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President Bush's approval rating stands at 30 percent in the latest Newsweek poll, the lowest approval rating recorded for the president in that poll's history. |
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A Palestinian suicide bomber hitches a ride from a wary Israeli motorist and then blows himself up inside a bakery in the Red Sea resort town of Eilat. It is the first Palestinian suicide bombing in Israeil in nine months time. |
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Newsweek reports that American diplomats in Iraq are engaging in face-to-face talks with high-level Iraqi Sunni insurgents in Anbar province as well as in Syria and Jordan. Some Iraqi leaders wish to prevent Iranian intervention and influence in the country. U.S. intelligence officials have admitt ... |
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ABC "World News Tonight" co-anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt are seriously injured when the Iraqi army vehicle he was traveling in was hit by an explosive device. |
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The US Military moves Iraqi security forces into position at polling sites throughout Iraq, all in preparation for elections to be held the next day. US Marines man rooftops. Insurgent violence continues, having claimed the lives of five American soldiers and 10 Iraqis the previous day. |
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Ghazi al-Yawer tells the media that that many people will not take part in the Iraqi election scheduled for January 30th. Specifically, he suggests that voters will probably stay away from polling stations over safety concerns not as a protest. |
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An insurgent rocket attack penetrates the Green Zone, resulting in the deaths of two Americans and five other Americans wounded. |
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Ghazi al-Yawer, who earlier had predicted a very low turn-out in the Iraqi Election, changes his prediction to a 2/3 turnout inspite of continuing violence in country leading some to conclude that he was "coached." |
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Former Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang is laid to rest in a quiet ceremony at Beijing's Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, nearly two weeks after his death on January 17th. Mr. Zhao spent 15 years under house arrest for advocating reform during the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy demonstratio ... |
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For the first time in 55 years, over half a century, Chinese airliners fly non-stop to Taiwan. |
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Georgia School Superintendent proposes banning the word "evolution" from the curriculum. |
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Nepal's Maoist rebels declare a new cease-fire, and resume peace talks with the government. |
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U.S. President Clinton announces what will become known as "don't ask, don't tell" policy and effectively lifts the ban on homosexuals in the military. |
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Canadian embassy officials assist six Americans in ecaping from Iran. |
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Paris is bombed by German zeppelins for the first time. |
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Kansas becomes 34th American state. |
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King George III of Britain, dies after a reign of almost 60 years. It is the second longest in British history and his is replaced by George IV, King George's II the third son. |
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Thomas Paine completes his work "The Rights of Man" as a reply to "Reflections on the Revolution in France" by Edmund Burke. In it, Paine clearly documents three points similar to the "self-evident truths" that are cited in Jefferson's US Declaration of Independence. |
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British forces capture the town of Augusta, Georgia. |
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Thomas Paine is born in King Street in Thetford, Norfolk. |
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