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2013 Event - For the first time since launching Google Maps, Google extends its data coverage of North Korea, filling in previously blank areas on most of the country with detailed maps that identify landmarks

2012 Event - Volcanic activity alerts are issued in Chile and Argentina, in areas near the Copahue volcano, after it started to spew ash

2012 Event - For the first time since the Vietnam War ended in 1975, the United States plans to help clean up herbicide Agent Orange from areas in Vietnam

2012 Event - A drought spreading through the United States leads to over 1,000 counties declared natural disaster areas

2012 Event - Pensacola, Florida and adjacent areas experience widespread flooding after over 12 inches of rain falls on the area

2011 Event - For the third straight week, hundreds of Vietnamese citizens protest outside China's embassy in Hanoi against disputed areas in the South China Sea

2011 Event - Japan's Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, visits areas devastated by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami

2011 Event - Tropical cyclone Anthony lands in Bowen in Queensland, Australia, forcing a disaster zone declared in areas still recovering from the 2010-2011 Queensland floods

1996 Event - Blackout in many areas of Queens, New York

1978 Event - Israeli government rejects Sadat's call for return of 2 Sinai areas

1956 Birthday - Judith Butler, born in Cleveland, Ohio, philosopher, professor, U of C, Berkeley, specialty, post-structuralism, Ph. D. Yale University, areas of study include feminist theory, Jewish philosophy, ethics, sexuality, developed idea of sex and gender as social construction

1950 Event - South Africa passes Group Areas Act segregating races

1942 Event - Goering proclaims occupied areas "thoroughly empty to plunder"

1939 Event - Goering begins plunder through Nazi's occupied areas

1917 Event - Supreme Court decision (Buchanan vs. Warley) strikes down Lousiville Kentucky ordiance requiring blacks and whites to live in separate areas

1910 Event - 1st city ordinace requiring white and black residential areas (Balt)

743 Event - Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited









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