| 664:
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Death of Deusdedit, 6th Archbishop of Canterbury
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| 664:
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Death of Erconberct, King of Kent
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| 1093:
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Death of St. Ulric of Zell
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| 1099:
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Mining begins under the walls of Jerusalem (1st Crusade)
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| 1187:
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Nablus falls to Saladin
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| 1223:
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Death of King Philip II "Augustus" of France
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| 1254:
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Death of Theobald IV, King of Navarre
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| 1274:
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Philosopher, theologian, and mystic Bonaventura (born Giovanni Fidanza) dies
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| 1291:
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The Castle of the Sea (Sidon) falls to the Mameluks
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| 1404:
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Treaty between Owain Glyn Dwr and France against England
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| 1486:
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Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter born
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| 1531:
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King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon parted for the last time
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| 1570:
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Reformed missal went into use in Roman Catholic churches
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| 1602:
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Mazarin born
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| 1614:
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Death of St. Camillus
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| 1629:
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Pacification of Nimes
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| 1634:
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Charles I, King of England, and his wife enter Oxford
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| 1642:
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Benjamin Thompson, 1st native American poet born
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| 1642:
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Empress Myosho of Japan moves into her new palace in Kyoto
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| 1773:
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The first annual conference of the Methodist Church in America convened at St.George's Church in Philadelphia, PA
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| 1789:
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During the French Revolution, citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners inside
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| 1789:
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Mozart wrote a letter to his Baron Michael von Puchberg, reporting that he was in serious financial trouble because of illness and asking for a loan. He apologized for being "obliged to beg so shamelessly from my friend." The baron lent him the equivalent of several thousand dollars
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| 1794:
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Scottish critic John Gibson Lockhart. He edited the influential Quarterly Review from 1823 to 1853. He married the daughter of Sir Walter Scott, whose biography he also wrote. born
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| 1798:
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Congress passed the Sedition Act, making it a federal crime to publish false, scandalous or malicious writing about the United States government
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| 1800:
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Anglican clergyman Matthew Bridges. In 1848 he converted to Catholicism, under the influence of the Oxford Movement in England. He is remembered today for authoring the hymn, 'Crown Him with Many Crowns.' born
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| 1833:
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Anglican clergyman John Keble preached his famous sermon on national religious apostasy. It marked the beginning of the Oxford Movement, which sought to purify and revitalize the Church of England
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| 1850:
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The first public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration
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| 1853:
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Commodore Matthew Perry relayed to Japanese officials a letter from former President Fillmore, requesting trade relations
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| 1858:
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British suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst born
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| 1862:
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Austrian Art Nouveau painter Gustav Klimt born
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| 1865:
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The first ascent of the Matterhorn
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| 1867:
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Alfred Nobel demonstrated dynamite
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| 1868:
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The patent for a tape measure was issued to A.J. Fellowes of New Haven, Connecticut
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| 1881:
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Outlaw William H. Bonney Junior, alias "Billy the Kid," was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New Mexico
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| 1888:
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The first American record company, North American Phonograph, was founded by a Pittsburgh businessman named Jesse Lippincott. This was more than thirty years before Pittsburgh would have the added distinction of hearing the first radio station K-D-K-A
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| 1892:
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The Baptist Young People's Union held its first national convention in Detroit. The founding of the BYP Union was inspired by the earlier work of Francis E. Clark, a Congregational pastor who founded the first 'modern' youth fellowship in 1881
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| 1895:
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British literary critic F.R. Leavis. born
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| 1903:
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Irving Stone, the middlebrow author of fictional biographies of figures such as Michaelangelo (The Agony and the Ecstasy) and Van Gogh (Lust for Life) born
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| 1904:
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Isaac Bashevis Singer in Radzymin, Poland. He wrote in Yiddish and English. He held American citizenship when he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1978. born
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| 1910:
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Animator William Hanna born
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| 1912:
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Folk singer Woody Guthrie born
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| 1913:
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Gerald Ford, 38th president of the United States (born Leslie King, but when his mother divorced King and married Gerald Ford, the boy's name was changed). He was the first President to serve without having been chosen in a National Election. born
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| 1914:
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Robert Goddard was granted the first patent for a liquid-fueled rocket design
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| 1917:
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Three months after the declaration of war, the first American casualty of World War I was sustained at Arras, France
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| 1918:
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Jay Wright Forrester, invented random-access magnetic core memory. born
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| 1918:
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Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman born
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| 1919:
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Chouchou Debussy died of diphtheria at the age of fourteen. Chouchou was Debussy's only child and the inspiration for his suite "The Children's Corner," which includes "Golliwog's Cakewalk."
