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US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher announces that the US is recalling ambassador Margaret Scobey from Syria. The state department expresses "profound outrage" at the massive bombing that killed Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The US, however, stopped short of directly acc ... |
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A US appeals court upholds contempt charges against Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper and New York Times reporter Judith Miller who refuse to reveal their sources in the case involving White House "outting" of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame. The two could now face jail unless they agree to ... |
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Joint U.S. Iraqi Investigation Captures Muhammad Zimam Abd al-Razzaq, No 41 in the special deck of cards of wanter leaders in Saddam Hussein's deposed regime. |
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Rumsfeld and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz criticize the Army's chief of staff, Gen. Eric Shinseki, after Shinseki tells Congress in February that the occupation could require "several hundred thousand troops." Wolfowitz called Shinseki's estimate "wildly off the mark." |
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Its announced that the population of the People's Republic of China has reached 1.2 Billion |
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USSR ends its military occupation of Afghanistan. |
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An axe-wielding intruder leaps out from behind the curtains in Dr. Iyad Allawi's bedroom in Surrey England and strikes his body three times. the assassination attempt was overseen by Saddam Hussein's half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti, who was in charge of the European wing of Iraqi intelligence operat ... |
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Steve Jobs proposes that Atari create a personal computer. The idea is rejected. |
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Two Portuguese generals, Anastasio Spinola and Costa Gomes, protested to the government about the futility of is colonial policy in Africa. |
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Ronald Reagan switches his political party from Democrat to Republican. |
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The Bank of England is nationalized. |
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Japanese forces are finally ejected form Guadlcanal. |
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Despite more than 50 million pounds spent to improve its defenses, the British colonial city of Singapore falls to the Japanese. |
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Germans launch the Battleship Bismarck. |
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Ludendorff returns from exile in Sweden. |
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The battleship USS. Maine explodes in Havana Harbor. At the time, the implication is that it was an mine attack, but others believe it to be be an internal accident. |
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Zulu's begin their 10 week siege of Fort Eshowe. The siege would end on the April 3rd upon the arrival of a relief column led by Lord Chelmsford. The British evacuate and on April 5th, the Zulu force immediately burnt the site to the ground. |
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Englishman William Smith is blown to the south while rounding Cape Horn and discovers the South Shetland Islands. |
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Simón Bolívar convenes the Second Venezuelan Congress in Angostura. He delivers a speech which fully reveals his political ideology and presents a the same time a draft of the Constitution. |
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New Jersey becomes the last of the northern U.S. states to abolish slavery. |
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La Salle sails down the Illinois and Mississppi to the Gulf of Mexico and declares all the land Louisianna after King Louis XIV. |
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