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Charles Robert Jenkins, a one-time U.S. Army sergeant accused of defecting to North Korea 39 years ago, announces that he will surrender to US Military authorities at Camp Zama. |
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Chechen men and women wearing explosive belts seize a secondary school in Beslan, North Ossetia in southern Russia and hold 150 hostages, including children. Up to 50 children were able to flee during the move, according to reports. The 17 fighters are demanding authorities release people arrested ... |
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A new United Nations Security Councilreport says Sudan has not disarmed Arab militias or stopped attacks against civilians in the strife-torn Darfur region. It calls for more foreign troops in Sudan, but does not recommend any sanctions against Khartoum, as had been threatened in an earlier UN reso ... |
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Israeli troops closed off a West Bank city and destroy the home of a Hamas member involved in twin bus blasts the day before. |
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A senior Israeli official announces that Israel holds Syria responsible for a double suicide bombing that killed 16 people, in a warning that implied possible retaliation. "The fact that Hamas is operating from Syria will not grant it immunity," Raanan Gissin told The Associated Press. |
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Daniel P. Palumbo is appointed president, Consumer Imaging at Eastman Kodak. |
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Solutia, Inc. is spun off from Monsanto Co. and assumes control and liability with respect to Monsanto's chemical operations |
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The wreck of the RMS Titanic is finally located by a joint American-French expedition led by Jean-Louis Michel and Dr. Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. |
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Korean Air Flight 7, carrying 246 passengers and 23 crew, is shot down by Soviet fighters. |
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American Bobby Fischer defeats Russian Boris Spassky to become world chess champion in Reykjavik, Iceland. |
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Portugal's dictator, Antoniio Salazar, transfers his powers to Dr. Marcello Caetano. |
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The largest all-Navy raid of the Korean War. A total of 144 planes from three carriers destroy the oil refinery at Aoji, North Korea. |
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US troops take Artois, Dieppe and Rouen. |
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US troops cross the river Meuse. |
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Nazis order Jews to wear yellow Stars of David. |
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Germany invades Poland with Fifty-six German divisions.The Polish army and cavalry fought bravely but were sadly outmatched by Germany's modern technology. |
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The Great Kanto earthquake devastates the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Yokohama, and kills roughly100,000 people. |
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German General Oscar von Hutier stages the Riga Offensive and captures the northernmost end of the Russian Front. |
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The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground metro in North America. |
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Former US Vice President Aaron Burr is acquitted of treason, after having been accused of a plot to annex parts of Louisiana and Mexico into independent republic. |
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France & Spain attack British positions at Gibraltar. |
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