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NASA delays landing the space shuttle Atlantis after engineers detect a mystery object outside the shuttle; weather at the Florida landing site also is a concern. |
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While Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is at the UN in New York, Thai soldiers under the leadership of Lieutenant General Sonthi Boonyaratglin enter Government House and tanks move into position around the building. |
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Eight Americans, including four US Marines assigned to the 2nd Marine Division, are killed in Ramadi. These deaths bring to 1,903 the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq. |
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Dennis Kozlowski, disgraced former head of Tyco and his ex-finance chief Mark Swartz are sentenced to eight-and-a-third to 25 years in prison for stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the company. |
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A mob of Shiite Iraqis attacks a UK armoured vehicle after it busted into Basra Prison in an attempt to free two undercover SAS soldiers arrested by Iraqi police. The two soldiers were said by police and local officials to have fired on an Iraqi police patrol. |
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Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who tenaciously tracked down Nazi war criminals following World War II dies in Vienna Austria at the age of 96. Wiesenthal is credited with helping to bring more than 1,100 Nazi war criminals to justice. |
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Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rules that Unocal can be sued by Burmese workers over human rights abuses committed by Burmese troops while guarding a gas pipeline project in which Unocal is a partner |
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American Airlines announces it will lay off 20,000 employees |
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Steve Jobs enters John Sculley's office to list the five Apple employees he would be taking with him. The board would authorize Sculley to begin litigation. |
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Nazis take Kiev and Poltava. |
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The battles of Megiddo began, leading to the annihilation of the Turkish 7th and 8th Army.
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Burgoyne is checked by Americans under Horatio Gates at Freeman's Farm, NY. |
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