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It has been 2000 years since Jesus's Death
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three dead and fifty-four injured from arson fire
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St. Louis Rams (23) vs. Tennessee Titans (16)
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sentenced to life in prison for murder of at least 15 of his patients
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Tarja Halonen is elected the first female president of Finnland
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Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Tom Landry, Charles M. Schulz, and Oliver die, of unrelated causes.
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The last original Peanuts comic was published
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu makes an address at the University of Toronto.
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Six-year-old Dedrick Owens shoots and kills Kayla Rolland, also six years old, at Theo J. Buell Elementary School in Mount Morris Township, Michigan. Rolland is currently the youngest victim of a school shooting.
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collision of 2 Tokyo Metro trains kills 5 people
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Japanese prime minister Obuchi Keizo suffers a stroke and falls into a coma.
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Mori Yoshiro replaces Obuchi as prime minister of Japan.
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Hugo Chávez returns to power in Venezuela
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Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin becomes Raja of Perlis.
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The State of Vermont passes HB847, legalizing Civil Unions for same-sex couples.
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94 left dead
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First North-South presidental summit
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preliminary draft of genomes are finishted
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9 died and 26 injured during rock concert
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Robert Mueller confirmed as the new FBI director.
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This day is taken as the commemoration date of his death.
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250 million US gallons (950,000 m3) of coal sludge spill in Martin County, Kentucky. Considered a greater environmental disaster than the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
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In Aden, Yemen, the USS Cole is badly damaged by two suicide bombers who placed a small boat laden with explosives alongside the United States Navy destroyer, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
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Hatfield rail crash, United Kingdom: Part of a rail shatters as a passenger train passes over it; four people are killed, 70 are injured.
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Sony's Playstation 2 is released in North America.
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The last Multics machine is shut down.
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Singapore Airlines Flight 006 collides with construction equipment in the Chiang Kai-shek International Airport – 83 dead.
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U.S. presidential election, 2000: Republican challenger George W. Bush defeats Democrat Vice President Al Gore, but the final outcome is not known for over a month because of disputed votes in Florida.
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Austria,155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel.
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Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting US President to visit Vietnam.
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The U.S. Supreme Court stops the Florida presidential recount, effectively giving the state, and the Presidency, to George W. Bush.
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The third and final reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down and the station is shut down completely
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A shopping center fire at Luoyang, Henan, China kills 309.
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A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines, within a span of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about 100
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The Millennium Dome closes its doors one year to the day of its opening
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First cloned animal of a endagered species
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Wikipedia launches on the internet
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He becomes the 43rd President
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Plane crashes in Venezuela killing 24
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Earthquake leaves 12,000
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Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman announced that they had separated.
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Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon wins election as Prime Minister of Israel.
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American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks Japanese fishing vessel Ehime-Maru.
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An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400
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FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested and charged with spying for Russia for 15 years.
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The Treaty of Nice was signed by European leaders on 26 February 2001 and came into force on 1 February 2003. It amended the Maastricht Treaty (or the Treaty on European Union) and the Treaty of Rome (or the Treaty establishing the European Community). The Treaty of Nice reformed the institutional structure of the European Union to withstand eastward expansion, a task which was originally intended to have been done by the Amsterdam Treaty, but failed to be addressed at the time.
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Author of 29 spy novels
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The popular Bratz, rival to the Barbie doll, debuts
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Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh executed in Indiana
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23 people killed and 11 wounded by an American missile hitting a soccer field in northern Iraq
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World's first self-contained artificial heart implanted in Robert Tools.
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A Vladivostokavia Tupolev Tu-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia, killing 145
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. wins the Pepsi 400 in the first NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series race at the Daytona International Speedway since the death of Dale Earnhardt Sr.
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In Baltimore, Maryland, a 60-car train derailment occurs in a tunnel sparking a fire that will last days and virtually shut down downtown Baltimore
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Robert Mueller confirmed as the new FBI director.
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US President George W. Bush announces his support for federal funding of limited research on embryonic stem cells.
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Died: Aaliyah, contemporary R&B and pop singer, dies in a plane crash at the age of 22.
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Michael Jackson performs 30th anniversary (of his career) concert.
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The September 11 terrorist attacks take place in New York City, The Pentagon, and in Pennsylvania, killing 2,977 people.
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The Nintendo GameCube is released in Japan
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The New York Stock Exchange reopens following the terrorist attacks in New York.
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Tom Brady takes over at quarterback after the starting QB, Drew Bledsoe, suffered internal bleeding after a hit from Jets linebacker Mo Lewis.
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It was released on Microsoft's Xbox, and became the "Killer App." for the console
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France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Finland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Austria, Ireland and the Netherlands
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The Patriots defeated the heavily favored St. Louis Rams (20-17) this was the first of the Patriot's 3 Super Bowl wins in 4 years
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Layne Staley lead singer and co-lyricist of the rock group Alice In Chains found dead in home.
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As the Israeli–Palestinian conflict intensifies, the United States repeats its demands to Israel that it should pull back its troops.
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A small aircraft crashes on the Pirelli building in Milan, Italy, killing two women
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video game score tracking website Cyberscore is made.
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Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones released in theaters.
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The last steel beam standing at the World Trade Center site is cut down and placed on a flatbed truck in a quiet ceremony honoring the construction workers.
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Hit reality show, American Idol premiered its first episode on Fox Network.
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due to failure of correct communication from ground-to-air. The 69 people aboard the Tupolev (mainly Russian schoolchildren) and the two pilots of the Boeing are all killed.
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First near-earth object to be given a positive rating on the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale for potential Earth collision is (89959) 2002 NT7 with a potential impact on February 1, 2019.
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A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter plane crashes into a crowd at an airshow in Lviv in Ukraine, killing at least 78 people and injuring many more.
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The Beltway snipers fire the first shot of their shooting spree through the window of a Michaels craft store in Aspen Hill, Maryland
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Special forces of the Russian army attacked the Chechen separatists who were holding hostages in a Moscow theater. 50 of the 53 separatists and 117 of the 800 hostages were killed. Most of hostages were killed by poison gas used by the special forces, with most of the surviving hostages hospitalised with gas poisoning.
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A AGM-114 Hellfire missile launched by an American drone airplane destroyed a car carrying what the United States claims were six members of al-Qaeda, including the mastermind of the USS Cole attack, Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi.
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The United States signs the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
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The first team of United Nations weapons inspectors arrive in Iraq, where they will prepare for inspections for evidence of the development or possession of weapons of mass destruction by Saddam Hussein's regime.
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A group of European scientists has announced that they intend to use the Very Large Telescope to take pictures of the lunar module bases remaining on the Moon, in order to debunk the Apollo moon landing conspiracy theory that states that the Apollo moon landings were a hoax.
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Three suicide bombers detonated themselves at a hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, killing a number of people, including Israeli tourists who have been presumed to be the targets of the attack. At the same time two anti-aircraft missiles were fired at a passenger aircraft, which only narrowly missed. The two attacks are suspected to be connected, and it is suspected that al-Qaeda may be involved in the attacks.
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeat the Oakland Raiders (48-21)
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The Space Shuttle Columbia was reported to have disintegrated over Texas on its final approach to a landing after its 28th space mission. All seven crew members were killed in the disaster. It was later discovered that a piece of foam insulation had broken off the external fuel tank and punctured a hole in the left wing during launch.
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A military plane carrying 302 members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards crashed in the mountains of southeastern Iran killing all on board. The government did not go into the possible cause of the crash.
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A fire started by pyrotechnics set-off by Great White, a rock band playing a nightclub in West Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island, kills at least 96 and injures nearly 200, with 35 in critical condition.
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Iraq disarmament crisis: The Turkish speaker of Parliament voids the vote accepting U.S. troops involved in the planned invasion of Iraq into Turkey on constitutional grounds. Due to 19 abstentions, 264 votes for and 250 against accepting 62,000 U.S. military personnel do not constitute the necessary majority under the Turkish constitution
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Britain: Abdullah el-Faisal is jailed for nine years for urging Islamists to kill non-believers, Americans, Hindus and Jews
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In a referendum, Malta votes in favor of joining the European Union in 2004.
