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Jury selection begins to start the first criminal trial in the Enron debacle. The chosen jury must decide if four former Merrill Lynch & Co. executives and two former Enron executives engaged in a sham sale of barges to manipulate the company's books in December of 1999. |
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Representatives of the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia meet at an exclusive island resort off the Georgia coast. G-8 leaders are expected to extend and expand a debt relief program for the world's poorest nations |
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Iraq's new Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, says he has reached a deal for 100,000 fighters to join security forces or return to civilian life. However, the pact does not include Moqtada Sadr's militia and observers say it is unlikely to affect the uprising. |
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General Motors, the world's largest producer for automobilies, says it plans to invest more than $3bn and double its capacity in the People's Republic of China over the next three years. GM will make 1.3 Million cars per year in contrast with VW's proposed 1.6 Million. |
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. announces said that it will introduce Sempron, a new brand of microprocessors to compete against Intel's Celeron line. |
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Rwanda's first post-genocide president, Pasteur Bizimungu, is sentenced to 15 years in jail for embezzlement, inciting violence and associating with criminals. |
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Ammunition used by fighters loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr catches fire in the compound surrounding the mosque in Kufa, Iraq. |
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U.S. District Judge Ewing Werlein postponed the Enron criminal trial until August 16th because it would have interfered with his vacation plans. |
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Israeli jets fire several rockets at the Naameh hills, just 12 miles south of Beirut where the Syrian-backed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command had a base. |
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A U.S. soldier is killed and two others wounded when a roadside bomb is detonated under their Humvee near Deh Rawod, Uruzgan in Afghanistan. The Army's 25th Infantry Division and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit comprise a force of 20,000 that has been engaged with the remnants of Taliban fand al ... |
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Al Qaeda militants on the Arab Pennisula issue a written statement that attacks on Western airlines and other means of transportation are planned and that Muslims should avoid mingling with Westerners to avoid a shared fate. |
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The U.S. and U.K. introduce their final version of the UN draft resolution on Iraq, which does not give the interim Iraqi government a veto over sensitive major military operations of the US-led multinational force |
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Microsoft announces that it "initiated preliminary discussions with SAP to explore the possibility of a potential merger [...] A few months ago, Microsoft ended these discussions due to the complexity of the potential transaction and subsequent integration." |
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U.S. hostage Martin Burnham killed in a rescue attempt in the Phillipines. His wife Gracia is wounded, but freed. |
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Britian's Women's Institute, also known as the WI, slow-hand-claps in protest during a speech given by PM Tony Blair of the Labour Party. |
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Denmark allows civil unions for same-sex couples, in the form of registered partnerships, that offer equivalent rights of marriage within the country. |
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On orders from Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Israeli F-15 and F-16 fighters bomb a French-built nuclear plant near Baghdad, declaring that it was designed to make nuclear weapons to destroy Israel. |
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Following a high-profile campaign led by Anita Bryant, Dade County's Civil Rights Ordinance is repealed by an overwhelming margin of 69% to 31%. |
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At a news conference, South Dakota Senator George McGovern announces that he would go "anywhere in the world" to negotiate an end to the Vietnam War and bring U.S. troops and POWs home. Many Americans view this statement as one of unconditional surrender while Nixon and Kissinger were pursuing "pea ... |
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The U.S. Supreme Court rules that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment and overturns a conviction against Paul Cohen. |
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General Westmoreland requests a total of 44 battalions of combat troops, nine of which would be in reserve, for offensive attacks against the North Vietnamese. This would be a major role change for the U.S. and President Johnson eventually acquiesces. |
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The Soviet blockade of Berlin begins. |
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The Japanese commence air raids on American forces garrisoned on Guadlcanal. |
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The U.S. defeats Japan in the naval Battle of Midway. |
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Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney working in South Africa, refuses to comply with racial segregation rules on a South African train and is forcibly ejected at Pietermaritzburg. |
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Confederate attempt to rescue the besieged city of Vicksburg is thwarted by Union troops and gunboats in the Battle of Milliken's Bend, LA. |
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Florida troops takeover Fort Marion in St Augustine. Fort Marion is actually the Castillo de San Marcos, built by the Spanish in the late 1500s. |
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Martin Frobisher and an expedition of ships, consisting of the 20-ton barks Gabriel and Michael and a pinnace of 10 tons, set sail from Blackwall in search of the Northwest Passage |
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