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1997 Fed judge sentences Autumn Jackson, who claims to be Bill Cosby's daughter, to 26 months for trying to extort $40 million from him 1995 Art Modell 1st meets (he claims) with Balt to move Browns 1994 Susan Smith claims her 2 kids were carjack (she actually killed them) 1990 Manuel Noriega claims U.S. denied him a fair trial 1990 Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq 1989 Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife 1988 Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane 1985 French government claims no knowledge of assault on Rainbow Warrior 1984 Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parlimetary elections 1977 Djibouti (Afars and Issas) claims Independence from France 1977 Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives 1963 Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb 1960 Ivory Coast claims independence from France 1960 Disaster on U.S.S.R. (Baikonoer) launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin and team (165 die-unconfirmed); U.S.S.R. claims killed in plane crash 1957 Daisy Fuentes, Havana Cuba, VJ, MTV International, claims 1964 1953 Grace Jones, born in Kingston, Jamacia, she claims but actually 5/19/48 1950 Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees 1947 Coal mine explosion in Centralia, Illinois, claims 111 1939 Hitler claims German-Polish non-attack treaty still in effect 1939 Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica 1936 Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates 1931 Norway claims Peter I Island 1923 New Zealand claims Ross Dependency 1923 NZ claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica 1918 Germany claims Baltic states, Finland and Ukraine from Russia 1915 Thomas Masaryk claims independence for Czechoslovakia 1915 Hurricane claims 275 in Mississippi Delta 1915 Japan claims economic control of China 1913 Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court 1908 Frederick A. Cook claims to reach North Pole, he didn't 1871 Meeting of Alabama claims commission 1859 Man in San Francisco claims himself Norton I, emperor of America 1855 U.S. Court of Claims forms for cases against government 1850 British blockade Piraeus, Greece to enforce mercantile claims 1846 Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena, San Francisco, for U.S. 1824 Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54 degrees 40' N 1819 Spain renounces claims to Oregon Country, Florida (Adams-Onis Treaty) 1803 Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France 1792 Capt George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain 1790 New York gives up claims to Vermont for $30,000 1682 Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France 1648 English army claims king Charles I responsible for bloodshed 1641 Paul de Chomedy de Maisonneuve claims Montreal 1604 Tsar Ivan IV defeats False Dmitri, who claims to be the true tsar 1583 Gilbert claims Newfoundland (1st English colony in North America) 1542 Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo claims California for Spain 1539 Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain 1534 Jacques Cartier, lands in Canada, claims it for France 1526 Francis I forced to give up claims in Burgundy, Italy and Flanders 1500 Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil and claims it for Portugal 1497 John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England (believes he found Asia in Nova Scotia) 1492 Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba and claims it for Spain 1348 Rudolph of Oron claims Jews have confessed to poisoning wells

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