| 459:
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Death of St. Simon Stylites
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| 478:
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Death of St. Lupus, who turned Attila from Troyes, France
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| 1148:
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The 2nd Crusade arrives before Damascus
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| 1187:
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Toron falls to Saladin
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| 1221:
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The defeat of the 5th Crusade
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| 1307:
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A General Chapter meeting of the Templars is held in Paris
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| 1505:
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Portuguese destroy the city of Kilwa, East Africa
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| 1534:
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Jacques Cartier discovers St. Laurence River; claims Canada for France
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| 1567:
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Forced abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots
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| 1567:
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James VI proclaimed King of Scotland
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| 1568:
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Death of Don Carlos "the Mad" of Spain
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| 1679:
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New Hampshire became a royal colony of the British crown
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| 1701:
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French explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac landed at the present site of Detroit and founded Fort Detroit
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| 1739:
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Benedetto Marcello died in Brescia. Nobody remembers Marcello today, but he was evidently quite respected in his day, because the tombstone is still there, and it calls him "the Michelangelo of music."
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| 1783:
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South American revolutionary and statesman Simon Bolivar (Caracas, Venezuela) He freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule. born
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| 1793:
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The first copyright law was instituted in France
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| 1802:
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French novelist Alexandre Dumas the Elder, author of "The Three Musketeers," born
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| 1842:
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Ambrose Bierce Ohio, writer (Nuggets & Dust) born
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| 1847:
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Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrived the valley of the Great Salt Lake present-day Utah
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| 1862:
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The eighth president of the United States, MartVan Buren, died Kinderhook, New York
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| 1866:
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Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War
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| 1880:
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Ernest Bloch was born in Geneva. In 1902 he completed a Symphony in C-sharp-minor that sounds a little like the music of Richard Strauss. In 1905 he finished a tone poem about springtime that was indebted to Debussy. born
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| 1896:
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The first national convention of the People's Party met in St. Louis, Missouri. The party nominated William Jennings Bryan for president
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| 1897:
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Amelia Earhart born in Atchison, Kansas. She became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Her plane disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937
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| 1915:
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Eastland Chicago River; 812 died
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| 1916:
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John D MacDonald novelist born
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| 1920:
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Feminist and former US Representative Bella Abzug. born
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| 1920:
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Broadway producer Alexander H. Cohen born
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| 1923:
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The Treaty of Lausanne, which settled the boundaries of modern Turkey, was concluded Switzerland
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| 1929:
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Movie director Peter Yates ("Bullitt") born
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| 1929:
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President Hoover proclaimed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounced war as an instrument of foreign policy
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| 1930:
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Actress Jacqueline Brookes born
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| 1935:
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Political cartoonist Pat Oliphant born
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| 1936:
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Comedian Ruth Buzzi born
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| 1936:
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Actor Mark Goddard born
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| 1936:
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The hottest day for Kansas was recorded today. It was 121F near Alton, Kansas
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| 1936:
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On this day Nebraska recorded its hottest temperature of 118F at Minden
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| 1937:
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The state of Alabama dropped charges against five black men accused of raping two white women the "Scottsboro Case."
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| 1938:
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Richard Strauss was in his seventies when he conducted an operatic premiere in his home town for the first time. Munich audiences loved Strauss, but Nazis authorities were less pleased when they heard "Friedenstag" on this day. "Friedenstag" means "Day of Peace."
