| 8:
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Horace, Latin poet, satirist, dies
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| 43:
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Octavian, Antony and Lepidus form the triumvirate of Rome
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| 450:
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Death of Galla Placida
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| 511:
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Clovis, king of the Franks, dies and his kingdom is divided between his four sons
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| 602:
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Byzantine troops in the Balkans mutiny
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| 784:
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Death of St. Fergil of Salzburg "the Geometer"
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| 1095:
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Pope Urban II calls for the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont: "God Wills It!"
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| 1198:
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Death of Constance, widow of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
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| 1346:
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Death of St. Gregory of Sinai
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| 1382:
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The French nobility, led by Olivier de Clisson, crush the Flemish rebels at Flanders
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| 1520:
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Magellan enters the Pacific Ocean
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| 1582:
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William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway were married
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| 1592:
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Death of John II, King of Sweden
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| 1633:
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Death of Sir John Elliot in the Tower of London
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| 1635:
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Marquise de Mainteon, mistress and 2nd wife of Louis XIV, King of France born
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| 1655:
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Cromwell issues an Edict against the Royalist clergy
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| 1701:
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Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer and inventor of the centigrade thermometer born
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| 1779:
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The College of Pennsylvania became the University of Pennsylvania and the first legally recognized university in America
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| 1839:
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The American Statistical Association was founded in Boston
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| 1843:
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Cornelius Vanderbilt (Started the Staten Island Ferry) born
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| 1852:
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Augusta Ada King, Lady Lovelace, died, heavily in debt, addicted to strong drink. She had been the assistant to the mathematical engineer Charles Babbage (the father of the computer)
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| 1862:
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George Armstrong Custer meets his future bride, Elizabeth Bacon, at a Thanksgiving party
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| 1868:
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Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custers 7th Cavalry kills Chief Blackkettle and about 100 Cheyenne (mostly women and children) on the Washita River
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| 1874:
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American historian Charles Beard born
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| 1874:
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Israeli statesman Chaim Weizmann born
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| 1887:
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U.S. Deputy Marshall Frank Dalton, brother of the three famous outlaws, is killed in the line of duty near Fort Smith, Ark
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| 1889:
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Curtis P. Brady was issued the first permit to drive an automobile through Central Park in New York City. Mr. Brady had to pledge to New York's finest that he would not frighten the horses in the park
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| 1896:
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"Also Sprach Zarathustra" was premiered in Frankfurt with Strauss himself conducting. Strauss said at the time that it was his best work, but today it's not played much. The very beginning of it is famous, though, because it was used in the movie "2001."
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| 1901:
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The War Department authorized creation of the Army War College to instruct commissioned officers. It was built in Leavenworth, Kan
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| 1909:
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The Southern novelist and film critic James Agee born
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| 1910:
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New York's Pennsylvania Station opened
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| 1912:
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Broadway producer David (Margulois) Merrick (Hello, Dolly!, Beckett) born
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| 1917:
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Children's entertainer "Buffalo Bob" Smith (Howdy Doody Time) born
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| 1924:
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The largest crowd to see a high school football game went through the turnstiles in Los Angeles. Los Angeles High and Polytechnic High fought to a 7-7 tie. The attendance? 57,000 people
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| 1925:
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Actor Marshall Thompson born
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| 1926:
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Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong recorded "You Made Me Love You" on Okeh Records
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| 1927:
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Former Treasury Secretary William Simon born
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| 1928:
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A Stravinsky ballet was premiered. "The Fairy's Kiss" is an homage to Tchaikovsky
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| 1931:
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Paul Wittgenstein played the premiere of Ravel's left-handed piano concerto. Wittgenstein lost his right hand in wartime but decided to pursue his concert career anyway
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| 1932:
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Gail Sheehy, the American author who wrote the pop-psychology book Passages born
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| 1935:
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Drummer Al Jackson born
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| 1935:
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Boxer Willie (Wilfred) Pastrano (Light Heavyweight Champion 1963-1965) born
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| 1935:
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"Eeny Meeny Miney Mo" was recorded by Ginger Rogers and Johnny Mercer. The tune was recorded at Decca Records in Los Angeles
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| 1937:
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Author Gail Henion Sheehy (The Silent Passage Pathfinders) born
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| 1937:
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The stage play, "Pins and Needles" opened in New York City. The cast consisted of members of the ILGWU (the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union). The show ran two years. We bet it was a stitch
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| 1939:
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The play "Key Largo," by Maxwell Anderson, opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York
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| 1940:
