| 336:
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Death of St. Mark, Pope
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| 929:
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Death of Charles III "the Simple," King of France
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| 1346:
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David II, King of Scots made prisoner at Neville's Cross
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| 1498:
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Hans Holbein the Younger, a German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style best known as one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century, born
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| 1542:
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Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers Catalina Island, off California
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| 1571:
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In the last great clash of galleys, the Ottoman navy is defeated at Lepanto, Greece, by a Christian naval coalition under the overall command of Spain's Don Juan de Austria
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| 1573:
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William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury born
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| 1576:
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John Marston, English satirist, dramatist born
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| 1765:
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Delegates from nine of the American colonies meet in New York to discuss the Stamp Act Crisis and colonial response to it. This "Stamp Act Congress" went on to draft resolutions condemning the Stamp and Sugar Acts, trial without jury and taxation without representation as contrary to their rights as Englishmen
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| 1777:
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The second Battle of Saratoga began during the American Revolution. (The British forces, under General John Burgoyne, surrendered ten days later.)
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| 1849:
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The Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley, who wrote "Li'l Orphant Annie," born
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| 1849:
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Author Edgar Allan Poe died in Baltimore, Maryland, at age 40. Never able to overcome his drinking habits, he was found in a delirious condition outside a saloon uttering "Lord, help my poor soul." He had been on a sustained drinking binge and had been drawn into a gang of derelicts who were being taken from one polling place to another in Baltimore to cast ballots
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| 1868:
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Cornell University was inaugurated in Ithaca, New York
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| 1870:
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Grand Ole Opry star Uncle Dave Macon born
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| 1885:
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Neils Bohr, Danish physicist who won the Nobel Prize for physics and later worked on the first atom bomb born
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| 1888:
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Henry Wallace, 33rd vice president of the United States and 1948 independent candidate for president born
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| 1900:
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Heinrich Himmler, chicken farmer who became the head of the German Gestapo in Hitler's Germany born
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| 1905:
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Andy Devine (Jeremiah Schwartz) TV cowboy sidekick born
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| 1911:
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Singer Vaughn Monroe (Racing with the Moon, Riders in the Sky, There I Go, Rum and Coca Cola, There! I've Said It Again, Let It Snow, Let It Snow! Let It Snow!, Ballerina, They were Doing the Mambo; actor: Meet the People, Carnegie Hall, Singing Guns) born
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| 1914:
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Actor Alfred Drake (Capurro) (Tony Award Kiss Me Kate, Oklahoma) born
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| 1916:
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In the most lopsided football game on record, Georgia Tech humbled Cumberland University, 222-0
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| 1917:
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Actress June Allyson (Best Foot Forward, The Glen Miller Story, Little Women, Strategic Air Command; TV host: The Dupont Show with June Allyson; wife of actor, Dick Powell) born
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| 1922:
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Singer, actress Martha Stewart (Haworth) (Those Two) born
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| 1927:
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Singer Al Martino born
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| 1927:
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Actress Diana Lynn (Loehr) (Bedtime for Bonzo, The Kentuckian, The Annapolis Story, My Friend Irma, Miracle of Morgan's Creek) born
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| 1931:
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Desmond Tutu, South African Black archbishop who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 born
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| 1940:
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Artie Shaw and his Orchestra recorded Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust" for RCA Victor
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| 1943:
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Former National Security Council aide Oliver North born
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| 1949:
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Country singer Kiernan Kane (The O'Kanes) born
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| 1949:
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The Republic of East Germany was formed
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| 1949:
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Iva Toguri D'Aquino, better known as Tokyo Rose, is sentenced to 10 years in prison for treason. She was paroled in 1956, pardoned in 1977
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| 1951:
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Singer John Mellencamp born
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| 1953:
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Actress Christopher Norris born
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| 1953:
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Rock musician Tico Torres (Bon Jovi) born
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| 1954:
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Marian Anderson became the first black singer hired by the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York
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| 1955:
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Cellist Yo-Yo Ma born
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| 1957:
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Michael W. (Whitaker) Smith born
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| 1960:
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Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy and Republican opponent Richard M. Nixon held the second of their broadcast debates
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| 1961:
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Actress Judy Landers born
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| 1963:
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President Kennedy signed the documents of ratification for a nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union