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| 1938:
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Instant coffee was invented
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| 1940:
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Actor Dan Hedaya born
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| 1942:
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Actor Chris Sarandon born
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| 1946:
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The U. S. Conducted the first underwater test of an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean
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| 1947:
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Actor Robert Hays born
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| 1949:
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Actor Michael Richards ("Seinfeld") born
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| 1951:
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Actress Lynda Carter born
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| 1952:
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Movie director Gus Van Sant ("To Die For", "Psycho") born
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| 1956:
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The first guided missle ship was launched
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| 1957:
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Country singer Pam Tillis born
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| 1959:
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During a visit to the Soviet Union, Vice President Richard M. Nixon got into a "Kitchen Debate" with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev at a US exhibition
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| 1963:
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Basketball player Karl Malone, 9-time All-NBA 1st team (1989-97) with Utah; member of the 1992 and '96 Olympic Dream Teams; league MVP in 1997 born
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| 1963:
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Jockey Julie Krone, the only woman to ride winning horse in a Triple Crown race when she captured Belmont Stakes aboard Colonial Affair in 1993; entered 1996 as all-time winningest female jockey with 3,016 wins. born
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| 1964:
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Baseball player Barry Bonds, 3-time NL MVP, twice with Pittsburgh (1990,92) and once with San Francisco (1993); NL's HR and RBI leader in 1993; became only second player to hit 40 homers and steal 40 bases in same season in 1996. born
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| 1965:
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Actor Kadeem Hardison born
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| 1968:
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Actor John P. Navin Junior born
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| 1969:
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The "Apollo Eleven" astronauts -- two of whom had been the first men to set foot on the moon -- splashed down safely the Pacific
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| 1970:
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Actress Jennifer Lopez ("Selena") born
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| 1974:
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The US Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor
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| 1975:
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An Apollo spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific, completing a mission which included the first-ever docking with a Soyuz capsule from the Soviet Union
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| 1979:
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A Miami jury convicted Theodore Bundy of first-degree murder in the slayings of Florida State University sorority sisters Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy
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| 1982:
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Actress Anna Paquin ("The Piano") born
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| 1984:
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President Reagan told a news conference he had "no plan" for a tax increase the following year despite Democratic presidential nominee Walter F. Mondale's assertion that one was inevitable
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| 1984:
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After 14 years and four Super Bowl championships with the Pittsburgh Steelers, Terry Bradshaw retired from the National Football League. Bradshaw, age 35, was forced to the sidelines by an elbow injury
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| 1985:
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About 100 Lebanese released from an Israeli military prison crossed the border into Lebanon; it was the second group of prisoners to be freed by the Israelis since a TWA jetliner was hijacked by Shiite Muslim extremists
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| 1986:
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A federal jury in San Francisco convicted former Navy radioman Jerry A. Whitworth of espionage for his role in a Soviet spy ring headed by John A. Walker Jr. (Whitworth was sentenced to 365 years in prison.)
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| 1986:
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Muslim captors release Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco
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| 1987:
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Actress Mara Wilson born
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| 1987:
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The re-flagged Kuwaiti supertanker "Bridgeton" sustained damage after hitting a mine the Persian Gulf
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| 1987:
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Hulda Crooks, a 91-year-old mountaineer from California, became the oldest woman to conquer Mount Fuji, Japan's highest peak
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| 1988:
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On the campaign trail, Republican George Bush heard chants of "E-R-A," a reference to the proposed Equal Rights Amendment, from members of a professional women's group in Albuquerque, while Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis was heckled by anti-abortion protesters in St. Louis
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| 1989:
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President Bush reacted to reports that veteran U.S. diplomat Felix S. Bloch might have spied for the Soviet Union by saying he was "aggrieved" about the allegations
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| 1989:
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The Exxon Corporation estimated that its cleanup of the Alaskan oil spill would cost $1.28 billion dollars
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| 1990:
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Iraq, accusing Kuwait of conspiring to harm its economy through oil overproduction, massed tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks along the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border
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| 1991:
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Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev announced a final agreement on a treaty designed to preserve the Soviet federation while giving more power to the republics
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| 1991:
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Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer died in Miami at age 87
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| 1992:
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Members of POW-MIA families disrupted a speech by President Bush, prompting Bush to snap, "Would you please shut up and sit down?"
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| 1993:
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The Russian government announced it would invalidate billions of pre-1993 rubles
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| 1993:
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House Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski denied allegations he'd received embezzled funds, saying he had engaged in "no illegal or unethical conduct."