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Actor Bruce Lee (Liu Yuen Kam) born
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| 1942:
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Rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix (Foxy Lady, Purple Haze) born
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| 1942:
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During World War Two, the French navy at Toulon scuttled its ships and submarines to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis
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| 1944:
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Eddie Rabbitt born
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| 1948:
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Actor James Avery born
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| 1950:
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Swimmer Hans Fassnacht born
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| 1952:
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Football player Ike Harris born
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| 1953:
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Russian rock musician Boris Grebenshikov born
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| 1953:
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Playwright Eugene O'Neill died in Boston at age 65
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| 1954:
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Alger Hiss, convicted of being a Soviet spy, is freed after 44 months in prison
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| 1957:
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Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg born
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| 1959:
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Rock musician Charlie Burchill (Simple Minds) born
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| 1962:
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Rock musician Charlie Benante (Anthrax) born
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| 1962:
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Rock musician Mike Bordin (Faith No More) born
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| 1963:
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Actor Fisher Stevens born
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| 1964:
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Actress Robin Givens (Head of the Class, A Rage in Harlem) born
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| 1967:
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Lyndon Johnson appoints Robert McNamara to presidency of the World Bank
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| 1967:
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Charles DeGaulle vetoes Britains entry into the Common Market again
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| 1967:
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The Association, a California group, earned a gold record for the hit, "Never My Love" on Warner Bros. Records. The group also earned worldwide fame for other hits including "Windy", "Cherish" and "Along Comes Mary."
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| 1970:
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Rapper Skoob (DAS EFX) born
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| 1970:
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Syria joins the pact linking Libya, Egypt and Sudan. history
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| 1970:
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Pope Paul the Sixth, visiting the Philippines, was slightly wounded at the Manila airport by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest
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| 1972:
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Black Entertainment Television host Rachel born
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| 1973:
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The Senate voted 92-to-three to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who'd resigned
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| 1976:
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Actor Jaleel White ("Family Matters") born
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| 1978:
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San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White
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| 1983:
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183 people were killed when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashed near Madrid's Barajas airport
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| 1984:
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The Treasury Department proposed a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. Tax Code
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| 1984:
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Artificial heart recipient William J. Schroeder speaking for the first time since the implant, asked for a can of beer -- a wish that was granted two days later
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| 1985:
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The British House of Commons approved the Anglo-Irish accord giving Dublin a consultative role in the governing of British-ruled Northern Ireland
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| 1986:
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Published reports said the FBI was investigating whether fired National Security Council aide Oliver L. North had destroyed papers from his personal files as the Iran-Contra affair began to unravel
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| 1986:
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Lou Holtz signed a five-year pact to lead the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame. Holtz left the head coaching job with the Golden Gophers of the University of Minnesota to take the position
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| 1987:
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French hostages Jean-Louis Normandin and Roger Auque were freed by their pro-Iranian captors in West Beirut, Lebanon
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| 1988:
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The United States was hit by a flood of worldwide criticism for its refusal a day earlier to allow PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat to address the United Nations
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| 1988:
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Actor John Carradine, known for his roles in horror films, died in Milan, Italy, at age 82
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| 1989:
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107 people were killed when a bomb blamed on drug traffickers destroyed a Colombian Boeing 727
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| 1989:
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University of Chicago doctors implanted part of a woman's liver in her 21-month-old daughter in the nation's first living donor liver transplant
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| 1990:
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British Conservatives chose John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher as party leader. Subsequently, he would be named prime minister
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| 1990:
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The Senate Armed Services Committee opened hearings on the Persian Gulf crisis
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| 1991:
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Israel signaled its anger with what it regarded as the high-handedness of the United States by rejecting an invitation to attend Mideast peace talks in Washington on Dec. 4
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| 1991:
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The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution paving the way for the establishment of a UN peacekeeping operation in war-ravaged Yugoslavia
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| 1992:
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President-elect Clinton met for more than an hour with former President Reagan in Los Angeles
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| 1992:
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Rebel forces in Venezuela tried but failed to overthrow President Carlos Andres Perez for the second time in ten months
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| 1993:
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In his weekly radio address, President Clinton said enacting comprehensive anti-crime legislation was the first priority for 1994, saying, "We have to be concerned that in both our cities and our rural areas, the value of life has been cheapened."
