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The US State Department announces that Israel has agreed to suspend air operations over southern Lebanon for 48 hours to investigate the strike on Qana, Lebanon which caused numerous civilian casulties. |
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Suicide bombers hit the US and Israeli embassies and Uzbekistan's prosecutor general's office in simultaneous attacks in Tashkent, killing themselves and at least two other people. |
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Israeli helicopters demolish a three-story building in Gaza City in retaliation against the family of a young mother who blew herself up in a suicide bombing. |
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Microsoft issues a security patch, deemed "critical," that fixes three publicly disclosed vulnerabilities as well as all previously fixed Internet Explorer security holes to date. |
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The Sudanese government in Khartoum rejects a UN Security Council resolution threatening to impose sanctions in 30 days if Sudan does not prosecute and disarm militias in the Darfur region. |
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Pakistan's finance minister and PM-designate, Mr Shaukat Aziz, survives a suicide attack on his motorcade in Islamabad, Pakistan. |
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Several senior officials within the department of Homeland Security reveal that Secretary Tom Ridge has indicated he probably will resign after the election, even if Bush wins. During a meeting Friday in Miami, Ridge called the news "an inside-the-Beltway game" and said that he would not comment abo ... |
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IBM acquires Price Waterhouse Coopers Consulting for $3.5 Billion. |
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Legend and former Teamsters President, Jimmy Hoffa, disappears following a proposed mob meeting at the Macus Red Fox Restaurant near Detroit, Michigan. |
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Apollo 15 lands on the Moon. |
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Richard Nixon visit South Vietnam to meet with President Nguyen Van Thieu and several US military commanders. |
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US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid. |
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South Vietnamese commandos attack two small North Vietnamese islands in the Gulf of Tonkin. The U.S. destroyer Maddox, an electronic spy ship, is 123 miles south with orders to electronically simulate an air attack to draw Vietnamese ships away. |
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Osama bin Laden is born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the 17th of 52 children of Muhammad bin Laden, a wealthy businessman involved in construction and with close ties to the Saudi royal family. |
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Commander Machitsura Hashimoto, commanding Japanese submarine 58, fires two torpedoes at the Heavy Crusier USS Indianpolis (CA-35) and she sinks in 12 minutes with the loss of 300 of her 1,196 crew. Charles Butler McVay III is court-martialed and convicted of "hazarding his ship by failing to zigza ... |
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German agents blow up a munitions factory on Black Tom Island in New Jersey. Property damage is estimated at $22 Million. |
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Louis Trousselier wins the Tour de France. |
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Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches. |
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Malden Island is discovered 1400 miles south of Honolulu by Captain George Anson (Lord) Byron commanding the HMS Blonde. It will be exploited for its guano, an agricultural fertilizer and will later become the site of the first British H-bomb tests during Operation Grapple of 1957. |
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Baltimore, named after George Calvert the second Lord Baltimore, is founded on the Patapsco River, at the top of the northwestern fork of the Chesapeake Bay. |
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Samuel de Champlain shoots two Iroquois chiefs to death near Crown Point, NY. |
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