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Longtime UPI White House reporter Helen Thomas dead at 92
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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 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 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 February 04, 2011 with 30 photos
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Added January 31, 2011 with 18 photos
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Added January 24, 2011 with 21 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 19 photos
Robert Gibbs steps down as White House spokesperson for the Obama administration on February 11, 2010.
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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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