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The New York Times runs a story that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had issued an imminent threat warning to one or two cities, but then quickly retracted the alert hours later, after the intelligence proved unfounded. |
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The Governing Council nominates Iyad Allawi, a Shiite Muslim physician with known links to the CIA to be the Prime Minister of the new Iraqi Government that will take power on June 30th of 2004. |
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A Palestinian opens fire on an Israeli bus carrying Israeli workers near Rafah in the border zone between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. The attack was followed by a car bomb explosion killing the driver and injuring two Israeli soldiers. |
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The University of Michigan's Consumer Sentiment Index falls to a seven month low of 90.2 from 94.2 in April while the expectations index fell to 81.6 from 87.3. |
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A magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes the Caspian Sea area of Iran near the city of Sari. It shook the buildings in the capital city of Tehran, 75 km south, and send residents screaming into the streets. |
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In Geneva, The World Health Organization (WHO) announces that the 2004 campaign for World No Tobacco Day on May 31 will be launched with the slogan "Tobacco and Poverty: a vicious circle." |
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American, Canadian and Chilean troops rushed to the worst-hit southern Haitian towns of Fond Verrettes and Mapou, which were still submerged in 10 feet of water. They arrived with aid workers in helicopters loaded with water, food, medical supplies and inflatable boats to try to reach far-flung vill ... |
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Russia, China and France, and Germany demand changes in the draft resolution on Iraq submitted by the United States and Britain to grant sovereignty by June 30 to an Iraqi interim government. |
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Former Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet loses his immunity from prosecution for his role in Operation Condor, a coordinated operation among the former military governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay to eliminate left-wing opponents. |
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U.S. Military Authorities release between 500 to 600 Iraqi detainees from the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in an effort to halve the number of detainees by June 30th. |
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Pope John Paul II cautions that American society may be turning against spirituality in favor of materialistic desires, giving way to a "soulless vision of life." |
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Prompted by a Fox News investigation finding traces of blood, Oakland Co. Michigan investigators rip up floorboards in a house in Detroit looking for the remains of former mafia-linked Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa who disappeared in 1975. |
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U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and Homeland Security Advisor issue a joint statement regarding previous threat warnings in which Ridge did not participate. "We wish to put aside any differences and demonstrate we're on the same page and unified in our efforts to p ... |
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To date, the US-led Iraq War has resulted in 916 coalition deaths, 806 Americans, 59 Britons, six Bulgarians, one Dane, one Dutch, one Estonian, 18 Italians, four Poles, one Salvadoran, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and six Ukrainians, in the war as of May 28, 2004 |
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Researchers confirm that Broccoli and broccoli sprouts contain a chemical that kills the bacteria responsible for most stomach cancer. |
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Alberto Fujimori is declared winner of the May 28th election in Peru, amidst a flurry of accusations of irregularities. |
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In response to a series of Indian nuclear tests, Pakistan tests five of its own. The leads to economic sanctions from the United States, Japan and other nations. |
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Clinton business partners, Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, Jim McDougal, and Susan McDougal are convicted of fraud. |
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Mathias Rust, a 19 year old West German pilot, evades Soviet air defenses and lands his private plane in Moscow's Red Square. He will be detained until August 3rd 1988. |
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From Jerusalem, Ahmad Shukairy proclaims the establishment of the Palestine Liberation Organization as a mobilizing leadership of the forces of the Palestinian Arab people to wage the battle of liberation. |
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Holland and Belgium surrender to the Nazis. |
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Neville Chamberlain becomes prime minister in England. |
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Alan Turing, famed mathematician, cryptographer and a founding father of Computer Science, submits his paper entitled "On Computable Numbers" to the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. |
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Ludendorff attacks in great force along the Chemin des Dames as a diversion against the French, preparatory to a planned attack against the British in Flanders. |
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Newspaper cartoonist John Barton Gruelle invents The Raggedy Ann doll and applies for a patent. |
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Thomas Edison invents his version of the Battery. |
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An environmental organization called The Sierra Club is founded in San Francisco, California by the well known conservationist John Muir. |
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The 54th Massachusetts, the first African American regiment, departs Boston to fight for the Union |
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U.S. Congress approves the removal of all Native Americans from all states to the western prairie. |
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Napoleon Bonaparte declares the French Empire and will later be crowned Emperor in Notre-Dame cathedral on December 2, 1804. |
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The Virginia militia, commanded by 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington, defeats a French reconnaissance party in southwestern Pennsylvania in the opening days of the French and Indian War. |
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The Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon and heads for the English Channel. With 130 ships and 30,000 men, it takes until May 30th for all to depart. |
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