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A roadside bomb kills a U.S. soldier early Saturday in the Iraqi capital.. The attack occurrs as the soldier was driving in southern Baghdad, the military said. The number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war stands at 2,435, including 1,920 deaths in hostile incidents. |
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Gunmen kill the son of Iraq’s top judge as the country’s newly designated Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki struggles to form a national unity government. A May 22nd constitutional deadline to form the new Cabinet is rapidly approaching. |
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Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., delivers the commencement address to the graduating class of Jerry Falwell's Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA. Six years earlier, John McCain denounced the conservative Christian leader as "evil." Conservative Christian voters effectively undermined McCain's president ... |
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Vice President Dick Cheney's role in the Valerie Plame CIA criminal investigation is widened as a result of newly disclosed notes showing that Cheney personally asked whether Wilson had been sent by his wife on a "junket" to Africa. In the margins of Joe Wilson's op-ed, Cheney scribbled a series of ... |
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Richard Myers appear in Iraq and visit Abu Ghraib prison. |
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Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee resigns as his governing BJP party is defeated by Sonia Gandhi in India's general elections. |
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Malaysian Webhosting Company, Acme Commerce, shuts down the website that first posted video of American Nick Berg's beheading. |
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Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates condemni the beheading of American Nicholas Berg by his captors. |
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U.S. Troops in Iraq ask a visting Donald Rumsfeld some tough questions, but give him a standing ovation. |
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Crude oil rises to $41 a barrel for the first time in more than 13 years. |
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Representatives for the DPRK announce that diplomats will not continue discussing the nuclear standoff untill the U.S. drops demands for complete dismantlement of its nuclear arms programs. |
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Disney reports Q2 profit, boosting CEO Michael Eisner, who has been under pressure to improve performance or be replaced. |
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Hundreds of Israeli troops fanning out in the Gaza Strip along the Egyptian border in search of the remains of five soldiers killed in a military vehicle bombing. |
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Several hundreds of people are killed in renewed Muslim-Christian violence inf Kano, Nigeria. |
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Israeli missile attacks on a refugee camp in southern Gaza kill 11 Palestinians. |
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad announces that he will not acquiesce to U.S. demands to expel Palestinian militants. |
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Designed by Burt Rhutan, funded by Paul Allen, and piloted by Mike Melvill , SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded vehicle to break through earth's atmosphere. It soared to 211,400 feet ( 40 mi ) above the Mojave desert, and is a contender for the $10 million Ansari X Prize, |
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The Commerce Department reports that the U.S. trade deficit widened in March to $43.5 billion by 7.6%, an increase from February’s deficit of $40.4 billion. |
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U.S. President Bush announces that those who orchestrated the suicide bombings in Saudi Arabia that killed seven Americans would "learn the meaning of American justice." |
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Mehmet Ali Agca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II at St. Peter's Square in Rome. |
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The USS Pueblo is redesignation AGER-2. |
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Vice President Richard M. Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela. |
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Raid on Toksan Dam. A dramatic strike by 58th Fighter-Bomber Wing F-84s destroys a major irrigation system. Five miles of valuable rice crops are scoured and miles of highways and railroad tracks are destroyed. Further attacks on irrigation dams follow over the next two weeks. |
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Kathleen Kennedy is killed in a plane crash over southern France. |
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The German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces. |
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Winston Churchill makes his "blood, tears, toil and sweat" speech to the British House of Commons. |
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Russian Igor Sikorsky builds and flies the first 4 engine airplane. |
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Union forces defeat Confederates in the Battle of Palmito Beach, the final land battle of the U.S. Civil War. |
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The Battle of Resaca commences as Union General William T. Sherman moves toward Atlanta against Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee. The battle will end on the 15th with 2,747 Union dead and 2,800 for the Confederates, with Johnston unable to halt the advance. |
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U.S. officially declares war on México, 2 months after fighting begins. |
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General Thomas Gage, commander of all British military forces in the colonies, arrives in Boston and replaces Hutchinson as Royal governor. |
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Mary Stuart's army is defeated in the Battle of Langside, near Glasgow Scotland. |
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Crusaders March into Beirut and a bloodbath ensues. |
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