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2009 Event - North Korea claims it has entered the final phase of uranium enrichment, tells the United Nations it is open to dialogue
1997 Event - Federal judge sentences Autumn Jackson, who claims to be Bill Cosby's daughter, to 26 months for trying to extort $40 million from him 1995 Event - Art Modell 1st meets (he claims) with Baltimore to move Browns 1994 Event - Susan Smith claims her 2 kids were carjack (she actually killed them) 1990 Event - Manuel Noriega claims U.S. denied him a fair trial 1990 Event - Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq 1989 Event - Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife 1988 Event - Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane 1985 Event - French government claims no knowledge of assault on Rainbow Warrior 1984 Event - Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parlimetary elections 1977 Event - Djibouti (Afars and Issas) claims Independence from France 1977 Event - Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives 1963 Event - Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb 1960 Event - Ivory Coast claims independence from France 1960 Event - 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 Birthday - Daisy Fuentes, Havana Cuba, VJ, MTV International, claims 1964 1953 Birthday - Grace Jones, born in Kingston, Jamacia, she claims but actually 5/19/48 1950 Event - Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees 1947 Event - Coal mine explosion in Centralia, Illinois, claims 111 1939 Event - Hitler claims German-Polish non-attack treaty still in effect 1939 Event - Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica 1936 Event - Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates 1931 Event - Norway claims Peter I Island 1923 Event - New Zealand claims Ross Dependency 1923 Event - New Zealand claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica 1918 Event - Germany claims Baltic states, Finland and Ukraine from Russia 1915 Event - Thomas Masaryk claims independence for Czechoslovakia 1915 Event - Hurricane claims 275 in Mississippi Delta 1915 Event - Japan claims economic control of China 1913 Event - Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court 1908 Event - Frederick A. Cook claims to reach North Pole, he didn't 1871 Event - Meeting of Alabama claims commission 1859 Event - Man in San Francisco claims himself Norton I, emperor of America 1855 Event - U.S. Court of Claims forms for cases against government 1850 Event - British blockade Piraeus, Greece to enforce mercantile claims 1846 Event - Captain Montgomery claims Yerba Buena, San Francisco, for U.S. 1824 Event - Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54 degrees 40' N 1819 Event - Spain renounces claims to Oregon Country, Florida (Adams-Onis Treaty) 1803 Event - Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France 1792 Event - Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain 1790 Event - New York gives up claims to Vermont for $30,000 1682 Event - Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France 1648 Event - English army claims king Charles I responsible for bloodshed 1641 Event - Paul de Chomedy de Maisonneuve claims Montreal 1604 Event - Tsar Ivan IV defeats False Dmitri, who claims to be the true tsar 1583 Event - Gilbert claims Newfoundland (1st English colony in North America) 1542 Event - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo claims California for Spain 1539 Event - Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain 1534 Event - Jacques Cartier, lands in Canada, claims it for France 1526 Event - Francis I forced to give up claims in Burgundy, Italy and Flanders 1500 Event - Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil and claims it for Portugal 1497 Event - John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England (believes he found Asia in Nova Scotia) 1492 Event - Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba and claims it for Spain 1348 Event - Rudolph of Oron claims Jews have confessed to poisoning wells |
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