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American troops open fire on a bus of Iraqis in Ramadi, killing three people. The U.S. military describes the incident as self-defense |
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Morgan Quitno Corp, a company that publishes "City Crime Rankings," declares Camden, NJ to be the most dangerous city in the United States, snatching the top spot from Detroit, MI. City Councilman Ali Sloan-El points out that Camden's poverty is an important contributing factor to its high crime ... |
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City officials in parts of Ukraine refuse to accept the victory of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych in their presidential election amid mass protests of tens of thousands. Opposition challenger Viktor Yushchenko has told supporters to stage a civil disobedience campaign. |
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US and Afghan forces raid houses in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan in a failed attempt to find three foreign UN hostages who were abducted in October. |
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McDonald's announces that CEO Charlie Bell has resigned to focus on his battle with colorectal cancer. McDonald's names vice chairman Jim Skinner as its new CEO, and the board chose Mike Roberts, CEO of McDonald's USA, to the position of president and chief operating officer. Charlie Bell, only 44 ... |
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EIGroup releases a biographical article on Bruce Lee, who popularized and re-engineered martial arts in the United States. |
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U.S. stocks are down in late morning trading as a jump in oil prices to the highest level in almost nine years pushes Wall Street lower, initially. |
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy is shot at 12:30 p.m. while riding in an open-top limousine in a motorcade through downtown Dallas. Eighty minutes after the assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested and later charged with murder. |
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Greeks defeat the Italian 9th Army. |
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Lt. Robert Maynard attacks Edward "Blackbeard" Teach's pirate ship off the Carolina coast. Blackbeard's head is severed and hung from Maynard's Navy ship. |
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Martin Frobisher dies at Plymouth after receiving a wound at Fort Crozon while participating in the siege and relief of Brest. |
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