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At Camp Buehring in Kuwait, Army Spc. Thomas Wilson of the Tennessee National Guard and 278th Regimental Combat Team asks US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to uparmor our vehicles?'' ... |
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EIGroup consultants begin conversations with the US Department of Defense to discuss the principles of Aikido in managing conflict and public relations. |
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Insurgents trade gunfire with US forces around the city of Samarra. They attack a convoy, and blow up a police station after looting its armory. The Pentagon announces the number of U.S. combat deaths in the Iraq War has risen to 1,001. |
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The US Senate approves an intelligence reorganization bill ending weeks of conflict. The measure had stalled for two weeks when conservative House Republicans insisted on changes to reform immigration and border security. The senate approval clears the way to overhaul the U.S. intelligence community ... |
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Lawyers for eight active duty soldiers today sue US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other senior military officials and are asking to be immediately released from military service, declaring that they have fulfilled their contracts. Because the Pentagon underestimated the resolve of the insur ... |
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Physicist Mark Newman of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor suggests that the SETI project is futile because alien civilizations would encode and compress their communications. Others suggest that some civilizations would transmit a beacon which could be detected. |
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In the closest race for Governor in Washington state history, six of Washington's 39 counties begin a hand recount of 2.9 million Gubernatorial votes. The rest are set to begin on Thursday December 9th, 2004. A machine recount found Republican Dino Rossi to be the winner by 42 votes over Democrat C ... |
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After the AARP declined to plug his latest book, Bill O’Reilly used his Talking Points Memo to denigrate the organization suggesting that they have liberal policies and do not profile stories about conservatives. In reality, AARP has profiled Ronald Reagan, John McCain, Henry Kissinger, Colin Powel ... |
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Tom Eric Vraalsen announces that humanitarian efforts in Darfur Sudan come to a near stand still because of the authorities who are denying access. |
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Although opposed by Labor Groups, US President Clinton signs into law the North American Free Trade Agreement. This allows Mexico to join the free-trade zone already in place between the United States and Canada and creates the world's biggest free trade zone. |
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US performs a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site. |
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E. Howard Hunt's wife dies in a airplane crash in Chicago, IL with $10,000 in $100 bills on her person. A CIA employee from 1949 to 1970, Hunt organized the bugging of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate office building as well as the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. |
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US & USSR sign arms treaty which prohibits either country from deploying nuclear weapons in outer space. |
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US Army's rocket plane, the XS-1, makes its first powered flight.
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The United States and Great Britain declare war on Japan. |
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The Japanese annihilate the two B-17 Flying Fortress bomber squadrons sitting on the ground at Clark Field. All but one of the 19 planes is damaged or destroyed. |
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USS Wake is captured by Japanese forces in Shanghai and is the only US ship to have surrendered in World War II. |
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German-US friendship treaty signed. |
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The New York Times publishes an interview with inventor Nikola Tesla in which he states that "'It is perfectly practicable to transmit electrical energy without wires and produce destructive effects at a distance. I have already constructed a wireless transmitter which makes this possible, and have ... |
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A British squadron under the command of Rear-Admiral Sturdee sinks three German cruisers off the Falkland Island. These are the same cruisers which had destroyed the Good Hope and Monmouth on November 1st. |
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Samuel Pierpont Langley's Aerodrome, piloted by Charles Manly, crashes on its second flight attempt. |
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The American Federation of Labor (AFL) is formed by 26 craft unions; Samuel Gompers elected AFL president |
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Captain Cook departs the Society Islands.
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Washington crosses the Delaware river into Pennsylvania. |
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Gen. George Washington's retreating army crosses Delaware River from New Jersey into Pennsylvania. |
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Inventor of the Cotton Gin and a pioneer in the use of mass production methods, Eli Whitney is born in Westborough, Massachusetts.
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Mary Stuart is born at the Palace of Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland. She is the daughter of King James V of Scotland and his French wife, Marie de Guise. |
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