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The US government abruptly ends an inquiry into the warrantless eavesdropping program because the National Security Agency refused to grant Justice Department lawyers the necessary security clearance to probe the matter. Specifically the DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) sends a fax ... |
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U.S. President Bush attends a pentagon briefing over Iraqi Prisoner Abuse. |
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A South African, a New Zealander and an Iraqi are Killed in a drive-by shooting in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. |
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US forces kill 35 militants and destroy an office run by radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Baghdad. |
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Israeli troops demolish 13 Palestinian houses in Gaza, in retaliation for an ambush on Jewish settlers holding an outdoor memorial service. |
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 127 points to 9,990 on interest rate hike fears, the unsettled situation in Iraq and the fallout from the prisoner abuse scandal. |
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The Associated Press and the Hattiesburg American file a law suit against U.S. Marshals Service for the erasure of a reporters' recordings of a speech Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia gave to high school students. |
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Citigroup announces it will pay $2.65B to settle WorldCom Lawsuit. |
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Several Cuban dissidents criticise the US for measures aimed at speeding up the end of Fidel Castro's communist rule. |
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FBI agent Robert Hanssen is given a life sentence without the possibility of parole for selling American secrets to Moscow. |
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An earthquake in northeastern Iran, near the town of Ardekul, leaves 2400 dead. |
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Nelson Mandela inaugurated as South African President. |
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Silvio Berlusconi forms Italian Government with 5 neo-fascists. |
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EIGroup creates a database to support analysis of results obtained by the SAFIRE/OPAL Scheduling Optimization Software used by United Technologies. |
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Michel Rocard becomes Prime Minister of France |
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Communist Party leader, Alvaro Cunhal, returns to Portugal from exile in the Soviet Union to take up a post in the provisional government, causing NATO allies to worry. |
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Apollo 10 transmits the first colour photos of Earth from space |
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The Northrop M2-F2 Lifting Body crashes and tumbles on Rogers Dry Lake Bed when Bruce Peterson, its pilot, lowers the landing gear half a second too late. Peterson miraculously survives the crash to fly again, but loses sight in his left eye. The wingless, lifting body aircraft design was initially ... |
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The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes the first under water circumnavigation of the earth. |
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Jimmy Doolittle reverts to inactive reserve status and returns to Shell Oil as a vice president. |
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Deputy Führer Rudolph Hess flies to Scotland, ostensibly on a peace mission. |
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The United Kingdom's House of Commons is destroyed by the Luftwaffe in an air raid. |
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Nazi Germany invades Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg with a Panzer Attack across the Ardennes. |
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Winston Churchill appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
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Nazi's burn books in Germany. |
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The Attorney General under Calvin Coolidge appoints J. Edgar Hoover to be Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. |
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Between May 1901 and January 1902 Albert Einstein teaches in Winterthur and Schaffhausen. |
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The US Supreme Court, in a landmark decision with repercussions for centuries to come, rules in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad that corporations are entitled to the same rights as accorded to individuals uner the equal protection clause of the US Constitution. |
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Transcontinental Railroad completed. Union Pacific and Central Pacific meet at Promontory Point, UT |
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Jefferson Davis is captured near Irwinville, GA. |
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New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels. |
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A squadron of 10 ships under Commodore Stephen Decatur sets sail for the Mediterranean from New York to settle once and for all the question of paying tribute to the Barbary States. |
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The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States. |
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Napoleon Bonaparte himself sights the French artillery pieces at the Battle of Lodi Bridge, pins downs the Austrians, wins the battle, and earns the nickname "The Little Corporal" from his men. |
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The British burn the towns of Portsmouth and Norfolk, Virginia. |
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Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold and the Green Mountain Boys capture Ft. Ticonderoga. |
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Louis XVI becomes King of France. |
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In search of the Northwest Passage to Asia, Jacques Cartier encounters Newfoundland and begins exploration. |
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Christopher Columbus finds the Cayman Islands and because of the numerous sea turtles present, he calls them Las Tortugas. |
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