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Prime Minister Tony Blair announces that British military personnel have been killed in a crash of Royal Air Force C-130 transport plane outside the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. The C-130 Hercules, built by Lockheed Martin, has been in production longer than any other aircraft in history. |
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Commerce Department Reports GDP Growth of 4% for Q4 2003 |
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Consumer Confidence Index for Jan 2003 at 96.4; Dec was 91.7. |
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Consumer Sentiment Index for Jan 2004 at 103.8; Dec was 92.6. |
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U.S. District Judge William Young sentences shoe bomber Richard Reid to life in prison and Reid tells the judge "Your flag will come down and so will your country." Judge Young is visibly angered. |
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The General Accounting Office announces that it will file suit to force the White House to release documents related to task force on energy. |
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Bloody Sunday. British Army's 1st Parachute Regiment open fire on unarmed civilians demonstrating in Derry, Ireland, killing 13 and wounding numerous others. |
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Mahatma Gandhi is shot three times in the chest by a fellow Hindu, Nathuram Godse, who believed that Gandhi had betrayed the Hindu cause. Gandi was 78 years old. |
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Naturam Godse assassinates Gandhi in New Delhi, India. |
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The Burma Road, a vital supply route linking India to China through Burma, is finally cleared for Allied military transports. |
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With the expectation that Gen. Friedrich Paulus will be motivated to fight to the death, Hitler promotes him to Field Marshall. |
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Richard Cheney is born in Lincoln, Nebraska |
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Adoph Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. |
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German submarines attack Le Havre. |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt is born. |
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The U.S. Navy's first ironclad ship, the Monitor, is launched. |
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Captain Cook reaches 71º 10' S which is 1820 km from the South Pole |
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