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According to Federal Law enforcement officials, a sting operation on an Albany, New York, mosque nets two men with suspected Al Qaeda ties in a money-laundering scheme to buy a shoulder-fired missile. They identified the arrested men as Ya Seen Arif, 34, and Mohammed Hoosain, 49. They said Arif is t ... |
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Iraqi insurgents attack a U.S. convoy near the city of Najaf with a rocket-propelled grenade and small arms fire, killing one American soldier and wounding five from the 13th Corps Support Command. The attack brings the total of US soldiers killed in Iraq to 923 or higher. |
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At midday, U.S. stocks retreat in cautious trade as investors sort through a mixed bag of reports from retailers while awaiting the release of the all-important July employment report. |
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 1.6% to 9963.0 on news of rising crude oil prices and disappointing same-store sales for July. |
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At midday, the message goes out to and from various mosques that Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has called on his followers to rise up and fight U.S. troops. Moqtada al-Sadr's representatives said the truce between his followers and the U.S. military is over and was broken by US troops who surrounded ... |
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John Forney becomes the third Enron official to plead guilty to allegations they manipulated electricity prices from Enron's now-defunct trading office in Portland, Oregon. |
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Three dozen agents, some in protective suits, comb through two homes associated with Dr. Kenneth M. Berry in Wellsville, N.Y. Dr. Berry filed a provisional patent in October 2000 and filed the actual patent application Sept. 28, 2001, 10 days after the first anthrax letters were postmarked. |
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Errors delay schools list |
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Of the 1,128 high-poverty schools in Georgia, 456 did not make "Adequate Yearly Progress," in most cases because they did not post high enough test scores. |
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Reagan fires 11,359 striking air traffic controllers who refuse to meet his deadline to return to work |
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In retaliation for the attacks on U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin, U.S. planes run 60 bombing sorties destroying oil depots and patrol boats in North Vietnam. |
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A B-29 bomber carrying the Mark IV atomic bomb crashes five minutes after take-off from Fairfield-Suisun AFB, CA. |
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Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia. |
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The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid. |
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The U.S. government issues its first income tax: 3% of all incomes over US $800. It will be rescinded in 1872. |
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First Issue of the Saturday Evening Post. |
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Don Joses de Canizares becomes first European to enter the Golden Gate from the sea. |
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