Event:
Roza Otunbayeva, interim leader of Kyrgyzstan, estimates the death toll from the country's worst ethnic battle in decades could be as many as 2,000 people
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1948 American Library Association adopts Library Bill of Rights
1934 U.S. Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized
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