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The Bush White House releases the August 6, 2001 intelligence report on possible terror attacks by Osama bin Laden inside the United States. |
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The Good Friday Peace Accords signed by Irish Catholic and Protestant leaders. |
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Israeli premier Golda Meir resigns in the aftermath of the Yom Kippur war. |
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Boeing unveils the T-43A, a navigator trainer of the Boeing 737. |
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US, USSR & 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons. |
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American B-52 bombers recommence bombing North Vietnam. They had stopped in November of 1967. |
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The submarine USS Thresher sinks off the coast of Cape Cod taking her crew of 129. |
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Adolf Eichmann tried as a war criminal in Israel. |
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Japan's Crown Prince Akihito marries commoner Michiko Shoda. |
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Akihito, who will become Emperor of Japan, weds Michiko. |
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Suez canal reopens for all traffic. |
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The nation of Japan conducts the first election for the Japanese diet. |
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Paul von Hindenburg re-elected President of Germany |
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Emiliano Zapata, thje Mexican Revolutionary, is shot dead by General Guajardo who had invited Zapata for a meeting,. |
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The RMS Titanic departs Southampton, England. |
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Albert Einstein submits his doctoral dissertation "A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions" to the university in Zurich which was accepted in July. |
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Federal troops withdrawn from the city of Columbia SC |
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Austria declares war on the realm of Naples. |
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Mount Tambora erupts covering several islands in Indonesia with ash. |
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Robert Gray becomes the first American to circumnavigate the Earth. |
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England's James I grants the First Virginia Charter, which includes land north of the 34th parallel, up to 100 miles inland. |
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