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"The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect."
-- Bill Frist
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Company D, 1st Battalion Returns from Afghan Duty Homeland Security / War on Terror
U.S. May Have Captured and Released Amman BomberSenate to weigh Guantanamo rights compromiseParis BurningChirac: Riots Reflect 'Malaise'Hurricane Season
Tropical Depression Could Become Hurricane GammaPoliticsSecrecy order in CIA leak case challenged by mediaSupreme Court
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Cops: Suspect Is CooperativeDouble Murder Suspect NabbedPolice News ConferenceGas Prices Continue to FallReuters: Top NewsRice haggles to reach Gaza dealBush wants unity with allies on North KoreaUS faulted on handling nuclear threatNew Orleans judge orders action on stalled casesCourt rules against parents on special educationVital data often stored on unsecured devices-surveyUS scientist quits top stem-cell team over ethicsJudge blocks California Sequoia logging projectPakistani quake villagers face wintry dilemmaBernanke faces Capitol Hill balancing actAPEC aims to free blocked trade dealAP World NewsStrong Earthquake Rattles Northern JapanJapanese Princess Leaves Palace to MarryIsraeli-Palestinian Talks Disappoint EnvoyEU Asked to Probe CIA Jail AllegationsCanadian Government Rejects Election CallCondemned Medical Workers Appeal in LibyaFormer Iran President Speaks Against NukesKey Ugandan Opposition Leader ArrestedVenezuela, Mexico Recall Their AmbassadorsPutin Promotes Two in Cabinet ShakeupUzbek Court Convicts 15 Men in UprisingCIA Accused of Using Airport in MallorcaCENTCOM: News Release
TERRORISTS CAUGHT WITH IED MATERIALSOPERATION STEEL CURTAIN CONTINUESCOALITION KEEPS PRESSURE ON TERRORISTSNEW PHASE OF STEEL CURTAIN BEGINSDepartment of DefenseRice: U.S. Committed to Iraqi Democracy --
StoryRice Cites Democracy as Cause to Hope for PeaceOperation Steel Curtain Moves Into Ubaydi --
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New Radios Aid Afghan Border Police Ops --
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SPECIAL REPORTSIraq Transition of Power IRAQRice Inaugurates First PRT in Iraq Project Improves Drinking WaterRice, Annan Focus on ProgressAl-Duri's Death QuestionedForces Raid Al Qaeda Safe HouseIraq Daily UpdateThis Week in Iraq (pdf)Multinational Force IraqEye on Iraq Update (pdf)State Dept. Weekly Report (pdf)'Boots on the Ground' Audio ArchiveIraq ReconstructionMapsAFGHANISTANAfghanistan Daily UpdateMapsWAR ON TERRORISMPresident Reaffirms CommitmentWaging and Winning the War on TerrorTerrorism TimelineTerrorism Knowledge BaseMILITARY NEWSChertoff Pledges SupportIron Soldiers Prepare to DeployNational Guard, Reserve UpdateWeatherIraqAl Azamiyah Al Basrah Al Hillah Al Karkh Al Kazimiyah Al Kut An Nasiriyah Baghdad Baqubah Mosul Najaf Nineveh Tall KayfAfghanistanBost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul QandaharGitmoNational Hurricane CenterToday in History1492 - Christopher Columbus notes the first recorded reference to tobacco; in Spain, 6 Jews and 5 Conversos are accused of using black magic.
1763 - Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying the Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland.
1777 - The Articles of Confederation are adopted by the Continental Congress.
1806 - Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak.
1864 - Sherman burns Atlanta.
1869 - Free postal delivery is formally inaugurated.
1881 - In Pittsburgh, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) is founded.
1884 - The colonization of Africa is organized at the international conference in Berlin.
1889 - Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, is deposed; a republic is proclaimed.
1919 - The Senate first invokes the cloture rule (Rule 22) to end a filibuster (Versailles Treaty).
