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Israeli helicopters fire missiles at two buildings in Gaza City |
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U.S. Marine Shot and Wounded in Haiti |
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Vladimir Putin Re-elected in Landslide |
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Bomb defused near the U.S. Consulate in Pakistan. |
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Romano Prodi, European Commission president claimed the Madrid atrocities showed the US strategy of using force to defeat terrorism was insufficient, and that the EU needed its own response.
Mr Prodi said Europe needed also to focus on "soft security" and work to develop co-operation with neig ... |
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3 U.S. civilians killed in Iraq in drive-by shooting |
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Prime Minister-elect Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero says he plans to pull Spain's 1,300 troops out of Iraq in June |
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Former Clinton aide Kathleen Willey appears on CBS 60 Minutes stating that president Clinton made unwelcome sexual advances towards her in 1993. |
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Argentina President Menem's son, Carlos Facundo, dies in a helicopter crash which was likely an assassination. |
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Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy. |
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U.S. Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan resigns after being ordered to stand trial on fraud and larceny charges. |
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After negotiations for higher oil royalties fail, Iran's parliament votes to nationalize Iran's oil industry, and seize control of the British-owned and operated Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. |
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Jack Kennedy volunteers for service in the United States Army, but is rejected due to his injured back which he begins to strengthen. |
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Germans bomb Scapa Flow Naval Base in Scotland. |
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The Concessionaire Convention, which takes place during the German annexation of Austria, concludes with with a "ceremonial pledge" to Coca-Cola and a ringing, three-fold "Sieg-Heil" to Hitler. |
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General Washington gathers his officers and talks them out of a rebellion against the authority of Congress, and in effect preserves the American democracy |
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At the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, North Carolina, the British under Cornwallis drive Greene's men from the field but take so many casualties that |
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French geographer and explorer Samuel Champlain begins his first trip to North America as part of a fur trading expedition. |
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During Joan of Arc's trial in Rouen, she phropesizes ""Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there." |
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William Wallace, victorious in the Battle of Stirling Bridge, is knighted Guardian of Scotland. Andrew de Moray had been killed in the battle, leaving Wallace as the rallying figure. |
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