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Brig. Gen. Mussab al-Awadi, who directed tribal affairs for the new Iraqi government, is killed in a drive-by shooting along with two of his bodyguards. |
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More than 200 defectors from the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea arrive near Seoul, the largest single contingent ever. |
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Instead of getting a page of results, some users in the UK, US and France were confronted with Service Error -27 instead. Google confirmed it had been hit by fallout from the virus, slowing down searches, but said its search engine was not "significantly impaired". |
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During the Democratic Convention in Boston, former President's Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton deliver cautionary and motivating speeches. Former president Jimmy Carter accused President George W. Bush of squandering the international goodwill that flowed to the United States in the wake of 9/11. Bi ... |
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In April 2002, the SEC formally called for new regulations that would narrow the reporting window for filing quarterly financial statements from 45 days to 30 days and reduce the time for filing of annual statements from 90 days to 60 days. |
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Microsoft executives unveil plans for upcoming versions of the company's software development tools on the .NET platform. |
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The World Summit on Sustainable Development opens as South African President Thabo Mbeki welcomes delegates from 184 nations. Colin Powell, and not George W. Bush, represents the United States. |
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CBS News reports that John Ashcroft has stopped flying commercial airlines due to a threat assessment. |
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A pipe bomb explodes in the middle of Atlanta's Olympic Park during the 1996 Olympic Games. Richard Jewell, a security guard, is initially suspected but the FBI will later attribute the attack to Eric Robert Rudolph who will elude the FBI until he is captured in Murphy North Carolina in 2003. |
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NASA launches Apollo 15, the fourth mission to land on the Moon and first to employ the Lunar Rover. |
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A Delta B booster rocket is launched from Cape Canaveral carrying Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, into orbit. |
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NASA launches Explorer 4, a satellite designed to study the Van Allen radiation belts and the effects of recent atomic explosions on the belts and on the Earth's magnetosphere. |
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Gamal Nasser, Eqypt's President, nationalizes the Suez Canal irritating France and the United Kingdom which hold a sizeable investment. |
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Fidel Castro and 100 rebels launch a failed assault on the Moncada barracks, the headquarters of Batista military in the south. More than one-third of the rebels are immediately captured and later tortured and killed. Fidel escaped to the nearby Sierra Maestra mountains. He is later captured and pu ... |
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Eva Perón dies. |
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U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act and thus creats the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council. |
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Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchill, and Chiang Kai-Shek sign The Potsdam Declaration defining the terms of surrender for Japan. |
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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in United States and suspends relations. This action is taken in response to to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China. |
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General Douglas MacArthur brought the 12,000 strong Philippine Scouts under his command with the 16,000 American soldiers stationed in the Philippines. |
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The German Flying Circus is formed under the command of Baron Manfred von Richthofen, aka, The Red Combat Flyer or The Red Baron. |
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Russia declares that it will assist Serbia should Austro-Hungary attack. |
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Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and his force of 360 volunteers are captured by Union forces at Salineville, OH ending Morgan's Raid. |
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George B. McClellan takes command of the Union's Army of the Potomac following the surprise defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run. |
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Battle of Ostrowno delays French advance. Houses and other buildings of Ostrowno are filled with wounded, the battlefield covered with corpses of men and horses, and the hot weather caused quick putrefaction. |
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New York ratifies the U.S. Constitution and is admitted to the Union as the 11th state. |
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An American Post Office is established with Ben Franklin as Postmaster General. |
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Fearful of a native counterattack, Henry Hudson sails away in the Half Moon at 5 a.m. |
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The rebel forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick engage those of King Edward IV in the Battle of Edgecote Moor during the Wars of the Roses. |
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