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Fifteen people, including four Iraqi police officers, were killed and 50 wounded Saturday when two car bombs detonated at an entrance gate to Baghdad's heavily fortified, coalition-controlled Green Zone area |
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The United Kingdom's 850-strong Black Watch battle group pulls out of Camp Dogwood and returns to its base in Basra, southern Iraq. |
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Philippines President Gloria Arroyo suspends logging and vows to punish law-breakers as the countryside reels from four deadly storms in the past two weeks. |
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A federal panel rejects cash-strapped United Airlines’ request for a $1.8 billion loan guarantee. |
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American Airlines announces that it will cut about 1,100 flight attendant jobs in the coming months as it tries to save money by operating fewer flights. |
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Intel Corp. releases new programming tools which increase the performance of software written for its Pentium, Xeon, and Itanium processors. |
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Representatives of Afghanistan's Taliban arrive at the Texas headquarters of Unocal Corporation to negotiate their support for a proposed oil pipeline. |
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US Troops land in Somalia. |
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The United Nations General Assembly condemns Sudan for violations of Human Right (102 votes for/ 7 against). |
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IBM ships the first version of its multitasking operating system, called OS/2. |
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US President Ronald Reagan appoints Vice Admiral John Poindexter as security adviser |
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John Poindexter becomes President Reagan's fourth National Security Adviser when Robert McFarlane resigns. |
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US jet fighters strike at Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon. |
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President Reagan authorizes the CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence.
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Dianne Feinstein becomes the first female mayor of the city of San Francisco |
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US Space probe Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus.
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The US Unemployment Rate increases to 5.8%
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Second conference of Caïro: FDR, Churchill & Turkish President Inönü.
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Colonel William Simmons relaunches the Ku Klux Klan in Atlanta, GA. The Klan is a secret society, born in the 1860s just after the civil war, but banned since 1872. |
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The Ku Klux Klan receives a charter from Fulton County, Georgia. |
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The forces of President Louis Napolean Bonaparte crush a coup d'etat in France.
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The Philadelphia Quakers, the New England Garrisonians, and the New York Reformers meet with freed Blacks to form an organization called the "American Anti-Slavery Society". William Lloyd Garrison wrote the initial goals for the organization. |
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French army begins bombing citadel of Antwerp
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Gen. George Washington says farewell to his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, New York City. |
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Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Baghdad. |
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In the Battle of Baza, the Spanish army captures Baza from the Moors. |
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