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April 10 - Paul McCartney announces that the Beatles have disbanded, while at the same press conference, announcing the release of his new solo album.

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April 11 - 74 people, mostly young boys, die as an avalanche buries a tuberculosis sanatorium in the French Alps.

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April 11 - Apollo program: Apollo 13 (Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, Jack Swigert) is launched toward the Moon. On April 13, an oxygen tank in the spacecraft explodes, forcing the crew to abort the mission and return in 4 days.

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April 16 - Rev. Ian Paisley won a by-election to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland.

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April 16 - The National Westminster Bank begins trading in the United Kingdom.

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April 17 - Safe return & splashdown of Apollo 13 (Apollo program).

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April 21 - The Hutt River Province Principality secedes from Australia.

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April 22 - The first Earth Day is celebrated in the U.S.

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April 24 - China's first satellite (Dong Fang Hong 1) is launched to orbit using a Long March-1 Rocket (CZ-1).

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April 29 - The U.S. invades Cambodia to hunt out the Viet Cong; massive antiwar protests occur in the U.S.

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May 1 - Demonstrations against the trial of the New Haven Nine, Bobby Seale, and Ericka Huggins draw 12,000. President Richard Nixon orders US forces to cross into neutral Cambodia, threatening to widen the Vietnam War, sparking nation wide riots and leading to the Kent State Shootings.

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May 4 - Kent State shootings: Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed and nine wounded by Ohio State National Guardsmen at a protest against the incursion into Cambodia.

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May 6 - Arms Crisis in the Republic of Ireland: Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney are dismissed as members of the Irish Government, due to accusations of their involvement in a plot to import arms for use by the Provisional IRA in Northern Ireland.

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May 6 - Feyenoord wins the European Cup after a 2-1 win over Celtic.

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May 8 - Unionized construction workers attack about 1,000 students and others protesting the Kent State shootings near the intersection of Wall Street and Broad Street and at New York City Hall, leading to the Hard Hat riot.

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# May 8 - The Beatles release their 12th and final album Let It Be

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May 9 - In Washington, D.C., 100,000 people demonstrate against the Vietnam War.

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May 11 - Henry Marrow is murdered in a violent hate crime in Oxford, North Carolina.

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May 11 - Lubbock Tornado: An F5 tornado hits downtown Lubbock, Texas, the first to hit a downtown district of a major city since Topeka, Kansas in 1966 (28 are killed).

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May 14 - Ulrike Meinhof helps Andreas Baader escape.

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May 14 - In the second day of violent demonstrations at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi, state law enforcement officers fire into the demonstrators, killing 2 and injuring 12.

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May 17 - Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II, to sail the Atlantic Ocean.

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# May 23 - A fire occurs in the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits in north Wales, contributing to its partial destruction and amounting to approximately £1,000,000 worth of fire damage.

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May 24 - The scientific drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the USSR.

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May 26 - The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.

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May 27 - A British expedition climbs the south face of Annapurna I.

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May 31 - The 1970 Ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru; more than 47,000 people are killed.

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May 31 - The 1970 FIFA World Cup is inaugurated in Mexico.

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June 1 - Soyuz 9, a two man spacecraft, is launched in the Soviet Union.

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June 2 - Norway announces that it has rich oil deposits off its North Sea coast.

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June 4 - Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.

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June 8 - A coup in Argentina brings a new junta of service chiefs; on June 18, Roberto M. Levingston becomes President.

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June 10 - U.S. President Richard Nixon signs a measure lowering the voting age to 18.

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June 11 - The United States gets its first female generals: Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington.

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June 21 - Brazil defeats Italy 4-1 to win the 1970 FIFA World Cup.

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June 22 - The English rock band Led Zeppelin performs in Iceland, with the visit inspiring them to write the Immigrant Song.

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June 24 - The United States Senate repeals the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.

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June 25 - The Greater London Council's Policy and Resources committee endorses the "Fleet Line" and the extension of the Piccadilly Line to Heathrow Airport.

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June 28 - U.S. ground troops withdraw from Cambodia.

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July 1 - Colorado State College changes its name to University of Northern Colorado.

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July 4 - A chartered Dan-Air De Havilland Comet crashes into the mountains north of Barcelona; at least 112 are killed.

