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Roadside bombs killed three U.S. soldiers Thursday in separate incidents southwest of Baghdad. The total number of U.S. military troops and civilians that have died in the Iraq War now stands at 2429. On Wednesday, Baghdad's morgue reported that 1,091 people were killed in the city's daily violenc ... |
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In a Fox News interview on Hannity and Combs, conservative Newt Gingrich states that the President and Attorney General must be relentlessly clear in explaining truthfully to the American people the details about any US domestic intelligence programs. |
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A homemade bomb explodes in a crowded market in the northern city of Kirkuk, killing four Iraqis and injuring 23, according to security officers. |
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A civilian convoy organized by Halliburton subsidiary Kellog, Brown and Root that was heading to Baghdad from Jordan is attacked and some vehicles are destroyed. |
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Amid resistance from consumers and processors, the biotech firm Monsanto decides to cancels plans to bring a new variety of genetically engineered wheat to market. |
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John Kerry's presidential campaign bowed to pressure and released the financial data of his multimillionaire wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry. |
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The Bush Administration imposes economic sanctions against Syria, in retaliation for Syria's support of militant groups in the Middle East. |
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Crude oil futures closed above US$40 for the first time in 13 years due to rising global demand and concerns about U.S. supply shortages. |
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A GAO congressional investigation finds that 28 senior-level federal employees have bogus college degrees, incuding three managers with security clearances who work at the National Nuclear Security Administration. Worse, many of these fake degrees were paid for by the American Taxpayer. |
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The human rights group Amnesty International charges that British troops in southern Iraq killed a dozen civilians who posed no threat to them. |
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Six Israeli soldiers and eight Palestinians are killed in Gaza when their armored personnel carrier packed with explosives is hit by an explosive device. |
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An Islamic militant Web site features a video of the beheading of Nick Berg from Philadelphia. His decapitated body had been found on May 9th on a Baghdad highway overpass. |
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Iraq’s war-crimes tribunal announces that the United States will hand over Saddam Hussein, Chemical Ali, Tariq Aziz and other suspects to Iraqi authorities by June 30. |
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Shares of Intel (INTC), the world's largest semiconductor maker, rose to $27.77 on expectations that spending on electronics will rise. Worldwide chip sales had surged 32% in March from a year earlier, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. |
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Zephyrhills, Florida changes MLK street name back to Sixth Avenue. |
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The Associated Press runs an article about Georgia Teenagers Beating Hispanic Day Laborers. |
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Pfc. Lynndie England tells KCNC-TV in Denver that her superiors gave specific instructions on how to pose for the photos to be used by PsyOps (psychological operations). |
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Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende suggested his government may consider pulling Dutch troops from Iraq in the wake of the killing of a Dutch soldier there. |
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India conducts its first underground nuclear tests In the Rajasthan Desert. |
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Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer created by IBM, defeats Garry Kasparov becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player. |
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Kim Philby dies and is provided a hero's funeral by the Soviet government. |
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Robert McFarlane testifies to Congress that U.S. President Reagan instructed his staff in 1984 to find ways around the congressional ban on U.S. military aid to the Contras. |
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Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II. |
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Ed Meese calls the American Civil Liberties Union a "criminals' lobby." |
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Charges against DoD employee Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in 1971, are dismissed because of government misconduct. |
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Two and a half thousand Vietcong troops attack Song Be, a South Vietnamese provincial capital. After two days of fierce battles in and around the town, the Vietcong withdraw. |
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Agents of the Israeli Mossad capture Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi War Criminal, living in Buenos Aires under the name Ricardo Klement. |
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A tornado, measuring F5 on the Fujita scale, hits downtown Waco, Texas killing 114 people. |
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A tornado hits in downtown Waco, Texas killing 114. |
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The country of Saim renames itself Thailand. |
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The counry of Israel joins the United Nations |
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Allied forces commence an offensive against the Gustav Line, a series of German fortifications across Italy which included Monte Cassino and the famous abbey atop it. |
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U.S. troops invade the Japanese occupied island of Attu in the Aleutian chain. |
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Rudolf Hess crash lands a stolen plane in Scotland. At Nuremburg he was sentenced to life and became the sole prisoner at Spandau. |
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Howard Hughes qualifies for the 7,000 pound and over, multi-engine land and sea aircraft pilot rating. |
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The U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana. |
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Confederate General JEB Stuart is mortally wounded at the Battle of Yellow Tavern, Virginia. |
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The Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia is scuttled in the James River northwest of Norfolk, Virginia. |
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Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd state of the United States. |
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Ethan Allen leads American Revolutionaries to victory in the Battle of Crown Point, NY. |
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The Greek city of Byzantium is renamed Constantinople. It will later be renamed Istanbul in 1930, under Turkish rule. |
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