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| 1327:
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Coronation of Edward III as King of England
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| 1328:
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Death of Charles IV, "the Fair," King of France
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| 1500:
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The city of Milan rebels against the French occupation
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| 1552:
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Sir Edward Coke, English jurist, politician, defender of common law born
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| 1587:
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Elizabeth I, Queen of England, signs the Warrant of Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
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| 1633:
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The codification of the Virginia tobacco laws takes place
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| 1644:
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Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, Italy, violin-maker born
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| 1788:
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Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patented the steamboat
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| 1790:
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The Supreme Court of the United States convened in New York City for its first session
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| 1793:
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France declared war on England and Holland
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| 1840:
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The world's first dental college opened in Baltimore, Maryland
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| 1859:
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Composer Victor Herbert (Babes in Toyland, Naughty Marietta, Ah Sweet Mystery of Life) born
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| 1861:
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Texas voted to secede from the Union
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| 1862:
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"The Battle Hymn of the Republic" was first published in "Atlantic Monthly". The lyric was the work of Julia Ward Howe
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| 1867:
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Bricklayers start working 8-hour days
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| 1878:
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First woman elected to the U.S. Senate, Hattie Caraway (Arkansas) born
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| 1884:
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The first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary was published
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| 1890:
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"Semi-barbaric." That was the word used to describe Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony in the New York Post. The Post reviewer went on to describe the symphony's orchestral colors as "decidedly too loud."
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| 1893:
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Inventor Thomas A. Edison completed work on the world's first motion picture studio, his "Black Maria," in West Orange, New Jersey
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| 1894:
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The father of stride piano James P. Johnson. Through the 1920s, Johnson recorded with a stream of stars ranging from Jabbo Smith to Bessie Smith. born
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| 1895:
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Film director (Sean O'Feeney) John Ford (The Informer, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, The Quiet Man) born
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| 1896:
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Puccini's opera "La Boheme" premiered in Turin
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| 1898:
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What's believed by some to be the first auto insurance policy was issued by the Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, to a Dr. Truman J. Martin of Buffalo, New York. He paid $11.25 for the policy, which gave him $5,000 in liability coverage
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| 1901:
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American actor Clark Gable born
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| 1902:
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Poet Langston Hughes (Way Down South) born
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| 1902:
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U.S. Secretary of State John Hay protests Russian privileges in China as a violation of the "open door policy."
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| 1904:
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Ellington band trombonist Joe ``Tricky Sam'' Nanton. Nobody ever played the plunger mute better on trombone. born
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| 1904:
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Humorist S. (Sidney) J. Perelman (Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, One Touch of Venus, Strictly from Hunger, Westward Ha!, Around the World in 80 Clichs) born
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| 1904:
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Britain and France agree to stay neutral if Japan and Russia go to war
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| 1905:
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Germany contests French rule in Morocco
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| 1908:
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King Carlos I of Portugal was assassinated together with his son in Lisbon
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| 1909:
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U.S. troops leave Cuba after installing Jose Miguel Gomez as president
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| 1915:
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Passport photographs were first required in Great Britain
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| 1919:
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The first Miss America was crowned, not in Atlantic City, but in New York City. Edith Hyde, it was discovered, was not a Miss. She was Mrs. Tod Robbins, the mother of two children
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| 1920:
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police came into existence
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| 1920:
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The 1st armored car is introduced
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| 1924:
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The British government recognizes the U.S.S.R
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| 1928:
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Actor Stuart Whitman born
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| 1931:
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Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin born
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| 1934:
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Singer Bob Shane (Group Greenback Dollar, Where Have All the Flowers Gone) born
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| 1936:
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Actor Stuart Whitman (Cimarron Strip, The Seekers, Trial by Jury, Private Wars, Omega Cop, Delta Fox, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Rio Conchos, The Longest Day, Ten North Frederick, Silver Lode) born
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| 1937:
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Singer Don Everly (Group Phil: Wake Up Little Susie, Bye Bye Love, Cathy's Clown, All I Have To Do Is Dream) born
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| 1937:
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Actor Garrett Morris (Saturday Night Live, The Anderson Tapes, Almost Blue) born
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| 1937:
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Singer Ray Sawyer (Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show) born
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| 1938:
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Actor Sherman Hemsley (The Jeffersons, All in the Family, Dinosaurs, Amen, Mr. Nanny, Love at First Bite) born
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| 1939:
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Bluegrass singer Del McCoury born
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| 1939:
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Jazz musician Joe Sample born
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| 1939:
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Benny Goodman and his orchestra recorded "And the Angels Sing", on Victor Records
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| 1940:
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Hockey player Wayne Rivers born
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| 1940:
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Frank Sinatra cut his first record with the Tommy Dorsey Band. The song was ``The Sky Fell Down.''
