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The New York Times reports that U.S. officials have agreed to return five terrorism suspects to Saudi Arabia from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as part of a prisoner exchange deal to release five Britons and two others convicted of guerrilla attacks in Saudi Arabia. |
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The Ansar al-Sunna Army denies that is has beheaded Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun. |
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Saboteurs attack a strategic oil pipeline linking Iraq's northern and southern fields and further reduce exports that were halved by a hole blown in another pipeline a day before. |
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The cornerstone for the new Freedom Tower to replace the fallen World Trade Center is put in place in July 4th ceremony in New York City. |
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A spokesman for Iyad Allawi suggests that amnesty will be offered to insurgents and could extend to those who killed American troops in "legitmate acts of resistance" against an occupying force. The move is an apparent bid to lure Saddam Hussein loyalists from their campaign of violence. |
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President Pervez Musharraf leaves for a tour of Sweden and Finland to boost trade, political and economic ties with the two Scandinavian countries. A delegation of top officials would be accompanied with him in the visit. |
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Lou Gehrig tells a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth" as he announces his retirement from major league baseball following his diagnosis that he has Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, |
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Leo Szilard files patent application describing the use of neutron induced chain reactions to create explosions, and the concept of the critical mass. |
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American forces capture the deserted Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean. |
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Henry David Thoreau begins his two-year experiment in simple living at Walden Pond. |
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In a coincidence, Thomas Jefferson dies on the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence along with John Adams. |
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Construction on the Erie Canal begins in Rome, New York. When opened on December 26, 1825, it ran 584 km from the Hudson River to Lake Erie and thus connected the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. |
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The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people. |
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The United States Military Academy at West Point, New York opens following Jefferson's March 16, 1802 legislation. It is located on the west bank of the Hudson River about 80 km north of NYC. |
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The court martial of Major General Charles Lee begins at the White Hart Tavern in Brunswick, NJ. Lee was charged with failing to attack at the Battle of Monmouth in spite of orders to do so and that he had disrepected Washington in two insulting letters. |
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George Rogers Clark captures Kaskaskia, a French village near Detroit. |
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The US Declaration of Independence is adopted and presented. It won't be completed signed until August 1st 1776. |
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George Washington, in the service of the British Army, is forced to surrender Fort Necessity to French. This begins the French and Indian War. |
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