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President George W. Bush announces in a televised speech that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his sons have 48 hours to leave Iraq, or the United States will initiate preemptive military action against Iraq.
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The third generation of Pokémon games, also sometimes known as the advance or advanced generation, is the third set of Pokémon games released, and is described by some to be a "resetting" of the series.
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The award-winning machinima series Red vs. Blue made its online premiere.
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Apple Computer revealed a new online music store, entitled the iTunes Music Store, for its iTunes and iPod products. Each song can be downloaded for 99 cents and there is no subscription fee.
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The Iraqi police handling the investigation say they have arrested 19 men in connection with the blast, many of them foreigners and all with admitted links to al-Qaeda.
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Astronomy: Astronomers announce the discovery of an asteroid (2003 QQ47) whose orbit has a remote chance of striking earth.
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Johnny Cash died at the age of 71 due to complications from diabetes, which resulted in respiratory failure, while hospitalized at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. He was interred next to his wife in Hendersonville Memory Gardens near his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
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A suicide attacker detonates a car bomb near United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, killing himself and an Iraqi guard and injuring at least 11 others. The attack came a month after a massive truck bomb devastated the complex and as the UN considers expanding its role in Iraq. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan states that personnel are assessing the situation following the attack.
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Confirmation on the closest near-miss of a natural object ever recorded. The asteroid (designated 2003 SQ222), about the size of a small house, flew past Earth at a distance of around 88,000 kilometres. It would have made a fireball had it entered the atmosphere.
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The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded jointly to Alexei Abrikosov, Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony Leggett for their work on the theory of superconductors and superfluids.
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Israeli troops pull back in Gaza. Israel will continue to demolish tunnels. The Israeli army states it discovers three tunnels in the camp, but no weapons have been found. A Palestinian teenager is shot dead and up to 10 homes were demolished and water and electricity facilities were hit. Palestinian militants were seeking to smuggle from Egypt shoulder-fired missiles that could be used against tanks, helicopters, and fighter jets.
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New draft resolution being circulated at UN aims at getting international aid. The resolution sets a deadline for initial steps, if only for a transitional step, toward restoring Iraqi sovereignty, giving the Iraqi Governing Council until December 15 to develop a timetable for writing a constitution and holding elections. The Bush administration proposes that the United Nations recognize the Iraqi Governing Council as a unit that "will embody the sovereignty" of Iraq until the country returns t
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Trial of John Allen Muhammad, who is suspected of being the Washington DC serial sniper, begins. He pleads not guilty.
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Pope John Paul II beatifies Mother Teresa. Hundreds of thousands attend the ceremony in
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In the heaviest single loss for the coalition troops since cessation of the military campaign in Iraq two US Chinook helicopters are fired on by two surface-to-air missiles and one crashes near Fallujah and on its way to Baghdad airport
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After 26 years, and at a distance from Earth of over 8 billion miles, Voyager 1 exits the solar system. It is expected to keep on transmitting into the 2020s.
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Police in Hebei province, People's Republic of China, arrest a suspected serial killer alleged to have killed at least 65 people.
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Bombs hit Istanbul, Turkey. At least 25 are killed and hundreds injured in two car-bomb blasts that devastate the Turkish headquarters of HSBC and the British consulate. British Consul-General Roger Short is among the dead. The Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front (IBDA-C), a radical Islamist group, claims responsibility.
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The People's Republic of China plans to start tests of a SARS vaccine on humans by the end of December; trials with monkeys show that the vaccine was effective.
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George W. Bush asks James Baker to oversee the reconstruction of Iraq's USD $125 billion foreign debt.
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Doctors at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control are worried that the 2003–2004 influenza season will be the worst in years. Early signs indicate that a particularly virulent strain of the flu virus that is not well-covered by that year's vaccine is hitting hard in some states. Young children and the elderly have been urged to receive the vaccine, doses of which are running low
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A U.S. Kiowa helicopter makes a controlled landing after being struck by an RPG near Fallujah; the two-man crew is uninjured.
