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U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announces details of an indictment against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development and seven individuals on counts related to financing terrorism. |
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The BBC and other media outlets announces that three US-made Patriot missile systems have been installed in and around Athens, Greece in preparation for the Summer Olympics. Russian-made S 300 anti-aircraft missiles are protecting the city of Heraklion on the southern island of Crete. The Patriot s ... |
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Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz approves a rerouting plan that brings Israel's West Bank barrier closer to the 1967 boundary. Earlier this month the International Court of Justice in The Hague declared the entire barrier illegal and ordered Israel to dismantle it. |
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Turkey's Milliyet newspaper reports that Airports in Turkey have been placed on the second highest level of alert following suspicions that al-Qaida network may be planning attacks similar to the September 11 attacks. |
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Jordanian company Daoud and Partners decides to withdraw from Iraq, so as to secure the release of 2 Jordanian hostages. |
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The Coalition Press Information Center announces that one U.S. soldier is killed and three others are wounded in a roadside bomb attack on a patrol near Balad Ruz north of Baghdad. In total, 909 U.S. forces are reported to have died in the Iraq war, 674 in combat and 235 in non-combat incidents. |
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Baraka Obama, Democratic Senate candidate from Illinois, delivers the keynote address at the Democratic Convention in Boston. He argues against the "politics of cynicism" dividing America into liberal and conservative and beseeches the nation to reject the "spin masters and negative ad peddlers" who ... |
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Michael Moore and FOX's Bill O'Reilly square off in a Televised Debate in which O'Reilly refuses to answer a question about whether he would send his own son to secure the city of Fallujah. "I would sacrifice myself," O'Reilly said repeatedly. |
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American Lance Armstrong wins the 3,350 km Tour de France for a record equalling 5th time. |
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Just two months after celebrating his 100th birthday, comic legend Bob Hope dies in his sleep at home in Toluca Lake, California, with his family at his bedside. |
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The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend first article of impeachment against President Richard M. Nixon. |
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Pink Floyd releases its album "A Saucerful of Secrets" in the United States. |
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The United States, North Korea, and China sign an armistice, which ends the Korean War without a peace treaty. |
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In response to German advances into Russia, Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 directing that all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders will be immediately killed. |
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George B. McClellan replaces the defeated McDowell as,commander of the Union army in Virginia. |
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Maximilien Robespierre, leader of the Committee of Public Safety, is arrested. |
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A British fleet of 30 ships commanded by Admiral Augustus Keppel in HMS Victory engages the French fleet of 29 ships commanded by Admiral the Comte d'Orvilliers in the First Battle of Ushant, named for a French island at the mouth of the English Channel. |
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Marquis de Lafayette, a 19 year old French aristocrat, arrives in Philadelphia and volunteers to serve without pay. Congress appoints him as a major general in the Continental Army. Lafayette will become one of Gen. Washington's most trusted aides. |
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The Army Medical Department is established headed by Dr. Benjamin Church of Boston. He stays in this job only briefly as he is discovered to be collaborating with the British. |
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Highland Scots supporting James II (Jacobites) defeat English and lowland Scots supporting William of Orange in the Battle of Killiecrankie. One-third of the Jacobite force is killed, including Dundee himself, and this loss proves disastrous to the Jacobite cause in the end. |
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Danish King Valdemar Atterdag is victorious in the Battle of Visby. Visby is a city, founded in the 10th century, on the Baltic Sea island of Gotland, in modern Sweden. |
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In the Battle of Bouvines, Philip Augustus of France defeats the coalition of Otto IV of Germany, count Ferrand of Flanders, and John of England to take undisputed control of Anjou, Brittany, Maine, Normandy, and Touraine. |
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