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In a Daily Mail interview, General Sir Richard Dannat, who took on his role as head of the British Army in August, states that UK troops should "get ourselves out sometime soon because our presence exacerbates the security problems". |
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Jack Straw, UK Foreign Minister, announces to Parliament that the claim Saddam Hussein could use weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes has been officially withdrawn. said: "The Butler committee concluded that the validity of the line of reporting which included the 45-minute intelligence ha ... |
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A car bomb destroys a disco in Bali Indonesia and kills nearly 200 people. |
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The United Nations and its secretary-general Kofi Annan are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
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Ronald Reagan surpasses the previous record for the longest living U.S. President which had been held by John Adams who lived 90 years and 247 days. |
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U.S. guided missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67) suffered severe damage in a suicide bombing attack when the ship was in the port of Aden, Yemen for a routine fuel stop. |
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Pervez Musharraf becomes head of state/chief executive of Pakistan via a bloodless coup d'état, placing Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif under house arrest. |
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Fortune Magazine features Carly Fiorina on the cover of their magazine and pronounces her the “most powerful woman in American business.” Patricia Sellers, Fortune magazine writer, wrote: “She is at the center of the ongoing technology revolution that’s changing how we live and work.” |
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Twenty-one year old homosexual Matthew Shepard dies from wounds he suffered in a gay bashing crime on October 7 near Laramie, Wyoming. Aaron James McKinney and Russel Arthur Henderson were later arrested and convicted to life sentences, without the possibility of parole. |
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IRA detonates a bomb at the Grand Hotel, Brighton, England where the UK Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, and her cabinet were staying during a Conservative Party conference. |
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4th Space Shuttle Enterprise, approach & land test (ALT) flight. |
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Mariner 9 takes pictures of Martian north pole. |
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Soyuz 7 is launched |
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Launch of Voskhod 1, 1st 3 man crew (Komarov, Feokistov, Yegorov) |
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Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session. |
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US navy defeats Japanese in WW II Battle of Cape Esperance. |
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Graf Zeppelin, named for Ferdinand von Zeppelin, becomes the first commercial dirigible to cross the Atlantic |
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JEB Stuart completes his "2nd ride around McClellan" |
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Re-elected minister as Minister to France, Thomas Jefferson begins a three year term. |
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British Brigade begins guarding Throgg Necks Road in the Bronx. |
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George Washington sends a letter to Congress advising it not to reduce the pay of soldiers. |
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The enlistment form for any person who joins the ranks of the Continental Army is adopted. |
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Jane Seymour delivers a potential heir for King Henry VIII, Edward. She will die 12 days later and Edward will be sickly through his short life. |
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The lookout Rodrigo aboard the Pinta spots land. |
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180 Jews refuse baptism in Munich Germany, they are set on fire. |
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Roman emperor Claudius is poisoned. Nero becomes emperor. |
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