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A 47-year-old, Egyptian-born cleric, Mustafa Kamel Mustafa aka "Abu Hamza," is arrested in London and awaiting extradition to the U.S to face 11 terrorism charges including an attempt to establish a terrorist training camp in Oregon, U.S. |
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Soldiers in Beirut open fire on protestors demonstrating against soaring fuel prices. Three are killed and another 17 people, including an army major and four soldiers, are hurt. |
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In a speech given in Seattle, John Kerry suggests that the Bush Administration's policies and actions have weakened the security of the country. |
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Flooding on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola has nearly 900 people confirmed dead, hundreds missing and entire villages swept away. As many as 2,000 may be dead. |
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Dr. Hussain al-Shahrestani, an Iraqi nuclear scientist who defied Mr Saddam Hussein, has declined to become the prime minister in the interim government, saying he would prefer to serve the war-ravaged country in other ways. |
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Fiat Chairman Umberto Agnelli, who had been working to revive the Italian automaker, dies of cancer at the age of 62. |
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Executive Vice President of the CATO Institute, David Boaz, points out the Red Team and Blue Team Hypocrisy of Republicans and Democrats in every election campaign, citing squabbling over Kerry and Bush's military service, enhancement and enforcement of sexual harrassment laws during the Clinton adm ... |
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Tony Locy, with USA Today, breaks a story that U.S. Military Intelligence Officers and civilian contractors deliberately obscured their identities by removing their nametags and lying when MPs inquired about their names. The information was provided by Sgt. Javal Davis in his testimony on April 7th ... |
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In an effort to reduce air pollution caused by commercial building energy use, the EPA announces its expansion of the ENERGY STAR program to encourage energy efficient designs in new commercial buildings. Architects achieving this goal can apply the label "Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR." |
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One day after Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) made public a U.S. Army directive to all base commanders to cut environmental programs, the Army issued a new order to countermand it. |
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Pope John Paul II appoints Cardinal Bernard Law to be archpriest of Saint Mary Major Basilica, an honorary ceremonial post in Rome. |
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Slobodan Milosevic and four others are indicted in The Hague for crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo. |
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The NLD defeats opposition in Burmese election, military government refuses to cede power and imprisons party leaders. |
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An Iraqi war plane accidentally attacks the USS Stark, killing 37 U.S. sailors. |
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Jacques Chirac, nominated by Giscard, becomes Prime Minister of France at the young age of 41. |
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The SALT I agreements are signed by Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and U.S. President Richard M. Nixon. |
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Aided by Texas House Speaker Ben Barnes, George W. Bush joins the Texas Air National Guard, jumping over a waiting list and avoiding Vietnam. |
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U.S. warships commence bombardment of NLF targets within South Vietnam for the first time. |
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General Cemal Gürsel removes President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government of Turkey in a military coup d'etat. |
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A team of British-trained agents of the Czechoslovak government in exile in London assassinates Reinhard Heydrich, The Butcher of Prague. |
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The German Pocket Battleship Bismarck is engaged by the HMS King George V, HMS Rodney, Norfolk, and HMS Dorsetshire. being struck by in excess of 300 shells and five or six torpedo hits, the crew introduced measures to sink their own ship to prevent capture. |
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The Golden Gate Bridge opens and 200,000 pedestrians walk across. |
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The Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission. |
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The bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco. |
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Gandhi writes to his brother, Lakshimidas, declaring his lack of interest in worldly possessions. |
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The Japanese fleet under Admiral Heihachiro Togo destroys 2/3 of the Russian fleet under Admiral Zinovi Petrovich Rozhdestvenski in the Battle of Tsushima, during the Russo-Japanese war. |
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U.S. troops capture Fort George, Canada during the War of 1812. |
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Eli Whitney and Phineas Miller draw up a partnership agreement with intent to patent and manufacture cotton gins and to conduct a cotton ginning business. This turned out to be a grave mistake, because they could not produce enough machines to gin the rapidly increasing crops and competitors' machin ... |
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Continental Congress authorizes General Washington to appoint an officer known as the Commissary General of Artillery Stores in order to supply the colonies with ammunition and military supplies. |
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After exploring the coast of Georgia, giving French names to many of the rivers and islands, Jean Ribault enters a harbor he names Port Royal |
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