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Asked whether the US could win the war, Mr Bush replied: "I don't think you can win it. But I think you can create conditions so that those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world." |
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In Nepal, the overnment and maoist rebels begin peace talks, with the rebels demanding a new constitution. |
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On The O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly declares: "I anchored a program called Inside Edition, which has won a Peabody Award for investigative reporting." |
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Lockheed and Martin Marietta inked the paperwork on a merger that created one of the world's largest aerospace/defense companies. |
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US Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as the first black justice. |
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On August 30, 1963, the U.S. Defense Department announced that a direct communications link between Washington and Moscow was operational. |
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MacArthur lands in Japan. |
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President Franklin Roosevelt's Revenue Act is passed into law. It is designed to collect revenue from the wealthiest Americans. |
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Warren Buffet is born in Omaha, Nebraska. |
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After speaking at a factory in Moscow, Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin is shot by Fanya Kaplan, a member of the Social Revolutionary party. Lenin is only wounded. |
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The Fokker Dr I Triplane sees action for the first time. |
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13,000 meteors are seen in a one hour period. |
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Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee. |
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