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Cassini-Huygens enters the orbit of Saturn. |
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A high-ranking official with Iraq's National Audit Office, Ehsan Karim, is killed along with two of his bodyguards by a bomb blast on their convoy travelling in Baghdad. |
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A defiant Saddam Hussein appears before an Iraqi tribunal, questioning its authority and refusing to sign documents without an attorney present. |
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Hundreds of thousands of people in white shirts march in Hong Kong to vent their frustration at Chinese rule and Beijing's refusal to permit free elections. |
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Farooq Wardak, a senior member of Afghanistan's election management body, announces that it will miss the Friday deadline for setting a vote in September. Under Afghan law, the polling day must be set at least 90 days in advance and the delay now makes a Sept. 30 election impossible. |
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A U.S. Marine is killed in Anbar Province, Western Iraq during security operations. |
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A homemade bomb explodes outside of Mosul killing a coalition soldier and wounding two others. |
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Vice President Dick Cheney visits the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans, LA and declares that "America is safer and the world is more secure" because of the anti-terrorism policies of the Bush administration. |
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The United States denied entry to six foreign "freight-type vessels" as tough new global laws to protect shipping from terrorist attacks took effect. |
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British defense minister Geoff Hoon tells parliament that Iran provoked the June 21 incident on the Shatt al-Arab waterway and forced the British boats to enter Iranian territorial waters. |
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Bill Cosby draws a standing ovation at the Rainbow-PUSH Coalition conference in Chicago when he infers that children who cannot read and degrade each other with racial slurs betrays the sacrifices made during the Civil Rights Movement. |
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New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson removes himself from consideration as VP candidate and tells John Kerry that he intends to keep his promise to serve a full, four-year term. |
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The Gender Recognition Act 2004 recieves the Royal Assent in the United Kingdom. |
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500,000 citizens of Hong Kong march to protest Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23. |
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John Ashcroft proposes the creation of Operation TIPS, in which government employees would inform on suspicious behavior they encounter while performing their duties. The U.S. Postal Service refuses to participate and the plan is dropped. |
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The United Kingdom hands Hong Kong over to the People's Republic of China. |
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The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved. |
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Architect and philosopher R. Buckminster Fuller dies. |
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Philip Agee's book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, is published and documents recruitment, training and CIA life including specific designations, cover and agent names |
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Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins are captured in Frankfurt following a shoot-out with law enforcement. |
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Gen. Creighton Abrams replaces Gen. William Westmoreland as head of U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV). |
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Alan Greenspan publishes an article entitled Gold and Economic Freedom in Ayn Rand's newsletter, The Objectivist. |
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The five digit ZIP Code is implemented by the US Postal Service, based partly on suggestions from postal inspector Robert Moon who first submitted his proposal in 1944. |
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The British Government reveals that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent. |
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Rwanda achieves its independence by way of a June 1962 UN General Assembly resolution that terminated the Belgian trusteeship. |
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Burundi achieves its independence by way of a June 1962 UN General Assembly resolution that terminated the Belgian trusteeship. |
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Diana, Princess of Wales, is born. |
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Task Force Smith comprised of the US 24th Infantry Division and Battery A of the US 52nd Field Artillery Battalion arrives in Korea |
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In an experiment, a US B-29 Superfortress drops an Atomic Bomb on 73 naval vessels at Bikini Atoll. |
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The Battle of Kursk, greatest armored battle of World War II begins. Both the Germans and the victorious Russians suffered exceptionally heavy losses. |
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George Patton is promoted to Colonel, US Army. |
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Halliburton, founded in 1919 by Erle Halliburton in Oklahoma, is incorporated. The company is one of the world's providers of products and services to the oil and gas, and military services, industries. |
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Jimmy Doolittle, who served as a flight instructor in the US during World War I, receives a regular commission and a promotion to first lieutenant. |
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First Battle of the Somme commences after a week of allied artillery shelling the German trenches. On this first day 20,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed, when they rush into no-mans land to find that German machine gunners had survived the bombing. The battle lasts until November 18th, wi ... |
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Cosmetics pioneer Estée Lauder is born. |
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Albert Einstein publishes his Theory of Relativity. |
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Games of the III Olympiad open in Saint Louis, Missouri to become the first Olympic Games to take place in North America. |
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In the Battle of San Juan Hill, U.S. troops take on heavy casualties as Spanish guns wreak havoc until Col. Teddy Roosevelt leads a charge up Kettle Hill and a second charge up San Juan Heights. In the end, Americans control Santiago below, but at a loss of 1,572 dead. |
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The 42nd Highland Regiment of Foot and 73rd 73rd Highland Regiment of Foot are amalgamated into the 1st and 2nd Battalions of The Royal Highlanders (The Black Watch). |
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The United States Department of Justice begins operations after President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Act to Establish the Department of Justice bill on June 22, 1870. |
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The Battle of Gettysburg begins when Lt. General A.P. Hill sends two Confederate divisions of his corps toward Gettysburg from Cashtown to investigate the arrival of a column of Union cavalrymen who had been spied the day before by Confederates in search of supplies. |
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Abraham Lincoln signs the Revenue Act establishing the first real Income Tax. |
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Gen. Joseph E. Johnston is wounded in the Battle of Seven Pines and will give up command of the Army of Northern Virginia to Robert E. Lee. |
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French forces of 40,000 men and a detachment of scientists under Napoleon Bonaparte land in Egypt. The military objective was to threaten Britain's route to India and the scientists were to bring back information on the East. |
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The Sons of Liberty, an underground organization opposed to the Stamp Act, is formed in a number of colonial towns. Its members use violence and intimidation to eventually force all of the British stamp agents to resign |
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Mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is born. |
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