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Death of Anthemius, Emperor of the West
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Death of St. Olga
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| 1244:
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Displaced by the Mongols, the Khwarismian Turks take Jerusalem; 300 people escape
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| 1276:
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Election of Pope Adrian V
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| 1346:
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Charles IV chosen as Holy Roman Emperor
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| 1346:
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Edward III of England lands in Normandy
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| 1382:
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Death of Nicolas Oresme 1
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| 1533:
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Clement VII excommunicated Henry VIII for divorcing Catherine of Aragon, and afterward marrying Anne Boleyn. Two years later, Henry broke with Rome and established the Anglican communion as the national religion of England
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| 1558:
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Robert Greene, Elizabethan dramatist (Friar Bacon) born
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| 1593:
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Death of Guiseppe Arcimboldo, surrealist painter
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| 1598:
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Founding of San Juan de los Caballeros, New Mexico
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Coronation of Michael I, Czar of Russia
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| 1656:
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Ann Austin and Mary Fisher became the first Quakers to arrive in America andwere promptly arrested. Five weeks later, they were deported back to England
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| 1657:
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Frederik I, King of Prussia (1701-13) born
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| 1697:
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Jean-Baptiste-Bourguignon d'Anville, French geographer/cartographer born
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| 1754:
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Thomas Bowdler, Dr. Bowdler gave up his medical practice to practice surgery on the works of William Shakespeare, Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and then the Old Testament. born
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| 1767:
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John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States (1825-1829) born
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| 1798:
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The US Marine Corps was created by an act of Congress
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| 1804:
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Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel near Weehawken, New Jersey
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| 1834:
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American painter James Whistler born
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| 1864:
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Confederate forces led by General Jubal Early began an abortive invasion of Washington DC, turning back the next day
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| 1888:
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Pennsylvania's Monongehela River rises 32' after 24 hour rainfall
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| 1899:
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Author E.B. White born
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| 1914:
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Babe Ruth debuted in the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox. Ruth made $2,900 his rookie season. In only six years his paycheck was worth $125,000 when he became a member of the New York Yankees. He started out as a pitcher. If the American League's designated pitcher had been in effect we might not ever have learned of his hitting ability
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| 1918:
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Enrico Caruso bypassed opera for a short time to join the WWI effort. He recorded "Over There", the patriotic song written by George M. Cohan
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| 1920:
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Actor Yul Brynner born
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| 1921:
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Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day)
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| 1922:
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Actor Gene Evans born
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| 1927:
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Actress Brett Somers panelist: Match Game P.M. born
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| 1931:
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Actor Tab Hunter born
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| 1934:
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President Roosevelt became the first chief executive to travel through the Panama Canal while in office
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| 1937:
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George Gershwin died while a Hollywood surgeon was trying to operate on his brain tumor. One of Gershwin's last words was to complain that movie mogul Sam Goldwyn had come to visit him, and complained that Gershwin was concentrating too much on writing serious music
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| 1943:
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Convicts at Wormwood Scrubs prison in London were treated to a recital. Peter Pears sang, Benjamin Britten accompanied on the piano, and Michael Tippett served as page turner. The latter composer, incidentally, was at that time doing time in the prison
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| 1945:
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The U. S. Army used napalm on Japanese forces on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. This is the first recorded use of Napalm
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| 1947:
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Singer Jeff Hanna (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) born
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| 1951:
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Singer Bonnie Pointer born
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| 1952:
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Actor Stephen Lang of a Salesman. born
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| 1952:
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Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was nominated as the Republican presidential candidate, with Richard Nixon as his running mate. They were elected in November
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| 1953:
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Boxer Leon Spinks, who in 1978 won and then lost the heavyweight boxing title in fights with Muhammad Ali born
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| 1955:
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The US Air Force Academy was dedicated at Lowry Air Base in Colorado. The first class included 306 cadets
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| 1956:
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Actress Sela Ward born
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| 1957:
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Reggae singer Michael Rose (Black Uhuru) born
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| 1957:
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Singer Peter Murphy (formerly with Bauhaus) born
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| 1958:
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Actor Mark Lester ("Oliver!") born
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| 1959:
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Singer Suzanne Vega born
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| 1959:
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Rock guitarist Richie Sambora (Bon Jovi) born
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| 1962:
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1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I)
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| 1966:
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Actress Debbe Dunning ("Home Improvement") born
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| 1967:
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Kenny Rogers formed The First Edition, just one day after he and members Thelma Camacho, Mike Settle and Terry Williams left The New Christy Minstrels
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| 1967:
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The Vatican reported that Albania had closed its last Roman Catholic church
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| 1975:
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Rapper Lil Kim born
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| 1977:
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The Medal of Freedom was awarded posthumously to the Reverend Martin Luther King Junior in a White House ceremony
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| 1978:
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216 people were killed when a tanker truck overfilled with propylene gas exploded on a coastal highway south of Tarragona, Spain
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| 1979:
