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Rose Mary Woods, the loyal secretary to US President Richard dies in a nursing home in Alliance, Ohio at the age of 87. During the investigation of the Watergate Hotel Break-in Scandal, she claimed to have "inadvertently erased" part of a crucial Oval Office tape. The tape segment was a 18 ½ minu ... |
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The Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA) receives an e-mail from American internet service provider "The Planet" warning that their website will be terminated within 48 hours and that the decision was final and non-negotiable. No explanation is provided. Vice President Cheney and former National Secu ... |
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Meir Dagan, the head of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, tells the Knesset that Iran's nuclear programme is nearing the "point of no return". Specifically, he indicates that if Tehran successfully enriches uranium in 2005 it is likely to have nuclear weapons within two years. |
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The US military confirms that twenty-three terror suspects attempted to hang or strangle themselves at Guantanamo Bay during a mass protest in 2003. Attempted suicides rose after Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller took command with orders to get more information from prisoners accused of links to al-Qaida o ... |
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The Pentagon now confirms that a special human intelligence unit, called the Strategic Support Branch, was created after 9/11and that its members played a role in the hunt that ultimately led to the capture of Saddam Hussein. |
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High school students in the Dover Area School District of Pennsylvana are read a statement about "intelligent design" as an alternative to the theory of evolution. Richard Thompson of the Thomas Moore Law Center declared "This is the first step in which students will be given an honest scientific ev ... |
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After conducting interviews with 90 90 Iraqi prisoners between July and October last year, the group Human Rights Watch issues a report documenting that Iraqi authorities routinely torture prisoners. Prisoners are beaten with cables and hosepipes, subjected to electric shocks to their earlobes and g ... |
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Asa Hutchinson, undersecretary in charge of border and transportation security issues with the Department of Homeland Security resigns his post effective March 1st. He had been passed over twice by President Bush to be secretary of the agency and was highly criticized for halting the roundup of il ... |
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Rep. Tom Tancredo (R, CO) questions Asa Hutchinson's commitment as the nation's border czar to track down and deport the 12 million illegal aliens in the US. |
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Senators commence a nine-hour debate regarding the nomiation of national security adviser Condoleezza Rice for the position of secretary of state. Democrats Ted Kennedy and Barbara Boxer point out questions regarding the accuracy of Rice's statements leading up to Operation Iraqi Freedom. |
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Student Honor Roll Suspended in Nashville, TN. |
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Krispy Kreme announces its plans to acquire Montana Mills for roughly $40M. |
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General Electric announces new leaders in its plastics and transportation business. |
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It is announced that Hewlett-Packard beat out Dell Computer for the top position in the worldwide server market. |
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On the anniversary of U.S. President Jimmy Carter's Executive Order on Intelligence, the U.S. Senate votes unanimously to restrict a Pentagon data-mining program that critics equate with a domestic spying aparatus. |
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U.S. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans indicates reasons for optimism with respect to the economy. |
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U.S. space probe Voyager 2 makes its first fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km) and finds new moons. |
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U.S. President Jimmy Carter issues Executive Order on Intelligence (#12036).
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The first man made nuclear fusion is achieved when two light atoms are warmed to 100,000,000º and then smashed together to create a heavier atom. |
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Allied troops occupy Nettuno Italy. |
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General Friedrich Paulus asks Adolf Hitler for permission to surrender his forces at Stalingrad, but Hitler orders that German forces fight to fight to the death. |
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An earthquake in Concepcion, Chile kills 30,000.
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The Russian city of St Petersburg is renamed Leningrad. |
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Six Royal Navy battlecruisers and a flotilla of destroyers under the command of Admiral David Beatty defeat a German force under the command of Admiral Franz von Hipper in the Battle of Dogger Bank, off Helgoland. |
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Confederate troops seize the Arsenal at Augusta, GA. |
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James Marshall discovers gold at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, CA. |
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Economic conditions and public unrest in France leads to the Summoning of the States-General, an assembly of the different classes of French citizenry. This is the first time it is assembled since 1614. |
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Claudius is proclaimed emperor of Rome. |
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