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The UN announces that the Darfur death toll has reached 70,000. David Nabarro, head of the World Health Organisation's health crisis group, said up to 10,000 people were still dying in refugee camps each month. |
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Sam Waksal, founder of ImClone Systems, pleads guilty to six counts, including securities fraud, bank fraud conspiracy to obstruct justice, perjury. Admits to tipping daughter to dump ImClone stock, but he does not implicate Martha Stewart. |
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee awards the Nobel Peace Prize for 1999 to Médecins Sans Frontières in recognition of the organization's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents. |
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DJIA rises more than 330 points and led to rallies in European, Asian and Latin American stock markets. |
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EIGroup begins development of an advanced sales performance management tool for Nicklaus Golf Equipment in West Palm Beach, Florida. |
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First supersonic land speed record 766.100 mph was set in Nevada's Black Rock Desert 125 miles north of Reno. |
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Following the vetting of the Anita Hill controversy, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is confirmed by the Senate with a 52-48 vote. |
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Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel peace prize |
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U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs into law the Garn-St. Germain Act, which deregulates the savings and loan industry. It will costing taxpayers tens of billions of dollars as S&L owners plunged into speculative investments. Economist Paul Krugman will call it the “biggest single economic policy di ... |
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Former Intel marketing exec, Mike Markkula visits Steve Jobs' garage to see the Apple computers. |
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A full-size test model of the Northrop HL-10 Lifting Body is tufted and set up in the 30x60 Full-Scale Wind Tunnel at NASA's Langley (VA) Research Center. |
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KGB agent Bogdan Stashinsky uses a poison gas weapon concealed in a rolled-up newspaper to kill two Ukranian dissidents living in Munich. |
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The British Sub-Aqua Club is founded. |
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The 2nd Infantry Division seizes Hill 931 (Heartbreak Ridge) to end the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge. |
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Fort Matanzas, south of St. Augustine Florida, is proclaimed a national monument. |
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Lido Anthony Iacocca is born in Allentown Pennsylvania to Italian immigrants Nicola and Antoinette Iacocca. |
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The Edison Electric Light Company is founded by Thomas Edison. |
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With namesake Horace Hunley aboard, the submarine CSS Hunley sinks yet again during a test run in Charleston Harbor. Horace Hunley is among the dead. |
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Napoleon Bonaparte meets Josephine Beauharrnais |
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At the age of 15, Eli Whitney begins to manufacture nails in his father's shop and even hired an assistant to fill the orders. He later turned to making hatpins when the close of the American Revolution reduced demand for nails. |
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