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Malaysian budget airline AirAsia has teamed up with Malaysia-based telecom company Maxis and Dutch technology company Getronics to launch an airline reservation and payment service, according to a statement from the airline. |
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On John Stewart's The Daily Show, John Edwards un-officially announces his intent to seek the 2004 Democratic Presidential nomination and thus fulfills a promise he made as a guest during TDS' coverage of the 2002 Mid-Term Elections. |
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Iran 's News Agency reports that Iran has closed its border with Afghanistan. |
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Continental Airlines announces that it will cut flights and furlough 12,000 employees. |
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CIA Director George Tenet presents the Worldwide Attack Matrix, a "top-secret" document detailing CIA anti-terror operations in 80 countries in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Washington Post authors Bob Woodward and document the day in their article Management |
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Amnesty International releases a report documenting Saudi Arabia's gross human rights abuses against women. |
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The October 1971 issue of Esquire Magazine runs an article by Ron Rosenbaum entitled Secrets of the Little Blue Box about Vietnam veteran John T. Draper who discovered that a toy whistle packaged in boxes of Cap'n Crunch cereal could be easily modified to emit a tone at precisely 2600 hertz. This i ... |
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The Cessna Citation jet flies for the first time. |
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British, French and German governments sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to commence development of the Airbus A300, a 300 seat commerical airliner. |
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Ku Klux Klan member Robert Edward Chambliss plants 19 sticks of dynamite in the basement of the 16th Street Baptist Church, in Birmingham Alabama. Addie May Collins, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Denise McNair - were killed in the blast, while 22 more were injured. |
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A white man was seen getting out of a white and turquoise Chevrolet car and placing a box under the steps of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Soon afterwards, at 10.22 a.m., the bomb exploded killing Denise McNair (11), Addie Mae Collins (14), Carole Robertson (14) and Cynthia Wesley (14). The f ... |
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Known as Operation Chromite, U.S. troops under the command of General Douglas MacArthur land amphibiously at Inchon, 50 miles behind enemy lines. |
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At age 24, John Kennedy he is sworn in to the U.S. Navy with the rank of Ensign, joining the Office of Naval Intelligence. |
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With the aid of new radar, 185 German planes are shot down during the Battle of Britain, forcing Hitler to abandon his plans for invasion. |
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Nuremburg Race Laws strip Jews of their rights. |
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Howard Hughes, flying his Hughes H-1 racer, sets a world speed record of 352 miles per hour above Santa Ana, CA. Hughes had designed the plane with Richard Palmer and it was built by Glenn Odekirk. |
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Gandhi joins the London Vegetarian Society. |
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Fires break out across Moscow, burn for four days, and leave the city in ruins |
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French fleet drives British Naval Force from Chesapeake Bay.. |
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British troops cross the East River and rout the Patriot forces at Kip's Bay (now 34th street) on Manhattan. Washington withdraws his troops and the British occupy New York City, but not before Washington fights a holding action that helps boost morale. |
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