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As a result of her shirt-lifting activities during a Mud Wrestling match at Camp Bucca in Iraq, Spc. Deanna Allen is demoted to private first class, receives a pay cut and is placed on restriction. Her mother, Ladyna Waldrop of Black Mountain NC, documents the view that "It seems like they're just ... |
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A suicide bomber attack at Jumhuriya Hospital in Mosul, Iraq leaves 12 Iraqi police dead and 4 others injured. A later taxi-cab attack at the Diyala police station in Baquba results in 14 fatalities. To date, the total number of American troops killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom is 1,448. |
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US President Bush delivers his proposed $2.57 Trillion budget to Congress. The austere plan seeks deep spending cuts across 150 government programs and will cut health care payments for veterans and the poor and trim spending on education and the environment. Oddly, the budget does not include pro ... |
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Jean Welsh of the CDC releases a study documenting that fruit juice is a leading factor in the obesity of American children. Its unfortunate that something so obvious, would still be released as news and/or research. Any time a natural food is processed by humans in an attempt to increase commerci ... |
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In recognition of the health risks of tobacco, Cuba bans smoking in public places, including all restaurants and cigarette machines will be removed.
Government statistics now indicate that four out of every 10 Cubans smoke and that 30% of preventable cancers each year can be linked to smoking. |
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Attorney Tom Wilner, who represents 11 Kuwaitis detained at the Guantanamo Bay, contends they his clients were unjustly imprisoned after repeated abuse by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The torture included beatings with chains, electric shock and sodomy and led to confessions to avoid co ... |
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The U.S. elevates its Terror Threat Status to Orange or "High" |
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The Pentagon orders the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division to the gulf. |
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U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld signs orders to deploy the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk to the Persian Gulf and the USS Carl Vinson to the Pacific to replace it. The would add an additional 75 planes and several other warships carrying cruise missiles. |
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In a telephone conversation, Chinese President Jiang Zemin cautions U.S. President George W. Bush to "safeguard the Security Council's authority when deailing with significatn issues like the Iraq issue." |
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In Pyongyang, North Korea, the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland announces that "If the U.S. moves to bolster aggression troops are unchecked, the whole land of Korea will be reduced to ashes and the Koreans will not escape horrible nuclear disasters." |
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CipherTrust plans on Monday to introduce an enterprise appliance designed to block spam without also blocking legitimate e-mail.
The IronMail device is designed to block spam, viruses, and other inappropriate content while also including rules for cr |
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In the wake of the Slammer worm, Microsoft posted to its Web site three tools designed to help users identify vulnerable instances of SQL Server 2000 on their network. |
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New report pits Onyx's David against Siebel's Goliath. |
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U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tells reporters that "The reality is, the set of facts that exist today with al-Qaeda and the Taliban were not necessarily the set of facts that were considered when the Geneva Convention was fashioned." |
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In a speech during the 2000 Presidential Election Campaign, Texas governor George W. Bush delivers the line "I'm going to remind people that of the two of us running, I'm the reformer with results." |
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Philippine Corazon Aquino defeats incumbent dictator Ferdinand Marcos but fraudulent returns gave the election to Marcos. |
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Elizabeth Dole is sworn in as the first female U.S. Secretary of Transportation. |
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The Los Angeles Times reports on the real purpose for the Hughes built Glomar Explorer. It is part of the CIA's Project Jennifer, an effort to recover the wreckage of the Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 which sank near Hawa'ii on April 11th 1968. The 63,000 ton HMB-1, or Hughes Mining B ... |
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The U.S. Senate establishes the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities to be chaired by Senator Same Ervin. |
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Women win the right to vote in Switzerland. |
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Yasser Arafat, leader of Al-Fatah, becomes president of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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A U.S. helicopter base and advisory compound in the central highlands of
South Vietnam is attacked by NLF commandos. Nine Americans are killed
and more than 70 are wounded. President Johnson immediately orders U.S. retaliations just inside N. Vietnam. |
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Beatles land at New York's JFK airport and are welcomed by supportive fans of the British Invasion.
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Omar Bradley succeeds Dwight D. Eisenhower as Army Chief of Staff.
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MacArthur enters Manila some three years after having been forced to abandon the Phillipines to the Japanese, thus keeping his promise of "I shall return." |
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The U.S. 76th and 5th Infantry divisions begin crossing the Sauer River. |
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Germans launch a counter-offensive at Anzio Italy.
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The United States implements shoe rationing, restricting Americans to three pairs of shoes per year. |
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Amelia Earhart marries publisher George Palmer Putnam. She later publishes "The Fun of It." |
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In the Second Battle of Masurian Lakes, German armies surround a Russian army. |
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Henry Pu Yi (reign name Hsuan Tung) is born. |
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The Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 raged in Baltimore, Maryland from 10:48 am Sunday February 7 to 5:00 pm Monday February 8, 1904. Over 1231 firefighters were required to bring the blaze under control. It destroyed over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours. |
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In the Battle at Ingogo, Transvaal Boers defeat superior British forces.
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Union troops occupy Jacksonville FL |
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Burnside captures Roanoke Island off North Carolina. |
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An 8.2 magnitude earthquake rattles New Madrid, Missouri. |
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The U.S. ratifies the 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, affirming power of the states.
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At 16 years old, Michail Romanov becomes czar or Russia. |
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