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A bomb planted in a mini van detonates outside the Palestine Hotel in downtown Baghdad, killing at least six people and injuring 16. A bomb also explodes in the town of al-Khalis, on the outskirts of Baqouba just north of Baghdad, killing six and wounding more than a dozen. |
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After two weeks of negotiations, Islamic militants freed Fox News journalists Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig in the Gaza Strip. One of the former captives said they were forced at gunpoint to make statements, including that they had converted to Islam. |
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The NTSB announces that Comair Flight 5191 departed from a short runway not typically used by commercial jets before it crashed, killing 49. |
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The Mehdi Army and Iraqi security forces exchanging prisoners. |
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In response to the recommendations of the 9/11 panel, U.S. President Bush signed executive orders to strengthen the hand of the CIA director and create a national counterrorism center. |
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David Dellinger, aged 83, is arrested while demonstrating at a nuclear reactor. |
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Lord Mountbatten is killed when an IRA bomb blows up his fishing boat off the coast of County Sligo. |
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Former U.S. Navy SEAL and former U.S. Senator, Joseph Robert Kerrey is born Lincoln Nebraska. |
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Bernard J. Ebbers is born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He would later become CEO of WorldCom |
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"Colonel" Edwin L. Drake and Uncle Billy strike oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania even after having been ordered to cease drilling operations by Townsend and the Connecticut investors. |
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The last fighting of the Revolutionary War between Americans and British occurs with a skirmish in South Carolina along the Combahee River. |
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Britain's Gen. Howe leads 15,000 soldiers against Washington's army in the Battle of Long Island. |
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Thomas Paine is discharged from his post as an excise officer for claiming to have inspected goods for which he merely reviewed the documentation. |
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Catholic League defeats Danish king Christian IV in the Battle at Lutter. |
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