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A roadside bomb flips a U.S. Humvee near the old Ministry of Transportation building in Baghdad, killing one U.S. soldier and injuring three. |
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The New York Times reports that Vice President Richard Cheney was questioned by federal prosecutors about possible efforts by White House staffers to reveal the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame to columnist Robert Novak or other media ... |
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Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, dies in his home in Bel Air California at the age of 93. In November of 1994 he informed the American public that he was in the early stages of Alzheimer’s, an incurable illness t ... |
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Fog Cutter Capital gives Andrew Wiederhorn a $2 million "leave of absence" payment and keeps him on the payroll. |
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The New York Times announces the resignation of Executive Editor Howell Raines, and Managing Editor Gerald Boyd following the Jayson Blair scandal in which Blair wrote false articles claiming to be at the scene when he was not. |
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Elizabeth Smart is kidnapped from her home in Salt Lake City, Utah. |
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Mozilla 1.0, the first 'official' version, is released. |
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Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont abandons the Republican party, changing control of the U.S. Senate from the Republican party to the Democratic party. |
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Ted Turner announces creation of two independent film production companies based in Atlanta, Ted Turner Pictures and Ted Turner Documentaries. |
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The United Auto Workers commence a strike at General Motors which will last until July 28. |
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Gerstner calls Lotus CEO Jim Manzi to inform him that IBM was initiating a hostile take-over of Lotus Development Corporation. |
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Alan Greenspan takes intra-FOMC Meeting action to lower the fed funds rate to 9.50% |
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A man in Auburn, Washington dies upon taking an Excedrin capsule that had been laced with cyanide. |
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Former NSA staffer Ronald W. Pelton is found gulity of conspiracy and espionage. In 1981 he revealed to the Soviets the joint NSA US Navy "Ivy Bells" operation which intercepted USSR dispatches from a communications cable on the bottom of the Sea Okhotsk. |
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U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by deranged Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. |
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The Six-Day War begins as Israeli air force launche simultaneous attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. As a result of the war, Israel occupied the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights. |
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U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe in a speech delivered at Harvard University. |
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British bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on German bunkers and gun batters along the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day, the Allied Invasion of Europe. |
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Patton delivers his "Speech to the Third Army" on the eve of the Allied invasion of France, code-named "Overlord". |
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Hussein, grand sherif of Mecca and his son Faisal lead an Arab revolt against the Turks in the Hejaz. They are supported by the British via T.E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia. |
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British soldiers capture Pretoria, South Africa during the Boer War. |
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Battle of Kennesaw Mountain begins northwest of Atlanta, Georgia. |
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Houston, Texas is granted a city charter. |
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Ada Lovelace is introduced to Charles Babbage by Mary Fairfax Somerville. She will later go on to detail a method for calculating Bernoulli numbers with Babbage's proposed Analytical Engine. |
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