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Pilots with Delta Airlines accepted a 14 % pay cut in a deal negotiated with management to assist the bankrupt carrier with a cash crunch. It is the second double-digit pay cut Delta pilots have taken in 13 months. |
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Near Tikrit, insurgents kill 12 Iraqi police officers and destroy the Um Kashifa police station. |
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Four attacks on police checkpoints near Balad, about 50 miles south of Tikrit, kill five Iraqi police officers and wound three. |
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Two days after a huge earthquake sent walls of water sweeping across the Indian Ocean from Thailand to Somalia the death toll rises to 35,000 and the United Nations is asking donor countries to dig deep, saying this will be the costliest disaster ever. |
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Osama bin Laden releases a new audiotape in which he declares Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to be the "emir of the al-Qaeda Organization in the Land of Two Rivers," and that "We in the al-Qaeda Organization strongly welcome their joining hands with us." Bin Laden also made it clear that all who take part i ... |
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In but one of numerous attacks across the Sunni Triangle following the Bin Laden audio tape, insurgents storm into the Mukashifa police compound in Tikrit, execute the officers inside, and then blow up the building. |
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PeopleSoft Inc. announces that its Chief Executive and Chairman Dave Duffield has resigned following its agreement to a $10.3 billion buyout by rival Oracle Corp. earlier this month. |
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Following additional body tallies in Indonesia, the death toll from the recent magnitude 9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami reaches 52,000. At the northern tip of Indonesia's Sumatra island, workers find 10,000 people killed in a single town near the epicenter of the quake and that starving surviv ... |
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Lifelong human rights activist and author Susan Sontag dies in a New York cancer hospital. She received much criticism when she declared that the September 11 attacks were not a "cowardly attack" on civilization but "an act undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions". |
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Jami A. Miscik, head of the CIA's analytic division, tells her staff that she is being forced out and will leave her post by February 4th. Miscik has been the target of criticism because her department was largely responsible for erroneous prewar assessments that Iraq had stockpiles of chemical and ... |
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At least 28 people die at a house in Baghdad's Ghazaliya district after insurgents lure police to the supposed hiding place of a militant and then blow up the house with a remote control device. |
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The Vatican criticizes claims that a cloned baby has been born as a sign of a brutal mentality devoid of any ethics. |
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The International Atomic Energy Agency announces that its inspectors are pulling out of North Korea. |
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Two explosions in the Chechen capital city of Grozny result in the deaths of 46 people and 70 injured. |
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Iraqi scientist Kathim Jamil claims that U.N. arms inspectors exaggerated the outcome of an interview with him. |
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800,000 unemployed U.S. citizens lose their federal unemployment benefits at midnight. |
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George W. Bush elects to refer the matter of North Korea's reopening of the Yongbyon nuclear facility to the United Nations. |
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Scientists publish the effects of the West Nile Virus in North America. 241 people died in 2002, but the effect on wildlife was far worse. |
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Military officials inform the U.S. press that at least 25,000 more U.S. troops have been ordered to the Persian Gulf region. |
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Iraq delivers a list of 500+ scientists who worked on nuclear, chemical, biological and missile programs as part of a key demand of the U.N. Security Council disarmament resolution. |
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ImClone is rejected by the FDA to review its application for the drug Erbitux. |
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In a letter dated today to his colleagues, Gerstner describes the final hours leading up to Y2K wherein he assures that the vast majority of IBM’s customers had tested and re-tested their systems and are ready. |
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House Speaker-elect Bob Livingston resigns from Congress amidst revelations of his marital infidelity. |
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Lars-Erik Nelson reports a scene very similar to President Reagan's Medal of Honor story in the 1944 movie "Wing And a Prayer." |
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U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower & British General Bernard Montgomery meet in Hasselt, Belgium. |
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In support of Francisco Franco's forces during the Spanish Civil War, Italian dictaor Benito Mussolini sends military aircraft to Spain. |
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A Nieuport Type IIN achieves an altitude record by flying above 20,000 feet over Saint-Raphael, France. |
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Sicilian town ripped apart by earthquake. |
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Billy Mitchell is born of American parents in Nice, France. He will grow up in Milwaukee, WI. |
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A magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes Echigo Japan killing 30,000 people. |
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Robespierre has Thomas Paine arrested and imprisoned at Luxembourg palace. |
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