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News Eleven sentenced to death for assassination attempt on Pakistan general
Eleven sentenced to death for assassination attempt on Pakistan general
Krystal MacIntyre
February 21, 2006 10:27:00 am

An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Tuesday sentenced to death eleven members of Jund Allah, an Islam group linked to al Qaeda , after they were convicted of killing ten people in an attack...

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News Haiti electoral council chief flees country after disputed election
Haiti electoral council chief flees country after disputed election
Krystal MacIntyre
February 21, 2006 10:16:00 am

Jacques Bernard, head of Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council , has fled the country in fear of his life two weeks after heavily disputed elections returned President Rene Preval to office. Preval opponents threatened Bernard's...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Supreme Court to hear ‘partial-birth’ abortion ban case
BREAKING NEWS ~ Supreme Court to hear ‘partial-birth’ abortion ban case
Jeannie Shawl
February 21, 2006 10:12:00 am

MSNBC is reporting that the US Supreme Court has agreed to consider a case concerning the constitutionality of the federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act .The Bush administration in September appealed to the Supreme...

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News Governors threaten legal action to halt ports takeover by Arab company
Governors threaten legal action to halt ports takeover by Arab company
Chris Buell
February 21, 2006 10:01:00 am

New York Gov. George Pataki and Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich have threatened to take legal steps to block an Arab company's takeover of operations in several major US ports. The governors cite security concerns associated with the...

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News International brief ~ Sudan rejects UN peacekeeping force in Darfur
International brief ~ Sudan rejects UN peacekeeping force in Darfur
D. Wes Rist
February 21, 2006 09:13:00 am

Leading Tuesday's international brief, Sudan has issued a formal protest to the UN Envoy to Sudan Jan Pronk over his lobbying for a UN peacekeeping force in the Darfur region , and has rejected the growing call...

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News California execution delayed after doctors refuse to participate over ethics concerns
California execution delayed after doctors refuse to participate over ethics concerns
jstaff
February 21, 2006 08:31:00 am

The execution of Michael Angelo Morales , scheduled to take place just after midnight Tuesday morning, was delayed after the two anesthesiologists on hand to ensure that Morales would not suffer excessive pain during the process refused to...

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News Metropolitan Museum signing landmark antiquities repatriation pact with Italy
Metropolitan Museum signing landmark antiquities repatriation pact with Italy
John Kraniou
February 21, 2006 08:12:00 am

The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art is set to sign an agreement with the Italian Culture Ministry in Rome Tuesday under which the museum will return several pieces of looted Hellenistic art in exchange...

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News UK peace protesters ask law lords to allow Iraq war illegality defense
UK peace protesters ask law lords to allow Iraq war illegality defense
Krystal MacIntyre
February 21, 2006 07:10:00 am

Lawyers asked the UK law lords on Monday to allow anti-war activists convicted on trespassing charges related to protests of the Iraq war to argue in their defense that the war was illegal. Fourteen Greenpeace protesters were convicted...

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News US public diplomacy chief defends Gitmo prison on Arab junket
US public diplomacy chief defends Gitmo prison on Arab junket
Katerina Ossenova
February 20, 2006 07:49:00 pm

Echoing views expressed by US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld last week, US Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs and one-time top Bush aide Karen Hughes Monday defended US practices at Guantanamo...

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News Argentina transfers Serb war crimes suspect to Hague tribunal
Argentina transfers Serb war crimes suspect to Hague tribunal
Katerina Ossenova
February 20, 2006 07:29:00 pm

An Argentine official said Monday that Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Milan Lukic has been handed over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and is now headed to The...

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Memphis Massacre of 1866 breaks out

The Memphis Massacre of 1866 broke out on May 1 of that year after Black Union veterans and police were involved in an altercation surrounding the arrest of a Black soldier. The ensuing skirmish spiralled out of control due to the racial tensions that followed the end of the US Civil War, lasting for two days and claiming the lives of 46 Black people and six whites.  The riot later cemented support for what would become the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Consitution, ensuring equal protection under the law. Learn more about the Memphis Massacre.  

Acts of Union creates Great Britain

On May 1, 1707, the two Acts of Union went into effect, implementing the Treaty of Union and thereby uniting the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain. The Union with Scotland Act was passed by the Parliament of England in 1706, and the Scottish Parliament promulgated the Union with England Act. Learn more about the Acts of Union from the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

First US trade union formed

On May 1, 1794, the Federal Society of Journeymen Cordwainers (shoemakers) was organized in Philadelphia to negotiate wages for its members, becoming the first trade union in the United States. Learn more about the history of the labor movement in the United States, and visit the website of the AFL-CIO, the federation of America's labor unions, representing more than 13 million workers.

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