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A US Federal judge rules that "intelligent design" cannot be included in biology courses taught in Pennsylvania public schools. |
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After spending $71 million on advertising for its pain-killer drug Celebrex in the first nine months of this year, Pfizer bows to pressure from regulators and agrees to pull Celebrex ads from TV, radio, newspapers and magazines, effective immediately. A clinical trial demonstrated that the painkil ... |
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During World War II, the US Army seized a trainload of gold, jewels, and other valuables from the Nazis. The items aboard were never returned to the Hungarian Jews from which they were stolen. Survivors sued in U.S. federal court in Miami in 2001, but the US Justice Department sought to have the ca ... |
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US President Bush, citing the "complexity" of the role of Secretary of Defense, uses his end-of-year address to state again that he has asked Donald Rumsfeld to continue on for his second term because he had faith in his ability to do a complex job. "It's complex in times of peace. And it's complex ... |
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Following a Ukrainian Supreme Court-ordered re-run of Ukraine Presidential Election, candidates Viktor Yanukovych and the recently poisoned Viktor Yuschenko, clash in a live TV debate. |
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US President Bush uses his end of the year address to deliver his most critical assessment of the war in Iraq to date. He suggests that recent terrorist bombings are "effective propaganda tools" at a time when a recent USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll shows that most Americans disapprove of the way the w ... |
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Wal-Mart and Linspire announce that they are now offering a basic Linux laptop for under US$500, the first laptop to be offered new below that price point. |
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Gold +0.6 DOW +11.68 CRB +0.04 S&P +0.45 NAS -7.35 USD -0.50 |
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An F/A-22 Raptor assigned to the 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron crashes after takeoff at Nellis Air Force Base in the northeast part of the valley. The crash causes a black cloud of smoke to hang over Las Vegas for some time. The pilot ejects sucessfully, walks away from the crash site, and is ... |
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Khamis Masin Farhan al-Ugaydi, also known as Abu Sabaa, who was a former Saddam-era Brigadier General, is captured in Beiji. He will later be accused of funding terrorists to attack Iraqi civilians and planning attacks on election polling centers. The news of his arrest will be delayed until Febru ... |
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U.S. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Michael Hagee met with President Musharraf in Islamabad to discuss regional security issues. |
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Argentina's President Fernando De la Rua resigns. |
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President Bush announces that U.S. intelligence does not know where bin Laden is but vows the Al Qaeda leader will be found, even if he "tried to slither out" of Afghanistan.
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United Nations sanctions against Taliban leadership of Afghanistan are renewed. Taliban leadership exit peace talks. |
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Dr. Carl E. Sagan, Cornell Astronomer famous for the creation of the Cosmos Television series, dies in Seattle, Washington after a two-year battle with a bone marrow disease. The cause of death was pneumonia. |
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Apple announces it will acquire Steve Jobs' Next Inc for $400 Million. |
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Slobodan Milosevic is re-elected President of Serbia. |
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H. R. Haldeman, Nixon's White House chief of staff, is released from jail.
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Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, resigns. |
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Basque terrorists explode a bomb under the car of Spanish premier Luis Carrero Blanco, killing him. |
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Japanese bomb Calcutta for the first time. |
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Imperial Japanese troops land on Mindinao. |
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Trapped by the British, German Captain Langsdorff scuttles the German pocket battleship Graf Spee on orders from Adolf Hitler. |
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Erich Ludendorff dies at the age of 72. Adolf Hitler would attend his funeral. |
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The US Army Balloon School established at Fort Omaha, Nebraska |
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Russian troops overrun the city of Qom, Iran during World War I. Iran had hoped to avoid participation in WWI, but German agents tried to arouse southern tribes against the British, leading Britian to create the South Persia Rifles force to protext its interests. |
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South Carolina secedes from the Union. |
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Colonists (104) depart onboard Susan Constant, Goodspeed, and Discovery. |
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English King Richard I a.k.a Richard the Lionheart, who massacred the Saracen prisoners from the successfully besieged city of Acre in the summer of 1191, is captured in Vienna and held for ransom by Duke Leopold of Austria. The ransom would be paid, and Richard would be released in February of 119 ... |
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