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June 2, 2004
- Five aid workers representing Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are killed in a Taliban ambush in north-western Afghanistan. The workers are one Dutchman, one Belgian, one Norwegian, and two Afghans. The incident leads MSF to temporarily suspend their activities nation-wide, except for life-saving activities. (BBC) (MSF Press Release)
- In a speech given at the United States Air Force Academy, President Bush compares the present War on Terrorism in the Middle East to World War II in Europe. (AP) (BBC)
- Zhou Zhengyi, the 11th richest businessman in mainland China, is given a three-year jail sentence for stock market fraud. (BBC)
- Norman Hutchins, who has a fetish for surgical masks becomes the first person in history to be banned from all British hospitals. (BBC)
- Scaled Composites announces that the world's first private manned space flight is scheduled for June 21, 2004. (BBC)
- U.S. government prosecutors, preparing for an upcoming trial of four former executives of Merrill Lynch and two former executives of Enron released a document that could prove helpful to the defense -- indicating that the intent of the allegedly fraudulent transaction was, at the least, a bit equivocal. Trial begins Monday. [http:www.nytimes.com/2004/06/04/business/04ENRON.html?th (NYT)]
June 2 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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- 455 - The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks.
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Médecins Sans Frontières ( (help info ) ) (English: Doctors Without Borders, its official name in the United States) is a secular humanitarian-aid non-governmental organization best known for its projects in war-torn regions and
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Taliban (Pashto: طالبان ṭālibān
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United States Air Force Academy (USAFA or Air Force),[1] located immediately north of Colorado Springs in El Paso County, Colorado, United States, is an institution for the undergraduate education of officers for the United States Air Force.
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George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America, originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001. Bush was first elected in the 2000 presidential election, and reelected for a second term in the 2004 presidential election.
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Canada
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Netherlands
Iraq
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India
Pakistan
Philippines
Somalia
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Middle East is a historical and political region of Africa-Eurasia with no clear boundaries. The term "Middle East" was popularized around 1900 in Britain, and has been criticized for its loose definition.
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Soviet Union
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Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of the Earth. Physically and geologically, Europe is the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, west of Asia. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea,
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Zhou Zhengyi (Chinese: 周正毅) (born 1961) is a prominent businessman born and based in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. The flamboyant property developer is described as the 11th richest man in China, with personal assets totalling US$320 million.
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Mainland China (Simplified Chinese: 中国大陆; Traditional Chinese: 中國大陸; Pinyin:
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surgical mask is intended to be worn by health professionals during surgery and at other times to catch the bacteria shed in liquid droplets and aerosols from the wearer's mouth and nose.
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hospital is an institution for health care, often but not always providing for longer-term patient stays. Today, hospitals are usually funded by the state, health organizations (for profit or non-profit), health insurances or charities, including direct charitable donations.
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Scaled Composites, LLC
Private
Founded Mojave, California (1982)
Headquarters Poway, California
Key people Burt Rutan (Founder)
Industry Aerospace
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Private
Founded Mojave, California (1982)
Headquarters Poway, California
Key people Burt Rutan (Founder)
Industry Aerospace
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June 21 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
Public (NYSE: MER , TYO: 8675 )
Founded 1914, as Charles E. Merrill & Co.
Headquarters New York, NY, U.S.
Key people Stan O'Neal: CEO and Chairman of the Board
Ahmass Fakahany: President and Chief Operating Officer
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Public (NYSE: MER , TYO: 8675 )
Founded 1914, as Charles E. Merrill & Co.
Headquarters New York, NY, U.S.
Key people Stan O'Neal: CEO and Chairman of the Board
Ahmass Fakahany: President and Chief Operating Officer
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Enron Creditors Recovery Corporation
Defunct / Asset-less Shell
Founded Omaha, Nebraska, 1985
Headquarters Houston, Texas, USA
Key people Kenneth Lay, Founder, former Chairman and CEO
Jeffrey Skilling, former CEO and COO
Andrew Fastow, former CFO
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Defunct / Asset-less Shell
Founded Omaha, Nebraska, 1985
Headquarters Houston, Texas, USA
Key people Kenneth Lay, Founder, former Chairman and CEO
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