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Senior US intelligence officials tell the Associated Press that US intelligence was wrong and that Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was not present in the remote Pakistani village of Damadola which was targeted by a CIA airstrike. The strike killed eight men, five women and five children, Pakistan ... |
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U.S. Business Loans Rise by $100 Million to $895.1 Billion. |
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US President George W. Bush unveils plans to create a human colony on the moon to serve as a base for the manned exploration of planet Mars. |
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Altanta Federal Reserve President Jack Guynn suggests that policymakers in Washington should consider both the short-tear and long-terms effects of Bush's proposed tax law. |
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Intel Corporation announces better-than-expected fourth-quarter profits as a result of stronger sales of high-end PCs and servers. |
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A CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll reveals that U.S. President George W. Bush's job approval rating slips below 60% for the first time since the 9/11 tragedy. |
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Thousands of GE workers picket around the country to protest rising health care costs. |
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KMart Corporation announces that it will close 326 stores and cut between 30,000 to 35,000 jobs. |
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Afghanistan and Iran sign an agreement by which Iran will provide electricity to the border province of Herat. |
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In spite of Iran's inclusion in U.S. President Bush's "Axis of Evil" U.S. diplomats deliver a message requesting non-interference and assistance in search and rescue missions for downed U.S. pilots. |
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US President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin Accords to require the dismantling of Ukraine's nuclear stockpile and to halt the targeting of nuclear missles on specific cities. |
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Muslims burn copies of the "Satanic Verses" in Bradford, England. |
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U.S. President Jimmy Carter proposes that Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday be a national holiday. |
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Ted Turner becomes CEO of the Atlanta Braves |
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The first Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. |
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George C. Wallace is sworn in as Governor of Alabama. In his address he advocated segregation with the words "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!" |
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Elvis Presley is promoted to the rank or Sergeant by the U.S. Army. |
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The United States recalls its consular officials from China. |
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Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt confer at the Casbablanca Conference. |
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Imperial Japanese troops land at Balikpapan in Borneo. Balikpapan is of strategic importance to the Japanese because of oil. |
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Hughes wins his first aviation prize in the twenty-mile closed course Sportsman Pilot Free-for-All running a Boeing 100A racer biplane. |
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Afghan King Amanullah is forced to resign and be replaced by his brother, Inayatullah. |
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Eli Whitney receives a government contract for 10,000 musket stands. Although there were difficulties along the way, he developed a manufacturing process using standard, interchangeable parts and relatively unskilled labor. |
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Eli Whitney secures a government contract for "ten thousand stand of arms" to be delivered in two years. He proposed to manufacture guns by a new method in which he would "make the same parts of different guns, as the locks, for example, as much like each other as the successive impressions of a cop ... |
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January 14