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Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua |
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Iraqi special weapons teams, backed by elements of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, drive through Jabella in Iraqi's Babil province and capture "32 suspected insurgents, including a number of high-interest individuals, in a series of early-morning raids," |
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US President Bush orders a 90-day feasibility study for the Pentagon taking over responsibility for those paramilitary operations now conducted by the CIA, |
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Dan Rather, currrent anchor of the "CBS Evening News," announces that he will step down in March, on the 24th anniversary of taking over the position from Walter Cronkite. |
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Former Israeli Army Chief of Staff Raphael Eitan is swept off a breakwater while working on a port renewal project at the Israeli post of Ashdod and drowns. |
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Three foreign UN workers who were taken hostage last month in Afghanistan have been freed unharmed. The three had been helping with October's presidential election |
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Stephen Friedman, who was a member of the anti-deficit group the Concord Coalition, resigns his position as one of George Bush's top economic advisors to return to the private sector in New York. |
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5,000 U.S. Marines, backed by Iraqi soldiers and UK troops, launch a new assault on a cluster of towns in southern Baghdad. The region of small towns south of Baghdad has become popularly known as the "triangle of death" for the repeated attacks by car bombs, rockets, and small arms on U.S. and Ira ... |
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Sheikh Ghaleb al-Zuheir, a Sunni cleric, is assassinated by masked gunmen in northern Baghdad, only a day after Sheikh Feydhi Mohammed al-Feydhi was killed in Mosul. The Muslim Clerics Association previously said that its members are being targeted by U.S., Iraqi forces and also by rebels, in an at ... |
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Republic of Georgia President Eduard Shevardnadze resigns after weeks of mass protest regarding the flawed elections. |
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U.S. Congress passes the 'Apology Resolution' which "apologizes to Native Hawaiians on behalf of the people of the United States for the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii on January 17, 1893 with the participation of agents and citizens of the United States, and the deprivation of the rights of Nat ... |
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Larry Wu-ta Chin, a retired CIA analyst, is arrested of spying for China. |
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IRA member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten. |
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The People's Republic of China is seated at the United Nations Security Council for the first time. |
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In a letter entitled "Promote Large Numbers of Young Technicians," Deng Xiaoping writes "Our chief problem today is the inefficient use of professional and technical forces. In most factories technicians are sitting idle because of poor organization of work. In some departments they are assigned to ... |
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Romania joins the Axis Powers. |
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The first edition of Life Magazine is published. |
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Gov. James Peabody sends the Colorado state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners' strike. |
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US Civil War Battle of Chattanooga begins. |
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The citizens of Frederick County, MD refuse to pay England's Stamp tax. |
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