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North Korea agrees to a telephone hotline between the rival navies, to share radio frequencies and agrees on visual signals. In return, South Korea agrees to end propaganda broadcasts across the DMZ. |
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Circuit City Stores Inc. (CC) reports quarterly sales at stores open for at least one year have risen 6.4% associated with price cuts ofered to compete with archrival Best Buy Co. Inc. Best Buy continues to dominate, however. |
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The U.S. Labor Department reported that employers added 248,000 jobs in May, making a three-month gain of 947,000 jobs the best in 4 years. The jobless rate remained steady at 5.6%. |
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U.S. President Bush responds to Pope John Paul II's request that "the situation in Iraq be normalised quickly as possible with the active participation of the international community" by telling the pontiff he would work for "human liberty and human dignity". Mr Bush presented the Pope with the Ame ... |
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Five U.S. soldiers riding in a Humvee in eastern Baghdad are killed in a bomb blast and five others are wounded. The deaths bring the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq to 825 since the war began, including 605 in combat. |
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Shiite insurgents fire RPGs and mortars at a police station housing U.S. troops, leading to gunfights in a Baghdad neighborhood supporting radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. |
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U.S. Central Command announces that Iraqi police forces have detained Umar Baziyani, an associate of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. He was captured on May 30th. |
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A bomb composed of plastic explosives kills nine and injures 40 in a Russian market in the town of Samara. |
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Israeli PM Ariel Sharon fired two hardline cabinet ministers who oppose his Gaza disengagement plan. Tourism Minister Benny Elon and Transportation Minister Avigdor Lieberman are members of the right-wing National Union party.
Their removal gives Mr Sharon a cabinet majority for his plan to pul ... |
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Kmart Holding Corp. (KMRT) announced it will sell as many as 24 stores to Home Depot Inc. (HD) for up to $365 million as it emerges from bankruptcy and tries to improve profit. |
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Computer Associates announces that former CEO Sanjay Kumar, who stepped down amidst a federal accounting probe, will abandon his position as Chief Architect and sever all ties with the Islandia-based software firm noted for continued acquisition of inferior technologies. |
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Pakistan informs India and then test fires a medium-range nuclear-capable missile. The new and improved Ghauri V missile has a range of 932 miles and can hit most cities in northern India, |
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To help EMC contend with increased competition from large companies such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard, EMC announces that Samsung will sell EMC Clarion-class storage systems under its own StorageMax brand name. |
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The U.S. and U.K. revised their Security Council resolution on the transfer of sovereignty to Iraq, giving the country's new interim government the authority to order the U.S.-led multinational force out of Iraq at any time. |
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President Bush announces that he has chosen former Sen. John Danforth of Missouri to be the new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, replacing John Negroponte who will serve as ambassador to Iraq. |
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Cisco Systems issues a patch for a vulnerability in its Lynksys Wi-Fi router that could give hackers access to Linksys consumers' home networks |
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U.S. Army Central Command announces that it is investigating the murder of an Iraqi civilian by a Captain of the 1st Armored Division on May 21, 2004. |
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Daniel P. Palumbo is appointed chief marketing officer of Coca Cola. |
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announces that Israel will begin "immediately" to remove unauthorized settlement outposts. |
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Palm announces it will acquire rival Handspring |
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Brian Countryman, IE program manager, said in a May 7 Web chat posted to Microsoft's Wethat this situation now be normalised as quickly as possible with the active participation of the international communityb site that the software maker is phasing out standalone versions of its Web browser. |
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Belgium Finds Nerve Gas Ingredient in Letters |
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Air Force Lt. Col. Steve Butler, who had called President Bush a joke and accused him of allowing the Sept. 11 attacks to happen, is suspended from his post at the Defense Language School in Monterey, Calif. |
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Astronomers Chad Trujillo and Mike Brown at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California discover 50000 Quaoar, a Trans-Neptunian object orbiting the Sun in the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt. |
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Crown Prince Dipendra dies of self inflicted gunshot wounds following his palace shooting spree and Gyanendra is declared king. Anti-Gyanendra protests commence in the capital, Katmandu, resulting in a curfew. |
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Motorola announces its intent to layoff 10% of its workforce which equates to about 15,000 employees. |
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Former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to charges of espionage and selling United States military intelligence to Israel. The top-secret information included satellite photos and data on Soviet weapons, enough to fill a medium-sized room. |
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Maj. Gen. Lewis Walt takes command of the 3rd Marine Division from Maj. Gen. William Collins. He will later serve as Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps. |
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Juan Domingo Perón is sworn in as president of Argentina. |
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Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island commencing the Battle of Midway. The US is aware of the target in advance by way of the broken Japanese JN25 Naval Code. The USS Yorktown will be abandoned, but the Japanese lose most of their carriers. |
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British forces complete the evacuation of 338,000 British and French troops from the beaches of Dunkirk in France. |
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Hungary loses Transylvania, the Burgenland, Slovakia and other peripheral territories in the Treaty of Trianon, signed at the Grand Trianon Palace at Versailles, France. |
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Henry Ford takes his first automobile, the Quadricycle, for a test drive in Detroit, MI. |
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The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom. |
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The Transcontinental Express train arrives in San Francisco, 83 hours after departing New York City. |
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Robert E. Lee continues to prepare for his invasion of Pennsylvania sending Richard Ewell's corps toward the Shenandoah Valley. |
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The Confederate garrison at Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River slips away during Union Naval bombardment. This clears the way for the Union capture of Memphis on June 6. |
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Captain George Vancouver, in search of a Northwest Passage, claims Puget Sound for Great Britain. |
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British cavalry arrive at Monticello just moments after Jefferson's departure. |
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Upon the death of his father Emperor Conrad II, Henry III becomes King of Germany. He will be crowned emperor by the Pope in 1046. |
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