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| 1963:
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Bobby Baker resigned as Senate Democratic secretary after being charged in a $300,000 civil suit for using his influence for personal monetary gains
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| 1968:
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Singer Toni Braxton born
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| 1968:
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Rock singer-musician Thom York (Radiohead) born
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| 1968:
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The Motion Picture Association of America adopted its film-rating system, ranging from "G" for "general" audiences to "X" for adult patrons only
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| 1969:
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Rock musician Leeroy Thornhill (Prodigy) born
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| 1979:
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Pope John Paul II concluded his week-long tour of the United States with a Mass on the Washington Mall
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| 1981:
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Egypt's parliament named Vice President Hosni Mubarak to succeed the assassinated Anwar Sadat
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| 1982:
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The Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical "Cats," featuring the popular song "Memory," opened on Broadway
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| 1984:
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President Reagan and Democratic challenger Walter F. Mondale clashed in a debate in Louisville, Ky., with each candidate denouncing the other's proposals for dealing with the federal budget deficit
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| 1985:
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A mud slide in Ponce, Puerto Rico, killed an estimated 500 people in the island's worst disaster this century
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| 1985:
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Palestinian gunmen hijacke the Italian cruise ship "Achille Lauro" in the Mediterranean with more than 400 people aboard
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| 1986:
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President Reagan met at the White House with recently freed Soviet dissident Yuri Orlov, and said afterward that a substantive improvement in Soviet human rights was crucial for a superpower summit in the United States
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| 1987:
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President Reagan's advisory commission on AIDS was left seemingly in disarray as its chairman, Dr. W. Eugene Mayberry, and its vice-chairman, Dr. Woodrow A. Myers Junior, resigned
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| 1988:
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The Labor Department reported the nation's unemployment rate for September 1988 fell back to July's level of five-point-four percent, after going up to five-point-six percent in August
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| 1989:
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Hungary's Communist Party renounced Marxism in favor of democratic socialism during a party congress in Budapest
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| 1990:
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House and Senate Democrats put together a modified budget proposal, following the failure of an earlier plan and the veto of stopgap spending legislation by President Bush
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| 1990:
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Palestinian gunmen hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achilles Lauro in the Mediterranean with more than 400 people aboard. American hostage Leon Klinghoffer was murdered by the hijackers
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| 1991:
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University of Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill publicly accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriate comments in her presence when she worked for him, and urged the U.S. Senate to investigate her claims. Thomas denied Hill's allegations
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| 1992:
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Trade representatives of the United States, Canada and Mexico initialed the North American Free Trade Agreement during a ceremony in San Antonio, Texas
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| 1992:
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A secret military tribunal in Peru sentenced Abimael Guzman, the mastermind and top leader of the Shining Path guerrilla movement, to life in prison without parole
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| 1993:
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President Clinton ordered more troops, heavy armor and naval firepower to Somalia, but also announced he would pull out all Americans by the end of March 1994
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| 1993:
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Death claimed choreographer Agnes de Mille at age 88
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| 1993:
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Actor Cyril Cusack dies at age 82
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| 1994:
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President Clinton ordered Army troops on alert and dispatched an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf after Iraqi troops were spotted moving south toward Kuwait
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| 1994:
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President Clinton held a news conference in which he expressed frustration over failures in his legislative agenda, blaming Republicans for "trying to stop it, slow it, kill it or just talk it to death."
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| 1995:
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New York's Central Park was transformed into a giant open-air cathedral as Pope John Paul II celebrated Mass before a flock of 130,000
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| 1995:
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A magnitude-7 earthquake struck Indonesia, killing more than 80 people
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| 1996:
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The effects of a Canadian Auto Workers strike against General Motors spread across the border as 18-hundred-50 workers were laid off at two US parts plants
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| 1996:
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The Irish Republican Army detonated two car bombs inside the British army's headquarters in Northern Ireland, wounding 31 people
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| 1997:
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Senator Fred Thompson (Republican, Tennessee), chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee investigating fund-raising abuses, accused the White House of "a clear pattern of delay, foot-dragging, concealing."
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| 1997:
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Former White House deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes defended using the White House to raise Democratic money, telling the committee, "We played by the rules."
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| 1998:
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Matthew Shepard, a gay college student at the University of Wyoming, was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside of Laramie; he died five days later. (Russell Henderson later pleaded guilty to murder and kidnapping; a second suspect, Aaron McKinney, has yet to stand trial.)