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The abandoned US space station "Skylab" made a spectacular return to Earth, burning up in the atmosphere and showering debris over the Indian Ocean and the Australian desert
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| 1981:
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Neva Rockefeller became the first woman ordered by the court to pay alimony to her husband
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| 1982:
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Rapper Lil' Zane born
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| 1983:
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The Reagan administration filed its first school desegregation lawsuit, charging that Alabama's public colleges and universities were practicing segregation
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| 1983:
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An Ecuadorian jetliner crashed into a mountain and exploded, killing all 119 people aboard
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| 1984:
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Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole ordered that airbags or automatic seat belts be installed in cars beginning with some 1987 models unless states enacted laws requiring seat-belt use
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| 1985:
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Two explosions sank the Rainbow Warrior, flagship of the Greenpeace environmental activist group, in Auckland, New Zealand; killing a ship's photographer and launching an international uproar. France later acknowledged responsibility
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| 1985:
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Nolan Ryan, of the Houston Astros, became the first, major-league pitcher to earn 4,000 strikeouts in a career as he led the Astros to a 4-3 win over the New York Mets
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| 1986:
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An Air Force plane crashed in Sequoia National Forest in California. Experts speculated the plane was a radar-evading stealth fighter jet, a plane whose existence had yet to be officially confirmed
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| 1987:
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Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke won a third consecutive term, becoming the first Labor Party leader in the country's history to be elected to three straight terms in office
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| 1988:
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Nine people were killed when three gunmen attacked hundreds of tourists aboard a Greek cruise ship, the "City of Poros," which was steaming toward a marina in suburban Athens
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| 1989:
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Laurence Olivier, considered by many the finest English-speaking actor of his generation, died at age 82
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| 1989:
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The American League won the 60th All-Star Game, defeating the National League 5-3 in Anaheim, California
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| 1990:
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Leaders of the so-called "Group of Seven" nations concluded their summit in Houston by encouraging Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev to enact reforms in return for Western aid
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| 1991:
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A solar eclipse cast a blanket of darkness stretching 9,000 miles from Hawaii to South America, lasting nearly seven minutes in some places
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| 1991:
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A Nigerian Airlines jet carrying Muslim pilgrims crashed at the Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, international airport, killing all 261 people on board
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| 1992:
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Undeclared presidential hopeful Ross Perot, addressing the NAACP convention in Nashville, Tennessee, startled and offended his listeners by referring to the predominantly black audience as "you people."
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| 1993:
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President Clinton wrapped up his visit to South Korea with a visit to the Demilitarized Zone separating South and North Korea; he then flew to Hawaii, where he placed a wreath at the site of the sunken battleship USS "Arizona" at Pearl Harbor
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| 1993:
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In Des Moines, Iowa, severe flooding shut down a water system serving 250,000 residents
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| 1994:
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Shawn Eckardt was sentenced in Portland, Oregon, to one and a-half years in prison for his role in the attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan
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| 1994:
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Haiti's army-backed regime ordered the expulsion of international human rights observers
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| 1994:
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President Clinton, on his first official visit to Germany, urged his hosts to take on a stronger leadership role in global affairs
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| 1995:
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The U.N.-designated "safe haven" of Srebrenica fell to Bosnian Serb forces
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| 1995:
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President Clinton announced the normalization of full diplomatic relations between the United States and Vietnam
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| 1996:
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An Air Force F-16 jet trying to make an emergency landing slammed into a house in Pensacola, Florida, setting the home on fire, killing a four-year-old boy and badly burning his mother. (The pilot ejected safely.)
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| 1997:
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President Clinton was cheered by tens of thousands of people in Bucharest, Romania, where he raised hopes for NATO membership
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| 1997:
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Ninety-one tourists were killed when fire broke out at the Royal Jomtien Hotel in Pattaya, Thailand
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| 1998:
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Air Force Lieutenant Michael Blassie, a casualty of the Vietnam War, was laid to rest near his Missouri home, after the positive identification of his remains, which had been enshrined at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington, Virginia
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| 1999:
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A U.S. Air Force cargo jet, braving Antarctic winter, swept down over the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Research Center to drop off emergency medical supplies for Dr. Jerri Nielsen, a physician at the center who had discovered a lump in her breast
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| 2000:
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A Middle East summit hosted by President Clinton opened at Camp David between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
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| 2000:
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The American League defeated the National League 6-to-3 in the All-Star Game
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| 2000:
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Robert Runcie, the former archbishop of Canterbury, died in Hertfordshire, England, at age 78
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| 2000:
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The African Methodist Episcopal Church, the nation's oldest black church, elected the Reverend Vashti McKenzie of Baltimore its first female bishop
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| 2005:
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Meth use now USA's top drug problem, survey finds
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| 2005:
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Hurricane Dennis makes landfall on Gulf Coast near Pensacola
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| 2005:
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100 participate in Zagreb Pride
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| 2005:
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Abbott labs ends dispute with Brazilian government over AIDS drug
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| 2005:
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Australian PM promises to assist Corby
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| 2005:
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Ryanair launches more Shannon Airport routes
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| 2005:
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Remembering Srebrenice massacre
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| 2005:
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Worker's Party leader detained in Sao Paulo's airport with $100,000 hidden in his underpants
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| 2005:
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Wild storms lash New South Wales South Coast
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| 2005:
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BSkyB director joins Setanta
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| 2005:
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Yankees defeat Indians, 9-4; win 7 of last 8 heading into the All-Star break
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| 2005:
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German opposition launches election campaign
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| 2005:
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Funding for new Museum of Liverpool approved
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| 2005:
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Temperature in east Iceland reaches 25 degrees Celsius (77°F)
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| 2005:
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First gay marriage in Spain takes place
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| 2005:
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Fulton Fish Market leaves Manhattan after more than 180 years
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| 2005:
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Republicans criticize Sen. Clinton for comparing Bush to Mad magazine character
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| 2005:
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Gas explosion in Russian shopping center kills 24
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| 2005:
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Man charged in vehicle death of Michigan woman
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| 2005:
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David Ahenakew removed from the Order of Canada
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| 2006:
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Islamists win battle for Mogadishu
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| 2006:
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Searchers of pig farm for pig digested human remains receive counseling
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| 2006:
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25 more NZ police head off to East Timor
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| 2006:
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Several blasts rock Mumbai commuter trains
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| 2006:
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World Cup official attempts suicide
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| 2006:
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White House reverses Geneva Conventions stance
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| 2006:
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Microsoft ends support for Windows 98 and Me
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| 2006:
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Canadian boy, sucked into water pump, loses feet
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| 2006:
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Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett dies at age 60
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| 2006:
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Portion of ceiling collapses in Boston tunnel
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| 2007:
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Police investigate Youtube video of two year old 'on ecstacy'
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| 2007:
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Swiss President visits Ghana
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| 2007:
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Italian President ends visit to Ghana
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| 2007:
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Evolutionary biology labs at University of Colorado threatened
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| 2007:
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The 24th Shin Kong Life Tower Run Up will promote Bananas of Taiwan
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| 2007:
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PETA protests Burberry in White Plains, NY
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| 2007:
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Legia receives ban; Rovers face Vetra
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| 2007:
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Empty tower at Miami International Airport catches fire
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| 2007:
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Canadian merchant Ed Mirvish Dies at 92
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| 2007:
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Libyan court upholds death sentence for foreign medics in HIV case
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| 2007:
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Agassi and Sharapova voted Wimbledon's sexiest champions on commercial website
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| 2007:
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New gambling review could jeopardize UK's 'supercasino' plans
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| 2007:
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Chicago Transit Authority announces repairs to Blue and Red Line
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| 2007:
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WMAQ reporter Amy Jacobson leaves job following controversial video
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| 2007:
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AFC Asian Cup: Indonesia shock Bahrain, China put five past Malaysia
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| 2007:
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Study links breast cancer to Western diet
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| 2007:
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Former US First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson dies at 94
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| 2008:
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Jesse Jackson apologizes for comment about Barack Obama
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| 2008:
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Dow Chemical to buy Rohm and Haas
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| 2008:
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Hundreds of Air Canada flight attendants to lose jobs
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| 2008:
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Canadian Football League news: July 11, 2008
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| 2008:
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Afghan government claims U.S. air strike killed dozens of civilians
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| 2008:
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Burglars steal Milan Lučić's Memorial Cup ring from his Vancouver home
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| 2008:
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Lebanon forms unity government with Hezbollah-led opposition
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| 2009:
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Roller skating babies become YouTube sensation
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| 2009:
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Two pilots dead in Richmond plane crash
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| 2009:
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NHC upgrades Tropical Depression Four-E to Tropical Storm Carlos
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| 2009:
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Space Shuttle Endeavour's launchpad struck by lightning delaying launch
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| 2009:
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New words added to Webster's dictionary
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| 2010:
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Gaza Strip aid ship departs Greece, diverts to Egypt
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| 2010:
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Brazilian footballer, ex-policeman among seven arrested for 'barbaric' murder
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| 2010:
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Pakistani Punjab police website hacked
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| 2010:
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Church of England rejects compromise over women bishops
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| 2010:
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Colombian journalist denied entry into US
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| 2011:
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China's consumer prices rise to a three-year high in June as food prices soar 14.4 percent
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| 2011:
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Stun gun found on JetBlue flight in Newark, New Jersey
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| 2011:
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Syrian security forces raid Homs, one killed, twenty injured
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| 2011:
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Former US First Lady Betty Ford dies aged 93
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| 2012:
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Chris Moyles announces departure from BBC Radio 1 breakfast show
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Avante-garde artist 
Singer, author, photographer and Academy Award winning actor, Yul Brynner born in Vladivostok, Russia
Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning actress, Sela Ann Ward born in Meridian, Mississippi
Cheerleader, Homecoming Queen and actress, Debbe Dunning born in Burbank, California
Grammy Award winning Hip Hop artist, Lil' Kim born in Brooklyn, New York