| 823:
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Lothair I crowned Holy Roman Emperor
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| 1208:
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Death of Quetzalcoatl
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| 1270:
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Rebbenu Moses b. Nahman (Nahmanides), talmudist, dies
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| 1328:
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Death of Sir Othon de Grandson
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| 1355:
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Charles IV crowned Holy Roman Emperor
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| 1419:
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Death of St. Vincent Ferrer
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| 1494:
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The Santa Maria del Fiore church in Florence is struck by lightning
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| 1534:
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Death of Jan Mathys
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| 1588:
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English political philosopher, Thomas Hobbes born
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| 1603:
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James VI and I, King of England and Scotland, leaves Edinburgh for London
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| 1605:
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Death of John Stowe
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| 1605:
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Stephen Bosckay is elected Prince of Transylvania
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| 1614:
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American Indian princess Pocahontas married English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia
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| 1621:
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The "Mayflower" sailed from Plymouth, Massachusetts, on a return trip to England
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| 1649:
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Founder of Yale University, philanthropist, Elihu Yale born. Although born in America, Yale was taken to England by his family at the age of three, and he never returned.
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| 1649:
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John Winthrop, colonizer and first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company dies
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| 1725:
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Italian adventurer Giovanni Casanova born
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| 1726:
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Benjamin Harrison, signer of the Declaration of Independence born
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| 1784:
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Louis Spohr, a contemporary of Beethoven who was almost as big in his day, was born in the German town of Brunswick. He became a touring violin virtuoso, and married a harpist. He never stopped conducting and was a champion of Mozart's music
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| 1792:
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George Washington cast the first presidential veto, rejecting a congressional measure for apportioning representatives among the states
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| 1806:
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Isaac Quintard of Stanfield, Connecticut, patented the cider mill
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| 1856:
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Educator Booker T. Washington. He was the first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Institute. born
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| 1869:
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Daniel Bakeman, the last surviving soldier of the Revolutionary War, died at the age of 109
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| 1874:
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Johan Strauss's Die Fledemaus premieres in Vienna
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| 1887:
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In Tuscumbia, Alabama, teacher Anne Sullivan taught her blind and deaf pupil, Helen Keller, the meaning of the word "water" as spelled out in the Manual Alphabet
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| 1887:
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British historian Lord Acton wrote, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
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| 1892:
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Walter H. Coe of Providence, Rhode Island, patented gold leaf in rolls
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| 1895:
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Playwright Oscar Wilde lost his criminal libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry, who'd accused the writer of homosexual practices
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| 1900:
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Actor Spencer Tracy was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Tracy received two consecutive Academy Awards for best actor.
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| 1908:
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Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan born
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| 1908:
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Actress Bette Davis was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. She was is best known for her brilliant and intense characterizations of strong women.
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| 1916:
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Actor Gregory Peck born
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| 1920:
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Novelist Arthur Hailey born
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| 1922:
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Actress Gale Storm born
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| 1923:
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Firestone Tire and Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio, began the first regular production of "balloon" tires
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| 1926:
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Director Roger Corman born
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| 1928:
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Singer (The Platters) Tony Williams born
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| 1929:
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Actor Nigel Hawthorne born
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| 1931:
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Country music producer Cowboy Jack Clement born
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| 1932:
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Singer Billy Bland born
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| 1933:
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The first operation to remove a lung was performed at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri
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| 1934:
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Impressionist Frank Gorshin born
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| 1937:
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The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Colin L. Powell born
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| 1939:
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Country singer Tommy Cash born
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| 1941:
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Actor Michael Moriarty (Law & Order) born
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| 1942:
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Singer Allan Clarke (The Hollies) born
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| 1943:
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Actor Max Gail born
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| 1946:
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Actress Jane Asher born
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| 1946:
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Charles Ives, decades after he wrote his Third Symphony, the work was finally performed, and won him a Pulitzer. Ives, ever gracious, replied, "Prizes are for boys. I'm grown up!"
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| 1946:
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Samuel Barber's Cello Concerto was premiered
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| 1949:
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Dr. Judith Resnik was born. Dr. Resnik was the second American woman in space. The 36-year-old mission specialist, died on board the space shuttle Challenger January 28, 1986.
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| 1950:
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Singer Agnetha Faltskog (ABBA) born
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| 1951:
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death in New York for stealing atomic secrets for the Soviet Union
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| 1955:
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Richard J. Daley was elected mayor of Chicago, Illinois, starting one of the most colorful political careers in history
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| 1957:
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Vickie Anne Thompson born in Norfolk, Virginia
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| 1964:
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Army General Douglas MacArthur died in Washington, D.C. He was 84
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| 1965:
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"My Fair Lady" won the Academy Award for best picture, and one of its stars, Rex Harrison, was named best actor; Julie Andrews won best actress for "Mary Poppins."
