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A computer crash in one of Britain's main air traffic control centers grounded many of the country's flights and cancelled others. |
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President Bush announces the resignation of CIA director George Tenet, who had been heavily criticised by some analysts for declaring the presence of WMD in Iraq to be a "slam dunk." Tenet, who was appointed by President Clinton and served for seven years, said that he was resigning for personal re ... |
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The Italian embassy in Baghdad is attacked by mortar fire. One Iraqi is killed and several injured, but no Italians are hurt. |
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NYMEX July Crude Oil traded at an early high of $40.50 a barrel, up .54, after retreating 5.6%to $39.96 as many hoped OPEC would raise production quotas by 2.5 million barrels per day. |
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The U.S. Labor Department reports that the amount an employee produces for every hour on the job exceeded the initial estimate of a 3.8% growth rate for the January-to-March quarter and beat the 2.5% pace registered in the final quarter of 2003. |
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi expresses his concerns about the nature demonstrations that will be staged against President Bush during his visit to Rome on June 4th. |
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Fifteen U.S. tanks carrying about 100 soldiers entered the city of Kufa in search of mortar positions that have fired 52 shells at a U.S. forward operating base along the Kufa-Najaf road. |
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Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most influential Shiite leader in Iraq, gives his approval to the country's interim government. Al-Sistani said the leadership must secure full sovereignty for Iraq, restore security, and prepare for elections by Jan. 31st. |
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AP reports that Pfc. Andrew J. Sting and Pfc. Jeremiah J. Trefney pleaded guilty at a May 14th Court Martial to giving electric shocks to an Iraqi prisoner they were guarding in April, months after the events at Abu Ghraib. Both marines are sentenced to prison time, reduction of rank, forfeiture of ... |
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The July contract for light sweet crude fell 68 cents to 39.28 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, as the OPEC cartel pledge to boost output and data showing a rise in US inventories eased market jitters. |
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During a House subcommittee hearing, FBI Director Robert Mueller reiterated the idea of putting into place a new intelligence service within the FBI instead of creating a separate entity. He told the committee the FBI will expand and strengthen its Office of Intelligence, headed by Maureen Baginski ... |
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Dr. Joe Thompson, director of the Arkansas Center of Health Improvement, releases "sobering" statistics that 40% of Arkansas school children are either overweight or at-risk of becoming overweight. |
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The internationally sponsored Cassini space probe that carries the European-built Huygens probe nears to within 9.9 million miles of Saturn and officials confirm that all systems are go with the $3 billion mission. |
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Hewlett-Packard is confident it can meet consensus projections for earnings for the rest of the year, because of its ability to cut costs and take business from rivals, CEO Carly Fiorina said Tuesday. |
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Salesforce.com launches a wide-ranging program that allows developers to customize its business applications and to build new online systems. |
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Over the next decade, top satellite makers like Boeing Co., Lockheed Martin Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp. will vie for multibillion dollar orders as the U.S. military upgrades or replaces nearly all its satellites. |
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Sun Microsystems hopes to open new frontiers for its Java technology by spinning off a division dedicated to pushing the programming language into computer and video games. |
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Egypt's President Mubarak says his intelligence group warned the United States a week prior to the September 11th disaster that Al Qaida was in the later stages of a massive operation against a target in the U.S. |
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Troops in China shoot & kill 100s of students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. |
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CIA Chief of Station in Beirut Lebanon, William Buckley, dies of strangulation following a prolonged period of torture. The CIA had sent Buckley to the Middle East with the task of leading an Agency sponsored kidnapping squad to snatch Lebanese terrorists. |
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A computer chip, worth about 46 cents, fails and causes the NORAD system to mistakenly detect a Soviet missle attack. |
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The Ixtoc oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico spills 176,400,000 gallons of oil to be spilled into the water, the worst oil spill to date. |
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Carly Fiorina receives a BA in Medieval History from Stanford University. |
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Wolfowitz receives a doctorate in political science from the University of Chicago. |
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The Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cut the American destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half off the coast of South Vietnam. |
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Paul Wolfowitz receives a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Cornell University. |
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Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy finish their meeting in Vienna on the issues of disarmament, Germany, Laos and nuclear testing. It ends badly. |
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Major Robert White, USAF, pilots the North American X-15A to a height of 136,000 feet or 41,600 meters. |
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The US Air Force Academy holds its first graduation ceremony. |
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Jack Kennedy graduates cum laude from Harvard University. |
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The German Luftwaffe bombs Paris. |
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The Duke of Windsor, formerlly King Edward VIII, marries American born Wallis Simpson in a private ceremony at Chateau de Candé, Monts, France. Many have some have suggested that the Duchess sympathised with Fascism before and during World War II, and thus the couple were sent to the Bahamas to mi ... |
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The U.S. Congress establishes the Reserve Officers Training Corp (ROTC). ROTC programs now produce 60% of all officers in the U.S. Armed Forces, and 75% of U.S. Army officers. |
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U.S. President John Adams takes up residence in Washington, DC living in a tavern until November 1st, 1800 while the White House is completed. |
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Thomas Jefferson is elected to Congress. |
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Christian Crusaders seize Antioch, Turkey. |
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