Jack Ruby was an unknown nightclub owner who became instantly famous in November 1963 as the man who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald two days after Oswald was arrested for assassinating President Jo...
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Nov 17 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major events to
have occurred on November 24 since 1900: 1929 - French statesman Georges Clemenceau died. Known as
"The Tiger", he was prime minister o...
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Dec 27 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major
events to have occurred on January 3 in history: 1924 - Howard Carter, British egyptologist, found the
sarcophagus of Tutankhamun in the Valley o...
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Today is Wednesday, March 14, the 73rd day of 2007. There are 292 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 14, 1794, Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin, an inventio...
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Prince Abdul-Majid bin Abdul-AzizRIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) _ Prince Abdul-Majid bin Abdul-Aziz, the governor of the Islam's holy city of Mecca, died Saturday after a long illness, a Saudi Arabian r...
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