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The US Military announces that a U.S. UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed in northern Iraq late Saturday, killing all 12 Americans believed to be aboard and that five U.S. Marines were slain in separate weekend attacks. It is the deadliest helicopter crash since a CH-53 Sea Stallion crashed in west ... |
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Police 1st Lt. Mohammed Kheyoun announces that gunmen assassinated a member of former Prime Minster Ayad Allawi’s secular Shiite Iraqi National List in Baghdad, |
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The USS San Francisco (SSN 711), a Los Angeles Class nuclear submarine, runs aground while conducting submerged operations approximately 350 miles south of the island of Guam. The incident occurred at approximately 4 p.m., Jan. 7, Hawaii Standard Time (12 noon, Jan. 8, Guam Time). Machinist Mate 2n ... |
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The US Military announces that at least five people were killed when a coalition F-16 bombed the wrong target south of Mosul, Iraq. |
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Credit Suisse First Boston announces that it will sell its U.S. Securities Clearing Unit for $2 Billion to Bank of New York Co. Inc. |
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Democratic Senator Zell Miller of Georgia announces that he will not seek re-election in 2004. |
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President Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). It was intended to change the federal government's role in Elementary and Secondary School education by asking America's schools to describe their success in terms of what each student accomplishes. |
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The Vatican publishes its guidelines for dealing with pedophile priests and specifies that all cases should be reported to Rome. |
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Theodore Kaczynski, the suspected Unabomber, makes a request to act as his own lawyer.
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While visiting Japan, US President George H. Bush vomits on the Prime Minister of Japan. |
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U.S. Federal Reserve lowers Fed Funds Rate by a quarter point. |
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The Israeli Cabinet votes to "strengthen" settlements in the occupied Sinai pennisula. |
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America forces begin Operation Cedar Falls, which is intended to drive Vietcong forces from the Iron Triangle, a 60 square mile area lying between the Saigon River and Route 13. |
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U.S. forces launch Operation Crimp. Deploying nearly 8,000 troops, it is the largest American operation of the war. The goal of the campaign is to capture the Vietcong's headquarters for the Saigon area. It is never found. |
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Charles de Gaulle is inaugurated as the President of France's 5th Republic.
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Cuban revolutionary forces capture the city of Havana. |
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General George Marshall becomes Secretary of State. |
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General Friedrich Paulus, commanding the German Sixth Army which is surrounded at Stalingrad, ignores Russian General Konstantin Rokossovsky's offer of surrender. |
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Future Japanese politician and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is born in Yokosuka City, Kanagawa prefecture. |
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Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud is proclaimed King of the Hejaz and Sultan of Najd. In 1932 the dual monarchy system was merged and ibn Sa'ud establishes the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Austria-Hungarian troops capture Forlani, Italy. |
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The Last British troops withdraw from Gallipoli. The evacuation of the trenches had been accomplished by the use of rifles rigged to fire by water dripped into a pan attached to the trigger. |
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The first telegraph message using the dot and dash symbols of Morse Code is sent. |
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Eli Whitney dies. His genius led King Cotton to triumph in the South, but it also created the technology that preserved the Union. |
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Battle of New Orleans. American forces, under General Jackson, decisively defeat the British forces trying to capture New Orleans. The battle, which takes place after the Treaty of Ghent has been signed, is the most decisive American victory of the war. |
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Lewis & Clark encounter the skeletal remains of a blue whale in Oregon. It is 105 feet long. |
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George Washington delivers the very first State of the Union address. |
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Augustus Schultz patents a chrome tanning process for leather. |
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The Great Comet (C/1760 A1)approaches within 0.0682 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth. This is about 6,300,000 miles.
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Hudson and the Dutch United East India Company sign their contract for Hudson to search for a northeast passage. |
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Genoa, Italy expels Jewish population |
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