| 959:
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Death of St. Gerard of Brogne
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| 1190:
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Richard I, King of England, sacks Messina, Sicily
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| 1226:
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St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order, died; he was canonized in 1228
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| 1582:
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Gregorian Calendar introduced
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| 1605:
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Li Tzu-ch'eng, Chinese revolutionary who dethroned last Ming emperor born
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| 1613:
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Marion Delorme, Paris, celebrated French courtesan born
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| 1632:
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony enacted a tobacco tax
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| 1656:
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Death of Myles Standish of Plymouth Colony
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| 1692:
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In Massachusetts, Increase Mather published his "Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits," which effectively brought an end to the Salem Witch Trials which had begun earlier this year
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| 1739:
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Russia sings a treaty with the Turks, ending a three-year conflict between the two countries
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| 1776:
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Congress borrows five million dollars to halt the rapid depreciation of paper money in the colonies
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| 1789:
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Washington proclaims the 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26
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| 1790:
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Cherokee Chief John Ross, who led the opposition to the forced move of his people to what is now Oklahoma born
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| 1800:
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Historian George Bancroft (historian, known as the "Father of American History" for his 10-volume A History of the United States.) born
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| 1803:
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John Gorrie, invented cold-air process of refrigeration born
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| 1804:
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Townsend Harris, 1st Western consul to reside in Japan born
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| 1816:
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Schubert finished his Symphony No. 5 in B-flat, just a few months after finishing the C minor symphony that he subtitled, "Tragic." We know when Schubert composed most of his music because he was very particular about dating almost everything he wrote
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| 1832:
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Hymnwriter Carolina Berg. (Lina Sandell) She was known as the "Fanny Crosby of Sweden," her most enduring songs which survive today are: "Day by Day (And With Each Passing Moment)" and "Children of the Heavenly Father." born
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| 1857:
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The Rev. Thomas Gallaudet, pioneer in deaf education, held the first church services for the deaf in a chapel at New York University
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| 1862:
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At the Battle of Corinth, in Mississippi, a Union army defeats the Confederates. A Rebel battery's first salvo was the prelude to the Battle of Shilo, near Corinth
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| 1863:
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President Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November, Thanksgiving Day
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| 1873:
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Captain Jack and three other Modoc Indians are hanged in Oregon for the murder of General Edward Canby
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| 1875:
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Hebrew Union College was founded in Cincinnati, Ohio under Jewish auspices. It was the first Jewish college in America to train men for the rabbinate
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| 1876:
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John L. Routt, the Colorado Territory governor, is elected the first state governor of Colorado in the Centennial year of the U.S
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| 1899:
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The patent was issued for the motor-driven vacuum cleaner
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| 1900:
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North Carolina author Thomas Wolfe born
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| 1906:
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The first conference on wireless telegraphy in Berlin adopts SOS as warning signal
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| 1909:
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Political cartoonist Herblock (Herbert Block) born
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| 1913:
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Federal Income Tax is signed into law (at 1%)
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| 1916:
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English veterinarian and author James Herriot born
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| 1922:
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Rebecca L. Felton (Democrat, Georgia) became the first woman to be seated in the U-S Senate. (Mrs. Felton had been appointed to serve out the remaining term of Senator Thomas E. Watson.) She attended only two sessions of the Senate before an election was held for her successor
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| 1925:
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Novelist Gore Vidal born
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| 1929:
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The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes formally changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
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| 1934:
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Actress Madlyn Rhue born
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| 1936:
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The American Minimalist Steve Reich was born in New York. He rode transcontinental trains to see both parents during World War II, and later composed "Different Trains" to contrast that experience with the very different trains that took Jews to concentration camps
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| 1940:
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Singer Alan O'Day born
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| 1940:
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U.S. Army adopts airborne, or parachute, soldiers. Airborne troops were later used in World War II for landing troops in combat and infiltrating agents into enemy territory
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| 1941:
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Rock and Roll star Chubby Checker born
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| 1941:
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Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been "broken" and would "never rise again."
