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Iraqi militants execute Italian hostage Fabrizio Quattrocchi and demande the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. |
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The MIT scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, is awarded the first Millennium Technology Prize. |
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Gunmen assassinate Iranian diplomat Khalil Naimi in Baghdad. He was attempting to mediate with the defiant Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. |
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Three Japanese civilians taken hostage in Iraq are released unharmed. |
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announces that U.S. will increase the number of troops in Iraq by 20,000. This breaks a Pentagon promise that no solider would have to serve longer than a year in Iraq. |
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U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell orders some nonessential diplomats to leave Saudi Arabia because the "threat level" has risen. |
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Organization of Islamic Conference announces it will hold an emergency meeting of its 57-members to discuss Iraq and Palestine. |
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A demonstration against the US presence in Mosul, Iraq leads to the death of several Iraqis. |
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Representatives from 124 countries sign the Marrakesh Agreements, establishing the World Trade Organization or WTO. |
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Leona Helmsley, the Queen of Mean, begins her four-year prison sentence for income tax evasion in Lexington, KY. |
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Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin. |
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Disney opens Tokyo Disneyland to the public. |
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U.S. 1st Infantry Division withdraws from Vietnam. |
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Large parades protesting U.S. involvement in Vietnam are held in New York and San Francisco. The New York Crowd reached a size of 100,000 to 125,000. |
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Following his successful revolution in Cuba, Fidel Castro visits the United States but Eisenhower leaves Nixon to meet with him. |
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Portugal enters the war against Nazi Germany and is admitted as a founding member of the United Nations. |
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The Soviet Red Army captures the city of Tarnopol, one of the principal cities of Eastern Galicia Poland, from the Germans. |
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The U.S. plans the fake Operation Wedlock, a proposed invasion of the Kurile Islands of northern Japan to distract the Japanese from Operation Forager targeting the Marianas Islands. |
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FDR approves Operation Vengence, the assasination of Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. |
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In a work entitled "The Party and the Anti-Japanese Democratic Government," Deng Xiaoping advocates democracy led by the Communisty Party and established on the basis of the Three-Thirds System. "since the political power we have established is a joint dictatorship of several revolutionary classes, ... |
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A joint British, French and Polish Expeditionary Task Force commences its attack to recapture Narvik, Norway from the Nazis. |
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Walter T. Varney launches airmail service from Pasco, Washington to Elko, Nevada. Varney Airlines is a predecessor to United Airlines. |
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Rand McNally publishes their first road atlas. |
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The British ocean liner RMS Titanic sinks into the North Atlantic Ocean about 400 miles south of Newfoundland, after having struck an iceberg |
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Andrew Johnson is inaugurated as the 17th President of the United States, following the assasination of Abraham Lincoln. |
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The Preliminary Articles of Peace ending the American Revolutionary War are ratified. |
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In an interview with William Stukeley, Newton recalls "when formerly, the notion of gravitation came into his mind. It was occasioned by the fall of an apple, as he sat in contemplative mood. Why should that apple always descend perpendicularly to the ground, thought he to himself. Why should it no ... |
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Catherine I of Russia is born. |
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Leonardo da Vinci is born. |
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