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Bremer hands sovereignty to Iraq two days early; the CPA dissolves before breakfast

The date was moved forward to outpace insurgent attacks; Allawi and al-Yawer now govern a country in open insurgency.

Fourteen months after U.S. forces toppled Saddam Hussein's statue in Baghdad, the Coalition Provisional Authority still governed Iraq from behind the Green Zone's concrete barriers. On June 28, 2004 — two days ahead of schedule, the date moved forward specifically to preempt anticipated insurgent attacks — CPA Administrator Paul Bremer handed documents of sovereignty to Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and Interim President Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer in a brief, closed-door ceremony. The CPA dissolved that same morning, replaced by an Iraqi Interim Government that immediately inherited a country in open insurgency…

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Parker's nine warships bombard Fort Sullivan; Moultrie's palmetto walls swallow the cannonballs

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Washington's own bodyguard hangs before 20,000 in New York

Thomas Hickey, an Irish-born private in the Life Guards, was caught passing counterfeit money, then talked too freely in prison about a far larger plot against the Commander-in-Chief.
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Meade stands down the Army of the Potomac; it ceases to exist, two years to the day after he took command

The army that bled at Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and the Wilderness is disbanded before summer is out.
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Four thousand New England volunteers with no British regulars have cracked the "American Dunkirk," the stone fortress France spent thirty million livres to make impregnable.
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A Titan IVB rises from Cape Canaveral, carrying Cassini toward Saturn

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Apple shows a white box the size of a deck of cards: 1,000 songs in your pocket

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Discovery lifts off with Pamela Melroy in command, only the second woman to lead a shuttle crew

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