| 432:
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Death of St. Clestine I, Pope
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| 479:
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The Awakening of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus
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| 852:
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Deaths of Sts. Aurelius and Natalia
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| 916:
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Death of St. Clement Slovenski
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| 1054:
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Seward of Northumbria & Malcolm defeat Macbeth at Dunsinane
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| 1061:
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Death of Pope Nicholas II
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| 1148:
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The 2nd Crusade moves camp to the eastern side of Damascus
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| 1245:
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Fredrick II condemned and deposed by the Coucil of Lyons
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| 1276:
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Death of James I, "the Conqueror," King of Aragon
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| 1365:
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Marriage of Enguerrand deCoucy and Isabella of England
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| 1399:
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The Duke of York allies with Henry Bolingbroke at Berkely Castle
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| 1501:
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Copernicus formally installed as Canon of Frauenberg Cathedral
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| 1563:
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French regain Le Havre; returning English soldiers bring plague
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| 1582:
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A Spanish fleet routs the allied Portugese/English/French fleets
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| 1586:
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Sir Walter Raleigh brings 1st tobacco to England from Virginia
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| 1588:
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The Armada anchors at Calais
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| 1590:
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Castana de Sosa leaves Nueva Leon with 150 settlers for New Mexico
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| 1627:
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Sir George Calvert arrives in Newfoundland to develop his land grant
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| 1656:
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The Jewish elders of Amsterdam excommunicate Spinoza
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| 1681:
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William Cuthill, William Thomson, James Boig, Donald Cargill and Walter Smith were hanged in Edinburgh. The five Scottish Presbyterians were martyred for thier faith
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| 1694:
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The Bank of England received a royal charter as a commercial institution
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| 1768:
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Charlotte Corday assassin of Jean-Paul Marat born
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| 1789:
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Congress established the Department of Foreign Affairs, the forerunner of the Department of State
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| 1824:
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French novelist Alexander Dumas the Younger, author of "Camille" born
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| 1861:
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Cyrus H. Nusbaum, an American Methodist clergyman who penned the hymn,'Would You Live for Jesus, and Be Always Pure and Good?' born
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| 1861:
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Union General George B. McClellan was put in command of the Army of the Potomac
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| 1866:
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Cyrus W. Field finally succeeded, after two failures, in laying the first underwater telegraph cable between North America and Europe (1,686 miles long)
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| 1880:
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Donald Crisp Scotland, actor (How Green Was My Valley, Pollyana) born
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| 1880:
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Joseph Tinker baseball Hall of Famer, 1/3 of famous double play combo born
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| 1887:
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Ernst von Dohnanyi was born in the city of Pressburg. He rapidly became known as a first-rate interpreter of Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms. He later became music director of the Budapest Philharmonic, then director of the Hungarian Broadcasting Service. born
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| 1899:
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Harl McDonald, composer (Santa Fe Trail) born
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| 1906:
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Leo Durocher, baseball manager (Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants) born
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| 1909:
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Orville Wright tested the US Army's first airplane, flying himself and a passenger for one hour, 12 minutes and 40 seconds
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| 1916:
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Actor Keenan Wynn born
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| 1918:
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The author of "The Complete Opera Book" was killed. Gustav Kobbe was sailing off the coast of Long Island when he was killed by a Navy seaplane. Kobbe was 61. "The Complete Opera Book" is still in print today
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| 1922:
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TV producer Norman Lear born
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| 1924:
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Movie reviewer Vincent Canby born
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| 1927:
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Singer Bob Morse (The Hi-Lo's) born
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| 1931:
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Actor Jerry Van Dyke born
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| 1933:
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Singer Nick Reynolds The Kingston Trio) born
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| 1937:
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Actor Don Galloway born
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| 1939:
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Sportscaster Irv Cross born
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| 1940:
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Bugs Bunny made his "official" debut in the Warner Brothers animated cartoon "A Wild Hare."
