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The Bush administration announces that US deficit spending in the 2006 budget would soar above $400 billion, well over the July forecast. |
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White House press secretary Scott McClellan quietly announces that the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has concluded without any evidence of the banned weapons that President Bush cited as justification for going to war. Chief U.S. weapons hunter Charles Duelfer will deliver a report ... |
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New Jersey Governor James E. McGreevey signs New Jersey's domestic partnership law. |
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Opponents of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez march on the Fort Tiuna military base in Caracas. |
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Steve Case, the chairman of AOL Time Warner, announces he will step down in May. |
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The U.S.S. Ashland and the U.S.S. Portland depart from the Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base in Virginia Beach. Amphibious assault ships, the U.S.S. Kearsarge and the U.S.S. Bataan depart Norfolk Naval Station |
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Anti-French demonstrations take place in Israel in response to the release of Abu Daoud. |
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The daughter of Malcolm X, Qubilah Shabazz, is arrested under charges of conspiracy to kill Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan had been allied with the Nation of Islam Leaders who organized the murder of Malcolm X, and Shabazz held Farrakhan directly responsible for her father's death. |
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Attorney General Janet Reno announces the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate the Clinton's involvement with Whitewater. |
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U.S. Congress approves use of force in Iraq. |
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Civil Rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton is stabbed in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. |
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Idi Amin is expelled from Zaire. |
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Hewlett-Packard introduces a calculator capable of algebraic manipulation and calculus. |
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The international panel overseeing the restoration of the structures on the Giza Plateau stopped using mortar, which was splitting adjacent blocks, in favor of a method of interlocking blocks orginally used by the Egyptians. |
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Yaser Arafat is re-elected to head the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). |
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The "Harrisburg Six" are charged with conspiracy to blow up federal building heating tunnels and to kidnap presidential adviser Henry Kissinger. |
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The last KC-135 tanker is delivered to Strategic Air Command. |
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In Operation Chopper, helicopters flown by U.S. Army pilots ferry 1,000 South Vietnamese soldiers to sweep a NLF stronghold near Saigon. It marks America's first combat missions against the Vietcong. |
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Under assumed names, Howard Hughes secretly marries actress Jean Peters at the L&L Motel in Tonopah, Nevada. |
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U.S. Secretary of State John Dulles delivers a speech in which he declares it unwise to permanently commit U.S. land forces so as to lead to 'practical bankruptcy.' He advocates a policy of 'massive retaliatory power' to achieve 'maximum protection at a bearable cost,' thus advocating a stronger re ... |
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Reagan is hired by General Electric to host the Sunday evening TV show "G.E. Theater" and make celebrity appearances at G.E. plants |
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Gandhi begins yet another protest fast to ensure communal peace in Delhi. |
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Soviet bombers raid Finland cities in mass attacks. |
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In a work entitled "Mobilize New Recruits and Conduct Political Work Among Them," Deng Xiaoping writes "moreover, some people may become disgusted with the army and be loathed to join it. In addition, the Japanese aggressors, Chinese collaborators and Trotskyites may use these mistakes to incite peo ... |
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Ophelia Wyatt Caraway (D, Arkansas) becomes the first women to be elected to the U.S. Senate, based on the support of Senator Huey Long from Lousianna. |
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Max Immelmann and Oswald Boelcke both score their eighth victories, which will lead to their decoration with the Blue Max. |
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The U.S. House of Representatives rejects a proposal which would give women the right to vote. |
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The Dow Jones Industrial average exceeds 100 for the first time. |
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Henry's Ford second automobile, a commercial delivery wagon designed for the the Detroit Automobile Company is completed. Ford soon leaves this job to start his own company. |
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Ito Hirobumi becomes Japan's 7th Prime Minister and serves 170 days until June 30th 1898. |
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British Lieutenant-General Chelmsford invades Zululand starting the Anglo-Zulu War. The month before, Zulu King Cetshwayo had rejected the British ultimatum that his forces disband. |
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The Union Fleet commences bombardment of Fort Fisher, NC. |
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Joseph Smith Jr. and Sidney Rigdon left Kirtland, MO for Clay County, Missouri, in order "to escape mob violence.." |
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The French evacuate Vienna. |
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Deadline for Jews to leave Sicily. Sicily became a province of Aragon in 1412. Spain's edict of expulsion was instituted on March 31st 1492. In total, approximately 37,000 Jews had to leave Sicily. |
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