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| 1923:
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Actor Dale Robertson born
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| 1926:
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Actor Harry Dean Stanton born
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| 1928:
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Actress Nancy Olson born
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| 1930:
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Actress Polly Bergen (born Nellie Paulina Burgin) born
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| 1932:
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Former football player Rosey Grier born
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| 1933:
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Country singer Del Reeves born
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| 1933:
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All political parties, except the Nazis, were officially suppressed in Germany
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| 1951:
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The George Washington Carver National Monument was dedicated in Diamond, MO
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| 1952:
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Actor Jerry Houser born
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| 1952:
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Actor-director Eric Laneuville born
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| 1958:
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Movie producer Scott Rudin ("The Truman Show") born
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| 1958:
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The army of Iraq overthrew the monarchy
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| 1961:
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Actor Jackie Earle Haley born
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| 1965:
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The American space probe "Mariner Four" flew by Mars, sending back photographs of the planet
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| 1965:
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US Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson Junior, the Democratic presidential nominee in 1952 and 1956, died in London at age 65
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| 1966:
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Actor Matthew Fox born
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| 1966:
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Rock singer-musician Tonya Donelly (Belly) born
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| 1966:
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Eight student nurses were murdered by Richard Speck in a Chicago dormitory. (Speck died in prison in 1991, a day short of his 50th birthday.)
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| 1970:
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Actress Missy Gold born
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| 1975:
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Rhythm-and-blues singer Tameka Cottle (Xscape) born
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| 1975:
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Hip-hop musician taboo (Black Eyed Peas) born
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| 1976:
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Jimmy Carter won the Democratic presidential nomination by an overwhelming margin at the party's convention in New York
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| 1978:
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Soviet dissident Anatoly Shcharansky was convicted of treasonous espionage and anti-Soviet agitation, and sentenced to 13 years at hard labor. (Shcharansky was released in 1986.)
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| 1981:
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The All-Star Game was postponed because of a 33-day-old baseball players strike. Still, some 15,000 fans showed up to boo the players and to see an imaginary game. The 52nd All-Star classic was not held until August 9
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| 1984:
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New Zealand's Labor Party, led by David Lange, won a landslide election victory, ending conservative Prime Minister Robert Muldoon's nine-year tenure
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| 1985:
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Doctors at Bethesda Naval Hospital said President Reagan was making a spectacular recovery from major abdominal surgery to remove an intestinal growth that proved to be cancerous
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| 1986:
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A federal judge in Los Angeles sentenced former FBI agent Richard W. Miller to two life terms plus 50 years in prison for spying for the Soviet Union
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| 1987:
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Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North concluded six days of testimony before the Iran-Contra committees
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| 1987:
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The National League took 13 innings to defeat the American League, 2-to-0, in the 58th All-Star Game in Oakland, California
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| 1988:
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Speaking before the UN Security Council, Iran's foreign minister, Ali-Akbar Velayati, denounced the US downing of an Iranian jetliner as "a barbaric massacre." Vice President Bush replied that the USS "Vincennes" had fired in self-defense
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| 1989:
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Leaders of the seven richest nations opened a summit in Paris, which was also celebrating the bicentennial of the French Revolution with pomp and pageantry
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| 1990:
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West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl arrived in Moscow for talks with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev that were aimed at soothing Kremlin concerns about German unification
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| 1991:
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American and Soviet negotiators in Washington continued work on trying to complete a treaty slashing long-range nuclear arsenals
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| 1991:
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leaders of the group of Seven nations began gathering in London for their annual economic summit
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| 1991:
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Syrian President Hafez al-Assad accepted President Bush's compromise proposal for a Middle East peace conference
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| 1992:
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The second day of the Democratic national convention heard from speakers who included former President Carter, the Reverend Jesse Jackson and AIDS activist Elisabeth Glaser
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| 1992:
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The American League won the All-Star game, defeating the National League team 13-to-6 at Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego
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| 1993:
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President Clinton visited flood-stricken Iowa for the second time in ten days, telling flood victims to "hang in there."
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| 1994:
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Scores of Hutu refugees from Rwanda's civil war flooded across the border into Zaire, swamping relief organizations
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| 1995:
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Under pressure from Congress, FBI Director Louis J. Freeh removed his friend Larry Potts as the bureau's deputy director because of controversy over Pott's role in a deadly 1992 FBI siege in Idaho
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| 1996:
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Fire crews were battling blazes covering more than 16-thousand acres in California, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon and Utah
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| 1996:
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Northern Ireland, a car bomb ravaged a country hotel soon after the building was evacuated. (A shadow group calling itself "Continuity" claimed responsibility for the blast.)
