Thursday, August 07, 2008
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| | 768 | Stephen III [IV] begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
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| | 936 | Otto I the Great becomes King of Germany |
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| | 1409 | Council of Pisa closes |
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| | 1479 | Battle of Guinegate: Emperor Maximilian I vs King Louis XI |
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| | 1485 | Henry (VII) Tudors army lands in Milford Harbor, South-Wales |
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| | 1498 | Columbus arrives in Caribbean |
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| | 1573 | Francis Drakes fleet returns to Plymouth |
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| | 1575 | Spanish troops conquer Oudewater, almost all inhabitants died |
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| | 1588 | English assault on Spanish Armada |
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| | 1620 | Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft |
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| | 1620 | Battle at Ponts-the-Ce, Poitou: French king Louis XIII beats his mother Marie de Medici |
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| | 1710 | Earl van Godolphin resigns as English minister of Finance |
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| | 1750 | Slave uprising on Curacao |
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| | 1760 | Ft. Loudon, Tennessee surrenders to Cherokee Indians |
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| | 1782 | George Washington creates Order of Purple Heart |
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| | 1789 | Congress creates Department of War and Lighthouse Service |
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| | 1802 | Napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery on St. Domingue (Haiti) |
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| | 1814 | Pope Pius VII reinstates Jesuits |
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| | 1819 | Battle of Boyaca; Bolivar defeats Spanish in Colombia |
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| | 1820 | 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii |
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| | 1867 | Battle of Moorefield, WV |
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| | 1882 | Hatfields of south WV and McCoys of east Kentucky feud, 100 wounded or die |
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| | 1884 | Germany annexes Angra Pequena (Southwest-Africa) |
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| | 1885 | 5 German warships anchor at Zanzibar |
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| | 1888 | Theophilus Van Kannel of Philadelphia patents revolving door |
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| | 1893 | 53rd Congress (1893-95) convenes |
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| | 1900 | Diamond workers in Amsterdam strike |
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| | 1904 | Train derailed on bridge in Eden Colorado during a flash flood, kills 96 |
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| | 1907 | Walter Johnson wins 1st of his 416 wins, 7-2 over Cleveland |
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| | 1909 | U.S. issues 1st Lincoln penny |
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| | 1912 | Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for pres |
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| | 1914 | British Gloucester vs German Breslau/Goeben off Greece |
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| | 1914 | French government awards king Albert of Belgium the Great Cross |
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| | 1914 | French troops under Gen Bonneau occupy Altkitrch at Elzas |
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| | 1914 | German army occupies city of Liege Belgium |
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| | 1914 | Lord Kitchner says 'Your country needs you,' poster spreads over UK |
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| | 1915 | Assault up Russell's Top at Gallipolis, 232 Australians die |
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| | 1915 | St. Louis 3rd base coach Miller Huggins, calls for ball Brooklyn rookie obliges, Huggins steps aside, and Card runner scores |
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| | 1921 | Cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world champ sprinter |
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| | 1925 | League of Nation advises against Turk/Iraqi division of Mosoelgebied |
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| | 1927 | Peace Bridge between U.S. and Canada dedicated |
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| | 1927 | U.S. rum smuggler Horace Alderman kills 3 |
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| | 1929 | Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms Dutch government |
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| | 1929 | Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games |
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| | 1930 | Richard Bedford Bennet forms Canadian government |
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| | 1934 | U.S. Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel 'Ulysses' |
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| | 1935 | 60% of voters agrees to nazism in Danzig (Gdansk) |
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| | 1938 | 2 die in a New York City subway accident |
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| | 1938 | Leo Durocher, hits 2,000th Dodger home run |
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| | 1938 | Nazi's close theologic department of Innsbruck university |
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| | 1940 | Churchill recognizes De Gaulle government in exile |
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| | 1940 | Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1 cent 1856 British Guiana) |
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| | 1941 | 551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania |
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| | 1942 | 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands |
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| | 1942 | Resistance bombs Rotterdam railway |
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| | 1942 | Transport 16 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
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| | 1943 | Red Army recaptures Bogodukov |
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| | 1944 | Anton de Kom arrested by Surinam resistance fighter |
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| | 1944 | Canada/Polish offensive direction Falaise: Total Cooperation |
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| | 1944 | German counter attack at Avranches fails |
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| | 1944 | July 20th Plot trial under Roland Freis in Berlin begins |
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| | 1944 | U.S. 3rd Army reaches suburbs of Brest Brittany |
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| | 1947 | Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashes into a Polynesian archipelago reef |
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| | 1948 | 1st Dutch government of Beel resigns |
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| | 1948 | Delfo Cabrera wins 11th Olympic marathon (2:34:51.6) |
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| | 1949 | 'All after Love' closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 121 performances |
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| | 1950 | Police bar white players-Lou Chirban, Stan Mierko, and Frank Dyle, from playing in Negro League |
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| | 1951 | Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 kph |
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| | 1951 | U.S. viking rocket reaches 210 km height, record |
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| | 1953 | Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses Electra prop-jet |
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| | 1954 | 'Golden Apple' closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 125 performances |
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| | 1954 | Charles Mahoney becomes 1st U.S. black to serve as a full United Nations delegate |
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| | 1955 | Bar-Ilan University founded in Israel |
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| | 1955 | KSTF TV channel 10 in Scottsbluff-Gering, NB (CBS/NBC) begins |
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| | 1956 | Boston Red Sox fine Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at Boston fans |
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| | 1956 | British government sends 3 aircraft carriers to Egypt |
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| | 1956 | Dynamite transport explodes in Colombia; about 1200 die |
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| | 1957 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
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| | 1959 | Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space |
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| | 1960 | Ivory Coast, Cote d'Ivoore, gains independence from France |
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| | 1960 | Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches |
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| | 1960 | Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open |
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| | 1961 | Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2 |
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| | 1961 | Soviet premier Khrushchev predicts U.S.S.R. economy will surpass U.S. |
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| | 1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
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| | 1963 | Jacqueline Kennedy becomes 1st, 1st lady to give birth since Mrs. Cleveland |
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| | 1964 | 31st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago 28, All-Stars 17 (65,000) |
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| | 1964 | Turkey begins air attack on Greek-Cypriots |
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| | 1964 | U.S. Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution |
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| | 1966 | Race riot in Lansing, Michigan |
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| | 1970 | 1st computer chess tournament |
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| | 1970 | Christine McVie joins Fleetwood Mac |
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| | 1970 | WDHN TV channel 18 in Dothan, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting |
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| | 1970 | 4, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San Rafael, California (Police charge Angela Davis provided weapons) |
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| | 1971 | Apollo 15 returns to Earth |
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| | 1972 | Hall of Fame inducts Berra, Sandy Koufax, Lefty Gomez and Early Wynn |
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| | 1974 | Actress Faye Dunaway weds Peter Wolf of J Geils Band |
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| | 1974 | Philippe Petit walks tightrope strung between twin towers |
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| | 1976 | Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Colgate-European Golf Open |
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| | 1976 | U.S. Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth |
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| | 1976 | Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars |
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| | 1977 | 'Shenandoah' closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 1,050 performances |
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| | 1978 | Eddie Mathews, Addie Joss, and Larry MacPhail inducted to Hall of Fame |
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| | 1978 | Thousands of mourners file past body of Pope Paul VI |
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| | 1980 | Hurricane Allen ravages Caribisch area, about 70 killed |
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| | 1983 | 'Merlin' closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 199 performances |
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| | 1983 | 1st World Track and Field Championships |
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| | 1983 | 65th PGA Championship: Hal Sutton shoots a 274 at Riviera CC LA |
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| | 1983 | Bobby Murcer Day at Yankee Stadium |
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| | 1983 | Grete Waitz of Norway, wins 1st all-women Marathon (Helsinki Fin) |
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| | 1983 | Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
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| | 1983 | Some 675,000 employees strike AT&T |
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| | 1984 | David Rabe's 'Hurlyburly,' premieres in New York City |
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| | 1984 | Japan beats U.S. for olympic gold medal in baseball |
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| | 1984 | Jim Deshales becomes 1,000th playing Yankee |
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| | 1985 | Barbra Streisand records 'Broadway Album' |
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| | 1985 | Baseball players end a 2 day strike |
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| | 1986 | 'Honky Tonk Nights' opens at Biltmore Theater New York City for 4 performances |
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| | 1986 | Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel and Anne Knabe begin cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay Alaska to Argentina |
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| | 1987 | 5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala |
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| | 1987 | Javed Miandad scores 260 vs. England at The Oval, 28 fours 1 six |
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| | 1987 | Lynne Cox swims 4.3 km from U.S. to U.S.S.R. in 39 degrees F (4 degrees C) Bering Sea |
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| | 1988 | Martha Nause wins Planters Pat Bradley International Golf Tournament |
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| | 1988 | Writers guild end their 6 months strike |
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| | 1990 | Desert Shield begins - U.S. deploys troops to Saudi Arabia |
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| | 1990 | New York Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 12th HR in 1st 92 at bats and becomes 21st to hit a ball into 3rd deck of Seattle's Kingdome |
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| | 1991 | Charles Austin breaks U.S. high jump record at 7'10 ' |
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| | 1991 | Court rules Manuel Noriega, may access some secret U.S. documents |
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| | 1991 | Darrin Lewis hits his 1st major league HR |
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| | 1991 | Manhattan Cable final day of amnesty to return illegal cable boxes |
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| | 1991 | U.S. sets 400m relay record at 37.67 seconds |
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| | 1992 | Cleveland Indians turn a triple play |
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| | 1992 | Tampa Bay group purchases San Francisco Giants |
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| | 1993 | 'Camelot' closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 56 performances |
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| | 1993 | Tropical storm Brett ravages Venezuela, 118 killed |
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| | 1994 | 'Hedda Gabler' closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 33 performances |
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| | 1994 | 1st telephone link between Israel and Jordan |
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| | 1994 | Carolyn Hill wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain |
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| | 1994 | Ernesto Samper sworn in as president of Colombia |
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| | 1997 | STS 85, Discovery 23, launches into orbit |
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| | 1997 | Ung Huot appointed Cambodia's 1st premier |
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| | 1998 | US embassies bombed in Kenya and Tanzania killing at least 200 |
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| | 2003 | An Islamist terrorist is sentenced to death for his part in the Bali bombings that kill nearly 200 in 2002 |
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