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Adventurer Steve Fossett announces that he has broken the record for flying farther than anyone departing and landing at the same spot. He travelled more than 25,000 miles (40,225 kilometers) in three days in his GlobalFlyer aircraft. Fossett said he became restless during his three days in the pl ... |
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Hours before US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice speaks at the Afghani presidential palace in Kabul, a roadside bomb in a crowded market area kills five people and injures 32 more in the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar. |
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Spanish Prime Minister Elect Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero condemns U.S. Strategy and Declares Iraq Occupation a Fiasco. |
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A powerful car bomb destroys Mount Lebanon Hotel in Baghdad, killing at least 27 people |
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Pew Research Center poll finds world pinion of the United States to be falling. |
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Kofi Annan announces investigation that Saddam Hussein reaped millions of dollars from the U.N. oil-for-food program. |
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Brigade of Abu Hafs al-Masri Declares Truce With Spain to Provide Time for Troop Pullout |
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Coinciding with Gen. Tommy Franks visit to Pakistan, the Protestant International Church in Islamabad, Pakistan is bombed. Five die, including the wife and daughter of US Diplomat Milton Green. |
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Reagan writes a letter to former Senator Paul Laxalt in which he admits to being "pretty steamed" over the allegations made by Oliver North regarding the Iran-Contra Affair. |
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World-renowned environmentalist Jacques-Yves Cousteau received the World Ecology Award from the International Center for Tropical Ecology at UM-St. Louis. |
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The National Republican Conference of Mayors calls on Reagan to withdraw. |
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Amelia Earhart's first attempt at an around the world flight begins in Oakland California. She and her navigator Fred Noonan reach Honolulu, Hawaii, but from there is damage on takeoff for the second leg and the plane must be repaired. |
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First flight of the British Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mark V bomber. |
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Winston Churchill urges Britian to build more warships. |
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John J Montgomery commences the first of a series of glider flights at Otay Mesa, California. |
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British evacuate Boston. Howe sails with 1000 loyalists for Halifax, Nova Scotia. |
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Folllowing the March 15th killing of Julius Caesar, in which he did not conspire or participate, Cicero speaks in the senate in favor of a general amnesty. |
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