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Insurgents detonate a car bomb near police and government buildings in the western city of Haditha killing 10 Iraqis, PM Iyad Allawi announces he will create a Iraqi security service to halt the rebellion. |
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Democratic Candidate for President, John Kerry, addresses the NAACP and needles the sitting president for declining to attend. President Bush skipped the convention to protest the NAACP's criticism of his policies and plans to address the Urban League instead. |
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President Bush signs the Identity Sentencing Law that imposes mandatory prison terms for criminals who use identity theft in committing terrorist acts and other offenses. |
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Slimfast terminates spokesperson Whoopi Goldberg for anti-Bush remarks she made at a democratic fundraiser. |
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The disappearance of two data storage devices, prompts the Los Alamos National Laboratory halts classified research while an inventory is conducted of sensitive data. |
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Israelis Uriel Kelman, 31, and Eli Cara, 51, are sentenced in the High Court at Auckland to six months prison and asked to pay $NZ100,000 to the Cerebral Palsy Society for fraudulently trying to obtain a passport. |
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John J. Cronin, co-founder and CEO of PADI, The Professional Association of Diving Instructors, dies at his home in Temecula, California at the age of 74. |
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Halliburton announces today that its board of directors declares a third quarter dividend of .12 1/2 a share. |
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Mead North America contracts EIGroup to provide solutions for financial reporting, market segmentation analysis, incentive compensation, and hand-held data collection tools. |
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Bill Clinton's High School girlfriend and love interest through 1992, Dolly Kyle Browning, accuses him of defaming her to stop book. |
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Slobdoan Milosevic is elected president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. |
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EIGroup completes a software application to Test the Uniformity and Independence of Keno Numbers generated by GTECH for The New York State Lottery. |
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The Apple I computer board is sold in a kit form for US$666.66., It is delivered to stores by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. |
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President Eisenhower orders U.S. Marines to land in Lebanon, at the request of the Beirut government. |
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Jack Kennedy's thesis "Appeasement in Munich" is published as a book entitled Why England Slept. It details Britain's failure to prepare itself against Nazi Germany. |
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Ludendorff sends his weary troops into attack mode for the Second Battle of the Marne. |
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In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing incorporates Pacific Aero Products and the company will later be renamed Boeing Airplane Company. |
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Following his military defeat in the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders on board the MHS Bellerophon off the port of Rochefort. |
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French and Austrians sign a suspension of arms at Parsdorf, near Munich. |
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French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard discovers the Rosetta Stone in the Egyptian port city of Rosetta, which is now Rashid. Bouchard, understanding its importance, shows it to general Abdallah Jacques de Menou and the stone is sent to Napoleon's Institut de l'Egypte in Cairo. |
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American "Mad" Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, NY in a surprise and silent bayonnet attack. He takes roughly 700 prisoners and suffers only 15 casualties. |
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