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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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