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After Democrats failed to garner sufficient support to maintain a filibuster in the Senate, Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. was sworn in this morning as the Supreme Court's 110th Justice replacing Sandra Day O'Connor. |
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Peace activist Cindy Sheehan, who was invited to attend the State of Union Address, is arrested in the House gallery after refusing to cover up a T-shirt bearing an anti-war slogan. Capitol Hill police will later apologize and state that the House Rules were "unwritten." |
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At the same time that Exxon Mobil is reporting record profits and suggesting that production be cut to preserve those profits, US President George W. Bush tells congress in his State of the Union Address "Here we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstab ... |
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Iraq's Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi echoed US President Bush's declaration of success in the Iraq Election. Allawi called Iraq's national elections a defeat for insurgents who had promised to disrupt voting and a victory for those Iraqi people who showed the world their courage. "The terrorist ... |
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US Senator Hillary Clinton, 57, collapses at the start of a speech on Social Security Reform as a result of a 24-hour flu bug. She is able to walk out of the room and later presents a talk on health care reform to a Catholic college. |
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A Vietnamese victim's rights group files a Federal lawsuit in Brooklyn, New York, against several unnamed US companies, for liability in causing personal injury, by developing and producing the chemical Agent Orange. Dow Chemical and Monsanto were the two largest producers of Agent Orange for the U ... |
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A.Q. Khan was fired from his post as science advisor to the prime minister after investigators concluded that he made millions of dollars from the illicit sales of blueprints and other nuclear technical materials to both Iran and Libya. |
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Washington Post Staff Writers Bob Woodward and Dan Balz document George Tenet's Worldwide Attack Matrix in their article At Camp David, Advise and Dissent. |
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Trans-World Airlines files for bankruptcy protection. |
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British intelligence learns of Argentine intentions to invade the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas). |
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Independent truckers begin 11-day strike to protest high fuel prices and reduced speed limit. |
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A Gallup poll shows that 79% of American voters are in favor of impeaching U.S. President Richard Nixon. |
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The first U.S. satellite Explorer I is launched with a payload of approximately 1 kg. |
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US forces invade Kwajalein Atoll. |
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Soviet forces capture the heaquarters of Field Marshall Friedrich Paulus. |
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The Japanese begin their siege on British forces at Singapore. The city falls after only two weaks because of Japanese control over all Fresh Water Resources. |
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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt devalues the U.S. dollar in relation to gold at $35 per ounce.
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Germany notifies the United States that its U-boats will attack neutral merchant ships, thus commencing unrestricted submarine warfare. |
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Germans use poison gas against the Russians for the first time. |
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The 13th Amendment which abolishes slavery was passed by the US congress. |
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Robert E. Lee is promoted to be general-in-chief of Confederate forces and begins to advocate a policy by which slaves could gain their freedom by service in the Confederate army. |
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Comet hunter Charles Messier adds the Ring Nebula to his catalog of deep space objects. By recording the right ascension and declination coordinates of these objects, he is able to avoid mistaking them for comets. |
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Virginia colony leaders wrote to the Virginia Company in England, asking for more orphaned apprentices for employment. |
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Guy Fawkes, convicted for his part in the 'Gunpowder Plot' against the English Parliament and King James I, was hanged, drawn and quartered. |
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