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An audit performed by the U.S. Treasury department has discovered that approximately 2200 laptops that had been issued by the IRS to volunteers in the tax assistance program were mising. These laptops contained financial data belonging to individual tax payers. |
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The Real IRA conducts a car bomb attack against civilians in Omagh, Northern Ireland. |
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Hindenburg and Ludendorff take command of German armed forces |
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First Big Bertha gun, a Mortar, was constructed. Germans destroy every fortress that stood in their way as the advanced on Belgium and France. |
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U.S. Col. Stephen Watts Kearney arrives in Las Vegas, Nevada and announces the U.S. annexation of New Mexico. He takes control of Santa Fe without firing a shot. |
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In Monte Sacro Rome, Simón Bolívar takes an oath before his tutor Simón Rodríguez that he would not allow his arm to rest nor his soul to die until he had realized his dream of liberating the South American world from Spanish dominion |
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Napoleon Bonaparte born in Ajaccio, Corsica. |
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