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Death of St. Athanasius
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| 903:
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Death of Boris I, Tsar of Bulgaria and Orthodox saint
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| 1389:
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Richard II, King of England, takes power from his Council
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| 1391:
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Richard Brierly and Adam Clerk fight a judicial duel concerning the robberies in September, 1390, of Geoffrey Chaucer
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| 1459:
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Death of St. Antonius
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| 1497:
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John and Sebastian Cabot set sail from England
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| 1519:
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John Jewel, witchhunter born
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| 1519:
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Artist Leonardo da Vinci died at Cloux, France
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| 1526:
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Protestant League of German princes established
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| 1551:
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William Camden, English historian, antiquarian born
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| 1559:
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John Knox returns to Scotland
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| 1568:
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Escape of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, from Loch Leven
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| 1598:
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Treaty of Vervains
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| 1601:
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Athanasius Kircher, German scientist, inventor born
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| 1641:
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Marriage of Princess Mary of England to Prince William of Orange
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| 1648:
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Blasphemy Act is passed at Westminster
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| 1660:
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Alessandro Scarlatti, father of famous Domenico, was born in Palermo. Alessandro Scarlatti was a pioneer of the Italian-style overture, and he influenced German music by giving lessons to Hasse and Quantz. born
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| 1670:
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The Hudson Bay Company was chartered by England's King Charles the Second
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| 1729:
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Catherine the Great, empress of Russia born
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| 1837:
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Gen. Henry Martyn Robert, author of "Robert's Rules of Order" born
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| 1863:
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Confederate Gen. Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson was mistakenly shot by his own soldiers. He died eight days later
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| 1885:
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Good Housekeeping magazine was first published by Clark W. Bryan in Holyoke, Massachusetts
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| 1887:
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Hannibal W. Goodwin of Newark, New Jersey, applied for a patent for celluloid photographic film - the film from which movies are shown
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| 1890:
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The Oklahoma Territory was organized
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| 1892:
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German air ace Manfred Richtofen - "The Red Baron" - was born. He shot down 80 Allied planes before being hit himself. The record hit, "Snoopy vs. The Red Baron" by Royal Guardsmen was inspired by him.
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| 1895:
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Broadway composer and lyricist Lorenz Hart. He collaborated with composer Richard Rogers on songs like "Thou Swell" and "My Funny Valentine." born
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| 1902:
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The first science fiction film was released Moon created by French magician George Melies
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| 1903:
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Child care specialist Dr. Benjamin Spock born
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| 1924:
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Actor Theodore Bikel born
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| 1925:
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Actor Roscoe Lee Browne born
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| 1932:
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Jack Benny's first radio show made its debut on the NBC Blue Network
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| 1933:
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Adolf Hitler banned trade unions in Germany
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| 1935:
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Rock musician Link Wray born
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| 1936:
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"Peter and the Wolf," a symphonic tale for children by Sergei Prokofiev, had its world premiere in Moscow
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| 1937:
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Comedy writer-voice actor Lorenzo Music born
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| 1939:
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Lou Gehrig, New York Yankees first baseman, sets a record for being in most consecutive games. He did not play against the Detroit Tigers, ending his streak of 2,130 consecutive games. Gehrig never played another game
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| 1941:
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Actor David Groh born
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| 1941:
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The Federal Communications Commission approved the regular scheduling of commercial television broadcasts
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| 1943:
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Composer Mickey Bass III born
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| 1945:
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Bianca Jagger born
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| 1945:
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Country singer R.C. Bannon born
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| 1945:
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Rock singer Randy Cain (The Delfonics) "Rudy" born
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| 1945:
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Rock musician Goldy McJohn (Steppenwolf) born
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| 1945:
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The Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin, and the Allies announced the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria
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| 1946:
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Singer Lesley Gore born
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| 1946:
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Rock singer Robert Henritt (The Kinks) "Bob" born
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| 1946:
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Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die
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| 1948:
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Singer-songwriter Larry Gatlin born
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| 1950:
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Rock singer Lou Gramm (Foreigner) born
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| 1952:
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Actress Christine Baranski ("Cybill") born
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| 1953:
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King Hussein formally acceded to the throne in Jordan after his father, King Talal, was deposed. In Iraq, King Feisal II assumed power