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July 4 - Bob Hope and other entertainers gather in Washington, D.C. for Honor America Day, a nonpartisan holiday event.

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July 6 - Air Canada Flight 621 caught fire after landing at Pearson International Airport, Toronto, Ontario, all 108 passengers and crew are killed.

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Ashanti is hot as hell.

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July 11 - The first tunnel under the Pyrenees links the Basque towns of Aranoutes and Biesma.

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Ali Larter is as well.

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her whipped cream bikini in Varsity Blues was epic

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July 16 - Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh opens.

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July 21 - The Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.

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July 23 - Said bin Taimur, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, is deposed in a palace coup by his son, Qaboos.

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July 23 - Two CS gas canisters are thrown into the chamber of the British House of Commons.

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July 30 - Damages totalling £485,528 are awarded to 28 Thalidomide victims.

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July 31 - NBC anchor Chet Huntley retires from full-time broadcasting.

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August 7 - Harold Haley, Marin County Superior Court Judge, is taken hostage and murdered, in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.

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August 17 - August 18 - The U.S. sinks 418 containers of nerve gas into the Gulf Stream near the Bahamas.

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August 17 - Venera program: Venera 7 is launched. It will later becomes the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from another planet.

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August 26 - The Women's Strike For Equality takes place down Fifth Avenue in New York City.

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August 26-August 30 - The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 takes place on East Afton Farm off the coast of England. Some 600,000 people attend the largest rock festival of all time. Artists include Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Doors, Chicago, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Joan Baez, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Jethro Tull.

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August 29 - Ruben Salazar shot during rally in East L.A.

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September 1 - An assassination attempt against King Hussein of Jordan precipitates the Black September crisis.

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September 4 - Salaheddin Ali Nader Shah Angha receives the official leadership of the Oveyssi Sufi order and receives the "Robe of Faghr" by Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha.

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September 3-September 6 - Israeli forces fight Palestinian guerillas in southern Lebanon.

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September 5 - Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins - The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thua Thien Province (the operation ends in October 1971).

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# September 6 - The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacks 4 passenger aircraft from Pan Am, TWA and Swissair on flights to New York from Brussels, Frankfurt and Zürich.

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September 7 - An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland.

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September 7 - Fighting breaks out between Arab guerillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan.

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September 9 - Guinea recognizes East Germany.

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September 9 - Elvis Presley begins his first concert tour since 1958 in Phoenix, Arizona at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

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September 10 - Cambodian government forces break the siege of Kompong Tho after 3 months.

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September 11 - The Ford Pinto is introduced.

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September 13 - The first New York City Marathon begins.

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September 15 - King Hussein of Jordan forms a military government with Muhammad Daoud as the prime minister.

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September 18 - Jimi Hendrix dies from choking on his own vomit while unconscious due to a barbiturate overdose in London.

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# September 19 - Kostas Georgakis sets himself ablaze in Genoa, Italy as a protest against the Greek military junta of 1967-1974.

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September 20 - Syrian armored forces cross the Jordanian border.

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September 20 - Luna 16 lands on the Moon and lifts off the next day with samples. It lands on Earth September 24.

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September 21 - Palestinian armored forces reinforce Palestinian guerillas in Irbidi, Jordan.

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September 22 - Tunku Abdul Rahman resigns as prime minister of Malaysia, and is succeeded by his deputy Tun Abdul Razak.

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September 26 - The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).

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September 27 - Richard Nixon begins a tour of Europe, visiting Italy, Yugoslavia, Spain, the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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RE Extinction auto sucks for killing off Ashanti

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September 29 - The U.S. Congress gives President Richard Nixon authority to sell arms to Israel.

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September 29 - In Berlin, Baader-Meinhof Gang members rob 3 banks, with loot totaling over DM200,000.

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October 2 - The Wichita State University football team's "Gold" plane crashes in Colorado, killing most of the players. They were on their way (along with administrators and fans) to a game with Utah State University.

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October 3 - In Lebanon, the government of Prime Minister Rashid Karami resigns.

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October 4 - In Bolivia, Army Commander General Rogelio Miranda and a group of officers rebel and demand the resignation of President Alfredo Ovando CandÃ*a, who fires him.

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October 4 - Janis Joplin dies of a heroin overdose in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 27.

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damn music lost Joplin and Hendrix in the same yr. wow .

