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February 3rd
1994 President Bill Clinton announced the United States was lifting its trade embargo against Vietnam.
1996 A U.S. army sergeant became the first American killed on the Bosnia peacekeeping mission.
1998 A U.S. Marines jetfighter, flying low over mountains in Italy, accidentally severed a ski lift cable, sending 20 people in a cable car plunging to their deaths.
1998 Texas executed Karla Faye Tucke the first female inmate to be put to death by the state in 135 years.
2003 President George W. Bush sent lawmakers a $2.23 trillion budget for
2004, including major new tax cuts and a big increase in defense spending, projecting a deficit of $307.4 billion.
2004 The discovery of the lethal poison ricin in the mailroom of Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., the Senate majority leader, forced the closing of three Senate office buildings in Washington.
2005 Investigators looking into the U.N. oil-for-food program reported finding gross mismanagement.
2005 Alberto Gonzales was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become the next attorney general
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