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CIA Director Porter Goss resigns. US President George W. Bush says that he "led ably." Although no reason is given, it is likely that Goss was dismissed over irreconcilable differences with his boss John Negroponte. Goss may also be implicated in a the Duke Cunningham poker party and prostitution ... |
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American Michael Fay is caned in Singapore as punishment for spray-painting two cars. |
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Upon ratification by the state of Alabama, the Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution becomes law. |
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Donald Regan publishes his book, "For the Record" in which he reveals that Nancy Reagan relied on an astrologer to dictate her husband's public appearances. |
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Vice President George HW. Bush delivers his "You, too, can be a janitor" speech at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. |
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Televised congressional hearings begin in the Iran Contra Affair. |
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U.S. President Ronald Reagan visits Bitburg Military Cemetery with Chancellor Helmut Kohl, to lay a wreath in honor of German soldiers who died in both World Wars. The act is controversial because a number of Waffen-SS soldiers are buried there. |
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After refusing food for 66 days, IRA's Bobby Sands dies while in prison in Belfast. |
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Thomas A. Owens born in Waterbury, CT USA |
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Alan Shepard aboard Mercury 3, becomes the first American in Space. |
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Howard Hughes gives his final interview to Frank McCulloch of Time/Life. |
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Canadian soldiers liberate the city of Amsterdam from Nazi occupation. |
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A Japanese bomb, launched by balloon, explodes near Lakewood, Oregon. It kills the woman and five children who were examining it. |
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Mohandas Gandhi is freed from prison. |
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Chief Sitting Bull leads his group of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army. |
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The U.S. Civil War Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. It results in a tactical victory for the Confederates, but a strategic victory for the Union army. |
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The Mexican army defeats the French army in the Battle of Puebla |
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Napoleon dies at Saint Helena of stomach cancer. |
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The British attack Fort Ontario at Oswego, New York during the War of 1812. |
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In a letter to Jefferson, Thomas Paine writes "Had this Revolution been conducted consistently with its principles, there was once a good prospect of extending liberty through the greatest part of Europe; but I now reqlinquish that hope." |
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The French States General convenes in response to the economic situation and public unrest in France. |
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