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Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.) pleads guilty to conspiracy and tax charges and resigns from office, after admitting he took $2.4 million in bribes to steer defense contracts to conspirators. He agrees to forfeit to the government his Rancho Santa Fe home, worth more than $1.8 millio ... |
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Al Jazeera begins to report that the U.S. military is secretly using banned napalm and other outlawed weapons against civilians in the Iraqi city of Fallujah. The new napalm mixture is of polystyrene and jet fuel. weird bombs that put up smoke like a mushroom cloud… then small pieces fall from the ... |
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EIGroup releases a biographical article on Alan Turing, who defeated the German UBoats in the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II. |
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Terrorists in Kenya attack Israelis on board an aircraft using mobile missle launchers. |
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Astronauts Michael Lopez-Alegria and John Herrington stepped out Thursday for NASA's first Thanksgiving Day spacewalk. |
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U.S. Central Intelligence Agency announces that an officer killed in a Mazar-e Sharif prison fight is first confirmed U.S. combat death in the action in Afghanistan.
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Enron shares plunge below $1 amid the heaviest single-day trading volume ever for a NYSE or Nasdaq-listed stock. |
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Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is beaten to death by inmate Christopher Scarver while cleaning a bathroom at the Columbia Correctional Institute gymnasium in Portage, Wisconsin. |
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Enrico Fermi, a physicist who achieved the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction, dies of cancer. |
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U.S. President Roosvelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin meet at Teheran to map out strategy. |
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Turkish advance towards the Suez Canal is announced.
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Albania declares independence from the Ottoman Empire, but is still under occupation by its neighbours. |
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Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds the political party Sinn Fein, which was dedicated to independence for all of Ireland. |
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In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General John Blunt drive Confederates under General John Marmaduke back into the Boston Mountains in northwestern Arkansas. |
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Captain Cook discovers the island of Maui in the Hawa'iian island chain. |
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Congress establishes the American Navy. |
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Pirate Captain Benjamin Hornigold captures the slave-ship La Concorde near the island of Martinique. It will be given to Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard and converted into his flagship, with 20 more cannons and the new name Queen Anne's Revenge. |
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After 38 days in the treacherous strait that now bears his name, Magellan and his three ships enter the Pacific ocean. |
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