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An Israeli helicopter gunship attacks a car in Gaza City, killing Islamic Jihad commander Mekled Hameid and two fellow militants, together with two bystanders.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announces a ban on the sale of dietary supplement ephedra, citing "an unreasonable risk of illness or injury" from the use of the drug.
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On release, Halo 2 was the most popular video game on Xbox Live, holding that rank until the release of Gears of War for the Xbox 360 nearly two years later. Halo 2 is the best-selling first-generation Xbox game, with at least 6.3 million copies sold in the United States alone
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Palestinian militants allegedly misfire a Qassam rocket and kill a Palestinian girl in Jabalia.
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Governor of Baghdad Ali al-Haidri is assassinated in a roadside ambush in the Iraqi capital.
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Ten gang members are sentenced to prison terms of 25 to 40 years for the murders of 12 women in Juárez, Mexico; however, many hundreds of the deaths in Ciudad Juárez remain unsolved.
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After convincing the authorities that he was shooting a documentary, Borat managed to infuriate a crowd at a rodeo in Salem, Virginia, USA: first by saying that "I hope you kill every man, woman and child in Iraq, down to the lizards...and may George W. Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq" (which received a fair amount of applause); and then, by rendering a mangled version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" that was misreported as ending with the words "your home in the grave"
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Pledges to seek "Freedom in all the world"
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According to the Al-Zaman newspaper. Of these, eight are policemen or soldiers
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Marking the end of 18 consecutive years of Star Trek on television
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In the mountains east of Kabul; all 104 people that were on board are presumed dead
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Tom Brady becomes the youngest player in NFL history to win 3 Super Bowls
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She completed the 27,354 mile journey in 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes and 33 seconds, breaking the old record of 72 days, 22 hours, 54 minutes and 22 seconds
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A Toronto mosque makes history by hosting the first known Muslim prayer service in history to be led by a woman
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American cyclist and cancer survivor wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France
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Hurricane Dennis makes landfall in the United States, slamming into the Florida Panhandle with 120 mph winds.
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16 people die following a car bomb attack in the southern Iraqi city of Basra
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Apple Computer has unveiled a pencil-thin iPod nano digital music player and a long-anticipated cell phone that plays music like an iPod
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An earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale is detected off the eastern coast of Papua New Guinea, though no damage has been recorded
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Russia cuts Urkanes natural gas over price desputes
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Hotel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia collapses, killing 76 pilligrams visiting to preform Hajji
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf assumes office as President of Liberia, the first female elected head of state in Africa.
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Pope Benedict XVI issues his first encycylical, Deus Caritas Est
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A stampede occurs in the ULTRA Stadium near Manila killing 71.
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The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is decommissioned by the United States Army .
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A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte , Philippines ; the official death toll is set at 1,126.
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A methane explosion in coal mine near Nueva Rosita , Mexico , kills 65 miners
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A video obtained by the Associated Press shows U.S. President George W. Bush being warned that the levees in New Orleans could break one day before Hurricane Katrina hit.
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More than 200 Taliban rebels and four Canadian troops die
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"The Crocodile Hunter", is killed by a stingray while filming a documentary on Australia's Great Barrier Reef
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At least five pupils, a teacher's aide, and a gunman are dead after an Amish school shooting in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, United States. Some reports have the number of dead at six.
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A small aircraft crashes into a building at 524 East 72nd Street, on Manhattan's Upper East Side in New York City killing 2 people. FBI states that there is so far no reason to suspect terrorism, and the alert level hasn't been raised. The plane was registered to New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle. Lidle is reported to have been the pilot, and along with his flight instructor, was killed in the crash.