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| 1998:
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The Justice Department sued Visa and MasterCard, the nation's largest credit card networks, on grounds they were restraining competition and limiting consumer choice
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| 1999:
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American Home Products Corp. resolved one of the biggest product liability cases ever by agreeing to pay up to $4.83 billion to settle claims that the fen-phen diet drug combination caused dangerous heart valve problems
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| 2005:
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British Columbia teachers dropping the chalk and walking out
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| 2005:
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Australian Immigration department removal of citizen was unlawful
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| 2005:
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Unexploded WW2 Bomb discovered at Schiphol Airport
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| 2005:
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IAEA and its director ElBaradei are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
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| 2005:
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Autodesk to buy Alias
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| 2005:
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Fall sweeps through Texas
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| 2005:
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Premium gas discounted for a few hours
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| 2005:
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Red tide affects South Padre Island, Mexico
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| 2005:
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Film about Travis County DA's investigation of Texas election of 2002
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| 2005:
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President of Peruvian Truth Commission reports death threats, anti-semitic hatemail
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| 2005:
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U.S. watchdog group lists "most corrupt members of Congress"
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| 2005:
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Google, Sun Microsystems to collaborate on software development
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| 2005:
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White House denies that God told Bush to invade Iraq
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| 2005:
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First Trojan horse to affect handheld gaming console found
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| 2005:
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Internet backbone hosts feud, disconnecting users
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| 2005:
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U.S. force-feeding Guantanamo hunger strikers
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| 2005:
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Washington Monument evacuated due to false bomb threat
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| 2006:
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All Ferrari front row for Japanese Grand Prix
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| 2006:
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Blunkett defines the main task for us all
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| 2006:
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Bratsk hydroelectric plant gets new turbine
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| 2006:
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Cheetahs and Blue Bulls to meet in Currie Cup rugby final
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| 2006:
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Top ranked France to play Scotland this afternoon in football
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| 2006:
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Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya shot dead
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| 2006:
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Gibson has given his first interview since anti-Semitic rant
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| 2006:
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20,000 Poles demonstrate on the streets of Warsaw
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| 2006:
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French goalkeeper Fabien Barthez announces retirement
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| 2006:
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Scotland: Three murdered schoolboy for "being white"
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| 2007:
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An interview with gossip columnist Michael Musto on the art of celebrity journalism
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| 2007:
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Referendum about CAFTA-RD in Costa Rica
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| 2007:
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Rugby World Cup: South Africa 37 - 20 Fiji
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| 2007:
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U.S. General David Petraeus accuses Iran of fueling war in Iraq
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| 2007:
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Rugby World Cup: Argentina 19 - 13 Scotland
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| 2007:
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Bus and train collision kills at least 28 in Cuba
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| 2007:
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1.4 million in China flee deadly storm
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| 2007:
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Abused girl in Arizona found with 100 wounds
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| 2007:
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At least 7 killed in Wisconsin shooting rampage
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| 2007:
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Kimi Räikkönen wins Chinese Grand Prix
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| 2007:
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Appendix has purpose: Scientists
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| 2008:
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Witnesses: Doomed train had green light
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| 2008:
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Tattoo with identifying details leads to prosecution of thief in Bristol, UK
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| 2008:
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Report says disappearing life threatens biodiversity
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| 2008:
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Stock markets worldwide continue to fall
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| 2008:
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Icelandic Internet bank suspends UK accounts
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| 2009:
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Greek Prime Minister sworn in, new cabinet appointed
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| 2009:
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New ring discovered around Saturn, could explain dark side of its moon
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| 2009:
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Large magnitude 7.8 earthquake, aftershock strikes Vanuatu region
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| 2009:
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Italian court overturns law preventing trial of Prime Minister Berlusconi
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| 2009:
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40 injured after attacks in Thailand
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| 2009:
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Demonstrators and police clash at IMF meetings in Istanbul
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| 2009:
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Over two million people displaced by flooding in India
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| 2010:
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Major fire results in significant damage to Texas apartment complex
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| 2010:
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Charlie the smoking chimpanzee dies aged 52
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| 2010:
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Australian Dollar reaches a 27 year high
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| 2010:
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Two Santa Clara, Utah teens in critical condition after lightning strike
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| 2011:
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South African parliament questioned over media policy
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu born in Klerksdorp, South Africa
Poet, essayist, naturalist and author, Diane Ackmerman born in Waukegan, Illinois
Singer and songwriter, John Mellencamp born in Seymour, Indiana