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| 1940:
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Billboard magazine starts publishing best-seller's charts
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| 1942:
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Actor John Pleshette born
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| 1944:
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Singer Bobbie Gentry born
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| 1948:
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Actress/director Betty Thomas (Lucy Baines-Hill Street Blues) born
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| 1948:
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Olympic gold medal figure skater Peggy Fleming born
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| 1949:
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Singer Maureen McGovern (Got to be a morning after) born
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| 1949:
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Actor Maury Chaykin born
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| 1951:
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Actress Janet Eilber born
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| 1952:
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Actress Roxanne Hart born
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| 1953:
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After two years and 17 days of truce negotiations, an end was declared to the war in Korea. The TV series M*A*S*H lasted 3x's longer than the war itself!
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| 1963:
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Rock musician Karl Mueller (Soul Asylum) born
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| 1967:
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Rock singer Juliana Hatfield born
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| 1967:
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Country singer Stacy Dean Campbell born
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| 1967:
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In the wake of urban rioting, President Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of the violence, the same day black militant H. Rap Brown said in Washington that violence was "as American as cherry pie."
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| 1968:
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Actor Julian McMahon born
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| 1974:
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The House Judiciary Committee voted 27-to-eleven to recommend President Nixon's impeachment on a charge that he had personally engaged in a "course of conduct" designed to obstruct justice in the Watergate case
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| 1977:
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Actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers born
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| 1980:
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Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, deposed shah of Iran, died in an Egyptian military hospital of cancer at age 60
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| 1987:
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Retired Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk, accused of being the sadistic Nazi guard known as "Ivan the Terrible," testified at his trial in Jerusalem that he was not "the hangman you're after." (Although found guilty, Demjanjuk had his conviction overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court.)
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| 1988:
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UN Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar held separate peace talks with the foreign ministers of Iraq and Iran on a cease-fire in the eight-year-old Persian Gulf war
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| 1989:
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Workers at the Nissan Motor Corporation assembly plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, voted against representation by the United Auto Workers
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| 1989:
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82 people were killed when a Korean Air DC-10 crashed while attempting to land in heavy fog at Tripoli airport in Libya, four of them on the ground
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| 1990:
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Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer vetoed a tough abortion bill passed by his state's legislature
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| 1990:
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A mistrial was declared in Raymond Buckey's retrial on charges of molesting children at the McMartin Pre-School in California
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| 1991:
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Fighting escalated is the breakaway republic of Croatia, as a Yugoslav air force jet fired on Croatian forces and ground fighting erupted into clashes with federal tanks and troops
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| 1992:
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President Bush's aides attacked Democratic nominee Bill Clinton's foreign policy credentials and judgment
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| 1992:
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At the Summer Olympics in Barcelona, the US men's volleyball team was stripped of its victory over Japan the day before in an opening-round game
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| 1993:
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IBM reported a record $8.04 billion quarterly loss
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| 1993:
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Bombs exploded in Rome and Milan, killing at least five people
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| 1993:
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Boston Celtics star Reggie Lewis died after collapsing on a Brandeis University basketball court during practice; he was 27
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| 1993:
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Richard Goode gave an all-Beethoven piano recital at Tanglewood
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| 1994:
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Bosnian Serbs re-imposed their blockade of Sarajevo and fired on a U.N. convoy, killing one British soldier and wounding another
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| 1995:
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The Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington by President Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young-sam
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| 1995:
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U.S. officials detained Mousa Mohamed Abu Marzook, one of the senior leaders of the militant group Hamas, at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City
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| 1996:
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American Gail Devers the won women's 100-meter dash in the Atlanta Olympics
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| 1996:
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Terror struck the Atlanta Olympics as a pipe bomb exploded at the public Centennial Olympic Park, killing one person and injuring more than 100
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| 1997:
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United Auto Workers approved a deal to end a six-day strike at a General Motors parts plant that forced four assembly plant shutdowns and threatened GM's entire North American production
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| 1998:
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President Clinton held a town meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on the future of Social Security, during which he expressed skepticism about proposals to privatize part of the Social Security trust fund
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| 1998:
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Monica Lewinsky spent five hours being interviewed by prosecutors in New York in a possile prelude to an immunity deal
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| 1999:
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The House approved President Clinton's one-year extension of normal trade with China
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| 1999:
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In an overwhelming defeat for major league umpires, their threatened walkout collapsed when all the umpires withdrew their resignations; however, about one-third of them ended up losing their jobs anyway
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| 1999:
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A flash flood in Switzerland claimed the lives of 21 people, 18 of them tourists
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| 1999:
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With Air Force Col. Eileen Collins at the controls, space shuttle Columbia returned to Earth, ending a five-day mission
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| 2000:
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Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic called presidential, parliamentary and local elections for the following September. (The election would result in Milosevic's fall from power.)
