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A car bomb outside the Green Zone in Baghdad killes two Iraqis. The explosion seems to target a motorcade carrying Prime Minister-designate Iyad Allawi that was passing by. |
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As her sentencing date approaches, and in an attempt to improve her image and reduce the possible jail time, Martha Stewart offers to work 20 hours a week teaching low-income and minority women to become entrepreneurs. |
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Vice President Dick Cheney's office denies he had a role in coordinating a multibillion-dollar Iraq reconstruction contract awarded to his former employer Halliburton, which was indicated by a Pentagon e-mail according to Time magazine |
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During evening prayers, a bomb explodes at a Shia mosque in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi. The explosion kills 15 people, injures nearly 40,and causes extensive damage to the building. |
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Saudi authorities conduct a nationwide manhunt for three Islamic militants who evaded capture following the bloody 25-hour hostage siege of foreigners in Khobar. One hostage has maintained that a deal was done in which the gunmen were allowed to escape in exchange for not blowing up the building. |
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Militia loyal to rebel cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr kill two U.S. soldiers in an escalating conflict in the city of Kufa, Iraq. Al-Sadr's militia loses 45 insurgents in the conflict. |
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The World's Oldest Person, Ramona Trinidad Iglesias Jordan, dies of pneumonia in a nursing home in San Juan at the age of 114. She was born September 1, 1889 and liked to have a small 7 ounce beer with her meals. |
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Alberta Stewart Martin, the last widow of a U.S. Civil War Veteran, dies at a nursing home due to complications from a heart attack. Her husband was Confederate Veteran William Jasper Martin, who she married when he was 81 years old. July 8th 1931. Two months after his death in 1931, Alberta Marti ... |
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Temporary Iraqi governing council members meet with U.S. civilian governor Paul Bremer, and he tells them that they are allowed to propose anyone they want as president, "but Pachachi will be president." This angers the members and they reject US-backed Adnan Pachachi and install Ghazi Ugiail Al Ya ... |
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Democratic Senate candidate Baraka Obama holds a commanding lead over his opponent Republican Jack Ryan with five months remaining until the November election, according to a recently released poll of 600 registered Illinois voters. |
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The U.S. FBI announces that U.S. Army Veteran Eric Robert Rudolph, suspect in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Park bombing, had been captured on 5/30/2003 in Murphy, N.C. |
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Air France's streamlined white Concorde swooped into a Paris airport in a final commercial flight home, ending two and a half decades of supersonic travel between New York and Paris. |
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At the Los Angeles Book Exposition, Bill O'Reilly becomes infuriated with Al Franken when he points out that O'Reilly had never won a Peabody Award for his work on Inside Edition and tells him to "Shut Up." |
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The Confederation Bridge spanning Northumberland Strait and linking Prince Edward Island with mainland New Brunswick, Canada opens. At 12.9 kilometres, it is the longest bridge over waters that freeze in the world. |
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Following the end of 1973 Arab/Israeli war Syria and Israel reach an agreement to resolve all oustanding issues and end the war |
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Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem. |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower retires from active service in the United States Army. |
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Naval Battle of Skagerrak in which British and German forces engage at Jutland. |
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First German Zeppelin raid on London in which Zeppelin L381 drops bombs on Stoke Newington. British employ rockets in their defenses around London. |
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US marines land on Cuba. |
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Boers surrender to the British in South Africa. |
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Over 2200 people die in the Johnstown, Pennsylvania flood when the South Fork Dam fails allowing the water of Lake Conemaugh to cascade down the Little Conemaugh river. |
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Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, who ran a sanitorium in Battle Creek, Michigan, patents corn flakes. He was an advocate of vegetarianism, exercises, and enemas. |
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The Battle of Cold Harbor begins when Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant orders Union forces to attack Lee's outnumbered Army of Northern Virginia at gates of Richmond, Virginia. Grant lost 7,000 men in about 30 minutes, and the only reason he didn't lose more was that his corps commanders ignored his order ... |
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20 British ships appear off the South Carolina coast. |
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The Province of Pennsylvania bans all theater productions. |
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Lady Godiva rides naked through Coventry in protest of the oppressive taxes of her husband Leofric III, Earl of Mercia and lord of Coventry. |
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Martin Frobisher departs Harwich, England with fifteen ships on a third expedition to North America in search of gold at Frobisher Bay. The ore returned would be worthless and used to pave the streets of London. |
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