate the prediction that increasing ocean acidity due to CO2 emissions will collapse the world's coral reefs in as little as 30 years from now.
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers say this will make it difficult for many ... |
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Senator Mike DeWine and Representative Carolyn Maloney discuss with CIA officials their belief that the US Central Intelligence Agency is withholding further details on its employment of Nazi war criminals during the Cold War. The Associated Press reports that an anonymous CIA contact has confirmed ... |
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Nepal's King Gyanendra dismisses the government and declares a state of emergency, thus taking control of the kingdom. |
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Former U.S.President Jimmy Carter said Friday the White House has not made its case for near-term action against Iraq. |
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The space shuttle Columbia broke apart over Texas, as it prepared to land in Florida Saturday morning. Although terrorism is not considered to be the cause, some news sources have revealed that tiles on Columbia's wing may have been damaged prior-to and |
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French President Jacques Chirac announces that France has ended "once and for all" its nuclear testing, intending to accede to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. |
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The temperature reaches -69ºF (-56ºC) in Peter's Sink, Utah to establish a state record. |
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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran from Paris, after 15 years in exile. |
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The HP-35, the first scientific hand-held calculator is introduced at a retail price of $395.00 |
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Doors lead singer Jim Morrison is arrested for exposing himself in a concert in New Haven, CT. |
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Martin Luther King Jr. and 700 other demonstrators are arrested in Selma, AL. |
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Four African-American students sit at a whites-only lunch counter in an F.W. Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina and are refused service. |
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Texas Instruments requests patent for the Integrated Circuit. |
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Egypt and Syria announce plans to merge into the United Arab Republic. |
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Chance-Vought delivers the very last F4U Corsair, famous for its gull-shaped wings. In total, 12571 were produced starting in 1940. |
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Battle of the Twin Tunnels. |
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The United Nations condemns the People's Republic of China as an aggressor in the Korean conflict
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The Soviets commence a new offensive against Finland.
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Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin is born. |
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Col. William Mitchell resigns from the U.S Army and commences a four-month, coast-to-coast lecture tour in which he shows films of his successful airplane bombings of captured German war ships. |
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Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Benito Mussolini. |
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police is established from a merger of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police and the Dominion Police. |
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German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war. This form of warfare has been broken off in 1915, because of the destruction of the Lusitania.
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During February and March of 1915, Anthony H. G. Fokker perfects synchronizing gear to allow machine gun to fire through propeller. |
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Edison completes construction of the first motion picture studio, called the "Black Maria," in West Orange, NJ. |
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U.S. Civil War Battles in North Carolina including Bachelor Creek, Newport Barracks, and New Bern. |
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Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
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Texas secedes from the Union. |
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The Mayon Volcano, on the island of Luzon in the Philippines, violently erupts killing 1,200 people due to lahars, which is an Indonesian word for a rapidly flowing mixture of rock debris and water. |
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The U.S. Supreme Court convenes for the first time in the Merchants Exchange Building in New York City |
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The Shadwell estate is consumed in a fire and Thomas Jefferson loses most of his books and personal notes. |
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Samuel Adams of Massachusetts writes a Circular Letter opposing taxation without representation and calling for the colonists to unite in their actions against the British government. |
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