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North Korea warns that any participation by South Korea in U.S. led sanctions would be seen as a serious
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Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is convicted of crimes against humanity by a Baghdad court and sentenced to death by hanging
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A deadly tornado kills nine and injures twelve in Saroma, Hokkaido, Japan
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At least 42 people die and 20 people are injured in a bomb blast outside an army training centre in north-west Pakistan
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Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack announces he will be running in the 2008 US Presidential Election
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A suicide bomber kills at least 35 people and injures about 50 more at a police recruiting center in Baghdad
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Typhoon Durian has killed at least 388 people in Albay province on the island of Luzon in the Philippines with the death toll expected to climb as rescuers get to affected villages
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The Government of Iran blocks Wikipedia, IMDb and nytimes.com, among many sites both commercial and informative
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The World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik loses a final game and a match with a computer program, Fritz-10. The final score is 2-4
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Three people are killed and a fourth injured when a gunman starts shooting at a Chicago skyscraper. The gunman was then shot dead by a Chicago Police Department SWAT sniper
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A fire at a Russian drug treatment hospital kills 45 people with arson suspected
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A boat carrying Haitian migrants catches fire off the coast of the Dominican Republic resulting in the death of at least eight people and 44 people missing
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Switzerland accidentally invades Liechtenstein after 171 infantrymen get lost and cross the Liechtenstein border
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Two suicide bombers in a crowd of Muslim pilgrims in Al Hillah kill at least 115 people and wound 150
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Turkey bans user generated content web site YouTube after insulting clips of Turkish founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk are discovered
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The first match of the 2007 Cricket World Cup, between West Indies and Pakistan, takes place at Sabina Park in Jamaica. The West Indies win by 54 runs
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The U.S. state of Colorado adopts "Rocky Mountain High", written by John Denver, as its second official state song
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Like previous Pokémon games, Diamond and Pearl chronicle the adventures of a young Pokémon trainer as he/she trains and battles Pokémon while also thwarting the schemes of a criminal organization. The games add many new features, such as Internet play over the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection and changes to battle mechanics and Pokémon Contests.
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Canada Day marks the creation of the Dominion of Canada through the British North America Act on July 1, 1867
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A landslide buries a bus carrying at least 40 people in mountains near Tehuacán in the Mexican state of Puebla
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Scientists announce the discovery of a new species of cephalopod, dubbed 'octosquid', found off the coast of Hawaii
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These are The Great Wall of China, Petra in Jordan, the Christ the Redeemer statue in Brazil, Machu Picchu in Peru, Mexico's Chichen Itza Mayan site, the Colosseum in Rome and the Taj Mahal in India
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Indonesia evacuates thousands of people living near Mount Gamkonora as it appears likely to explode
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New Zealand launches its first commercially available biofuel, which consists of 90 percent petrol and 10 percent bioethanol made from cows' milk
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Dave Zabriski, an American professional cyclist, defended his National Time Trial Championship by winning by 2 seconds in Greenville, SC
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A bomb explodes on a bus carrying employees of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission destroying the bus in Rawalpindi, Pakistan while a second bomb on a motorbike explodes in a bazaar. (Reuters)
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Halo 3 has now sold in excess of 8.1 million copies, and was the best-selling video game of 2007 in the U.S.
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The New York Giants upset the heavily favored New England Patriots (17-14) This spoiled New Englands bid to be the first team to finish a 16 game regular season undefeated and win the Super Bowl
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On 23 February 2008, a B-2 named, the Spirit of Kansas, crashed on the runway shortly after takeoff from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam. I have nicknamed this, "The quickest way to lose a billion dollars"
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Brett Farve retires after 17 years
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Man made flood in Grand Canyon in attempt to replinish the ecosystem
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Kansas Jayhawks defeat the Memphis Tigers
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Quest is arrested for Meth possession
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sentenced for three years in prison for tax evasion
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Tornadoes sweep through central and southeastern Virginia injuring more than 200 people and damaging multiple houses
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The game would go on to become the fastest selling game in 24 hours by selling 609,000 copies
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The genome of the platypus is sequenced
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price of crude oil reaches a new record high of US$125.98 a barrel
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Crude oil prices rise above $130 a barrel for the first time.
