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Gunmen loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr took control of the Ghari police station just 250 yards from the Imam Ali Shrine |
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The top army commander in Karachi, Pakistan escapes an assassination attempt that leaves at least 10 people dead, mostly soldiers. |
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A lawsuit filed in San Diego, CA on behalf of nine Iraqis alleges that employees of Titan and CACI International conspired to torture prisoners in order to obtain more information from them, thereby increasing their chances of winning more government contracts. |
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The U.S. Department of Labor reports that new applications for unemployment insurance increased by a seasonally adjusted 12,000 to 352,000 for the week ending June 5. |
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Chinese construction workers employed by the China Railway Shisiju Group Corporation are attacked by 20 gunmen near the city of Kunduz, in Northern Afghanistan. At least 11 are killed. |
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Music legend Ray Charles dies at the age of 73. He was appreciated for his gift of communicating the human spirit and emotion through song and for his blurring of musical genres, crossing soul, blues, country, and jazz. |
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New Paltz Town Court Justice Jonathan Katz dismisses the charges againt Mayor Jason West. The ruling found that the district attorney had failed to show that the state had a legitimate interest in preventing the marriages. |
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A Boeing Delta 2 rocket successfully speeds NASA's Mars rover Spirit out of Earth orbit to begin a seven-month journey to the Red Planet.
Finding a hole in cloudy skies over Florida's Space Coast, the three-stage booster lifted off at 1:58:47 p.m. EDT (1758.47 GMT) Tuesday. |
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Mob boss John Gotti dies in a prison hospital in Missouri. |
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Alan Greenspan takes office on June 20, 2000, as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for a fourth four-year term ending June 20, 2004. |
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London's new Millenium Bridge is closed for safety checks after large crowds of crossing pedestrians cause it to sway violently. |
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NATO forces suspend air strikes after Slobodan Milosevic agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo. |
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John Miller of ABC News Interviews Osama Bin Laden. |
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At Dong Xai, a South Vietnamese Army district headquarters and American Special Forces camp is overrun by a full Vietcong regiment. U.S. air attacks eventually drive the Vietcong away. |
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The first fully automatic landing of an in-service commercial airplane takes place at Heathrow Airport, London, England. |
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The Aeronautical Society of the United States is established. |
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647 U.S. Marines land at Guantanamo Bay and commence the invasion of Cuba. |
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Mount Tarawera erupts in New Zealand, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces. |
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Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi at the Battle of Brice's Crossroads. |
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John C. Frémont and his men in Sonoma declare their independence from Mexico and the Bear Flag rebellion begins four days later. |
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In opposition to the First Estate (the aristocracy) and the Second Estate (the clergy), The Third Estate (others) votes for the common verification of credentials At the meeting of the French States General. |
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John Hancock's Sloop Liberty is seized by British customs officials. |
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Bridget Bishop is hanged as a witch during the Salem Witch scare. |
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