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The Iraqi South Oil Company announces that two explosions on the main oil pipelines in the southern city of Basra have ceased oil exports. |
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A study to appear in the journal Psychology and Aging shows that fluency in two or more languages prevents some of the effects of aging on brain function. This is particularly true for fluid intelligence, which is the ability to maintain one's attention on a task. |
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The group al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula shows a videotape of blindfolded American hostage Paul Johnson and threatens to kill him within 72 hours unless "mujahadeen" militant prisoners are released. |
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The U.S. Department of Labor announces that the Consumer Price Index rose 0.6% in May, attributed to higher food and energy costs. The core rate, which excludes those more volatile costs, rose 0.2%. |
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North Korea agrees to the next round of six-nation talks regarding its nuclear weapons programs. The talks will include the United States, China, Russia, Japan, South Korea and North Korea and will take place June 23-26 in Beijing, PRC. |
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A conservative organization called Move America Forward has asked the public to call and e-mail executives at theater chains scheduled to show Michael's Moore's movie Fahrenheit/911. |
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French anti-terror police arrest more than a dozen people in raids targeting Islamic militants in the Paris area, including an imam of the Iqra mosque. Authorities seized blank documents and plastic laminating materials typically used in forgeries. |
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Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan, tells members of the Senate Banking Committee that ``inflation is not likely to be a serious concern,'' but that policy makers were alert to the effect of rising energy prices. |
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A report from the U.S. Congress charges that China has passed nuclear technology to Iran in exchange for oil and has helped North Korea in building its missile arsenal. |
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Gunmen standing on a highway overpass shoot at a three-vehicle convoy carrying foreign contractors near the airport, hitting at least one of the cars and killing an unknown number of people. |
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U.S. jury finds accounting firm Arthur Andersen guilty of obstruction of justice. |
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John Vincent Atanasoff, pioneer of the digital computer, dies. |
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Operation ALERT is implemented by the U.S. Civil Defense Agency and millions of Americans and 55 U.S. cities participate in a mock nuclear war. Operation ALERT wiould be abandoned in 1962. |
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First flight of the Arado Ar 234 Blitz, the world's first operational jet-powered bomber airplane. |
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Mario Cuomo is born in the Queens borough of New York City. |
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John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight at Clifden, County Galway, Ireland. |
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Computing Tabulating Recording (CTR) Corporation, is incorporated in Binghamton, New York with Herman Hollerith as president. |
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Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy. |
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Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant engage troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee in the Battle of Petersburg, Virginia. The siege of Petersburg lasted for 10 months and foreshadowed the trench warfare of WWI. |
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Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, the process of cross-linking elastomer molecules to make the bulk material harder, less soluble and more durable. |
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Two British sailors murder a Chinese man and the sailors are tried in a British court in Guangzhou. The Chinese demand their handover, but the British refuse and are expelled from China. This prompts the British to seize Hong Kong for use as a base in their preparations for war. |
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Congress unanimously votes to appoint George Washington general and commander-in-chief of the new Continental Army. |
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King John affixes his seal to the Magna Carta in the meadow at Runnymeade to comply with the demands of English barons who were angry with his abuse of power. |
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June 15