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John Edwards wins the Democratic primary in South Carolina with 46% of the Democratic vote, compared with Kerry's 30% result. |
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The UK Government releases the "Dodgy Dossier" entitled entitled Iraq - its infrastructure of concealment, deception and intimidation. Sections of it are later found to be from unattributed sources including the thesis of student Ibrahim al-Marashi. |
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A U.S. Marine Corps EA-6B surveillance plans slices a ski gondola's cable at a resort in the Dolomite Mountains in Cavalese, Northern Italy. |
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U.S. President Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam. The two countries will resume free trade in July of 2000. |
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The U.S. House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagan's request for $36.25 million to aid the Nicaraguan Contras. |
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U.S. President Reagan announces the formation of Committee on Challenger Accident.
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Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat arrives in Washington DC to discuss the Middle East peace process with US President Jimmy Carter. |
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U.S. President Richard M. Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law.
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The 11th Winter Olympic Games opens in Sapporo, Japan. |
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Soviet spacecraft Luna 9 achieves the first soft landing on the Moon. |
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U.S. President John F. Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs. |
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British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan vists Cape Town, South Africa and speaks critically of the country's system of apartheid, suggesting that "The wind of change is blowing through the continent." |
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Buddy Holly, Jiles P Richardson, and Ritchie Valens die in a plane crash shortly after take-off from Clear Lake, Iowa. Don McLean will immortalise the event with his 1972 hit American Pie. |
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Just under 1000 U.S. B-17 Flying Fortresses drop 3000 tons of bombs on Berlin. |
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The troopship Dorchester is torpedoed and four chaplains give up their life jackets and go down with the ship. |
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The Arkansas state legislature passes a motion to pray for the soul of HL Mencken, after he declares the state to be the "apex of moronia." |
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The United States severs diplomatic ties with Germany. |
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The Sixteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified authorizing a graduated income tax. "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration ... |
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The 15th Amendment to the constitution was ratified to guarantee voting rights to all American male citizens |
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Nikola Tesla's father, Milutin Tesla, is born |
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Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris to end the "Quasi-War" with France, an undeclared Naval War that had been going on for some years. |
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Spain recognizes the independence of the United States.
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The first paper money is issued in America by the colony of Massachusetts. |
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