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Denmark urges its citizens to leave Indonesia. Denmark's Foreign Ministry cites threats from an extremist group over the publication of drawings of Islam's Prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper. |
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair promised a full investigation of a video and photos released by News of the World that shows British soldiers brutally beating Iraqi youth.s |
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London's Sunday Telegraph reports that Pentagon strategists are drawing up plans for bombing raids and coordinated submarine-launched ballistic missile attacks against Iran's nuclear sites as a "last resort." Planners are identifying targets, assessing weapon loads and working on logistics for the ... |
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US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, visiting "Old Europe" in Munich, Germany came out against a German proposal to create a trans-Atlantic rival to NATO to coordinate and develop policy among alliance nations. He declared NATO to be very much alive and relevant said that the U.S.-European allia ... |
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Roman Catholic Missionary Dorothy Stang, 74, is shot dead by hired gunmen near the jungle town of Anapu, Brazil. She had fought for decades to protect the rain forest and its people from illegal logging. Stang, who is from Dayton Ohio, was murdered despite constant warnings to authorities that she ... |
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British Airways Cancels Flight from London to Washington. |
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Kemmons Wilson, who created the Holiday Inn chain of affordable hotels, dies at the age of 90. |
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New York City bans cell phones at movies and broadway performances. |
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Tom Owens serves as principal for the day at Cleveland Avenue Elementary School. He presents voice recognition technology and Cleveland Avenue's new robot to the Straight-A students of 2002. |
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The Senate Commerce Committee berates former Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay for an hour, and then Mr. Lay asserts his fifth ammendment rights. |
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld issues his famous statement about "unknown unknowns" at a DoD News Briefing.
"As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know. Bu ... |
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Jeff Skilling becomes president and chief executive of Enron. |
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The U.S. Senate acquits President Clinton on impeachment charges. A total of 67 votes were necessary to convict. Voting was 55 against and 45 in favor of the perjury charge. Obstruction of justice charge failed 50-50. |
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Unocal Vice President John J. Maresca, who later becomes a special ambassador to Afghanistan, testifies before the House International Relations committee that until a single, unified, friendly government is in place in Afghanistan, the trans-Afghani pipeline needed to monetize the oil will not be b ... |
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Juan Domingo Perón declares his candidacy for the Argentina's highest office. |
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German General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli, North Africa. |
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Pu-Yi, the boy emperor of China, abdicates after troops march into Bejing's Forbidden City. |
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The five year old emperor is forced to abdicate by Chinese general Yuan Shih-k’ai, but still lives in The Forbidden City in Tianamen Square, Beijing and is treated with enormous respect. |
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Chile gains its independence from Spain. |
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