1920 - In Geneva, the League of Nations holds its first meeting; the Free City of Danzig is established under League of Nations protection.
1937 - For the first time, a Congressional session is held in air-conditioned chambers.
1939 - Nazis begin the mass murder of Warsaw Jews; the Social Security Administration approves the first unemployment check.
1940 - The first 75,000 men are called to armed forces duty during peacetime.
1941 - The Cow Palace opens in San Francisco.
1948 - William Lyon Mackenzie King retires as PM of Canada.
1954 - The first regularly scheduled commercial flights over the North Pole begin.
1957 - The U.S. sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years and $3,000.
1965 - Craig Breedlove sets a land speed record (600.601 mph-966.57 kph).
1966 - Gemini XII returns to Earth.
1967 - Michael Adams reaches 80 km in the X-15.
1969 - In Washington, DC, 250,000 peacefully demonstrate against the Vietnam War; Janis Joplin is accused of vulgar and indecent language in Tampa, FL.
1972 - The Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 48 is launched to study gamma rays.
1977 - President Jimmy Carter welcomes the Shah of Iran.
1979 - ABC-TV announces it will broadcast nightly specials on the Iran hostage crisis; the British government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as the fourth man in a Soviet spy ring.
1980 - Pope John Paul II begins a five-day visit to West Germany.
1982 - Funeral services are held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid I. Brezhnev.
1983 - The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is proclaimed.
1987 - 28 of 82 aboard Continental Airlines DC-9 die in a crash at Denver.
1988 - A 91 m radio telescope dish at Green Bank, WV collapses; the PLO proclaims the State of Palestine, and recognizes Israel; the Soviet space shuttle makes its unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits).
1990 - President Bush signs the Clean Air Act of 1990; the U.S.' 68th manned space mission (STS-38 / Atlantis 7) launches into orbit.
Birthdays1397 - Nicholas V, pope (1447-55); ended schism, founded the Vatican Library
1708 - William Pitt the Elder (Whig), UK PM (1756-61, 66-68), the `Great Commoner'
1738 - Sir William Herschel, astronomer (discovered Uranus)
1815 - John Banvard, painted the world's largest painting (3 mile canvas)
1882 - Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1939-62)
1887 - Georgia O'Keeffe, painter (Cow's Skull)
1891 - Erwin Rommel, German field marshall (WW II-African campaign); W. Averell Harriman, (Gov-NY) / ambassador to the U.S.S.R. (1943-46)
1925 - Howard Baker (Sen-TN), presidential chief of staff
Passings1630 - Johann Kepler, German astronomer
1978 - Margaret Mead, anthropologist
1984 - Baby Fae, who received a baboon's heart, dies at California medical center
Reported Missing in Action
1966
Keiper, John C.,
USMC (PA); U6A crashed (passenger, w/Ravenna)
Ravenna, Harry M. III,
US Army (TX); U6A crashed (pilot, w/Keiper)
Timmons, Bruce Allan,
USN (FL); KIA; drowned when craft overturned, body not recovered
1968 Birchim, James D.,
US Army SF (CA); fell during extraction, Killed, body not recovered
1969Graf, John G.,
USN (CA); OV1C shot down (crew, w/White) died escaping February, 1970
Suber, Randolph B.,
US Army SF (MO); KIA when ambushed during reconnaissance mission, body not recovered
White, Robert T.,
USN (IL); OV1C shot down (pilot, w/Graf), released by PRG April, 1973 - retired as a Major - alive as of 1998
by Chief Petty Officer Dave Fliesen
Chula Vista, Calif. (Nov. 12, 2005) – U.S. Navy Builder 3rd Class Mark Micks of Fredericksburg, Ohio, and Aviation Machinist’s Mate 1st Class Jamie Garcia of Englepass, Texas, participate in a track clinic at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif. The Paralympics Military Summit tests injured military service members in archery, cycling, strength and various other athletic events. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Timothy F. Sosa
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