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Sameer Mishra wins the 81st Scripps National Spelling Bee, the winning word was "guerdon"
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sets a new world record for the 100 metres in athletics
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NASA discovers water in atmosphere of Mercuery
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train crash near Marsa Matrouh in northern Egypt kills at least 42 people with 40 more injured
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once thought to be an Etruscan work, is shown to be from the 13th century CE
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sets a new record for box office receipts for an opening weekend in the United States with US$158.4 million
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Considerd historical advancment in Prostate cancer drug
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RENT closes making it the seventh longest running musica
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Death Toll rises by 24
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Ozone hole over the Antarctic has reached its largest expanse, 27 million square kilometers
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Toonami goes completely off the air on Cartoon Network
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United States wins it for the first time since 1999
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NASA launches Interstellar Boundary Explorer satellite that will study the edge of solar system
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Won many Game of the Year awards. The protaginist's father is voiced by actor, Liam Neeson, Whose God-like voice made gamers tremble in respect.
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India's first lunar mission, Chandrayaan-1, transmits two pictures of the Earth while en route to the Moon.
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Lewis Hamilton wins the 2008 Formula One Drivers' Championship,
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Dies at the age of 66
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Jimmie Johnson wins NASCAR's 2008 Sprint Cup Series championship
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As the Christmas shopping season begins in the United States, two are shot at a Toys R Us store in Palm Desert, California, and a Wal-Mart employee is crushed in a stampede after shoppers broke down a front door in Valley Stream, New York.
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O. J. Simpson is sentenced to 15-33 years in prison with eligibility for parole after 9 years for kidnapping
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An Iraqi suicide bomber kills 48 people and wounds almost 100 in a restaurant north of Kirkuk celebrating the end of Eid al-Adha.
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Israel releases 224 captive Palestinians from prison.
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75,000 people in Papua New Guinea are displaced by flooding caused by tidal swells.
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One of the world's biggest accumulations of dinosaur fossils is found near Zhucheng, China. (Reuters) (BBC)
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At least five people die and more than 50 are injured in serial bombings in Guwahati, India. (CNN-IBN)
Russia's Gazprom halts deliveries of natural gas to Ukraine after negotiations over prices fail. (RIA Novosti) (Reuters)
Slovakia adopts the euro and becomes the 16th member of the Eurozone. (Reuters) (BBC)
Virgin Galactic and the U.S. state of New Mexico sign a US$150-250 million agreement to launch sub-orbital commercial space flights at Spaceport America, near Las Cruces and Truth or Consequ -
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Computer worm Conficker infects more than eight million Microsoft Windows-based personal computers.
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number of unique Internet users reached one billion in December 2008
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China declares a national emergency due to severe droughts throughout the country
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birthplace of Zeus is possibly discovered at Mount Lykaion, Greece
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Morocco terminates diplomatic relations with Iran
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Ten-year-old Sussex spaniel Clussexx Three D Grinchy Glee wins the 2009 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show's Best-in-Show Award. (Los Angeles Times)
Thirty mummies are discovered in a 2,600-year-old ancient Egyptian tomb at Saqqara. (AP via National Geographic)
Bishop Richard Williamson is removed from a Roman Catholic seminary in Argentina after denying the Holocaust. (BBC)
Automotive industry crisis of 2008-2009:
Japan's Nissan Motors cuts 20,000 jobs because of the global economic downturn. (CN -
American businessman Bernard Madoff pleads guilty to 11 charges surrounding his US$65-billion Ponzi scheme.
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Richardson succombed to injuries suffered during a skiing accident a few days earlier
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Somali pirates hijack the Danish container ship MV Maersk Alabama in the Indian Ocean
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The Sri Lankan Army kills 91 people and injures 87 others at a hospital inside a civilian safe zone.
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Wildfires near Santa Barbara, California, United States, burn 3,000 acres (12 km2) of land and force 15,000 people to evacuate.
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H1N1 influenza kills a third United States citizen and spreads to Australia and Japan.
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The United Nations requests aid for 1,500,000 people who have been displaced by war in northwest Pakistan.
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Thousands of demonstrators gather in Hong Kong to commemorate the upcoming anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre of June 4, 1989.
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Flight disappers over the Atlantic Coast
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launches Plam Pre smartphone
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debuts third generation of its iPhone
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U.S. television stations complete their switch from analog to digital television
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Pittsburg Penguiens defeat the Detroit Red Wings in game seven
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the largest commercial telecommunication satellite ever built, is successfully launched
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Three dinosaur species—Australovenator wintonensis, Wintonotitan wattsi and Diamantinasaurus matildae—are discovered in Australia.
