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Added January 17, 2011 with 21 photos
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Added February 24, 2011 with 21 photos
With rebel forces taking an increasingly dominant hold in Gadhafi's stronghold of Tripoli, and his forces abandoning him for the opposition, it looks like the nearly 42 years of his rule in Libya have been brought to an end.
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Added June 30, 2011 with 26 photos
July 1st would be the 50th birthday of the late princess of Wales, Diana Spencer. Here's a look back at Diana's life in the spotlight, courtesy of the UPI Archives.
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Added May 06, 2011 with 16 photos
Remember when gas prices moving over $2 a gallon looked disastrous? Then $3 seemed like the limit? Now with the national average cost of a gallon of gas at $3.99, let's take a look back at some golden days of gas prices.
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Added May 01, 2011 with 16 photos
With the announcement of a sudden presidential press conference, the news quickly broke on Sunday that Osama bin Laden, notorious mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, among others, had been killed. Details are still scarce, but what is known is that the most wanted man in the world is now dead.
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Added April 26, 2011 with 17 photos
Even after the ongoing tragedy at the Fukushima reactor in Japan, the explosion and subsequent fire at the Chernobyl plant still ranks as the worst in history. The plant was in Pripyat, a now abandoned city in the modern Ukraine and the former Soviet Union. The death toll from the accident and radiation varies from a 4,000 individual estimate from the World Health Organization to about 200,000 from Greenpeace.
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Added May 29, 2008 with 25 photos
Fidel Castro, will officially step down as the communist party's first secretary, paving the way for the election of his brother, Raul. We look back at Fidel Castro's 45 years as leader of the island nation in this collection from the UPI archives.
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Added March 30, 2011 with 11 photos
On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley Jr. shot six bullets in an attempt to assassinate President Ronald Reagan. Of six shots fired, Reagan was hit, as well as Press Secretary James Brady, D.C. Police Officer Thomas Delahanty and Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy. In 1982, Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
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Added March 25, 2011 with 15 photos
March 25, 2011 marks the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire when 146 factory workers died in the deadliest industrial disaster in New York city's history. Eye witness accounts by United Press reporter William G. Shepherd along with other reports during the following days and weeks brought the conditions of garment worker into public scrutiny.
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Added January 05, 2011 with 19 photos
Robert Gibbs steps down as White House spokesperson for the Obama administration on February 11, 2010.
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Added January 31, 2011 with 18 photos
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Added February 04, 2011 with 30 photos
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Added January 24, 2011 with 21 photos
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Added January 18, 2011 with 18 photos
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Added January 14, 2011 with 20 photos
VATICAN CITY, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Pope Benedict XVI formally credited a miracle to his predecessor, paving the way for Pope John Paul II to be beatified May 1, the Vatican said Friday.
The Vatican said the late John Paul II miraculously cured a nun who reportedly had Parkinson's disease, the BBC reported. Here is a look back at a few memorable moments with Pope John Paul II from the UPI News Picture Archives. |
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Added January 11, 2011 with 13 photos
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Added January 05, 2011 with 60 photos
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Added November 16, 2010 with 7 photos
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Added July 28, 2010 with 30 photos
The following images were recently discovered in the photo archives of United Press International's Washington D.C. Headquarters. Each image was professionally scanned by a UPI photographer and added to the digital archives. Today, July 28, would be Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' 81 birthday.
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Added June 28, 2010 with 20 photos
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Added February 20, 2010 with 6 photos
BALTIMORE, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Retired Gen. Alexander Haig Jr., a top official to three U.S. presidents, died Saturday at age 85 at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, officials said. Haig was admitted to Johns Hopkins Jan. 28 with an infection and died at 1:30 a.m. Saturday, hospital spokesman Gary Stephenson told CNN. Haig, a four-star Army general, served as commander of NATO and secretary of state under Ronald Reagan, and in 1988 ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination. Haig also served as a senior adviser in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon. Haig gained notoriety in 1981 after President Reagan was shot and wounded and then Vice President George H.W. Bush was en route from Texas to Washington. "As of now, I am in control here, in the White House, pending the return of the vice president," Haig declared shortly after the shooting. Haig was born in Bala Cynwyd, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia, and attended the University of Notre Dame for two years before transferring to the U.S. Military Academy in 1944. After graduation in 1947, he served in Japan and led combat units in Korea and in Vietnam. |
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Added November 02, 2009 with 12 photos
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Added September 11, 2009 with 22 photos
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Added August 10, 2009 with 2 photos
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Added August 06, 2009 with 14 photos
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Added June 30, 2009 with 24 photos
Camp David, known formally as the Naval Support Facility Thurmont, is the President’s country residence. Located in Catoctin Mountain Park in Frederick County, Maryland, Camp David has offered Presidents an opportunity for solitude and tranquility, as well as an ideal place to host foreign leaders. Adapted from the federal employee retreat Hi-Catoctin, President Franklin Roosevelt established the residence as USS Shangri La, modeling the new main lodge after the Roosevelt winter vacation home in Warm Springs, Georgia. President Eisenhower subsequently renamed the institution in honor of his grandson David. Camp David has been used extensively to host foreign dignitaries. Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain attended the first such meeting in May of 1943; the summit held at the residence in 1978 for Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin resulted in what are now known as the Camp David Accords. (30 Photos) |
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Added June 15, 2009 with 2 photos
On October 25, 1989 Senator John Glenn, D-Ohio was taping a television interview following a tree-planting ceremony at the Smithsonian Institution. Suddenly, a well-dressed man walked up and punched the Senator square on the jaw.
The assailant, Michael John Breen, 31, was promptly arrested after being detained by a stunned Glenn. Breen later told authorities that in recent months he had dreams revealing future events, and that he only hit Glenn to gain attention for his revelations. Among these revelations was a vision of a massive earthquake in California which the government knew about but refused to warn residents of.
An affidavit filed in U.S. District Court said Breen told officials that he was "guided" by God to try to alert Vice President Quayle about the coming events during a visit to the Capitol.
According to police reports, Mr. Breen was charged with assaulting a member of Congress, a felony, and was held for psychiatric evaluation. His lawyer, Barry Stiller, declined to discuss the case but described his client as ''just a very nice young man who I think is a little confused.''
Glenn’s only response, “I haven't been hit like that in 30 years.”
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Added June 11, 2009 with 17 photos
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Added June 09, 2009 with 29 photos
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Added June 08, 2009 with 12 photos
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