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October 5 - U.S. President Richard Nixon's European tour ends.

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October 5 - The Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) kidnaps James Cross in Montreal and demands release of all its imprisoned members. The next day the Canadian government announces it won't meet the demand, beginning Quebec's October Crisis.

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October 5 - The Public Broadcasting Service begins broadcasting.

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October 6 - Bolivian President Alfredo Ovando CandÃ*a resigns; General Rogelio Miranda takes over but resigns soon after.

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October 6 - French President Georges Pompidou visits the Soviet Union.

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October 7 - General Juan José Torres becomes the new President of Bolivia.

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October 8 - The U.S. Foreign Office announces that renewal of arms sales to Pakistan.

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October 8 - Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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# October 8 - Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects U.S. President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as "a maneuver to deceive world opinion."

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# October 9 - The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.

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October 10 - Fiji becomes independent.

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October 10 - October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.

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October 11 - Eleven French soldiers are killed in a shootout with rebels in Chad.

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October 12 - Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.

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# October 13 - Canada and the People's Republic of China establish diplomatic relations.

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October 13 - Saeb Salam forms a government in Lebanon.

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October 14 - A Chinese nuclear test is conducted in Lop Nor.

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October 15 - In Egypt, a referendum supports Anwar Sadat 90.04%.

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October 15 - A section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses into the river below, killing 35 construction workers.

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October 15 - The Baltimore Orioles defeat the Cincinnati Reds in Games 5 of the World Series, 9-3, to win the series 4 games to 1 for their 2nd World Championship.

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# October 16 - October Crisis: The Canadian government declares a state of emergency and outlaws the Quebec Liberation Front.

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October 17 - October Crisis: Pierre Laporte is found killed in south Montreal.

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October 17 - A cholera epidemic breaks out in Istanbul.

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October 17 - Anwar Sadat officially becomes President of Egypt.

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# October 20 - The Soviet Union launches the Zond 8 lunar probe.

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October 20 - Egyptian president Anwar Sadat names Mahmoud Fawzi as his prime minister.

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# October 21 - A U.S. Air Force plane makes an emergency landing near Leninakan, Soviet Union. The Soviets release the American officers, including 2 generals, November 10.

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October 22 - Chilean army commander Rene Schneider is shot in Santiago; the government declares a state of emergency. Schneider dies October 25.

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October 24 - Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.

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October 25 - The wreck of Confederate submarine Hunley is found off Charleston, South Carolina, by pioneer underwater archaeologist, Dr. E. Lee Spence,[1] then just 22 years old. Hunley was the first submarine in history to sink a ship in warfare.

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October 26 - Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.

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October 28 - In Jordan, the government of Ahmed Toukan resigns; the next prime minister is Wasfi Al-Tal.

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October 28 - A cholera outbreak in eastern Slovakia causes Hungary to close its border with Czechoslovakia.

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October 28 - Gary Gabelich drives the rocket-powered Blue Flame to an official world land speed record of 622.287 mph (1,001.452863 km/h) on the dry lake bed of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The record, the first above 1,000 km/h, stands for nearly 13 years.

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October 30 - In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in 6 years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.

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November 1 - Fire destroys the Le Cinq Sept dance hall in St. Laurent Du Pont, France; 144 dead.

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November 3 - Democrats sweep the U.S. Congressional midterm elections; Ronald Reagan is reelected governor of California; Jimmy Carter is elected governor of Georgia.

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November 4 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United States turns control of the air base in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam.

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November 4 - Social workers in Los Angeles, California take custody of Genie, a girl who had been kept in solitary confinement since her birth.

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# November 5 - Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in 5 years (24 soldiers died that week, which was the fifth consecutive week the death toll was below 50; 431 were reported wounded that week, however).

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November 8 - Egypt, Libya and Sudan announce their intentions to form a federation.

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November 9 - The Soviet Union launches Luna 17.

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November 9 - Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6-3 not to hear a case by the state of Massachusetts, about the constitutionality of a state law granting Massachusetts residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.

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November 10 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - For the first time in 5 years, an entire week ends with no reports of United States combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.

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November 12 - Soviet author Andrei Amalrik is sentenced to 3 years for 'anti-Soviet' writings.

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November 13 - Hafez al-Assad comes to power in Syria, following a military coup.

