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United States embassies in northern Europe said they have received "threat information'' and urged Americans living in the Nordic and Baltic regions to be cautious. |
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U.S. Senator Tom Daschle (D, SD) files a complaint that Native Americans are being intimidated at the polls. |
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At least three people are killed and 32 others are wounded in a suicide bombing at an open-air market in Tel Aviv, Israel. |
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Assassins in a gray Opel automobile shoot and kill Iraqi Interior Ministry official Capt. Aisar Khalil Abdul Aziz in Baqubah near a traffic circle that has been the location of past insurgent attacks. |
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A US citizen, two Arabs and an Asian are kidnapped at gunpoint from their office in the Mansour district of Baghdad.
"They stormed the villa with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades," a police source told the Reuters agency. "They had no chance." |
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According to the FOX News Opinion Dynamics poll, 48% of likely voters back Kerry, 46% Bush, and 1% support independent candidate Ralph Nader with 5% undecided. |
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Yahoo Inc. hires former ABC television programmer, Lloyd Braun to head its media and entertainment division. |
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Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian Nobel Laureate, sues the U.S. government over restrictions that could block the publication of her memoirs in America. The U.S. Treasury Department has regulations restricting the publication of works by authors in countries subject to U.S. trade sanctions |
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The U.S. Treasury Department announces that the U.S. government is running record budget deficits over the past two years. The Treasury Department now projects that it will have to borrow a record $147 billion in the first three months of 2005. |
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A full transcript of the most recent Osama Bin Laden video is released by an Arabic television station. In his first appearance in over a year, Bin Laden boasts that for every $1 al-Qaeda has spent on terrorist strikes, it has cost the United States $1 million in economic fallout and military spen ... |
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Dow Jones replaces four companies on the DJIA with Microsoft, Intel and two others. |
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Lee Iacocca's bestselling "Iacocca: An Autobiography" is published. |
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Unsafe At Any Speed, a book written by Ralph Nader, is published in 1965. It details automobile corporation's resistance to the introduction of safety features, like seat belts, and their general reluctance to spend money on improving safety. |
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Vietcong mortars shell Bien Hoa Air Base near Saigon. Four Americans are killed, 76 wounded. Five B-57 bombers are destroyed, and 15 are damaged. |
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The United States explodes the first Hydrogen Bomb which is 700 times more powerful than Little Boy. Two new elements are discovered in the fallout: Einsteinium (99) and Fermium (100). |
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U.S. 3rd Marine Division lands on Bougainville at Empress Augusta Bay. Bougainville is the largest of the Solomon Islands and is a province of Papua New Guinea. |
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HMS Monmouth and HMS Good Hope are sunk in a fight with von Spee's German naval squadron. |
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McCllelan is appointed general-in-chief of Union armies, succeeding the ailing Winfield Scott. |
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George Cayley publishes the first part of a three part series entitled "On Aerial Navigation" in Nicholson's Journal of Natural Philosophy. He observes benefit to lateral stability of setting the wings at a slight dihedral and that longitudal stability is enhanced with a tail plane. |
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John Adams becomes the first president to take residence in the White House. |
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Business and legal transactions in the colonies cease as the Stamp Act goes into effect with nearly all of the colonists refusing to use the stamps. In New York City, violence breaks out as a mob burns the royal governor in effigy, harrasses. |
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The Stamp Act goes into effect in the American colonies. |
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Martin Frobisher serves as captain on a ship in preventing the plans of Spain to assist the Irish insurgents. |
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The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time. |
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