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The space shuttle Atlantis lands at Kennedy Space Center following a 12-day construction mission to the international space station. |
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Thailand's new leaders ban all meetings and other activities by political parties, two days after taking power in a military coup. Coup leader Gen Sonthi Boonyaratglin has proposed a year-long transitional period as a constitution is drafted, but opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva challenges this ... |
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Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson committs an estimated $3 billion over the next 10 years (the profits from his airline and rail businesses) to combating global warming. |
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Syria began dismantling a number of small army posts and pulling back hundreds of troops from positions near Beirut on Tuesday amid international pressure to end its long-standing military presence in Lebanon. |
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A U.S. Senate panel approves the nomination of Rep. Porter Goss, R-Florida, to head the US Central Intelligence Agency, overcoming objections from Democrats that Goss was too political for the job. |
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In defiance of calls by the UN's nuclear watchdog for Iran to suspend all enrichment-related activities, Iran begins converting raw uranium into gas which can be used in the process of making nuclear weapons. |
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Bill O'Reilly suggests that if the Afghan government does not extradite Osama bin Laden to the U.S., "the U.S. should bomb the Afghan infrastructure to rubble-- the airport, the power plants, their water facilities, and the roads." |
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US President Bill Clinton signs a bill creating the National Service Program which provides $1.5 Billion over three years to enable students to repay federal educational aid through community service. |
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Edward Howard Lee slips past an inexperienced FBI agent and becomes the first CIA officer to successfully escape the west to the Soviet Union. |
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In Operation SUMMIT, a company of 228 US Marines is lifted by 12 Sikorsky S-55s in the first helicopter deployment of a combat unit. |
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First flight of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, a bomber aircraft with a range in excess of 5000 miles (8045 km). The Enola Gay and Bockscar B-29s would drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the close of World War II. |
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By this date, the Japanese hold the Manchurian cities of Mukden, Changchun, Antung, Yinkow, and Kirin. |
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Ronald Reagan is baptized at his mother's Disciples of Christ Church. |
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Thomas Jefferson sends the catalog he created in 1812 along with a letter to Samuel H. Smith proposing the sale of Jefferson's personal library to the Library of Congress in response to the British army's torching of the Capitol during the War of 1812. |
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National Convention meets for first time, abolishes the monarchy, establishes a republic, and tries King Louis XVI for treason. The King is convicted by a majority of one vote |
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Paoli Massacre, PA Five British regiments launch an early morning surprise attack (the Redcoats marched with unloaded muskets to avoid accidental firing and alerting the Patriots) on General Mad Anthony Wayne and 1500 troops near Paolo Tavern. |
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Nathan Hale is captured as a spy. |
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Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sacks Fort Caroline and executes Jean Ribault and his men at Matanzas. |
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