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Governor of California outlines proposal to cover the 6.5 million uninsured Californians. Plan, which would cost about $12 billion, would be paid for by the state, businesses, hospitals, doctors, and the recipients themselves.
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Apple Inc's CEO and founder, Steve Jobs announced the first generation Iphone
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Comet McNaught reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
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Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, the half-brother of Saddam Hussein who was also sentenced to death for his role in the 1982 execution of Shiites in Dujail, is decapitated by the noose during his execution.
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Awashima Marine Park in Japan catches a video tape of the rare frilled shark.
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Scientists Confirm Global Warming (Feb. 2): Three-year study by the influential Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says global warming is very likely caused by human activity—specifically the emission and buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosp
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At a meeting in Beijing with diplomats from the U.S., China, South Korea, Russia, and Japan, North Korea agrees to dismantle its nuclear facilities and allow international inspectors to enter the country in exchange for about $400 million in oil and aid.
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Some 70 people die when two homemade bombs explode on a train headed for Pakistan from India.
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Blair Announces Plans to Withdraw Troops from Iraq (Feb. 21): British prime minister says as many as 1,600 of the 7,100 troops stationed in southern Iraq will leave in the next few months.
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Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea.
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Tornadoes swarm across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the deaths were at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama.
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After a suicide attack near Jalalabad, American soldiers open fire on a road filled with civilians and kill 16 of them.
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Burnley Tunnel catastrophe occurs in Melbourne, Australia. The crash resulted in an explosion and a subsequent fire which reached temperatures in excess of 1,000 °C (1,832 °F)
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Sectarian violence escalates as some 60 people are killed in a suicide attack in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad. More than 30 others die in coordinated attacks in Khalis, a Shiite town. The attacks follow intense violence in Tal Afar, which claimed abou
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In Sydney, Australia, 2.2 million people take part in the first Earth Hour.
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Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, shoots 32 people to death and injures 23 others before committing suicide.
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Gliese 581 c, a potentially habitable Earth-like extrasolar planet, is discovered in the constellation Libra on this day in history.
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Abortion is legalized in Mexico City on this day in history.
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On this day in history the Burj Dubai reaches the height of the Sears Tower on its way to becoming the tallest building in the world.
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Russians riot in Tallinn, Estonia, about moving the Bronze Soldier. Two nights of rioting leave one dead on this day in history.
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On this day in history manchester United wins the English Premier League.
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Subtropical Storm Andrea forms off the coast of Florida, the earliest subtropical storm since Subtropical Storm Ana in 2003 on this day in history.
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On this day in history hong Kong media regulator receives more than thousand complaints about the Bible being too sexual.
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Danish former professional bicyclist Bjarne Riis admitted to having used doping when winning the 1996 Tour de France on this day in history.
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On this day in history dario Franchitti wins the 2007 Indianapolis 500.
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A 2,100-year-old melon is discovered by archaeologists in western Japan.
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Four people are charged with a terror plot to blow up JFK International Airport in New York.
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A mass grave in southern Ukraine, found accidentally by workers in may, has been confirmed to be filled with thousands of victims of The Holocaust.
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Nine Charleston, South Carolina firefighters are killed by a roof collapse while battling a furniture store fire on this day in history.
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In the aftermath of Greece's worst heatwave in a century, at least 11 people are reported dead from heatstroke, approximately 200 wildfires break out nationwide, and the country's electricity grid nearly collapses due to record breaking demand.
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A law goes into effect lowering the voting age in Austria from 18 to 16 in federal elections on this day in history.
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On this day in history torrential rains cause the onset of the 2007 Sudan floods, the worst in the Sudan's history.
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While celebrating Argentinean Independence Day, snow falls in Buenos Aires for the first time in almost 100 years on this day in history.
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On this day in history earthquake occurs in Japan, killing seven and causing a pipe at a nuclear power plant to break and release about 300 gallons of radioactive water.
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Pratibha Patil is elected as the first female President of India on this day in history.
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On this day in history a UK-wide ban on movement of all livestock is in place after foot and mouth disease is found on the Surrey farm.
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The Crandall Canyon Mine in Emery County, Utah collapses, trapping six miners on this day in history.
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Multiple suicide bombings kill 572 people in Qahtaniya, northern Iraq.
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On this day in history at least 22 people are killed, and at least 39 missing, as a bridge collapses in the southeastern province of Hunan, China.
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An 8.0 earthquake strikes Peru, killing 512 people, injuring more than 1,500, and causing tsunami warnings in the Pacific Ocean.
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A bomb explodes in Batna, Algeria as a crowd gathered to see Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Nineteen people died, while 107 were wounded by the attack on this day in history.
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Over 50 people die when car bomb explodes in the Algerian port city of Dellys on this day in history.
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Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of all bombs.
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The SELENE spacecraft launches. JAXA has called the mission, "the largest lunar mission since the Apollo program." on this day in history.
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Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some called the Saffron Revolution.
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The minimum age for purchasing tobacco products is raised from 16 to 18 across England and Wales on this day in history.
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17 Activists in Aotearoa New Zealand arrested in the country's first post 9/11 anti-terrorism raids across the country.
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One of the largest and deadliest fires in US history rages in Southern California fanned by the Santa Ana winds destroying 400,000 acres and 2,000 homes
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The Boston Red Sox win the 2007 World Series in a four-game sweep against the Colorado Rockies on this day in history.
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Argentina elects its first female president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
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London's Metropolitan Police Service is found guilty of endangering the public following the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, an innocent Brazilian who officers mistook for a suicide bomber on this day in history.
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DARPA Grand Challenge, a prized competition for driverless cars to navigate safely in traffic is scheduled on this day in history.
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A 7.7 magnitude earthquake occurs in northern Chile on this day in history.
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On this day in history over 3,000 people are believed to have died after Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, with the death toll expected to rise.
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On this day in history the Annapolis Conference, a peace conference trying to end the Arab-Israeli conflict, is held in Annapolis, Maryland in the United States.
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Devastating winter storms caused the Chehalis River to flood many cities in Lewis County, Washington, also closing a 20-mile portion of Interstate 5 for several days. At least eight deaths and billions of dollars of damaged are blamed on the floods.
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19-year old Robert A. Hawkins shoots eight people dead and injures five at the Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska, then commits suicide on this day in history.
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The Lakota people, a Native American tribe, proclaim independence and withdraw all their treaties with the United States. They then proceed to establish the Republic of Lakotah, with an ongoing process of international recognition as a separate country.
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The painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, was stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art, along with O Lavrador de Café, by the major Brazilian modernist painter Candido Portinari.
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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II becomes the oldest ever monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, 7 months and 29 days.