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260 car pile up in Germany
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China produces Giant Panda with Frozen sperm
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Last surviving WWI veteren to have fought in the Trench dies at age 111
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The death certificate of American pop star and entertainer Michael Jackson is amended to reflect his cause of death as homicide via "injection by another"
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Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider, and Jack W. Szostak
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arrested in Uganda for the Rawandan Genocide
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displayed for the first time in public
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A worldwide media circus surrounds an incident in which a six-year-old boy is alleged to be flying in a homemade hot-air balloon; the boy was later found safe at home.
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Typhoon Mirinae makes landfall in the Philippines.
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At least 14 dead after Typhoon Mirinae
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Yankee's defeat Phillies in Game six of the world series
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Cocktail waitress Jaimee Grubbs provides evidence to reporters that she had an affair with golf legend Tiger Woods
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Archaeologists discover evidence of mass cannibalism in Europe during the Neolithic period at a 7,000 year old burial site in Germany
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At least eight people are killed, mainly children, and at least 41 others are wounded due to a school bombing in Baghdad
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Eight children are killed and a further 26 injured in a stampede at a school in Xiangtan, Hunan, in central China
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Mexican police arrest alleged drug lord Carlos Beltrán Leyva in Culiacán, Sinaloa.
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As many as 1,000 people in the Solomon Islands are reportedly homeless following the two major earthquakes and tsunami which struck the country earlier this week.
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Drew Brees was named the game's MVP after tying a Super Bowl record by throwing 31 pass completions for 288 yards and 2 touchdowns
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Sony blames recent malfunctions of older PS3 "fat" models on an internal clock glitch.
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undergoes quintuple coronary artery bypass surgery
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Shortest living person dies at age 21
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wins Sophie Prize
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The St. Louis Rams select Sam Bradford with the first pick of the 2010 NFL Draft
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The Pakistani military kills approximately 40 Taliban militants in a helicopter attack
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Pablo Picasso's Nude, Green Leaves and Bust sells for US$106 million at Christie's in New York, becoming the most expensive work of art sold at auction
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A fatal attack on a tourist by a "dinosaur-sized" shark off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, prompts the closure of several beaches.
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discovered that Titan has the requirments to sustain life
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evidence found large oceans once exsited on Mars
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According to recent estimates, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has overtaken Ixtoc I in volume to become the United States' worst oceanic oil spill in recorded history
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More than 230 people are killed and 200 injured after a fuel tanker overturns and explodes in the South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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First Underwater river in the Black Sea
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Becomes seventh Baseball player to hit 700 homeruns
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Seafood Industry reopens after Gulf spill
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250 Caqueta Titi monkeys found to have survived in Colombia
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Tiger Woods and wife file for Divorce
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A state of emergency is declared in Guatemala after heavy rains and landslides kill at least 18 people
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Thousands of Afghans protest in Badakhshan province over U.S. plans to hold an "International Burn-a-Koran Day", despite its cancellation.
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Chileans celebrate the 200th anniversary of Chilean Independence Day as do the 33 miners trapped underground in the 2010 Copiapó mining accident.
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Sky 3D, the first dedicated 3D TV channel in Europe, launches in the UK.
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Warner Bros. axes the 3D version of the next Harry Potter film.
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20 people are reported arrested in China over imprisoned human rights activist Liu Xiaobo's 2010 Nobel Peace Prize award. Liu's wife's whereabouts remain unknown after she was taken away by police with human rights group Freedom Now claiming she is in de facto house arrest.
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United Kingdom consumer goods company Reckitt Benckiser agrees to pay a fine of £10.2m for abusing its market position for Gaviscon in the United Kingdom
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China condemns a United Nations report that says Chinese bullets were used in attacks on international peacekeeping forces in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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Julian Assange of Wikileaks tells a London news conference that the 400,000 classified U.S. military documents released to the general public reveal that the Iraq War is "a bloodbath on every corner"
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Two men are sentenced to life imprisonment for the killing of a Rwandan journalist who had allegedly uncovered evidence that the Rwandan government was behind the attempted murder of an ex-army general.
