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2012 Event - Former U.S. Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty resigns from Mitt Romney's Presidential campaign, planning instead to work for the Financial Services Roundtable in Washington, D.C.

2012 Event - U.S. Presidential candidate Ron Paul announces he will end his campaign, but that he will still try to obtain delegates before the Republican National Convention in August

2012 Event - 2012 U.S. presidential candiate, Newt Gingrich suspends his campaign for the Republican nomination

2012 Event - The trial over illegal use of campaign funds by U.S. Presidential candidate John Edwards begins in North Carolina

2011 Event - 2012 Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty withdraws from his campaign to win the Republican Party nomination

2011 Event - In Libya's capitol of Tripoli, Muammar Gaddafi calls on NATO to stop its bombing campaign or else European homes offices and families will be targeted

2011 Event - Former North Carolina Senator and U.S. Presidential Candidate John Edwards is indicted on charges of conspiracy and violating campaign finance laws

2011 Event - Peruvians reclaimed 45,000 Inca artefacts taken by Yale University from Machu Picchu over a hundred years ago, finally successful in their campaign to return of 'the dignity and pride of Peru'

2011 Event - Save the Children launches a campaign to help 400,000 children in Sri Lanka deal with the crisis following the worst floods in their history

2005 Event - IRA issues a statement ordering the end to the armed campaign against the British

1996 Death - David Michael Ifshin, British political campaign organiser, dies at 46

1994 Event - European Campaign against Racism "All different, All equal" begins

1994 Event - European Campaign against Racism confers in Austria

1990 Death - Curtis Lemay, nicknamed Old Iron Pants, General, United States Air Force, running mate for George Wallace, 1968, designed World War II strategic bombing campaign, led Berlin airlift, led firebombing of Tokyo, 22 medals and decorations, dies at age 83

1986 Event - Reverend Donald Wildmon begins a campaign against Howard Stern

1984 Death - Rosser Reeves, advertising executive, television advertising pioneer, wrote, 'Reality in Advertising', created ads for Dwight Eisenhower's Presidential campaign, owned a 138.7 carat Star Ruby, dies

1983 Event - Jesse Jackson launches his 1st campaign for presidency

1976 Event - Belgium catholic elite start amnesty campaign for war criminals

1973 Event - Senate createse Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities

1968 Event - 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign

1968 Event - Robert F. Kennedy announces presidential campaign

1968 Event - Martin Luther King, Jr. announces plans for Poor People's Campaign

1967 Event - U.S. Senate censures Thomas J Dodd (D-Ct) for misusing campaign funds

1966 Event - Martin Luther King, Jr. opens campaign in Chicago

1964 Event - ML King speaks to J Edgar Hoover about his slander campaign

1963 Event - American Heart Association is 1st agency to campaign against cigarettes

1962 Event - Maryland Campaign (Antietam Campaign)

1962 Event - U.S. unions AFL-CIO starts campaign for 35-hour work week

1961 Event - Producers Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman announce expensive publicity campaign to make Sean Connery (James Bond) a star

1960 Birthday - Bono, born in Dublin, Ireland, born Paul David Hewson, Irish musician, activist, lead vocalist for rock band U2, 54th most successful songwriter in U.K. singles chart history, activism includes Product Red and the ONE campaign

1960 Event - John F. Kennedy makes missile gap the presidential campaign issue

1956 Birthday - James Talent, born in Des Peres, Missouri, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from Missouri, senior advisor to Mitt Romney's 2008 Presidential campaign

1956 Birthday - Mark Daniel Gearan, born in Gardner, Massachusetts, campaign manager, Al Gore

1954 Event - U.S. Senate admonishes Joseph Mccarthy because of slander campaign

1953 Birthday - Russ Feingold, born in Janesville, Wisconsin, U.S Senator from Wisconsin, co-sponsor, Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, initially, the only Senator to vote against the USA Patriot Act

1951 Event - Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to "hate campaign against GDR"

1950 Birthday - Patty Murray, born in Bothell, Washington, politician, Democrat, U.S. Senator from Washington, chairwoman, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee 2001 - 2003

1950 Death - Charles H Houston, architect of NAACP legal campaign, dies at 54

1947 Event - Arab terrorist campaign opens in Palestine

1942 Event - Mahatma Gandhi and 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of a "quit India" campaign by the All-India Congress

1941 Event - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign

1936 Event - Radio used for 1st time for a presidential campaign

1934 Event - In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience

1933 Event - 5th "extermination campaign" against communists in Nanjing China

1910 Event - SDAP/NVV initiate campaign for general males/female suffrage

1910 Birthday - Rosser Reeves, born in Danville, Virginia, advertising executive, television advertising pioneer, wrote, 'Reality in Advertising', created ads for Dwight Eisenhower's Presidential campaign, owned a 138.7 carat Star Ruby

1906 Birthday - Curtis Lemay, born in Columbus, Ohio, nicknamed Old Iron Pants, General, United States Air Force, running mate for George Wallace, 1968, designed World War II strategic bombing campaign, led Berlin airlift, led firebombing of Tokyo, 22 medals and decorations

1891 Birthday - Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal, WW II-African campaign

1887 Birthday - Bernard L Montgomery, British field marshall, WW II-African campaign

1865 Event - Battle at Amelia Springs/Jetersville Virginia (Appomattox Campaign)

1865 Event - Battle at Namozine Church, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign)

1864 Event - Battle of Tom's Brook-Confederate cavalry that harassed Sheridan's campaign is wipped by Custer and Merrit's cavalry divisions

1864 Event - Grant approves Sheridan's plan for Shenandoah Valley Campaign

1864 Event - Battle of Peachtree Creek-Atlanta Campaign

1864 Event - Skirmish at Marksville (Avoyelles) (Red River Campaign)

1864 Event - Atlanta Campaign: Sever fighting near Dalton

1864 Event - Campaign in Northern Georgia - Chattanooga Georgia to Atlanta GA

1864 Event - Battle at Alexandria, Louisiana (Red River Campaign)

1864 Event - Red River campaign LA

1864 Event - Miridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek and Wyatt, Mississippi

1863 Event - Skirmish at Bean's Station, Tennessee (Knoxville Campaign)

1863 Event - Skirmish at Catlett's Station, Virginia (Bristoe Campaign)

1863 Event - Chickamauga campaign GA

1863 Event - Battle of Little Rock AK and Start of Chattanooga campaign

1863 Event - Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign

1863 Event - Tullahoma campaign, Tennessee

1863 Event - Battle of Champion's Hill, MS-bloodiest action of Vicksburg Campaign

1862 Event - Valley Campaign: Federals repulsed at Battle of McDowell Va

1862 Event - U.S. begins Peninsular Campaign aimed at capturing Richmond

1862 Event - Shenandoah Valley campaign, Jackson's Battle of Woodstock, VA

1862 Event - Battle of Kernstown VA-Jackson begins his Valley Campaign

1862 Event - Ulysses S. Grant begins military campaign in Mississippi

1861 Event - Western Virginia campaign

1831 Death - Karl von Clausewitz, Prussian strategist (Campaign 1813), dies at 51

1831 Event - Ten day campaign begins, Dutch army occupies Belgium

1797 Birthday - W Frederik K, prince of Netherlands/general/admiral, 10 day campaign

1795 Birthday - Charles Niellon, Belgian brigade general, 10 day campaign

1311 Event - General Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India

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