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Targeting Iraqi workers outside a U.S. base in Baquba and locals in Mosul, two suicide car bombers kill 12 people, including one US soldier, and wound at least 50 others |
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In response to an Israeli plane attack on a Palestinian base near Beirut, Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrillas attack positions in Shebaa farms, wounding one Israeli soldier. |
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An American contractor working for Vinnell, a unit of Northrop Grumman that trains the Saudi National Guard, left a clinic when gunmen in a car followed him to his home, opened fire, and killed him instantly. |
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Venus passes directly between the Sun and the Earth, obscuring a small part of the Sun's disc. Such an event is rare and typically occurs in pairs. The next transit will occur on June 6, 2012 completing the pair. The next pair will begin on December 11, 2117. |
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Three Italians and one Pole that were held hostage in Iraq since April 12th are freed and a few of their abductors are captured in a bloodless rescue operation conducted by coalition forces. |
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U.S. oil prices ease on profit taking after a rally spurred by news of another disruption to Iraq's crude exports and the threat of a strike in Nigeria.data to be released on Wednesday is expected to show further increases in inventory levels. |
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Released audio tapes demonstrate in the simplest and crudest possible language the mindset of traders at Enron during their manipulation of California's electricity shortage in 2001. |
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Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan announces that the central bank's commitment to a ``measured'' pace of interest-rate increases could be revoked if its judgments ``prove misplaced.'' |
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The UN Security Council unanimously votes for a UK and US-backed resolution on transferring power to an Iraqi government. It states that the US-led coalition will consult Iraqi leaders over major military actions, but does not provide Iraq's interim government any veto power. |
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UNHCR relocates nearly 90,000 people to safer camps inside Chad. |
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Ted Turner receives the World Ecology Award from the International Center for Tropical Ecology at the Ridgway Center, Missouri Botanical Garden. |
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Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia. . |
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Kurt Waldheim is elected president of Austria. He was formerly an officer in Hitler's SA, but also former UN Secretary General. |
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The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. |
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James Earl Ray is arrested for the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Israel completes its capture of the Sinai by sending infantry units to Ras-Sudar on the western coast of the peninsula. |
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Israel's attack on the USS Liberty during the Six Day War kills 34 and wounds 171. |
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The USS Barbero (SS-317), a guided missile submarine, fires a Regulus cruise missile toward the Naval Auxiliary Air Station in Mayport, Florida. In 22 minutes the missile lands, delivering two official USPS mail containers. |
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The novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is published by George Orwell. |
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Allied forces invade Syria and Lebanon during World War II. |
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U.S. Patent Office granted patent (No. 1142754) to Glenn H. Curtiss covering the arrangement of a step or ridge incorporated in the hull of flying boats. |
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Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punch card calculator which would eventually turn into the electric tabulating machine in 1889 and IBM in 1924. |
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Tennessee secedes from the Union. |
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Thomas Paine dies at his Grove Street Address in Greenwich Village in New York City. Only 6 mourners attend his funeral. |
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American invaders are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec. |
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Spanish sailors are ordered to sail north and claim all lands for the Spanish monarchy in response to English claims for New World land. |
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