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| 1994:
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Defense Secretary William Perry, appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," suggested the Bosnian government had lost the war in the Balkans, and acknowledged NATO was powerless to stop the Serbs
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| 1995:
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President Clinton presented his case for sending 20,000 U.S. troops on a peacekeeping mission to Bosnia, saying in a prime-time address that "in the choice between peace and war, America must choose peace.""
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| 1995:
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House Speaker Newt Gingrich ruled out a 1996 presidential run
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| 1996:
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A federal judge blocked enforcement of a California initiative to dismantle affirmative action, saying civil rights groups had a "strong probability" of proving it unconstitutional
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| 1996:
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Evan C. Hunziker, an American jailed by North Korea on spy charges, was set free, ending a three-month ordeal
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| 1997:
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A day after saying it would open its presidential palaces to international observers, Iraq declared that UN weapons monitors were not included in the invitation
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| 1997:
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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York was marred when a gust of wind knocked part of a lamppost onto a 34-year-old woman, fracturing her skull and leaving her in a coma for almost a month
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| 1998:
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President Clinton wrote the House Judiciary Committee that his testimony in the Monica Lewinsky affair was "not false and misleading."
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| 1999:
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Northern Ireland's biggest party, the Ulster Unionists, cleared the way for the speedy formation of an unprecedented Protestant-Catholic administration
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| 2003:
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President George W. Bush spends Thanksgiving with U.S. troops in Iraq
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| 2005:
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One third of English pubs allowed to extend their opening hours
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| 2005:
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Four US soldiers face disciplinary action for burning Taliban soldiers' bodies
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| 2006:
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John Key new leader of New Zealand National Party
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| 2006:
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Eden Park to be upgraded for New Zealand's Rugby World Cup
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| 2006:
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Rajnath re-elected as chief of Bharatiya Janata Party
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| 2006:
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Spanish cyclist Isaac Gálvez dies after crash in Ghent, Belgium
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| 2006:
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Korea: Multilateral negotiations may resume soon
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| 2006:
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Canadian Cabinet Minister resigns over Harper's Quebec motion
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| 2006:
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Labor government retains power in Victorian election
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| 2006:
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Greg Chappell under fire for his remarks on Indian MPs
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| 2007:
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Students protest Holocaust denier's appearance at Oxford debate
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| 2007:
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Second night of rioting in Paris suburb, Villiers-le-Bel
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| 2007:
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Middle East peace conference begins in Annapolis, Maryland
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| 2007:
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UK prime minister says donations were not lawfully declared
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| 2007:
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NFL: Redskins' Sean Taylor dies
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| 2007:
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Mascots for Vancouver 2010 Olympics based on native mythology
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| 2008:
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Standoffs remain after Mumbai attacks
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| 2008:
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UK coach driver jailed for triple-death crash near London
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| 2008:
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Airbus A320 crashes off French coast, 7 missing or dead
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| 2009:
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Golfer Tiger Woods injured in car crash
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| 2009:
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UN nuclear chief says negotiations with Iran at 'dead end'
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| 2009:
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77 dead after flooding in Saudi Arabia
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| 2010:
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Scottish judge criticises medical care of murdered baby
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| 2010:
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Qantas says A380 aircraft are safe to fly after 'serious' incident
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| 2010:
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Saudi Arabia announces 149 al-Qaeda arrests in last eight months
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| 2010:
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Teen charged over 'bomb attempt' at US Christmas celebration
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| 2010:
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Wikileaks to release thousands of secret documents; 'international embarrassment' likely
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| 2011:
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Borneo bridge collapse: death toll reaches four, many remain missing
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| 2011:
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GOP presidential candidate Gary Johnson considers Libertarian Party run
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Martial artist, instructor, actor and inventor of Jeet Kune Do, Bruce Lee born in San Francisco, California
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist and singer, Jimi Hendrix born in Seattle, Washington
Actress and environmental activist, Patricia McPherson born in Oak Harbor, Washington
Inventor, educator, comedian and actor, Bill Nye "the Science Guy" born in Washington, DC
Actress Robin Givens born in New York City
Screenwriter and actor, Jaleel White born in Pasadena, California