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| 1942:
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President Roosevelt established the Office of Economic Stabilization and authorized controls on farm prices, rents, wages and salaries
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| 1942:
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Germany conducts the first successful test flight of a V-2 missle, which flies perfectly over a 118-mile course. When the anticipated invasion of Britain failed to materialize in 1940, Londoners relaxed, but soon they faced a frightening new threat
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| 1943:
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Senator Jeff Bingaman (Democrat, New Mexico) born
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| 1944:
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German troops evacuate Athens, Greece
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| 1947:
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Singer Lindsey Buckingham born
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| 1950:
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Jazz musician Ronnie Laws born
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| 1951:
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Former All-star outfielder Dave Winfield born
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| 1952:
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The Ozzie and Harriet Show premiers on TV
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| 1955:
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The children's show, "Captain Kangaroo", with Bob Keeshan in the title role, was broadcast for the first time. The show ran for 29 years
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| 1955:
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The Mickey Mouse Club premiers
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| 1956:
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Actor Peter Frechette ("Profiler") born
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| 1959:
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Actor Jack Wagner born
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| 1960:
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The Andy Griffith Show began on TV and ran until 1968 with Griffith as Sheriff Andy Taylor It then continued three more without him as Mayberry RFD. It was spinoff from the Danny Thomas Show, when Danny is stopped in North Carolina for speeding by Sheriff Taylor
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| 1961:
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The Dick Van Dyke Show, one of the most widely watched classic TV sitcoms, premiered. It ran until 1967
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| 1962:
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Rock musician Tommy Lee (Motley Crue) born
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| 1962:
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astronaut Wally Schirra blasted off from Cape Canaveral aboard the "Sigma Seven" on a nine-hour flight
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| 1967:
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Folk singer Woody Guthrie died of Huntington's Chorea
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| 1971:
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Pop singer Kevin Richardson (Backstreet Boys) born
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| 1972:
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President Nixon and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko signed strategic arms limitation agreements, putting the first restrictions on the two countries' nuclear weapons
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| 1973:
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Actress Neve Campbell ("Party of Five") born
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| 1974:
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Frank Robinson was named major-league baseball's first black manager as he was placed in charge of the Cleveland Indians
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| 1981:
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Irish nationalists at the Maze Prison near Belfast, Northern Ireland, ended seven months of hunger strikes that had claimed ten lives
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| 1982:
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Actor Erik Von Detten (movie "Leave It to Beaver") born
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| 1987:
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Negotiators for the United States and Canada reached agreement in Washington on a framework to eliminate all tariffs between the world's two largest trading partners
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| 1988:
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"Discovery" completed a four-day mission, the first American shuttle flight since the "Challenger" disaster
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| 1988:
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Lebanese kidnappers released Indian educator Mithileshwar Singh, who'd been held captive with three Americans for more than 20 months
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| 1989:
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Art Shell becomes the first African-American to coach a professional football team, the Los Angeles Raiders
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| 1989:
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In a move to stem the flow of refugees to the West, East Germany suspended unrestricted travel to Czechoslovakia
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| 1989:
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Panamanian officers launched an unsuccessful coup against Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega
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| 1990:
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West Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of postwar division, declaring the creation of a new unified country with 78 million citizens
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| 1990:
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Iraqi President Saddam Hussein made his first known visit to Kuwait since his country seized control of the oil-rich emirate
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| 1991:
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Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton entered the race for the Democratic presidential nomination
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| 1991:
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South African author Nadine Gordimer was named winner of the Nobel Prize in literature
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| 1992:
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Relief flights to Bosnia-Herzegovina resumed with the arrival of an American plane in Sarajevo
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| 1992:
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President Bush vetoed a measure to re-regulate cable television (however, Congress overrode the veto two days later)
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| 1993:
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In Moscow, thousands of anti-government protesters armed with rocks, clubs and machine guns sent police fleeing in battles across the capital
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| 1993:
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President Clinton expressed sorrow at the deaths of American soldiers in Somalia, but reaffirmed that US forces would stay in the African nation
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| 1994:
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U.S. soldiers in Haiti raided the headquarters of a hated pro-army militia
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| 1994:
