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In a massive failure of security, a judge and an attorney are shot and killed by gunmen outside their home in Adhamiy, a Sunni neighborhood. Seven Iraqi police officers are killed in various attacks. The US Media mistakenly reports that the judge that will try Saddam has been killed. NBC News, thi ... |
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U.S. Transfers 7 Russian Detainees from Guantanamo Bay |
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ISM Manufacturing Index for Feb 2004 at 61.4;. Jan was 63.6. |
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Iraqis Agree On an Interim Constitution with Bill of Rights and Chief Executive. |
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E.U. Launches Sanctions Against U.S. in Retaliation |
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The Bush Administration Denies claims Jean-Bertrand Aristide was kidnapped by U.S. troops. |
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Gunmen kill Khalil al-Zaben, prominent advisor to Yasser Arafat, Gaza City. |
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AMD promotes William "Billy" Edwards to Chief Strategy Officer. |
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Taliban provokes international outrage by blowing up the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan. |
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The Washington Post reports that Inside Edition never won the Peabody Award, but that Matt Meagher and producer Tim Peek won a Polk award for a piece on predatory insurance fraud. This was more than a year after O'Reilly had left the show. |
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Hans Blix becomes executive chairman of Unmovic, the United Nations Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission. |
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Both Macedonia and Albania go on a high state of military alert |
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The State of California increases its minimum wage from $5.15 to $5.75. |
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U.S. President Bush decertifies Burma from the list of states cooperating with U.S. narcotics efforts. |
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DOS 2.0, designed for the PC/XT CPU, is released. It supports Unix type subdirectories and installable device drivers. |
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The Nixon administration commences Operation Menu, the covert bombing of Cambodia with the intent to destroy NLF headquarters. |
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The Peace Corps is created by a bill signed by President John F. Kennedy. |
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The U.S. tests a dry, deliverable Hydrogen Bomb in the Marhsall Islands (Bikini). A Japanese fishign boat was located about 100 miles from the island and two weeks later all 23 crew members were suffering radiation sickness. |
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Four Puerto Rican nationalists open fire on members of the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five. All the terrorists will be apprehended. |
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John Kennedy is honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy with the rank of Lieutenant. |
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Mohandas Gandhi ends a hunger strike. |
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Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. is born in Mineola, N.Y. |
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South of Paris, Orly airport opens for international flights from other European countries. |
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Col. Alexander Doniphan occupies the city of Chihuahua during the U.S. Mexican War. |
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The United States Congress annexes Texas through a joint resolution. |
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British Parliament passes the Intolerable Acts aka the Coercive Acts, which includes The Quatering Act, The Quebec Act, Administration of Justice Act, Massachusetts Governing Act, and the Boston Port Bill. |
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The Quartering Act requires colonists to house British troops and supply them with food. |
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More than 1,000 French Protestants, called Huguenots, are massacred at Vassy. |
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