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The United States Senate votes 63-37 to loosen President George W. Bush's ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. This is a move that Bush has indicated he intends to veto. |
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The United Nations reports that an average of more than 100 civilians per day were killed in Iraq in June of 2006. registering what appears to be the highest official monthly tally of violent deaths since the fall of Baghdad. |
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The US launches an airstrike on a house in Fallujah which leaves 14 dead. The attack is approved by PM Iyad Allawi. |
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John McLaughlin, acting CIA director, states that a new, cabinet-level intelligence chief to oversee all U.S. spy agencies would be unnecessary. |
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American Todd Hamilton wins the British Open in Troon. |
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Top US envoy Richard Armitage visits Baghdad to meet Iraqi officials. |
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Palestinian militants, angry over Yasser Arafat's decision to appoint his cousin Moussa Arafat as the new head of Palestinian security, sack government offices in Gaza |
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The Philippines completes the early pullout of its troops from Iraq, but there is no word on the status of hostage truck driver Angelo de la Cruz held by militants would be freed. |
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UN Weapon's Inspector Dr. David Kelly's body is found a few miles from his home. His wrist had been cut and a packet of painkillers was found beside him. |
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The Chief Operating Officer at AOL Time Warner, Robert W. Pittman, resigns under pressure from investors unhappy with the merger between AOL and Time Warner. |
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James Hatfield, the author of the unauthorized George W. Bush biography "Fortunate Son," is found dead in a hotel room in Springdale, Arkansas. His death will be ruled a suicide. |
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An F5 tornado strikes the town of Oakfield, Wisconsin. |
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KARE television in Minnesota live-broadcasts a tornado observed from the station's helicopter pilot. |
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James Oliver Huberty sprays a San Ysidro, California McDonald's restaurant with gun-fire killing 21 people. He is later shot dead by police. |
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Gymnast Nadia Comaneci scores the first ever perfect 10 at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec. |
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Bombs planted by Palestinian militants explode in the Marks and Spencer store in London. |
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After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Teddy Kennedy drives an Oldsmobile off a wooden bridge and into a pond drowning his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne. Kennedy doesn't report the incident for 10 hours, most likely due to his intoxication. |
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Intel is incorporated. |
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US President Lyndon B. Johnson and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet for two days at the Honolulu Conference, Hawaii. |
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The Great Fire of Rome burns out of control while Emperor Nero plays his lyre and watches from a safe distance. |
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U.S. President Harry Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act, placing the Speaker of the House and Senate President Pro Tempore next in the line of succession after the United States Vice President. |
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Japan's Prime Minister, Hideki Tojo, resigns over the numerous setbacks faced by the Japanese in the war effort. |
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Fritz Wendel test flys the Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its Junkers Jumo 004 jet engines for the first time in Leipheim near Günzburg, Germany. The Me-262 is the first operational jet powered aircraft. |
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The first volume of Adolf Hitler's book, Mein Kampf, is published. During his imprisonment in Landsberg, Hitler dictated the book to Emil Maurice and Rudolf Hess, with a proposed title of "Four and a Half Years of Struggle against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice." |
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The U.S. Army Signal Corps is established. |
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The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, under the command of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, unsuccessfully assaults Confederate-held Fort Wagner on Morris Island, South Carolina that covered the south approach to Charleston harbor. The 54th Massachusetts is the first official African-American Milita ... |
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