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Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy announced his resignation because of questions about gifts he'd received
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| 1994:
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South African President Nelson Mandela addressed the U.N., urging the world to support his country's economy
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| 1994:
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Voters in Brazil elected Fernando Henrique Cardoso their new president
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| 1995:
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The jury in the O.J. Simpson murder trial found the former football star innocent of the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman (however, Simpson was later found liable in a civil proceeding)
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| 1996:
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Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska won the Nobel Prize for Literature
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| 1997:
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Attorney General Janet Reno said Justice Department investigators had no evidence President Clinton violated the law with White House coffees and overnight stays for big contributors. However, Reno did extend a probe of Vice President Al Gore's telephone fund-raising
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| 1998:
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard's conservative government was narrowly re-elected
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| 1998:
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Pope John Paul II beatified Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac, the World War II archbishop of Zagreb and a controversial figure because many Serbs and Jews accused him of sympathizing with the Nazis
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| 1999:
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Sony co-founder Akio Morita, the entrepreneur, engineer and savvy salesman who helped give new meaning to the words "Made in Japan," died in Tokyo at age 78
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| 2005:
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Ulcer researchers awarded Nobel Prize
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| 2005:
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Fatal blasts rock Bangladesh
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| 2005:
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Bush nominates Harriet Ellan Miers for U.S. Supreme Court
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| 2005:
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Los Angeles hospital lies, discriminates for Saudi liver transplant patient
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| 2005:
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US rejects EU proposal to give Internet control to the UN
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| 2006:
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New Zealand man stopped at border because of unpaid fines
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| 2006:
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Tropical Storm Isaac hits Newfoundland
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| 2006:
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Nobel Prize in physics awarded for microwave map of the universe
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| 2006:
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Rescue workers search wreckage of Brazilian air crash
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| 2006:
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North Korea says it will test a nuclear weapon in the future
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| 2006:
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Hijackers with message for Pope seize Turkish airliner
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| 2006:
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Ban Ki-moon leads contest for next UN Secretary-General: Poll
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| 2007:
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Vivien Goldman: An interview with the Punk Professor
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| 2007:
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Third day of NSW fire season sees 46 fires burning
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| 2007:
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Frank Messina: An interview with the 'Mets Poet'
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| 2007:
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Patron of Republican Sinn Féin Dan Keating dies at age 105
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| 2007:
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U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter introduces bill to cut federal funding for Columbia University
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| 2007:
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PTS Taiwan holds "Why Democracy?" the Movie Pre-launch Seminar to examine the democratic process in Taiwan
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| 2007:
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Australian cricket team in India in 2007-08: 2nd ODI
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| 2007:
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2007/08 UEFA Champions League: Rosenborg vs. Schalke
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| 2009:
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More bodies recovered from capsized boat in Kerala, India
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| 2009:
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130 dead after torrential rains in India
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| 2009:
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Typhoon Parma spares Philippines capital
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| 2009:
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Three aid workers released by Somali gunmen
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| 2009:
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Top militant in Pakistan killed by suspected US missile drone
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| 2009:
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Afghan policeman opens fire on US troops, kills two
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| 2009:
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Six soldiers killed in Senegal after ambush
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| 2009:
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Indian Maoists blamed for the deaths of sixteen villagers
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| 2009:
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U.S. tariffs on Chinese solar panels to be contested
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| 2010:
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Plane crash in Peru kills all six passengers
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| 2010:
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Collingwood win AFL Grand Final replay
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| 2010:
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China launches Chang'e 2 lunar probe
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| 2010:
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Bomb threat forces Russian jet to land
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Singer Chubby Checker born Ernest Evans in Spring Gulley, South Carolina
Singer and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham born in San Francisco, California
Grammy Award winning blues guitarist, Steve Ray Vaughan born in Dallas, Texas