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A garbage truck loaded with explosives detonates next to a Baghdad hotel housing U.S. workers. Four people are killed and 30 Americans are wounded in the continuing streak of suicide bombings that highlight the danger of doing business in Iraq. |
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U.S. Judge sentences John Allen Muhammad to death for Washington area sniper attacks in October of 2002. |
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Enron and Blockbuster cancel a deal for video-on-demand. |
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The Irish Republican Army launches the first of three mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport. |
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NASA announces that the remains of the Challenger astronauts have been found. |
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Dan Rather becomes the anchorman of CBS Evening News. |
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The first female cadets are accepted to United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. |
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Three white Unitarian ministers, including Rev. James J. Reeb, are attacked with clubs on the streets of Selma, Alabama. They participating in a civil rights demonstration. Reeb later died in a Birmingham, Alabama hospital. |
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The new Argentinian government makes it a punishable crime to wear Peronist symbols, such as lapel pins. |
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CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow presents "A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy" which includes damaging film clips that expose the Wisconsin senator at his worst, helping to turn the tide of public opinion against him. |
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Erwin Rommel, who had been commanding the German forces in North Africa, is replaced by Gen. Jurgen von Arnim. |
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Japan sets up a new country in the region of Manchuria which they name Manchukuo. Pu Yi is given the title of Chief Executive which angers him since he sought to be restored as emperor. |
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The US Navy's helium filled rigid airship makes its first flight. |
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In response to the Portuguese government's orders to seize German ships in its harbours, Germany declares war against Portugal. |
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U.S. Congress passes the Fifty Million Bill, $50 Million for the purpose of strengthening the U.S. Military. The vote is unanimous. |
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Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine. |
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Mary Stuart's second husband Henry, Lord Darnley, bursts into her supper chamber inside the Palace of Holyroodhouse., threatens her, and murders her secretary David Riccio. |
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Florentine merchant, navigator, and sea explorer Amerigo Vespucci is born Florence, Italy as the third child of a respected notary. |
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