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Trajan, 13th Roman Emperor (98-117) born
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| 668:
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Constans II Pogonatus, Byzantine Emperor assassinated, Sicily
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| 863:
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Iwashimizu Shrine holds its first Festival
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| 1128:
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Hugh de Payens, Master of the Templars, receives the "Relief des St. Omer' from the father of Geoffrey de St. Omer
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| 1159:
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Coronation of Alexander III as Pope
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Maria, queen of Hungary and wife of Louis II born
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| 1572:
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Composer Erasmus Widmann born
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| 1584:
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German poet Georg R Weckerlin (Oden und Ges"nge) born
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| 1586:
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Composer Cristobal de Isla Diego born
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| 1588:
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The Spanish Armada, which attempted to invade England, is destroyed by a British fleet
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| 1596:
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Cadiz, Spain plundered by the Earl of Essex
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| 1597:
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Cervantes thrown into Seville jail, where he gets idea for "Don Q"
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| 1613:
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Franois, Duc de La Rochefoucald born
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| 1613:
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Sir Thomas Overbury, 32, dies of poison in the Tower of London
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| 1649:
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Titus Oates, Anglican priest who fabricated the "Popish Plot" of 1678
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| 1776:
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British forces occupied New York City during the American Revolution
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| 1788:
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An alliance between Britain, Prussia and the Netherlands is ratified at the Hague
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| 1789:
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Novelist James Fenimore Cooper 1st major American novelist. born
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| 1789:
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The US Department of Foreign Affairs was renamed the Department of State
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| 1821:
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Independence was proclaimed for Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador
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| 1849:
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A Bosendorfer grand piano was willed to Bruckner by a family friend, and Bruckner composed his Requiem in D minor in the friend's honor. The work, Bruckner's first major composition, was performed
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| 1853:
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In her home state of New York, Antoinette L. Brown, 28, became pastor of the Congregational church in South Butler -- making her the first woman to be formally ordained to the pastorate in the United States
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| 1857:
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William Howard Taft, 27th president of the United States born
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| 1858:
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The Butterfield Overland Mail Company begins delivering mail from St. Louis to San Francisco. The company's motto is: "Remember, boys, nothing on God's earth must stop the United States mail!"
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| 1862:
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Confederates capture Harpers Ferry, securing the rear of Robert E. Lee's forces in Maryland
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| 1876:
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Conductor Bruno Walter born
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| 1881:
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Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti, car builder born
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| 1890:
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Dame Mystery writer Agatha Christie born
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| 1891:
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The Dalton gang holds up a train and takes $2,500 at Wagoner, Okla
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| 1894:
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The great conductor Bruno Walter made his debut. It was his 18th birthday
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| 1901:
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Sir Howard Bailey, British engineer who gave his name to a prefabricated bridge used extensively during World War II born
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| 1903:
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Country music star Roy Acuff born
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| 1914:
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President Woodrow Wilson orders the Punitive Expedition out of Mexico. The Expedition, headed by General John Pershing, had been searching for Pancho Villa, a Mexican revolutionary
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| 1917:
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Russia was proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky, the head of a provisional government
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| 1921:
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Bluesman Snooky Pryor born
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| 1922:
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Actor-director Jackie Cooper born
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| 1924:
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Singer-pianist Bobby Short born
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| 1927:
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Comedian Norm Crosby born
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| 1928:
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Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers, by accident, that the mold penicillin has an antibiotic effect
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| 1933:
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Actor Henry Darrow born
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| 1935:
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The Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of their citizenship and made the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany
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| 1937:
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Prime Minister of England Neville Chamberlain flies to Germany to discuss the future of Czechoslovakia with Adolf Hitler
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| 1938:
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Baseball Hall-of-Famer Gaylord Perry born
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| 1939:
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The Polish submarine Orzel arrives in Tallinn, Estonia, after escaping the German invasion of Poland
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| 1940:
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Football Hall-of-Famer Merlin Olsen born
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| 1940:
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During the Battle of Britain in World War Two, the tide turned as the Luftwaffe sustained heavy losses inflicted by the Royal Air Force
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| 1942:
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Armies of Nazi Germany began their siege of the Russian city of Stalingrad, now called Volgograd
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| 1945:
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Opera singer Jessye Norman born
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| 1945:
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Rock musician Lee Dorman (Iron Butterfly) born
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| 1945:
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An American soldier shot Anton Webern dead. There was a curfew in Austria, and Webern, smoking a cigar after dinner, was violating it
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| 1946:
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Actor Tommy Lee Jones born
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| 1946:
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Movie director Oliver Stone born
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| 1949:
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"The Lone Ranger" premiered on ABC television with Clayton Moore as the masked hero and Jay Silverheels as Tonto
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| 1950:
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During the Korean conflict, United Nations forces landed at Inchon in the south and began their drive toward Seoul
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| 1959:
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Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrived in the US to begin a 13-day visit
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| 1960:
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Rock musician Mitch Dorge (Crash Test Dummies) born
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| 1961:
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Football quarterback Dan Marino born
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| 1963:
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Four children were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at a black Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama. Two black teenage boys were shot to death later that day as city-wide rioting broke out
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| 1965:
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The science-fiction series "Lost in Space" (set in the year 1997) premiered on CBS
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| 1965:
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"Green Acres" premiered on CBS
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| 1966:
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The American Bible Society published the New Testament of its "Today's English Version" (TEV), otherwise known as "Good News for Modern Man." It marked the end of a two-year effort led by chief translator, Robert G. Bratcher. (The complete Good News Bible was published in 1976.)
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| 1968:
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Actor Danny Nucci born
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| 1969:
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Rap DJ Kay Gee (Naughty By Nature) born
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| 1969:
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Ed Sullivan released "The Sulli-Gulli," his first and only rock record
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| 1971:
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Actor Josh Charle born
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| 1972:
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The Watergate indictments began with charges against seven low-ranking perpetrators, including two former White House aides, G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt
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| 1978:
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Muhammad Ali defeated Leon Spinks in 15 rounds in New Orleans to win an unprecedented 4th World Heavyweight Boxing title
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| 1982:
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The first issue of USA Today was published
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| 1982:
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Iran's former foreign minister, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, was executed after he was convicted of plotting against the government
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| 1983:
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Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin submitted his formal resignation to President Chaim Herzog
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| 1983:
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The U.S. Senate joined the House of Representatives in condemning the Soviet Union for shooting down a Korean jetliner with 269 aboard
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| 1984:
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Britain's Prince Harry of Wales born
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| 1985:
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Bishop James Malone, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, issued a statement saying new emphasis on the teaching of sexual morality was "urgently needed" to fight off the impact of the sexual revolution
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| 1986:
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Philippine President Corazon Aquino arrived in the United States for a nine-day visit aimed at winning political and economic support
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| 1987:
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On the opening day of his confirmation hearing, Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork told the Senate Judiciary Committee his philosophy was "neither liberal nor conservative."
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| 1988:
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Thousands of coastal residents from Mexico to Louisiana were fleeing to higher ground, a day after Hurricane "Gilbert" pounded the Yucatan Peninsula
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| 1989:
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The Exxon Corp. halted its billion-dollar oil spill cleanup effort in Alaska's Prince William Sound as winter approached
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| 1989:
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Penn Warren, the first poet laureate of the United States, died in Stratton, Vermont, at age 84
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| 1990:
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France announced it would send 4,000 more soldiers to the Persian Gulf and expel Traqi military attaches in Paris in response to Iraq's raids on French, Belgian and Canadian diplomatic compounds in Kuwait
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| 1992:
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FBI Director William S. Sessions promised a new national campaign to stem a recent wave of carjackings
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| 1992:
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Washington state Senator Patty Murray defeated former Congressman Don Bonker to win the Democratic nomination for the US Senate seat being vacated by Brock Adams
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| 1993:
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Former 60's radical Katherine Ann Power, who'd spent 23 years in hiding, surrendered to authorities to face charges stemming from a 1970 bank robbery in which Boston police officer Walter Schroeder Senior was killed. (Power received a five-year federal term, to run concurrently with an eight- to 12-year state sentence.)
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| 1994:
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In a terse ultimatum from the Oval Office, President Clinton told Haiti's military leaders in a prime-time address: "Your time is up. Leave now or we will force you from power."
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| 1995:
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Hurricane Marilyn, the third major storm to batter the Caribbean in less than a month, hit the Virgin Islands with heavy rains and 100 mph winds
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| 1995:
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The U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, approved a wide-ranging platform on women's rights, including the promotion of inheritance rights and the condemnation of wartime rape
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| 1996:
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Defense Secretary William Perry was making the rounds among American allies in the Persian Gulf region, seeking additional support for the US stance against Iraq. Bahrain agreed to play host to 26 American F-16 jet fighters
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| 1997:
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Two of the nation's most popular diet drugs -- dexfenfluramine and fenfluramine -- were pulled off the market because of new evidence they could seriously damage patients' hearts
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| 1997:
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Former Massachusetts Governor William Weld gave up his battle to be US ambassador to Mexico
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| 1997:
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The IRA-allied Sinn Fein party entered Northern Ireland's peace talks for the first time
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| 1998:
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Nine states and the District of Columbia held primaries. In New York, liberal congressman Charles Schumer won the Democratic nod to challenge Republican Senator Alfonse D'Amato. (Schumer won.) In Washington state, conservative congresswoman Linda Smith won the right to challenge Democratic Senator Patty Murray (Murray won re-election)
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| 1998:
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Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his 63rd home run of the seasonl
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| 1999:
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One month after being charged in the United States with laundering suspected drug payoffs, Mexico's former top drug prosecutor, Mario Ruiz Massieu, was found dead in his New Jersey apartment, an apparent suicide
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| 1999:
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Gunman Larry Ashbrook opened fire in a Fort Worth, Texas, Baptist church, killing seven people and himself
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| 2005:
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Blackwater mercenaries used in New Orleans
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| 2005:
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Sony recalls Playstation 2 power adaptors
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| 2005:
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Israeli court orders controversial wall rerouted
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| 2005:
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National plant materials center goes native in Washington, DC
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| 2005:
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Seven face deportation after UK dawn raids
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| 2005:
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US state of Texas executes woman convicted of murdering family
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| 2005:
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Thai political talk show taken off air
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| 2005:
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Imperfect immune systems help avoid autoimmune disease
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| 2005:
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US airlines Delta, Northwest file for bankruptcy
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| 2005:
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Were New Orleanians caught in political crossfire?