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November 13 - 1970 Bhola cyclone: A 120-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people (considered the 20th century's worst cyclone disaster).

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November 14 - A fatal airplane accident in Wayne County, West Virginia, Southern Airlines Flight 932, claims the lives of all 75 onboard, including 37 players and 5 coaches from the Marshall University football team.

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November 17 - Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre.

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November 18 - U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for US$155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government (US$85 million is for military assistance to prevent the overthrow of the government of Premier Lon Nol by the Khmer Rouge and North Vietnam).

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November 18 - The United Nations Security Council demands that no government recognize Rhodesia.

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November 19 - European Economic Community prime ministers meet in Munich.

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November 21 - Syrian Prime Minister Hafez al-Assad forms a new government but retains the post of defense minister.

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November 21 - In Ethiopia, the Eritrean Liberation Front kills an Ethiopian general.

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November 21 - Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast - A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American POWs thought to be held there (no Americans are killed, but the prisoners have already moved to another camp; all U.S. POWs are moved to a handful of central prison complexes as a result of this raid).

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November 22 - Guinean president Sekou Toure accuses Portugal of an attack when hundreds of mercenaries land near the capital Conakry.

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November 23-November 24 - The Guinean army repels the landing attempts.

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November 23 - Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! makes its network TV debut, when CBS telecasts the 1955 film version as a three-hour Thanksgiving special.

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November 25-November 29 - A UN delegation arrives to investigate the Guinea situation.

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November 25 - In Tokyo, author and Tatenokai militia leader Yukio Mishima and his followers take over the headquarters of the Japan Self-Defense Forces. When Mishima's speech fails to sway public opinion towards his right-wing political beliefs, he commits seppuku.

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November 26 - East Pakistan leader Sheik Mujibur Rahman accuses the central government of negligence in catastrophe relief.

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November 26 - Pope Paul VI begins an Asian tour.

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November 27 - Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendoza tries to assassinate Pope Paul VI during his visit in Manila.

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November 30 - Formation of British Caledonian Airways Ltd. (BCal).

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# December 1 - The Italian House of Representatives accepts the new divorce law.

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# December 1 - Ethiopia recognizes the People's Republic of China.

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# December 1 - The Basque ETA kidnaps West German Eugen Beihl in San Sebastián.

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December 1 - Luis EcheverrÃ*a becomes president of Mexico.

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December 2 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.

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December 3 - October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de Libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Government of Canada grants 5 terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba.

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December 3 - Burgos Trial: In Burgos, Spain, a trial begins of 16 Basques terrorism suspects.

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December 4 - The Spanish government declares a 3-month martial law in the Basque county of Guipuzco, due to strikes and demonstrations.

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December 4 - The U.N. announces that Portuguese navy and army units were responsible for the attempted invasion of Guinea.

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December 5 - The Asian and Australian tour of Pope Paul VI ends.

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# December 7 - Giovanni Enrico Bucher, the Swiss ambassador to Brazil, is kidnapped in Rio de Janeiro; kidnappers demand the release of 70 political prisoners.

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December 7 - The U.N. General Assembly supports the isolation of South Africa due to its apartheid policies.

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December 7 - During his visit to the Polish capital, German Chancellor Willy Brandt goes down on his knees in front of a monument to the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto.

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December 12 - A landslide in western Colombia leaves 200 dead.

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December 13 - The government of Poland announces increases in the price of food. Riots and looting lead to a bloody confrontation between the rioters and the government on December 15, and martial law December 17-22. December 23 the government will freeze the food prices for two years.

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December 15 - The USSR's Venera 7 becomes the first spacecraft to land successfully on Venus and transmit data back to Earth.

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December 15 - South Korean ferry Namyong Ho capsized off Korean Strait, 308 killed.

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December 16 - The Ethiopian government declares a state of emergency in the county of Eritrea, due to the activities of the Eritrean Liberation Front.

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December 20 - General Secretary of the Polish Communist Party, Władysław Gomułka, resigns; Edward Gierek replaces him.

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December 20 - An Egyptian delegation leaves for Moscow to ask for economic and military aid.

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December 22 - The Libyan Revolutionary Council declares that it will nationalize all foreign banks in the country.

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December 22 - Franz Stangl, the ex-commander of Treblinka, is sentenced to life imprisonment.

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December 23 - The Bolivian government releases Regis Debray.

