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In Pittsburgh, Democratic Presidential contender John Kerry announces his selection of North Carolina Senator John Edwards as his vice-presidential running mate. Edwards graduated from NC State with a bachelor's degree in textile technology in 1974, and later earned a law degree from the Universit ... |
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The front page of the New York Post incorrectly proclaims that Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry selects Dick Gephardt as his running mate. |
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A 10 page statement released by the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigade is fully translated and reveals their intent to drag the United States into Yemen. It also mentions that the truce offered to Europe would expire in a few days. |
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U.S. light crude rose $1.07 to $39.46 a barrel on pipeline sabotage in Iraq and a stoppage in Nigeria increased concern regarding supply. |
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In response to John Kerry's selection of John Edwards as running mate, Bush campaign chairman Marc Racicot called Edwards "a committed liberal and spirited messenger for his party," accusing both he and Kerry of voting "against our troops on the front lines in Afghanistan and Iraq." |
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The U.S. Commerce Department imposes antidumping duties on shrimp imports from China and Vietnam. |
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Four Marines assigned to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force are killed in al Anbar province, Iraq according the Coalition Public Information Center. he Marine deaths bring the total number of U.S. troops who have died in the war to 872. The total number of multinational forces to die in the war now ... |
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Iraqi's Interim PM Ayad Allawi reports losses in the country's power supply over the past three days and attributes the problem to insurgent attacks on pipelines and fuel trucks. |
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"After examining available transcripts of [Vice President Dick Cheney's] public remarks, the 9/11 commission believes it has access to the same information the vice president has seen regarding contacts between al Qaeda and Iraq prior to the 9/11 attacks." Cheney's comments that the U.S. has never ... |
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Two gunmen in Kabul assassinate Haji Abdul Qadir, a Pashtun and a new vice president of Afghanistan in the government of President Hamid Karzai. |
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Media executive Ted Turner calls for a national vote on replacing the "Star Spangled Banner" with a less warlike anthem. According to Reuters/Variety Report, Turner made his remarks while in Philadelphia to receive the Philadelphia Liberty Medal. Turner urged that "America the Beautiful" be adopted ... |
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The U.S. Federal Reserve lowers the Fed Funds Rate by 0.25%. |
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Three of the Comoros islands Grande Comore, Anjouan, and Mohéli declare their independence from France. The deputies of Mayotte abstain. |
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Viet Cong attack American Special Forces outpost at Nam Dong and Capt. Roger C. Donlon acts with courage to win the First Medal of Honor. The Viet Cong withdraw with 40 fatalities. |
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The New York Times runs several stories about the warming of relations between the Soviet Union and the United States based on the Soviets' know policy differences with China. |
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U.S. Military tests a Hydrogen bomb. |
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A total of 57 U.S. Army nurses arrive in the town of Pusan, on the southern west coast of the Korean pennisula, to set up a hospital for the wounded. |
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George W. Bush is born in New Haven, CT. |
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FBI agents arrest George "Bugs" Moran n Kentucky along with Virgil Summers and Albert Fouts. |
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Georges Mandel, France's minister of colonies who had been interred at Oranienburg and Buchewald is executed in a wood outside Paris by the collaborationist French security police, the Milice. |
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The first concrete is poured in the construction of Hoover Dam. |
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T.E. Lawrence and Prince Faysal capture the city of Aqaba from Ottoman control. The city was of strategic importance because in allied hands, it threatened the flank of the Turkish Army operating against the British in Palestine and in the Sinai and the Turkish forces that were deployed in Arabia a ... |
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The decimal-based dollar and cents system is unanimously chosen as the money unit for the United States. The U.S. becomes the first country to adopt a decimal currency system. |
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"Mad" Anthony Wayne repulsed at Green Springs Farm, VA. |
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Gen. Burgoyne's troops stun the Americans with the capture of Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain. The loss of the fort is a tremendous blow to American morale. |
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The Continental Congress issues a Declaration on the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms detailing the colonists' reasons for fighting the British and states the Americans are "resolved to die free men rather than live as slaves." |
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Richard III is crowned king of England. |
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