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| 1942:
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Comedian Terry Jones (Monty Python series; director Python series, Personal Services) born
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| 1942:
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Vidkun Quisling became prime minister of Norway
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| 1942:
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The U.S. Pacific fleet batters Japanese bases in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands
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| 1943:
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American tanks and infantry are battered at German positions in Fais pass
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| 1943:
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One of America's most highly decorated military units of World War Two, the 442d Regimental Combat Team, made up almost entirely of Japanese-Americans, was authorized
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| 1944:
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Actor Dennis Farina (Get Shorty, Street Crimes, The Hillside Strangler, Code of Silence, Crime Story) born
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| 1944:
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U.S. forces take the beaches on the Marshall Islands
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| 1945:
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U.S. Rangers and Filipino guerrillas rescue 513 American survivors of the Bataan "death march"
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| 1946:
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Norwegian statesman Trygve Lie was chosen to be the first secretary-general of the United Nations
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| 1951:
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Third A-bomb tests are completed in the desert of Nevada
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| 1952:
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Singer Rick James born
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| 1954:
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Actor-writer-producer Bill Mumy (Palm Springs Weekend, Twilight Zone-The Movie, Lost in Space, The Rockford Files, Sunshine, Babylon 5) born
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| 1954:
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Rock musician Mike Campbell (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) born
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| 1956:
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Rock singer Exene Cervenka (X) born
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| 1958:
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Egypt and Syria proclaimed the union of their two countries in a state to be known as "The United Arab Republic."
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| 1960:
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Four black college students began a sit-in protest at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, where they'd been refused service
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| 1963:
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Kamuzu Banda was sworn in as the first prime minister of Nyasaland (Malawi)
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| 1964:
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President Lyndon B. Johnson rejects de Gaulle's plan for a neutral Vietnam
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| 1965:
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Princess Stephanie of Monaco born
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| 1965:
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Actress Sherilyn Fenn (Twin Peaks, Fatal Instinct, Of Mice and Men, Diary of a Hitman, Wild at Heart, The Wild Life) born
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| 1965:
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Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and 770 others are arrested in protest against voter discrimination in Alabama
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| 1968:
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Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis Presley born
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| 1968:
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During the Vietnam War, Saigon's police chief (Nguyen Ngoc Loan) executed a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head in a scene captured in a famous news photograph
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| 1968:
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South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu declares martial law
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| 1968:
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Richard M. Nixon enters the presidential race
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| 1970:
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Comedian Pauly Shore born
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| 1971:
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The soundtrack album from the movie, "Love Story", starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali McGraw, with music by Frances Lai, was certified as a gold record
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| 1971:
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Evonne Goolagong scored her first major senior singles victory as she defeated Margaret Court in the finals of the Victorian Open, played in Melbourne, Australia
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| 1974:
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More than 220 people died in a fire in a newly built skyscraper in Sao Paulo, Brazil
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| 1975:
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Rapper Big Boi (Outkast) born
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| 1979:
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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini received a tumultuous welcome in Tehran as he ended nearly 15 years of exile
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| 1982:
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Actor Jarrett Lennon born
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| 1986:
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Two days of anti-government riots in Port-au-Prince result in 14 dead
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| 1987:
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Terry Williams of Los Gatos, California, won the largest slot machine payoff to that time, winning $4.9 million after getting four lucky 7s on a machine in Reno, Nevada
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| 1988:
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Denying any wrongdoing, Attorney General Edwin Meese the Third said he didn't recall a portion of a memo from a friend concerning a proposed Iraqi pipeline project that referred to a plan to bribe Israeli officials
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| 1989:
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In his first diplomatic mission of the Bush administration, Vice President Quayle began a trip to Venezuela and El Salvador
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| 1990:
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East Germany's Communist premier, Hans Modrow, appealed for negotiations with West Germany to forge a "united fatherland."
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| 1991:
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Thirty-five people were killed when a US-Air jetliner crashed atop a commuter plane on a runway at Los Angeles International Airport
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| 1991:
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South African President F.W. de Klerk said he would repeal all remaining apartheid laws
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| 1992:
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George Bush and Boris Yeltsin held their first meeting since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The two presidents vowed to work together to democratize Russia
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| 1992:
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Ron Carey was sworn in as the first Teamsters president elected by the union's rank-and-file
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| 1992:
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Federal judge Irving R. Kaufman, who sentenced Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death, died in New York at age 81
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| 1993:
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Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin announced his country would repatriate about 100 Palestinians deported to Lebanon, an offer rejected by the deportees
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| 1993:
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Eduardo Mata and the Dallas Symphony recorded on Dorian. It's an all-Respighi program, "The Pines of Rome," "Roman Festivals," and a far less known piece called "Brazilian Impressions."
