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News Schiavo autopsy reveals brain damage consistent with persistent vegetative state
Schiavo autopsy reveals brain damage consistent with persistent vegetative state
Tom Henry
June 15, 2005 02:26:00 pm

An autopsy report released Wednesday showed that Terri Schiavo had a severely "atrophied" brain that weighed less than half of what a normal brain should weigh and was irreversibly damaged. Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner Jon...

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News Tribunal questions Saddam half-brother
Tribunal questions Saddam half-brother
David Shucosky
June 15, 2005 01:50:00 pm

The Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST) Wednesday questioned Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan , a half-brother of Saddam Hussein, in connection with crimes committed against the Kurds in the early 1980s. The tribunal questioned Hussein himself earlier...

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News Rights groups warns of killings, mass arrests in Ethiopia at vote fraud protests
Rights groups warns of killings, mass arrests in Ethiopia at vote fraud protests
Tom Henry
June 15, 2005 01:05:00 pm

New York-based monitoring group Human Rights Watch reported Wednesday that thousands of people have been arrested and some 36 killed across Ethiopia in skirmishes with police during election-related protests. HRW said that the deaths occured...

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News Bosnian Serb convicted of war crimes sentenced to six years
Bosnian Serb convicted of war crimes sentenced to six years
David Shucosky
June 15, 2005 12:42:00 pm

The Sarajevo cantonal court in Bosnia-Herzegovina sentenced Serb Goran Vasic to six years in prison on Wednesday for his role in the cruel and inhumane treatment of prisoners at a detention camp near Sarajevo in 1992. Vasic...

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News Senate dispute expected as FDA nominee passes committee
Senate dispute expected as FDA nominee passes committee
David Shucosky
June 15, 2005 12:14:00 pm

A Senate committee approved the nomination of Lester Crawford as the new head of the US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday, sending the issue to the full Senate for a final vote. A number...

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News Gonzales says released Gitmo detainees returned to fighting against US
Gonzales says released Gitmo detainees returned to fighting against US
David Shucosky
June 15, 2005 10:59:00 am

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Wednesday that a dozen former Guantanamo detainees have gone back to fighting against the US since their release, as evidenced by their recapture or confirmed death. Gonzales' statement echos similar...

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News Inuit hunters to claim US climate policy breaches human rights
Inuit hunters to claim US climate policy breaches human rights
Tom Henry
June 15, 2005 10:50:00 am

Canadian Inuit leader Sheila Watt-Cloutier announced Wednesday that Inuit hunters in the North plan to file a petition accusing the US government of human rights violations by continually fuelling global warming. Troubled by the melting of Arctic...

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News EU constitution drafter blames Chirac for ratification defeat
EU constitution drafter blames Chirac for ratification defeat
David Shucosky
June 15, 2005 10:30:00 am

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , a former French president and architect of the embattled European Constitution , has blamed current French President Jacques Chirac for the rejection of the document by French voters . In a...

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News German sweep for Iraq terror funders yields three arrests
German sweep for Iraq terror funders yields three arrests
Tom Henry
June 15, 2005 09:59:00 am

German authorities announced Tuesday that they have detained three men who allegedly spent thousands of dollars to fund the Ansar Al-Islam terror network in its terrorist attacks in Iraq. On Tuesday more that 150 German police officers...

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News New document suggests Annan link to oil-for-food contract
New document suggests Annan link to oil-for-food contract
David Shucosky
June 15, 2005 09:51:00 am

A new memo may contradict previous denials by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan that he played no role in the awarding of an oil contract in Iraq to a company his son worked for. Annan was cleared of any wrongdoing...

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Thomas Becket, former Chancellor of England, murdered by Henry II's knights

On December 29, 1170, Archbishop Thomas Becket, former Chancellor of England, was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral by knights acting in the name of Henry II.

Becket and Henry had been entangled in a power struggle over, among other things, criminal jurisdiction over clergy. Read a contemporary account of the murder of Thomas Becket.

Texas attains US statehood

On December 29, 1845, Texas became the twenty-eighth state to join the United States of America when US President James K. Polk signed the Ordinance of Annexation. Texas had a complicated path to statehood because it had formerly been part of Mexico and then an independent republic. The US Congress passed the Annexation of the Republic of Texas Joint Resolution on March 1, 1845. Voters in Texas then approved the Ordinance of Annexation in October, before it was approved by the US Congress and signed into law by President Polk on this day in 1845. The US Supreme Court later ruled in Texas v. White that, despite its unique path to statehood, Texas did not have the right to secede from the union.

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