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| 1966:
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Musician (Pearl Jam) Mike McCready born
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| 1967:
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Country singer Troy Gentry born
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| 1968:
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Singer Paula Cole born
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| 1968:
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Violence erupted in several American cities in response to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr
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| 1975:
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Nationalist Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek died at age 87
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| 1976:
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Reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes died of kidney failure during a flight from Acapulco, Mexico, to Houston. He was 72
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| 1983:
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France expelled about 50 Soviet diplomats and officials, accusing them of trying to steal military secrets. The Soviet embassy called the expulsions an unjustified political act
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| 1984:
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Basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of the LA Lakers became the highest-scoring player in NBA history. He reached 31,419 career points in a game vs. the Utah Jazz. The record was previously held by Wilt Chamberlain
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| 1985:
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Japan notified the United States it would end all commercial whaling by 1988
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| 1985:
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Radio stations around the world interrupted their programming for a simultaneous Good Friday broadcast of "We Are The World." It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie and recorded by 46 artists for the Africa Relief Fund
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| 1986:
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An American soldier and a Turkish woman were killed in the bombing of the La Bell discotheque in West Berlin., The incident prompted the U.S. air raid on Libya a week later
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| 1987:
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President Reagan arrived in Canada for a summit with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
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| 1987:
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Fox Broadcasting Company made its prime-time TV debut by airing the premiere episodes of "Married ... With Children" and "The Tracey Ullman Show" three times each
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| 1988:
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Governor Michael S. Dukakis won a solid victory in Wisconsin's Democratic presidential primary, while on the Republican side, Vice President George Bush overwhelmed his opposition
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| 1988:
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A 15-day hijacking ordeal began as gunmen forced a Kuwait Airways jumbo jet to land in Iran
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| 1989:
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Joseph Hazelwood, former captain of the Exxon Valdez supertanker that leaked nearly 11 million gallons of oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound, surrendered to authorities in New York
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| 1989:
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The government of Poland signed an agreement restoring the independent labor movement Solidarity after a seven-year ban
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| 1990:
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The United States and the Soviet Union announced that President Bush and Soviet President Gorbachev would hold their first full-scale summit in the United States in late May-early June
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| 1991:
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Former Texas Sen. John Tower, his daughter and 21 other people were killed in a commuter plane crash near Brunswick, Georgia
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| 1991:
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The space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on a mission that included the deploying of the second of NASA's Great Observatories
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| 1991:
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The government reported the nation's jobless rate surged to 6.8 percent in March
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| 1991:
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President Bush orders the US Air Force transport planes to drop supplies to Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq
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| 1992:
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A medical student (Suada Dilberovic) became the first fatality of war in Bosnia-Herzegovina as Serb nationalists began forcibly opposing the republic's secession from Yugoslavia
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| 1992:
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In Washington DC, a crowd estimated by authorities at half a million marched in support of abortion rights
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| 1992:
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Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton died in Little Rock, Arkansas, at age 74
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| 1992:
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Peru's President Alberto Fujimori suspended his country's constitution and dissolved Congress
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| 1993:
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The European Community called for more and tighter sanctions on Serbia to try to force Belgrade's allies in Bosnia to accept a peace plan
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| 1993:
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North Carolina defeated Michigan 77-to-71 to win its first NCAA basketball championship in eleven years
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| 1994:
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President Clinton presided over a 90-minute town hall meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, in which he called himself the victim of "false charge" in connection with the Whitewater controversy
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| 1994:
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The Commerce Department reported that the Index of Leading Economic Indicators dropped one-tenth of one percentage point in February
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| 1995:
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The House of Representatives passed, 246-188, a tax-cut bill, the final major item in the Republican's "Contract With America."