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| 1994:
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United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali backed the use of air power in Bosnia
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| 1994:
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Jeff Gillooly, Tonya Harding's ex-husband, pleaded guilty in Portland, Oregon, to taking part in the attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan. Gillooly struck a plea bargain under which he confessed to racketeering charges in exchange for testimony implicating Harding
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| 1995:
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Communist Vietnam raised its red flag in Washington for the first time 20 years after the end of the Vietnam War as the two old foes began a new chapter, opening liaison offices in each others' capital
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| 1995:
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The Federal Reserve boosted interest rates by 0.5 percent, the seventh rate hike in a year. House Republicans pushed through a bill restricting the federal government's ability to impose unfunded mandates on states
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| 1996:
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Both houses of Congress voted overwhelmingly to rewrite the 61-year-old Communications Act, freeing the exploding television, telephone and home computer industries to jump into each other's fields
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| 1996:
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Poland's president named Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, an ex-communist leader who had often stood outside his dominant party's mainstream, as prime minister to lead the country out of political crisis
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| 1997:
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Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori said he would open a "preliminary dialogue" with rebels holding 72 hostages in Lima, but again rejected their main demand that the government release their jailed comrades
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| 1997:
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Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Herb Caen died in San Francisco at age 80
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| 1998:
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With Israeli and Palestinian leaders digging in their heels, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright conceded she'd made little progress in a whirlwind visit to the region to prod the two sides closer together
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| 1999:
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With the promise of huge federal surpluses, President Clinton proposed a $1.77 trillion budget for fiscal 2000
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| 1999:
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Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky gave a deposition that was videotaped for senators weighing impeachment charges against President Clinton
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| 2000:
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Senator John McCain defeated Texas Governor George W. Bush to win the Republican New Hampshire primary; Vice President Al Gore edged Bill Bradley to win the Democratic primary
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| 2005:
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Mother of first Australian soldier killed in Iraq expresses anger
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| 2005:
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US guards kill four in Iraqi prison riot
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| 2005:
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Poll shows Romanians are optimistic about current government
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| 2005:
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Blair says Iraq election was blow against global terrorism
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| 2005:
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Iraqis vote in massive numbers
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| 2005:
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Venezuela-Colombia crisis:Castro intervenes, Chavez and Uribe scheduled to meet
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| 2005:
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Colombia releases detailed report about the FARC
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| 2005:
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Brazil forbids previous release of statistical data
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| 2005:
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Australian Prime Minister to visit Aceh
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| 2005:
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Microsoft releases new MSN Search
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| 2005:
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Human rights group critical of US opposition to ICC in Darfur
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| 2005:
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Nepal’s King Gyanendra dismisses the government, claims power for himself
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| 2006:
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Don Brash gives third Orewa speech
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| 2006:
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AT&T sued over NSA eavesdropping
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| 2006:
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President Bush delivers State of the Union Address
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| 2006:
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Online retailers in Canada experience strong growth
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| 2006:
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Scientists shocked at Great Barrier Reef bleaching
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| 2006:
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Rumsfeld explains renaming of war
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| 2006:
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Australia to send 200 more troops to Afghanistan
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| 2007:
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US Singer Brandy involved in fatal car crash; sued for $50 million
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| 2007:
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January floods wreak havoc in Singapore
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| 2007:
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Microsoft to establish its R&D center in Shanghai
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| 2007:
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US minimum wage moves to Congressional negotiations
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| 2007:
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Sony may cut PS3 prices
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| 2008:
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Microsoft bids $44 billion for Yahoo!
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| 2008:
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Vermont town to vote on charging US President, Vice President of war crimes
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| 2008:
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Taipei Game Show review: Variations differ from past years
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| 2008:
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International manhunt for alleged kidney harvester
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| 2008:
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Chad military clashes with rebels in N'djamena
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| 2008:
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High level al-Qaeda leader reported dead
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| 2008:
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Envelopes containing white powder sent to Church of Scientology locations in southern California, USA
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| 2009:
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Fast track offer if Iceland applies to join EU
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| 2009:
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New Icelandic government to take office today
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| 2009:
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Cyprus detains weapon-laden ship
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| 2009:
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National Guard mobilized in Kentucky ice storm aftermath
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| 2009:
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15 killed and 22 injured after fire in Chinese bar
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| 2009:
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Israeli military launches airstrikes into Gaza Strip
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| 2009:
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Derailments close Australian rail routes
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| 2009:
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British PM condemns walkouts
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| 2009:
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Tarja Turunen reveals working title for new album
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| 2010:
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US nationals arrested for alleged abduction of Haitian children
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| 2010:
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Ban Ki-Moon says Cyprus solution "possible"
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| 2010:
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Building collapses, leaving four dead in Hong Kong
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| 2010:
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Kidnapped British couple "need urgent help"
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| 2010:
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Cricket: Caloundra defeat Glasshouse in Sunshine Coast, Queensland division one limited overs final
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| 2010:
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Moscow detains anti-Kremlin protesters
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| 2011:
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Egypt protests: Army say they will not use force on demonstrators as Mubarak announces cabinet
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| 2012:
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California teacher arrested after photos indicated lewd acts on children
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Actor and comedian, Garrett Morris born in New Orleans, Louisiana
Actor, poet, writer and comedian, Terry Jones born in Colwyn Bay, Wales
Stage and screen actress, Elisabeth Sladen born in Liverpool, England
Singer and songwriter, Lisa Marie Presley born in Memphis, Tennessee