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December 23 - The North Tower of the World Trade Center is topped out at 1,368 feet, making it the tallest building in the world.

RIP victims

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December 25 - The ETA releases Eugen Beihl.

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December 27 - India's president declares new elections.

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# December 28 - Burgos Trial: Three Basques are sentenced to death (3 twice), others sentenced for 12-62 years, and 1 is released.

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# December 28 - The suspected killers of Pierre Laporte, Jacques & Paul Rose and Francis Sunard, are arrested near Montreal.

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# December 30 - In Viscaya, Spain, Basque county, 15,000 go on strike to protest the Burgos trial death sentences.

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December 30 - Francisco Franco commutes the death sentences of the Burgos Trial defendants to 30 years in prison.

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December 31 - Paul McCartney sues in Great Britain to dissolve the Beatles's legal partnership.

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Rhodesia is now todays Zimbabwe

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Wii Music is releasing in Japan on October 16th 2008

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it'll cost 5800 yen.

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for being an awesome nation for tech and such they're money sure does suck.

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Captain Rainbow / 28 August / 6800 yen

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Wii Remote Straps coming out in September
White, Pink, Blue, Green
300 yen each
Set of four for 1000 yen.

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Valkyrie Profile DS / 2 October / 5040 yen

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7k tonight woot salad for everyone.

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November 11th is the 315 day of the year

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316 in Leap Years.

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things that happened on November 11th over the years are......

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308 - The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare Maxentius and Licinius to be Augusti, while rival contender Constantine I is declared Caesar of Britain and Gaul.

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1215 - The Fourth Lateran Council meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ.

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# 1500 - Treaty of Granada - Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.

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1620 - In what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod, the Mayflower Compact is signed on the Mayflower, establishing the basic laws for the Plymouth Colony. (Old Style date; November 21 per New Style date.)

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# 1634 - Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery".

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1673 - Second Battle of Khotyn in the Ukraine, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski. defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets of Kazimierz Siemienowicz were successfully used.

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1675 - Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = f(x) function.

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1724 - Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.

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1750 - The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, was formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It was the first college fraternity.

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# 1778 - Cherry Valley Massacre: an attack by Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces on a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.

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1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein - 8000 French troops attempted to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.

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# 1831 - In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.

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1839 - The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.

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1864 - American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea - Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.

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1865 - Treaty of Sinchula is signed in which Bhutan ceded the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.

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1880 - Australian Bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.

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1887 - Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.

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1887 - Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal starts at Eastham.

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1889 - Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.

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1911 - Many cities in the U.S. Midwest broke their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through. (see The 11/11/11 cold wave).

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1918 - World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France. The war officially stops at 11:00 (The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month).

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RE" Extinction rating from= below average.

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it wasn't complete fail but I'd never own it.

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1918 - Józef Piłsudski comes to Warsaw and assumes supreme military power in Poland. Poland regains its independence.

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# 1918 - Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.

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1919 - The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the IWW.

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1921 - The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.

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1924 - Prime Minister Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the first Greek Republic.

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1926 - U.S. Route 66 is established.

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1930 - Patent number US1781541 was awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.

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1933 - Dust Bowl: In South Dakota, a very strong dust storm strips topsoil from desiccated farmlands.

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# 1940 - World War II: Battle of Taranto - The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.

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1940 - The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.

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# 1940 - Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in U.S. Midwest.

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1942 - World War II: Nazi Germany completed their occupation of France.

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1960 - A military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam was crushed.

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1962 - Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.

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1965 - In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence.

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1966 - NASA launches spaceship Gemini 12.

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# 1967 - Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.

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1968 - Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal was to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.

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1968 - A second republic is declared in the Maldives.

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# 1972 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.

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1975 - Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam and commissions Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister, and announces a general election to be held in early December.

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# 1992 - The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.

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2000 - In Kaprun, Austria, 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel.

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2001 - Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they were traveling on top off.

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2004 - New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.

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2004 - Yasser Arafat is confirmed dead by the Palestine Liberation Organization, of unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.

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2006 - The New Zealand war memorial monument was unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.

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Matt Garza was born on November 11th 1983

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22 till I have 600 over the past 24 hr's

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I am watching Weekend at Bernies.

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ooh nearly 7k.

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I wonder if anyone broke this combo

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what would you do by city life is what I dl'ed