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LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - He was not born on the fourth of July, but Louis Gossett, Jr. celebrates it like his birthday, nonetheless.
Not because July 4 is America's Independence Day. Rather, because it marks the Oscar-winning actor's own indepen...
DATE: Jul 07, 2010
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NEW YORK (AP) - The Dow Jones industrial average dropped for a seventh straight day, its longest losing streak since the height of the financial crisis in October 2008. A disappointing jobs report added to investors' concerns that the economic recove...
DATE: Jul 03, 2010
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Historically, Independence Day marks the day in 1776 when John Hancock, the President of the second Congress of the 13 original American colonies, signed a letter declaring the colonies' independence. It is the day when Americans celebrate our countr...
DATE: Jul 02, 2010
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@rh18bold:Today in History
Today is Friday, July 2, the 183rd day of 2010. There are 182 days left in the year.
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In 1502, conflict between French and Spanish over partition of Naples breaks out in open warfare in Italy.
In 1644, Royalists...
DATE: Jul 02, 2010
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Happy Independence Day to our American cousins! Like it or not, Bermuda is something like and definitely not unlike a 51st state! We may be a British colony but our proximity to America has created the conditions such that when America sneezes, we ca...
DATE: Jul 02, 2010
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Today is Thursday, July 1, the 182nd day of 2010. There are 183 days left in the year. This is Canada Day.
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In 1867, the provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario officially become the Dominion of Canada. As a dominion, ...
DATE: Jul 01, 2010
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Today In History
Today is Tuesday, June 29, the 180th day of 2010. There are 185 days left in the year.
Highlights in history on this date:
1520 - Montezuma II, ninth and last emperor of the Aztecs, dies in Tenochtitlan of wounds he received, accordi...
DATE: Jun 29, 2010
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Today is Tuesday, June 29, the 180th day of 2010. There are 185 days left in the year.
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In 1520, Montezuma II, ninth and last emperor of the Aztecs, dies in Tenochtitlan of wounds he received, according to Spanish accounts, from his alien...
DATE: Jun 29, 2010
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WASHINGTON — "End of an era" is an overused trope, but in this case it's appropriate: The last of the old Southern Democrats is gone.
Sen. Robert Byrd had long since repented, of course. The West Virginian, who died Monday at 92, deeply regretted his...
DATE: Jun 29, 2010
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The Premier has hit it off with a newly appointed politician in the United Kingdom after several meetings in London yesterday.
Ewart Brown was in the U.K. meeting with Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Henry Bellingham to discuss issues such as ...
DATE: Jun 25, 2010
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