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| 1997:
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The international war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia sentenced Dusan Tadic, a Bosnian Serb, to 20 years in prison for turning on his Muslim and Croat neighbors in a deadly campaign of terror and torture
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| 1997:
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O.J. Simpson's California mansion was auctioned off for $2.6 million dollars
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| 1998:
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The city of Los Angeles sued 15 tobacco companies for $2.5 billion over the dangers of secondhand smoke
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| 1999:
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Iranian hard-liners answered a week of pro-democracy rallies with one of their own, sending 100,000 people into the streets of Tehran
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| 1999:
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Major league umpires voted to resign Sept. 2 and not work the final month of the season (the strategy collapsed, with baseball owners accepting the resignations of 22 umpires)
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| 1999:
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Race-based school busing in Boston ended after 25 years
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| 2000:
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A Florida jury ordered five major tobacco companies to pay smokers a record $145 billion in punitive damages
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| 2000:
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The 13th International AIDS Conference came to a close in Durban, South Africa
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| 2000:
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Actress Meredith MacRae of TV's "Petticoat Junction" died in Manhattan Beach, California, at age 56
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| 2005:
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London bombing suspects are all British nationals
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| 2005:
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Two-minute silence for London bombings marked across the EU
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| 2005:
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Australia commits more troops to Afghanistan
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| 2005:
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Hurricane Emily hits Grenada
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| 2005:
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Palestinian rocket attack kills Israeli woman
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| 2005:
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Building partially collapses in New York City's Upper West Side
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| 2005:
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Hillary Clinton demands video-game smut enquiry
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| 2005:
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First Active offer 100% mortgages in Ireland
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| 2005:
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Metropolitan Police release photographs of one of the London bombers
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| 2005:
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Serbian government gives scholarships to students studying abroad
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| 2005:
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Married couple scheme issues phony driver's licenses in Virginia
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| 2005:
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Rail manslaughter charges are dropped in Hatfield, England
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| 2005:
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NHL lockout ends
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| 2005:
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Palestinian security forces clash with militants, Palestinian Interrior Minister Nasser Yousef declares state of emergency
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| 2005:
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Age of Britain's Toldpuddle Martyr tree discovered
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| 2005:
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Israeli Air Force attacks targets in Gaza
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| 2005:
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Arsenal lets Vieira go
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| 2005:
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São Paulo crowned Copa Libertadores champions
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| 2006:
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Juventus, Lazio and Fiorentina relegated from Italy's Serie A
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| 2006:
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Hezbollah-Israel war continues for a third day
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| 2007:
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Two teenagers charged in alleged school attack plot
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| 2007:
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Political pundits debate Fred Thompson's younger wife
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| 2007:
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Rural New Zealand crash leaves one child dead
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| 2007:
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Australian police charge Indian doctor over failed UK bombings
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| 2007:
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Creationist who threatened biologists threatened others at university
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| 2007:
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Tour de France: Linus Gerdemann wins stage 7
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| 2007:
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Fast evolution observed in butterflies
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| 2007:
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Reports: Bomb threats close 14 supermarkets in UK
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| 2007:
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Man takes armoured vehicle on rampage through Western Sydney
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| 2007:
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FIFA U20 World Cup: Austria eliminates Americans in Quarter Finals
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| 2007:
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AFC Asian Cup: Iraq shock Australia, Japan overcome UAE
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| 2008:
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13 missing from ship off coast of Madagascar; two rescued
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| 2008:
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Details emerge on Norway Rock Festival deaths as Motörhead hold minute's silence
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| 2008:
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Sulpicio names companies hired for 'Princess of the Stars' salvage
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| 2008:
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Spain-based Santander agrees to purchase of UK bank Alliance & Leicester
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| 2009:
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Javier Velásquez named as Peru’s new Prime Minister
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| 2009:
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'Monster' fish killed in Swiss lake after biting swimmers
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| 2009:
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British conductor Edward Downes and wife die in double assisted suicide
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| 2009:
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Microsoft announces web version of Office
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| 2009:
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US wildfire reaches Interstate 5 near Los Angeles
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| 2009:
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Two French journalists kidnapped by Somali gunmen
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| 2009:
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Tropical Storm Carlos re-strengthens over the Pacific
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| 2009:
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U.K. National Portrait Gallery threatens U.S. citizen with legal action over Wikimedia images
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| 2010:
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Drunken man is surprised crocodile bit him
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| 2010:
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Facebook and UK government clash over tributes to killer
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| 2010:
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Woman hospitalized after allegedly stabbing daughter to death at Fort MacArthur, California
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| 2010:
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US hands Iraq high-profile prisoners
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| 2010:
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Crash data suggests driver error in Toyota accidents
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| 2010:
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Tax breaks promised by Australian Prime Minister as election fast approaches
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| 2010:
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Man claims 84 percent ownership of Facebook
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| 2010:
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Intel posts best ever quarterly results
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Poet, songwriter and folk singer, Woody Guthrie born in Okemah, Oklahoma
Author and pioneering computer engineer, Jay Wright Forrester born in Climax, Nebraska
Academy Award nominated actress, Nancy Olson born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin