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Coca-Cola Co. announces that its President and CEO Steven Heyer, who was passed over for the top job in May, is leaving the soft drink producer. |
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The U.S. federal Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported that crude oil stocks rose by 400,000 barrels to 302.1 million barrels last week. In response, New York crude was down 45 cents at $36.83 a barrel. London benchmark Brent crude was down 38 cents on the session at $34.67 a barrel. |
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General Mohammed Latif's Falluja Brigade, entrusted by the U.S. to secure Fallujah and calm unrest, takes mortar fire resulting in 12 deaths. |
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Laura Bush announces her admiration for Nancy Reagan's devotion to former President Ronald Reagan, but can not support her call for a relaxation of stem cell research restrictions. |
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Treasuries declined ahead of a government auction of $25 billion of debt and on on speculation inflation will accelerate and prompt Alan Greenspan and Federal Reserve to boost the benchmark interest rate faster than anticipated. |
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Saboteurs blow up an oil pipeline near Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, cutting supplies to the Beiji electric power station and forcing a reduction of 400 megawatts in power generation or about 10%. |
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Several buildings are damaged and chunks of debris and thousands of nails litter the street in the Muelheim suburb of Cologne, Germany when a bomb explodes in a house and injures 16 people, one critically. |
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The journal Nature publishes a study conducted by Harvard Medical School which indicates that 400 genes in persons over 40 tend to function at a lower level, perhaps because of some kind of damage |
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In response to comments made by U.S. President Bush that the NATO alliance should become more involved in Iraq following the June 30th handover, French president Jacques Chirac said he did not believe it was Nato's mission to intervene, or that such a move would be well understood. Both leaders spo ... |
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London's Harrods department store apologizes to its customers for selling controversial underwear bearing images of Hindu goddesses. |
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U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft refuses to give lawmakers copies of a Justice Department memo that allegedly advised the White House that torture during 'war on terror' interrogations could be justified. "You may be in contempt of Congress," warned Democratic Senator Joseph Biden. |
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Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher's trip to Washington for President Reagan's funeral inadvertently caused the evacuation of the U.S. Capitol. |
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Federal jury indicts Larry F. Stewart, an ink expert, who prosecutors say lied on the witness stand at Martha Stewart's trial. |
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The Rogers Commission releases its Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident. The specific failure was the destruction of the
seals that are intended to prevent hot g ... |
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Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon |
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Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party wins a landslide second term election victory, taking 397 seats to Labour's 209. |
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Secretariat wins the Belmont Stakes, earning him the Triple Crown. |
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The U.S. Navy launches the USS George Washington (SSBN-598) as the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles. Her keel was laid down at Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics, Groton, Connecticut on 1 November 1957. |
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The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia |
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In retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice. |
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China, under the Kuomintang administration, recognizes Japanese occupations in Northeast China with the Ho-Umezu Agreement. |
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U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns based on disagreements regarding U.S. policy over the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. |
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A group of 500 mormons departs Iowa City and heads west for Salt Lake City, Utah carrying their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts. |
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James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter to colonize Georgia. |
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Jacques Cartier is first European to see the St. Lawrence River. |
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Roman emperor Nero commits suicide |
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