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| 1993:
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Two Los Angeles police officers sentenced in Rodney King beating
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| 1994:
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Rwandan refugees began trickling home after Zaire reopened the border between the two countries; meanwhile, the first wave of a U.S. airlift arrived
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| 1994:
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Miguel Indurain won his fourth consecutive Tour de France victory
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| 1995:
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A suicide bomber set off an explosion in a crowded commuter bus in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing six people
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| 1996:
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Two bombs blamed on Tamil separatists ripped through a commuter tranear Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 64 civilians and wounding more than 400
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| 1997:
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Retired Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan died in Arlington, Virginia, at age 91
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| 1997:
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Haley Barbour, countering Democrats, tells Senate inquiry that party did not accept illegal foreign campaign contributions while he was leader
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| 1998:
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A gunman burst into the US Capitol, opening fire and killing two police officers before being shot and captured
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| 1999:
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President Clinton attacked the Republicans' $792 billion tax-cut plan in fund-raising speeches and his weekly radio address, saying it would "imperil the future stability of the country." House Majority Leader Dick Armey replied that the GOP plan would help fix an unfair tax system
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| 2000:
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President Clinton continued to mediate the Camp David Mideast summit, meeting with Israeli, Palestinian and US negotiators
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| 2000:
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Michael Stone, a pro-British paramilitary member, was freed from prison as part of Northern Ireland's 1998 peace accord after serving eleven years of a life sentence for murder
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| 2000:
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Georgia's Democratic former governor Zell Miller was appointed to the late Republican Paul Coverdell's Senate seat
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| 2005:
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Stock exchange merger could end San Francisco stock trading
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| 2005:
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Inter Milan's tour of England back on
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| 2005:
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NASA announces astronaut glove design contest
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| 2005:
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Opposition parties rally in Baku for fair elections
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| 2005:
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Lance Armstrong wins Tour de France for seventh time
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| 2005:
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Critics honor 2004-best in U.S. TV
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| 2005:
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World Health Organisation: China engaging in bird flu cover up
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| 2005:
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Tsunami warning briefly issued for Indian Ocean after latest earthquake
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| 2005:
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Australia wins first test of The Ashes series
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| 2006:
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Atlantis departs hangar ahead of August 28 launch
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| 2006:
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Two New Zealand children die in fire
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| 2006:
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AMD joins forces with ATI
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| 2006:
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Victoria Cross fetches record price at auction
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| 2006:
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Pope calls for Middle East peace
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| 2006:
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PCC promotes new wave of attacks in Brazil
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| 2007:
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Drew Carey to replace Bob Barker as host of "The Price is Right"
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| 2007:
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U.S. minimum wage gets first federal boost in a decade
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| 2007:
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Cindy Sheehan arrested inside Rayburn Building in Washington DC
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| 2007:
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UK government outlines plans for rail transport
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| 2007:
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Libya frees foreign HIV medics
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| 2007:
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Tour de France: Alexander Vinokourov fails blood test
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| 2007:
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Fish consumption by New Yorkers has led to high blood mercury levels
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| 2007:
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Major fire in Montreal, Canada, destroys several businesses
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| 2007:
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Press conference to be held Thursday on new 'Star Trek 11' movie
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| 2007:
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Bacterial meningitis possibly spread on AirTran flight
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| 2007:
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Canada-wide manhunt for suspect in Ontario slayings
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| 2008:
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African HIV prevalence may also be physiological
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| 2008:
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Marathon runner addresses Toronto, bringing attention to autism
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| 2008:
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Amy Winehouse wax model unveiled
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| 2008:
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Iraq banned from participating in Beijing Olympics
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| 2008:
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Turkish planes bomb PKK targets in northern Iraq
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| 2008:
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Palestinian official newspapers: Israel uses super rats against Jerusalem Arabs
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| 2008:
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Bus crash in Victoria, Australia injures twenty, some critical
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| 2008:
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Two large earthquakes rattle Japan, Russia
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| 2008:
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UK opposition leader David Cameron's bicycle was stolen
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| 2009:
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Armenia to send military forces to Afghanistan
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| 2010:
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Minor aftershock hits Pichilemu, Chile area
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| 2010:
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Independent Wisconsin legislative candidate to sue over censorship of controversial description
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| 2010:
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Matthew Edwards, honored Michigan police officer, shot and killed
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| 2010:
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Four earthquakes hit the Philippines in quick succession
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| 2010:
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Man disguised as Darth Vader robs bank
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| 2010:
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Two NATO soldiers captured in Afghanistan
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Distinguished Flying Cross decorated aviation pioneer and activist for womens' rights, Amelia Earhart born in Atchison, Kansas
Actress and comedienne, Ruth Buzzi born in Westerly, Rhode Island
Singer and actress, Lynda Carter born in Phoenix, Arizona
Tony Award winning actress and singer, Kristin Chenoweth born in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
Pop singer and actress, Jennifer Lopez born in New York City