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| 1957:
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Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, the controversial Republican senator from Wisconsin, died at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland
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| 1957:
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A composer named Tadeusz Kassern, who grew to love America while working in New York as a Polish cultural attache, committed suicide because he had been refused permission to remain in the US
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| 1960:
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Convicted sex offender and best-selling author Caryl Chessman was executed at San Quentin Prison in California
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| 1962:
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Actress Elizabeth Berridge ("Amadeus;" "The John Larroquette Show") born
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| 1962:
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Country singer Ty Herndon born
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| 1964:
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Northern Dancer, with jockey Bill Hartack, won the Kentucky Derby
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| 1965:
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The "Early Bird" satellite was used to transmit television pictures across the Atlantic
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| 1972:
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After serving 48 years as head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover died in Washington at age 77
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| 1974:
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Former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew was disbarred by the Maryland Court of Appeals, effectively preventing him from practicing law anywhere in the United States
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| 1977:
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Actress Jenna Von Oy ("Blossom") born
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| 1980:
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South African authorities banned Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall," which had become the anthem of black's involved in a strike against government schools
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| 1982:
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In the Falklands War, the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano was sunk by the British submarine Conqueror; more than 350 men were killed
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| 1983:
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A 28-second earthquake measuring 6.7 struck Coalinga, California, killing 47 people and causing damage estimated at $31 million
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| 1984:
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President Reagan, on his way back to Washington after a six-day visit to China, met briefly in Fairbanks, Alaska, with Pope John Paul II, who was on his way to South Korea; it was the second time the two men had met
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| 1984:
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Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov (who some called the conscience of the Soviet Union), began a hunger strike protesting the government's refusal to let his wife, Yelena Bonner, seek medical treatment abroad
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| 1985:
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President Reagan and his host, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, tried to blunt criticism of plans to lay a wreath at the Bitburg military cemetery by inviting relatives of Nazi resisters to join in the ceremony
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| 1986:
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Soviet official Boris N. Yeltsin told West German television that water reservoirs near the crippled Chernobyl nuclear power plant were contaminated with radioactivity
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| 1986:
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The photo essay, "A Day in the Life of America," began as two hundred photojournalists covered the USA to take 35,000 pictures. Only 350 pictures were selected for the coffee-table-book publication
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| 1987:
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"Alysheba" won the 113th running of the Kentucky Derby to earn a record $618,600. "Bet Twice" came in second and "Avies Copy" was third
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| 1988:
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Cincinnati Reds baseball manager Pete Rose was suspended for 30 days by National League president A. Bartlett Giamatti, two days after Rose shoved an umpire during a game won by the New York Mets 6-to-5
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| 1989:
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60 Chinese students rode bicycles into Beijing to present demands for democratic reforms to Chinese leaders
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| 1989:
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At a Baltimore gathering, physicists said they were persuaded that claims of "cold fusion" were based on nothing more than experimental errors by scientists in Utah
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| 1990:
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The African National Congress and the South African government opened their first talks for negotiations to dismantle apartheid
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| 1991:
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U.S., British, French and Dutch forces plunged 50 miles deeper into northern Iraq
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| 1991:
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In his ninth encyclical, Pope John Paul II acknowledged the success of capitalism, but denounced the system for sometimes achieving results at the expense of the poor and of morality
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| 1992:
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Los Angeles began to recover from rioting that had erupted in the wake of the Rodney King-taped beating acquittals; about 2800 National Guard troops patrolled the city while 3200 others stood by
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| 1992:
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Former House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur D. Mills died in Searcy, Arkansas, at age 82
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| 1993:
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Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic approved a plan to end the Bosnian war (however, the Bosnian Serb assembly rejected it four days later)
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| 1993:
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Authorities said they had recovered the remains of David Koresh from the burned-out Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas
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| 1994:
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Nelson Mandela claimed victory in the wake of South Africa's first democratic elections; President F.W. de Klerk acknowledged defeat
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| 1995:
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President Clinton agreed to allow some 20,000 Cubans into the United States after months of detention at Guantanamo Bay, but said any more Cubans who fled their country would be forcibly repatriated
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| 1996:
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The Senate passed, 97-to-3, an immigration bill to tighten border controls, make it tougher for illegal aliens to get US jobs and curtail legal immigrants' access to social services
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| 1997:
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President Clinton and congressional Republicans came to terms on a plan to balance the budget over five years
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| 1997:
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A new national memorial honoring President Franklin D. Roosevelt was officially opened in Washington DC
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| 1997:
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Tony Blair, whose new Labor Party crushed John Major's long-reigning Conservatives in a national election, became at age 44 Britain's youngest prime minister in 185 years
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| 1998:
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In separate radio addresses, President Clinton and congressional Republicans lambasted the Internal Revenue Service and promised more reforms to prevent abuses of the tax-collecting agency in the future
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| 1998:
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"Real Quiet" won the Kentucky Derby
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| 1999:
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Yugoslav authorities handed over to the Rev. Jesse Jackson three American prisoners of war who had been held for a month
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| 1999:
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Actor Oliver Reed died in Malta at age 61
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| 2000:
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Former nurse Christina Marie Riggs was executed by injection in Arkansas for smothering her two young children
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| 2000:
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An investigating panel concluded that Texas A&M University students cut corners in construction and school officials failed to adequately supervise them before a bonfire collapse in November 1999 that killed 12 people
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| 2000:
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Jockey Julie Krone became the first female elected to thoroughbred racing's hall of fame
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| 2005:
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World's oldest seaborne passenger vessel on tour as floating library
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| 2005:
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USA baseball proposes "three strikes" rule for steroid abuse
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| 2005:
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British Skylark rocket makes its final flight
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| 2005:
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Swiss cement company Holcim Ltd sees net profits jump 67%
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| 2006:
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Blogspot ban lifted in Pakistan
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| 2006:
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Legislators in US states call for the impeachment of President Bush
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| 2006:
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Nine alarm fire engulfs Brooklyn warehouses
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| 2006:
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Drug, alcohol, tobacco abuse rising among California teens
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| 2006:
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Blue Security anti-spam community target of large-scale spam attack
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| 2006:
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Inter-Balkan Summit to take place in Thessalonika, Greece
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| 2006:
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Flight from Armenian capital Yerevan crashes near Sochi
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| 2006:
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U.S. government to improve recruitment for civil service jobs
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| 2007:
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Dell to offer Ubuntu Linux on some computers
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| 2007:
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Free to air digital TV switched on in New Zealand
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| 2007:
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Rosslyn Chapel music score 'decoded'
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| 2007:
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AKP calls for early general election in Turkey
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| 2007:
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Private helicopter crashes in UK
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| 2007:
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President Bush and Democrats seek compromise
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| 2007:
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Tomb of former Hungarian communist leader vandalised
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| 2007:
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Delta emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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| 2007:
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Study: Arctic ice could be gone by 2020
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| 2007:
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Pandora radio to prevent access from outside U.S
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| 2007:
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Digg.com suffers user revolt
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| 2007:
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Bloc Québécois raise concern over remark made by hockey player
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| 2008:
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2007/08 UEFA Cup: Fiorentina vs. Rangers F.C
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| 2008:
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Odense SC win Danish squash championship
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| 2008:
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MT duo & Robot Taiwan 2008: Vast opportunities for machinery industry
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| 2008:
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Johnson ousts Livingstone in London mayoral election
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| 2008:
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Results of British local elections announced
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| 2008:
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Southern Sudan's defence minister among those killed in major plane crash
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| 2008:
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Evangelist minister and Islam critic charged with arson in Alabama
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| 2008:
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Bush calls for congress to make more money available for Food Aid
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| 2008:
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New Zealand Music Month kicks off for 2008
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| 2009:
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Obama's 100-day speech warns of U.S.'s problems
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| 2009:
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Increased turnout, reports of violence at worldwide May Day demonstrations
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| 2009:
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1,100 evacuated due to massive Halifax brush fire
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| 2010:
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Bomb scare closes Times Square, New York
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| 2010:
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Oil spill in Gulf of Mexico reported to have reached coast; offshore drilling ban announced by Obama administration
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| 2011:
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Australian cadets face charges over sex abuse
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| 2011:
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Osama bin Laden killed in U.S. operation in Pakistan, White House says
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| 2012:
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Poison control centers educate public on hand sanitizer consumption
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| 2012:
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Hundreds feared dead after Indian ferry boat capsizes
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Olympic Gold Medalist, psychiatrist, pediatrician and author, Dr Benjamin Spock born in New Haven, Connecticut
Social and political activist Bianca Jagger born in Managua, Nicaragua
Songwriter and singer Lesley Gore born in New York City
Tony and Emmy Award winning actress Christine Baranski born in Buffalo, New York
Film and theatre actress Elizabeth Berridge born in Westchester, New York
Actress Jenna von Oÿ born in Stamford, Connecticut