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A Yemeni security court charges six Yemenis in planning the October, 2000 bombing of the destroyer USS Cole and declared their affiliation with Osama bin Laden's terrorist network. |
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A female suicide bomber kills herself and four police officers in an explosion at a police station in Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo. |
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Ken Lay, the ex-Chairman of the failed Enron Corporation, is indicted. Lay will surrender to the FBI on July 8th and then make his initial appearance before a federal magistrate judge. U.S. President George Bush, who oftened referred to his friend as "Kenny Boy," refuses to respond to related ques ... |
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Gunmen abduct a Filipino man working in Iraq and threaten to kill him unless the Philippines withdraws its 50 troops from the country within 72 hours. |
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Al Jazeera announces that gunmen kidnapped an Egyptian man because he was collaborating with the U.S.-led occupation forces in Iraq. It said he was seized while driving a petrol truck from Saudi Arabia |
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Former GOP senator from New York's Alfonse D'Amato recommends that President Bush dismiss Richard Cheney as his VP running mate and choose another. "As an observer of politics, I believe the president can guarantee his essential re-election by looking to several other notable individuals who would ... |
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Japan tells the United Nations it should get a permanent seat on the Security Council because of its participation in the multinational force in Iraq. |
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The conservative New York Post newspaper, owned by FOX News mogul Rupert Murdoch, apologizes for its mistake identifying Dick Gephardt as John Kerry's running mate in the 2004 presidential election. |
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Classified Removable Electronic Media are discovered missing from the Weapons Physics Directorate at Los Alamos National Laboratory during an inventory check. |
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The archdiocese of Oregon files for bankruptcy and becomes the first Roman Catholic diocese in the U.S. to seek financial protection from sexual abuse lawsuits. |
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Aden is occupied by troops from North Yemen. |
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In response to an exchange of mail, U.S. student Samantha Smith flies to the Soviet Union as the guest of Premier Yuri Andropov. |
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The French language is made equal to English throughout the Canadian national government. |
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into United States law. |
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American forces land in Iceland to forestall an invasion by the Nazis. |
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The Marco Polo Bridge Incident (Battle of Lugou Bridge) begins when the Japanese army telegraphs Kuomintang forces demanding to enter Wanping town to search for a missing Japanese soldier. |
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The author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, dies. |
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Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov forms Provisional Government in Russia. |
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Forces under Commodore John Drake Sloat occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, the U.S. annexation of California begins. |
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In response to piracy and privateering against U.S. merchant ships, the U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France. This begins the Quasi war, undeclared war fought entirely at sea between the United States and France from 1798 to 1801. |
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Inventor Joseph-Marie Jacquard is born. He will invent the programmable Jacquard loom. |
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In response to petition by her family, Joan of Arc's conviction is nullified in a trial decreed by Pope Callixtus III. |
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