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| 1996:
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Accompanied by six children who survived the Oklahoma City bombing, President Clinton bowed his head in silent prayer at the site where 168 people were killed almost a year earlier
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| 1997:
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Allen Ginsberg, the counterculture guru who shattered conventions as poet laureate of the Beat Generation, died in New York City at age 70
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| 1998:
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In Leeds, England, environment chiefs from the world's top eight industrialized nations announced plans to curb the smuggling of hazardous waste, endangered species and substances that damage the ozone layer
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| 1999:
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In Laramie, Wyoming, Russell Henderson pleaded guilty to kidnapping and felony murder in the death of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student
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| 1999:
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NATO missiles and aircraft blasted Serbian targets inside Yugoslavia for a 13th straight day
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| 1999:
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The United Nations suspended sanctions against Libya after Moammar Gadhafi surrendered two suspected Libyan intelligence agents for trial in the 1988 Pan Am bombing
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| 2000:
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Ending a two-year investigation, an independent counsel cleared Labor Secretary Alexis Herman of allegations that she'd solicited $250,000 in illegal campaign contributions
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| 2000:
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Yoshiro Mori took over as Japan's new prime minister, succeeding Keizo Obuchi, who'd been felled by a stroke
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| 2001:
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A Dutch driver is convicted of manslaugher and sentenced to 14 years in prison for the deaths of 58 Chinese immigrants who suffocated in his truck in Dover, England
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| 2005:
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Nigerian Housing Minister fired in anti-corruption drive
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| 2005:
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Advocacy groups complain about 4parents.gov sex-ed website
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| 2005:
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China censors, arrests Catholics in wake of Pope's death
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| 2005:
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Maiyo and Romanova triumph in Charleston's Cooper River Bridge Run
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| 2005:
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India-China border talks resume
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| 2005:
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Triple limb-reattachment fails - boy loses foot
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| 2005:
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Abu Ghraib prison camp struck by tractor bomb
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| 2005:
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UK Prime Minister sets General Election date
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| 2005:
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Arinze and Tettamanzi equal favorites as new Pope
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| 2005:
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China responds to US plan for import quotas
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| 2005:
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Owner of Wendy's chili finger still not found
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| 2005:
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Talk-therapy can make a difference in early treatment of severe depression
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| 2005:
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Miles-long queue to view Pope John Paul one last time
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| 2005:
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China to sell warships to Pakistan
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| 2005:
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Jeter saves the day for the Yankees
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| 2005:
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Taiwan’s Blue Camp pays respects on the thirtieth anniversary of the passing of Chiang Kai-shek
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| 2005:
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National Conference in the Norwegian Socialist Left Party
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| 2005:
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National Conference in the Norwegian Centre Party
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| 2006:
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Six Papuans reported camping on Australian island
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| 2006:
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Apple releases program to limit iPod volume
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| 2006:
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University of Florida wins NCAA basketball championship
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| 2006:
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U.S. jury decision moves Moussaoui closer to execution
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| 2006:
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Homeland Security spokesman arrested for trying to seduce a minor
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| 2006:
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Australian PM announces $1.8 billion mental health plan
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| 2006:
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Guinea's PM fired by President
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| 2006:
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Thaksin departure doesn't signal end to Thai political crisis
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| 2006:
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Cats could play significant role in transmitting bird flu to humans, say Dutch researchers
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| 2006:
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Apple unveils "Boot Camp" allowing Windows to work on Macs
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| 2006:
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Interview with Glen Stollery of ScienTOMogy.info
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| 2007:
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Retired hockey enforcer Tie Domi to sue coach of son's team
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| 2007:
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MLB: Twins defeat Orioles 7-2, sweep series
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| 2007:
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NCAA Football: Grambling State legend Eddie Robinson dies
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| 2007:
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British navy personnel back home
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| 2007:
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Keith Richards denies reports that he snorted his father's ashes
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| 2007:
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MLB: Pirates complete sweep of Astros
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| 2007:
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MLB: White Sox defeat Indians 4-3 following hit batter
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| 2007:
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OECD releases report on New Zealand's environmental performance
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| 2007:
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NHL: Carolina's postseason hopes end
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| 2007:
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Cruise ship sinks off Greek coast, two missing
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| 2007:
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UEFA Cup: quarter-final first leg round up
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| 2008:
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FA Cup: Portsmouth defeat West Brom, advance to final
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| 2008:
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Family of 'murdered' UK teenager reacts to death
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| 2008:
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Steve Sinnott, leader of the National Union of Teachers, dies aged 56
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| 2008:
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Grand National won by 'Comply or Die'
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| 2008:
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Olympic torch arrives in London
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| 2008:
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MLS: Toronto FC at D.C. United
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| 2008:
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Independent presidential candidates debate this weekend
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| 2008:
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Woolly mammoth demise may have been result of climate change and overhunting
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| 2008:
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Bristol Central Library closed after fire
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| 2009:
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Massive ice shelf expected to break away from Antarctica
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| 2009:
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North Korea launches rocket
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| 2009:
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Welsh University announces intelligent robot conducting biology experiments
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| 2009:
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Five children found dead in Graham, Washington
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| 2010:
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South African government appeals for calm after death of white supremacist
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| 2010:
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38 people die in suicide attack during political rally in Pakistan
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| 2010:
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Gunmen kill 25 in Iraqi village
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| 2010:
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Pakistan: Peshawar hit by triple bomb blasts
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| 2011:
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UN attacks Gbagbo military positions in Ivory Coast
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| 2011:
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Serial killer suspected loose in New York, more bodies found
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| 2012:
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netball ANZ Championship kicks off
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| 2012:
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Last Ottoman dies, aged 91
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| 2012:
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Former US Sheriff of the Year jailed in drugs-for-sex case
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History
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Thomas Hobbes, who wrote that legitimate political power must be representative and based on the consent of the people, born in Wiltshire, England
Academy Award winning actor, Spencer Tracy born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Academy Award winning actress, Bette Davis born in Lowell, Massachusetts
Academy Award winning actor, Gregory Peck born in La Jolla, California
Skater, dancer, actress and singer, Gale Storm born Josephine Owaissa Cottle in Bloomington, Texas
Soldier, actor, comedian, and impressionist, Frank Gorshin born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
National Security Advisor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Secretary of State, General Colin Luther Powell born in New York City
Electrical engineer, biomedical engineer, and astronaut, Dr Judith Resnik born in Akron, Ohio