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The Cassini orbiter releases the Huygens probe which will land on Saturn's moon, Titan on January 14, 2005. |
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In his Christmas eve encounters with U.S. military forces in Iraq, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld delivers a "policy transition message" that the Iraqi insurgents have staying power and weapons and places responsibilty for the final outcome of Operation Iraqi Freedom with "ordinary Iraqis." ... |
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigns. He would be re-elected on May 13, 2001. He is ranked on Forbes' list as the wealthiest politician in the world, with an estimated $10.3 billion new worth. |
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Boris Yeltsin becomes First Secretary of the CPSU Moscow City Committee but will be ousted in 1987 for criticizing Gorbachev and the pace of reform. |
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The 82 member crew of the USS Pueblo is released by the DPRK (North Korea) after being held for 11 months on charges of espionage. |
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Hamid Karzai Karzai, an ethnic Pashtun and member of the powerful Populzai clan, is born in Kandahar. |
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Libya gains its independence from Italy via the United Nations.
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The U.S. Navy completes the evacuation of 105,000 U.S. and ROK forces. |
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The first powered flight of a V-1 buzz bomb is achieved at Peenemünde, Germany. |
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The first ships of Admiral Nagumo's Pearl Harbor-fleet return to Japan. |
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The National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) was founded in 1935 by Mary McLeod Bethune, child of slave parents, distinguished educator and government consultant. |
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John D. Rockefeller, the world's richest man, gives away $100 million. |
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Howard Hughes is born in Humble, Texas but will later claim Houston as home of birth. |
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The Klu Klux Klan is formed in Pulaski, TN near the Alabama border by several young Confederate veterans. Richard R. Reed and Captain John B. Kennedy used the word "kuklos" which is Greek. |
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The Treaty of Ghent which concluded the War of 1812 between Britian and the United States is signed. |
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Benjamin Franklin arrives in London. |
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