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Phil Sands, a British journalist kidnapped in Iraq, is rescued by chance after U.S. soldiers raided the farmhouse where he was being held on the outskirts of Baghdad. |
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Aid is rushed to millions of survivors of the devastating tsunami that swept across southern Asia and the death toll rises above 135,000. |
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A U.S. Marine from the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force is killed in action while conducting security and stabilization operations in Iraq's al-Anbar province, per a statement from the US Department of Defense. |
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ImClone stock drops 18% the first trading day after the news of ImClone being denied by the FDA of the review of its application for the promising new cancer drug, Erbitux |
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Pentagon announces that the 20,000+ men of the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division based in Fort Stewart Georgia, is being deployed to Kuwait in preparation for war with Iraq. |
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The Conference Board announces that its Consumer Confidence Index fell more than 4 points to 80.3, compared with expectations that it would rise to about 86. Consumers’ assessment of the present economic situation tumbled more sharply to 69.9, its lowest level in nearly nine years.
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The world's first commercial maglev train debuts in China. The train speeds at 260 mph from Shanghai's financial district to its airport. |
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A large anti-U.S. protest is reported in South Korea. |
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Nine Northeast states sued the Bush administration on Tuesday over its decision to give coal-fired power plants and other facilities more leeway in meeting clean air rules. |
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Gary Winnick, Chairman of Global Crossing resigns following complaints that he sold hundreds of millions of dollars worth of company stock in advance the company's bankruptcy declarations. |
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Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama
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Boris Yeltsin resigns from the Russian Presidency naming Vladimir Putin as Acting President until new elections could be held in March of 2000. |
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Microsoft buys Hotmail E-mail service |
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Karl Rove & Co. receives more than $300,000 to advise John Ashcroft's campaign for US Senate. |
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The DJIA closes at a new record high of 3168.83
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Last day of the Soviet Union's existence. |
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Iraq begins a military draft of 17 year olds
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Rajiv Gandhi, son of Indira Gandhi, succeeds his mother and takes office as India's 6th Prime Minister. |
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First broadcast of CNN Headline News.
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The President of Senegal , Leopold Senghor, resigns. |
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In Nairobi Kenya a jewish owned hotel is bombed and 18 people are killed.
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Amir Sheikh Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir Al Sabah becomes leader of Kuwait. |
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Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Paul Krassner, Dick Gregory, & friends pronounce themselves "Yippies" |
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Reagan is fired by GE when he takes on the Tennessee Valley Authority as an example of "big government." G.E. had associated contracts worth millions of dollars. |
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Fugencio Batista, the US friendly Cuban dictator who took power in March of 1952, flees. Castro calls general revolutionary strike against provisional junta.
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French troops depart Lebanon |
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Charles Darrow patents Monopoly. |
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Jimmy Doolittle becomes the first pilot to take-off, fly, and land an airplane using instruments alone, without a view outside the cockpit. His contribution to instrument flying paved the way for all-weather airline operations. |
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Wilbur Wright completes the longest flight of 1908 with a distance of 77 miles in two hours and 20 minutes at Camp d'Aouvours, France. He wins a prize of 20,000 francs. |
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Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time in Menlo Park, New Jersey. |
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The Monitor, a Union ironclad ship sinks off Cape Hatteras, NC.
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The United States exports a total of 6,276,000 pounds of cotton in 1795. |
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The United States exports a total of 1,601,000 pounds of cotton in 1794. |
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The US pays off a $181,500 loan given by the French for financing the American Revolution. |
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Thomas Jefferson formally resigns his position as Secretary of State and prepares to depart Philadelphia for Monticello. |
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Bank of North America, the first U.S. bank opens.
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Rhode Island establishes wage & price controls to curb inflation |
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The first Huguenots depart France for the Cape of Good Hope.
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The British East India Company is chartered by Queen Elizabeth I. |
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Jacques Cartier is born in Saint-Malo, France. |
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Greenland is discovered by Norwegian Erik the Red, who is fleeing Iceland because of a murder. European colonization of Greenland begins. |
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