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The US, UK, France and Germany ban all air freight from Yemen at their respective countries' airports following the discovery of two explosive packages.
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A package addressed to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi bursts into flames at Bologna Airport during a police inspection.
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A French court orders the extradition of Rwandan rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana to stand trial at the International Criminal Court.
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North Korea unveils a new uranium enrichment plant.
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Queen Elizabeth II starts a Facebook page but one is not permitted to "poke" or "befriend" her.
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A third explosion within a week occurs at the Pike River Mine on the South Island of New Zealand, where 29 men are presumed dead.
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Oklahoma becomes the first U.S. state to carry out an execution with pentobarbital, a lethal injection drug used for euthanizing animals.
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The Venezuelan parliament temporarily grants more powers to President Hugo Chávez in the wake of recent flooding, allowing him to pass laws by decree without the support of the National Assembly
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Toyota agrees to pay the US government $32.4 million over its handling of car recalls in 2010 where over 10 million cars were recalled worldwide, over 14 separate recalls.
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Unova, the new region introduced in this generation, is known to be far away from the regions of previous generations. Unlike the past four, Unova is based on an area outside of Japan, drawing inspiration from the New York City metropolitan area.
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Taylor Swift wins the Entertainer of the Year award at the Academy of Country Music Awards 2010
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President of the United States Barack Obama announces in a special TV broadcast that Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the militant Islamist group Al-Qaeda and the most-wanted fugitive on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, was killed during an American military operation in Abbottabad, near Islamabad, Pakistan and that his body is in U.S. custody
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On June 20, 2011, at around 2:30 a.m. EDT, Dunn and Zachary Hartwell, a production assistant on Jackass Number Two, were killed when Dunn's Porsche 911 GT3 veered off the road and hit a tree in West Goshen Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania
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South Caoline Wins in game two agiant Flordia
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One person is killed and 29 injured in an escalator malfunction on the Beijing Subway at Beijing Zoo Station
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Bethesda releases The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim as a sequel to the 2008 Game of the Year Oblivion. Skyrim won over 120 Game of the Year awards. This was Bethesda's 3rd consecutive game to win Game of the Year. The 2006 ‘Game of the Year’, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and the 2008 ‘Game of the Year’, Fallout 3 were the other 2 games
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India and Pakistan give each other list of nuclear sites
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Alabama defeats LSU 21-0
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new Neptune-sized exoplanet is discovered by an amateur astronomer in Peterborough, England
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Joe Paterno in grave condition
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Joe Paterno dies of complications from lung cancer
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Giant defeat the Patriots 21-17
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set new record of 21 consecutive home games
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MLB Hall of Famer dies at 57 due to Brain Cancer
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Scientists report regenerating specimens of Silene stenophylla from a 31,800 year old piece of fruit, greatly surpassing the previous record for oldest plant sucessfully regenerated
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India no longer on list of Polio epidemic countries
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playoff's expanded to ten teams
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Apple App Store passes 25 billion downloads
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brings in US$70.7M during its opening weekend, the highest opener of 2012, and fifth highest total for an animated film ever.
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announces that it will no longer be producing printed versions but continuing online editions
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records one of the biggest losses in cinema history, forcing Disney to take a $200 million writedown
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Kentucky Wildcats beat Kansas Jayhawks
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Bubba Watson wins US Masters
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University of Arkansas head football coach Bobby Petrino is fired because of misconduct involving an inappropriate relationship with a female employee
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Tom Benson, owner of the Saints, agrees to buy the New Orleans Hornets from the National Basketball Association for an estimated $338 million
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Admits he has Prostate Cancer
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Former National Football League All-Pro and future Hall of Fame linebacker Junior Seau is found dead in his home in Oceanside, California, of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound
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Adam Yauch, founding member of the influential hip hop group the Beastie Boys, dies aged 47
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Marvel's The Avengers is released in the United States
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A super moon is formed as the moon gets closest to the earth for the year
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Sleeping Girl, a picture by American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, sells at auction for US$44.9 million, setting a new record for a Lichtenstein artwork
