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A roadside bomb kills three U.S. Marines and wounds two others in east Baghdad, marking the first fatal attack on U.S. troops since the transfer of sovereignty. |
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Palestinian militants fire three more Qassam rockets into southern Israel, one of which moderately injures a person at a packing plant in the community of Shaar Hanegev. Israelis launch a pre-dawn military operation to seal off the Northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun. |
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Iraqi militants released three Turkish hostages "for the sake of their Muslim brothers" and Turkey's Foreign Minister, Abdullah Gul, tells state television. "We’ve struggled a lot for their release." |
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The American media announces that the US Army will notify about 5,600 retired and discharged soldiers that they will be involuntarily recalled to active duty for possible service in Iraq or Afghanistan. |
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New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's Web site announces that AT&T will pay $400,000 in penalties and costs and issue refunds to 311,000 New York residents who were billed for long-distance telephone service they neither requested nor used. When customers had tried to bring the underlying error ... |
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The National Association of Securities Dealers ordered eight securities firms to pay $310,000 in fines and $300,000 in restitution to customers for unfairly pricing bonds. The largest penalty went to UBS Financial Services Inc., which was fined $100,000 and ordered to pay $100,666 in restitution. O ... |
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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley chastises John Ashcroft in a letter regarding his release of terror suspect Nabil al-Marabh to Syria on June 2. The Iowa Republican demanded that Ashcroft answer 19 questions about al-Marabh's case, including why the Justice Department didn't prosec ... |
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Sandra Day O'Connor writes "A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens," in the main opinion in the Supreme Court's ruling in American citizen Yaser Hamdi's case. |
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American Actress Katharine Hepburn dies at the age of 96. |
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VP Richard Cheney becomes only the second man in US history to be Acting President, while George W. Bush undergoes a colonoscopy. |
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NASDAQ shuts down trading because of computer problem, extends trading for one hour to make up for lost time. |
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The nation of Japan officially declares it has entered a recession. |
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The Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian Mir space station for the first time. |
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Following the Tianamen square incident, and over the objections of President Bush, the U.S. Congress votes new sanctions against the People's Republic of China. Following the 1991 collapse of the USSR, these sanctions began to fall by the wayside so that American businessmen could reap the benefits ... |
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The US and Burmese governments sign an agreement committed to "suppressing the illegal cultivation, processing, production, and trafficking of narcotic drugs". The US supplies Rangoon with Bell 205 helicopters for this purpose. |
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German Field Marshall Erin Rommel & von Rundstedt travel to Berchtesgaden. |
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After one week of rapid German advance through Russia, the cities of Riga and Ventspils in Latvia fall, and the encirclement of three Russian armies is nearly complete at Minsk in Belarus. |
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Robert E. Lee attacks Union forces under General George McClellan as they are retreating from Richmond, Virginia commencing the Battle of Savage's Station during the Seven Days' Battles conflict. |
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Simón Bolívar triumphantly enters Caracs, the city of his birth, in the midst of a joyous reception from his fellow citizens. |
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British evacuate Ninety Six, South Carolina. |
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The Virginia state constitution is adopted and Patrick Henry becomes governor. |
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French invasion fleet lands at Rye England |
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