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| 2005:
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Thai political talk show taken off during media buyout attempt
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| 2005:
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Tauranga bomb threat politically motivated
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| 2005:
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Telstra sale legislation passed by Australian Senate
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| 2005:
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Lavalas candidate barred from elections
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| 2006:
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New Democrats score upset in Ontario's Parkdale-High Park by-election
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| 2006:
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Astronaut Steve MacLean talks with Canadian PM over phone
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| 2006:
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Thought-controlled cybernetic arms demonstrated
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| 2006:
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Canadian Governor General speaks on Montreal shooting
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| 2006:
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Pupils fed through gates, school criticised
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| 2006:
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Larry Sanger announces Wikipedia fork
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| 2006:
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Paris Hilton too costly to ridicule, says Charlotte Church
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| 2006:
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Nickelodeon to cease broadcasting temporarily in US, to encourage play
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| 2006:
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Wikimedia sites database locked, takes hour to get back to normal
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| 2006:
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Muslim world condemns Pope's criticism of Islam
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| 2006:
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Dell announces revenue and cost actions to halt decline
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| 2006:
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BT Global Services to double US revenues and cut costs
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| 2006:
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Planned shooting thwarted in Wisconsin
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| 2006:
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Statistics say websites with user-generated content are the fastest growing
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| 2006:
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Virginia bill proposes castration as treatment option for sex offenders
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| 2006:
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Child abuse case in West Virginia ends in jail time
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| 2006:
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Microsoft threatens European Vista release delays due EC monopoly regulations
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| 2006:
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Colombian police rescue kidnapped 2-month old baby
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| 2006:
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E. coli outbreak kills 1, sickens nearly 100
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| 2007:
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Finland scrambles fighter jet to respond to Russian aircraft
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| 2007:
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Car bomb kills 15 in Pakistani anti-terror unit
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| 2007:
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Twenty20 World Championship: New Zealand vs Sri Lanka
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| 2007:
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Aircraft crashes during mock dogfight at Shoreham Airshow, United Kingdom
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| 2007:
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Twenty20 World Championship: South Africa vs Bangladesh
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| 2007:
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Rugby World Cup: New Zealand, Australia and Ireland win
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| 2007:
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Xbox 360 console sales surge in America
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| 2007:
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Foiled HSBC robbers named
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| 2007:
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Explosion, fire on guided missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf injures five
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| 2007:
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Queues form outside struggling UK bank; calm urged
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| 2007:
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Hamas preparing for Israeli 'incursion' into Gaza
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| 2008:
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Decade worth of messages, interviews from bin Laden leaked to web
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| 2008:
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Zimbabwean rivals sign power sharing deal
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| 2008:
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Helicopter crash in Australia kills four
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| 2008:
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Libertarian National Committee in fierce deadlock over how to address growing Bob Barr controversies
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| 2008:
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Oasis star Noel Gallagher assaulted on stage in Toronto
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| 2008:
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Despite threats, "Alaska Women Reject Palin" rally held
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| 2008:
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Bank of America attempts takeover of Merrill Lynch
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| 2009:
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Yale graduate student who went missing before wedding found dead
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| 2009:
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At least 38 killed after flash flooding in Indonesia
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| 2009:
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American actor Patrick Swayze dies at age 57
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| 2009:
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Humpback whale found dead in River Thames, England
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| 2009:
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Rubens Barrichello wins Italian Grand Prix
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| 2010:
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Pope Benedict XVI heads to the UK amid protests
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| 2010:
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Headless man found near suburban Chicago school
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| 2010:
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Tea Party-endorsed Christine O'Donnell wins Delaware Senate primary election
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| 2010:
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The Club steering lock inventor James Winner dies in car accident
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| 2011:
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Australia's Channel Seven breaches children TV standards regulations by broadcasting McDonald's advertisement
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| 2011:
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Texas wildfires push public resources to the limit
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Author Agatha Christie born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in Oxfordshire, England
Jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley born Julian Edwin Adderley in Gary, Indiana
Nobel Prize winning physicist and elementary particle theoretician, Murray Gell-Mann born in Manhattan, New York
Academy, Emmy, and Golden Globe Award winning actor, Tommy Lee Jones born in San Saba, Texas
Academy Award winning film maker, Oliver Stone born in New York City
Actress Julie Cox born in Ely, England