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| 2005:
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Sinn Féin leaders believed to have left IRA Army Council
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| 2005:
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U.S. Senator Santorum: ‘not to run’ in 2008 Presidential race
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| 2005:
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Google adds Hybrid Satellite/Map View
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| 2005:
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Four arrested in Birmingham UK in connection with July 21 attempted bombings
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| 2005:
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British computer firm Tiny axes more than 1,500 Jobs
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| 2005:
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Record rains disrupt life in Mumbai, India
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| 2005:
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Crew of Discovery inspect Shuttle for launch damage
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| 2005:
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Tentative deal averts Ontario liquor stores strike
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| 2005:
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CAFTA faces tough vote in U.S. House
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| 2005:
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Verdicts announced in France's largest child abuse case
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| 2005:
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Brief bomb alerts in central London
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| 2005:
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Football CL: All first leg games of second qualifications round are over
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| 2006:
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Miner dies after being struck with hose in Central Western NSW
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| 2006:
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Current Israel Hezbollah conflict being compared with "Operation Grapes of Wrath"
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| 2006:
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Obrador declares himself President, plans protests
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| 2006:
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Saddam Hussein to learn his fate in October
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| 2006:
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DHS funds research targeting anonymity and blogs
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| 2006:
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Hamas denies that release of Israeli soldier is "imminent"
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| 2006:
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Man shot in New Zealand gun shop
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| 2006:
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Tube train evacuated after a landslide in west London
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| 2006:
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Ayman al-Zawahiri warns: Israel will "pay the price" for attacking muslims
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| 2006:
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Landis tests positive for high levels of testosterone; could lose Tour title
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| 2007:
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Two missing after severe thunderstorm in St. Paul, Minnesota
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| 2007:
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Blast kills three at Mojave Spaceport, California
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| 2007:
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Tour de France: Sandy Casar wins stage 18
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| 2007:
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Two news helicopters crash in Phoenix, Arizona
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| 2007:
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Claire Danes appears on MuchMusic to promote film "Stardust"
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| 2007:
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UN aid convoys face increasing attacks in Darfur
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| 2008:
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Qantas ordered to check oxygen cylinders
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| 2008:
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Two dead, seven others wounded in church by gunfire in Tennessee, United States
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| 2008:
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EU maintains ban on Indonesian airlines amid accusations of political motivation
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| 2008:
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Youssef Chahine, Egyptian film director dies at 82
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| 2009:
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Heavy rainfall creates huge traffic jams across Delhi, India
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| 2010:
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Poisoned liquor kills 17 in Kenyan slum
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| 2010:
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Google Android smartphone sales triple in the UK this year
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| 2010:
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Wikileaks release Afghan "war logs" in co-operation with mainstream media
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| 2010:
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One dead after motorcycle and car collision in Guernsey, Channel Islands
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| 2010:
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Two tornadoes touch down near Wellington, Utah
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| 2010:
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Seychelles sentences Somali pirates to ten years in prison
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| 2010:
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New Jersey governor calls television show "Jersey Shore" negative
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| 2010:
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Investigation into Washington, D.C. Metro crash finds need for new safety rules
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| 2010:
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Chip Ganassi makes American motor sports history
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| 2010:
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Twin car bomb kills 20 in Iraq
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History
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Physician, sociologist, and political leader, José Celso Barbosa born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico
US Army bombardier and four-time Emmy Award winning television producer, Norman Lear born in New Haven, Connecticut
Actor and comedian, Jerry Van Dyke born in Danville, Illinois
Oscar winning cartoon character, Bugs Bunny makes his debut in A Wild Hare
Olympic Gold Medalist skater, Peggy Fleming born in San Jose, California
Tony Award nominated actress, Roxanne Hart born in Trenton, New Jersey