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Iraqi Insurgents ambush a bus south of Baghdad carrying Russian contractors and open fire killing two Russian civilian contractors and injuring five. The bus was protected by Iraqi police. |
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Two car bombs explode 25 minutes apart outside a private English-language school called the Pakistan-American Cultural Center in the southern city of Karachi south of Pakistan. The explotion injures at least 19 people. |
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Comcast executives introduce phone service plan that uses the Internet to transmit calls known as VOIP. The plan will test three markets this year before being implemented on half of the households reached by Comcast's cable systems by the end of 2005. |
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U.S. aircraft, responding to a call for air support, bomb Taliban positions near the Pakistani border and kill 20+ Taliban militia fighters. |
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Interenergoservice, a Russian electricity firm, announces it will withdraw from Iraq after two of its workers were killed and six wounded in an ambush by masked gunmen. |
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U.S. forces capture Sayyed Ryad al-Nuri a relative and top-aide of Shia militant cleric Moqtada Sadr during raids in the city of Najaf. Nuri iss captured in a raid on his home and is sought for the murder of a moderate cleric, Abdul Majid al-Khoei, in April last year. |
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Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller announce "credible intelligence" that al-Qaeda is planning to attack the United States in the summer months and provide the names of seven suspects they wish to trace. However, Homeland Security Advisor Tom Ridge is notably absent and o ... |
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In a speech at New York University, Al Gore announces that the situation in Iraq is out of control and demands the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, CIA director George Tenet, and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice. |
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A U.S. Commerce Department report shows that sales of new U.S. homes fell 11.8%, well below expectations in April as rising mortgage interest rates cooled the busy housing market. |
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The U.S. Commerce Department reports that orders for "durables"dropped by 2.9% in April, marking the biggest decline since September 2002.. |
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A U.S. jury finds Terry Nichols, Oklahoma City bombing conspirator, guilty of all 161 counts of murder for his role in the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building. |
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The New York Times reports that the Army Criminal Investigation Command has prepared a report dated 5-May-2004 which shows a pattern of abuse involving more military units than previously known. |
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Laboratory tests confirm that sarin was in the remains of the bomb found in Baghdad on May 15, but that the 155-millimeter artillery shell was made by the Iraqis before the 1991 Gulf War. U.S. officials declined to state which lab performed the tests. |
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After an estimated 2,000,000 deaths in the bloody Sudanese Civil War, a historic agreement is signed between the Islamic government and Christian SLM rebels. Protocols on power-sharing, sharing of oil revenues, and separate monetary systems in the north and south are established. The agreement does ... |
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Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer, head of the Iraqi Governing Council, tells reporters that President Bush's proposal to demolish Abu Ghraib prison would be a waste of resources and that the matter will be left for the transitional government. |
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Journalist Peter Hounam, who had revealed Israel's secret nuclear program, is arrested in Jerusalem and denied access to a lawyer. |
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Yahoo Inc. unveiled a feature for its Web browser toolbar which facilitates the removal of unwanted "spyware" programs. |
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Richard Perle, former advisor to U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, tells BBC Radio that he "would be the first to acknowledge we allowed the liberation (of Iraq) to subside into an occupation. And I think that was a grave error, and in some ways a continuing error. We didn't have to find our ... |
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Yale University releases the results of a National Poll on the Environment. Of the 1000 polled, 84% say the environment will be a factor in their vote in November, while 5% consider it a "major factor." 50% say that the quality of the environment in the United States is getting worse. |
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Álvaro Uribe becomes President of Colombia. |
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John F. Kerry marries his second wife Teresa Heinz in Nantucket. |
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The European Community adopts a new flag consisting of a circle of twelve golden stars on a blue background. The flag was originally adopted by the Council of Europe on December 8, 1955, from a suggested design by the Chief Herald of Ireland. |
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George W. Bush transfers to Alabama Guard unit so he can work on Senator William Blount's Re-election Campaign. |
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The U.S.S.R and United States sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which stated that each nation could have only two restricted ABM deployment areas located at least 1,300km apart so as leave unchallenged the capability of the others retaliatory missile forces. |
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Cessna completes its 100,000th airplane, a milestone in General Aviation history. |
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The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2. |
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Edsel Ford dies. |
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The House Un-American Activities Committee(HUAC) commences its first session. At that time, its work was aimed mostly at German-American involvement in Nazi and KKK activity. |
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Adolf Hitler and Dr. Porsche lay the corner stone at the Volkswagon factory in Hannover, Germany. |
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Date of Dr. Robert H. Goddard's progress report to the Smithsonian Institution entitled "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes." It was published by the Smithsonian in January 1920. |
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The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made at Masjid-al-Salaman in southwest Persia. The UK quickly acquires the rights to this new resource. |
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The Wright Flyer II makes the first of 105 successful flights. |
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Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, an averge of the share price of twelve corporate stocks from key American industries. Of those original twelve, only GE remains in the average. |
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Czar Nicholas II was crowned. His failure to institute a constitutional monarchy led to the Bolshevik revolution which ended 3 centuries of the Romanoff dynasty. |
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Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state. |
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Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commanding the Trans-Mississippi division, becomes the last general of the CSA to surrender to Union forces at Galveston, Texas. |
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The U.S. Congress enacts the Indian Removal Act, which forces nearly 60,000 members of the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole, and Cherokee tribes to move from their homes east of the Mississippi River to reservations in Oklahoma and parts of Kansas. Chief Justice John Marshall declared the act un ... |
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Simón Bolívar marries María Teresa Rodríguez del Toro y Alayza and travels to Venezuela. She will pass away in January of 1803. |
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British and Chickasaw Native Americans repulse an attack by France's Bienville led Choctaws in the Battle of Ackia, Mississippi. |
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Frobisher's second expedition departs Blackwall with the ships Aid, Gabriel and Michael, boats, pinnaces and 120 men, including miners, and refiners. |
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John Calvin, founder of a form of Protestant Christianity called Calvinism, is thrown out of the city of Geneva. |
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