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2013 Event - The running mate of Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka, claims that votes cast in Kenya's presidential election have been falsified

2013 Event - Scientists in Spain publish a study in the 'New England Journal of Medicine' that claims a Mediterranean diets, high in olive oil, nuts, fish and fresh fruits, reduce the risk of heart disease

2012 Event - The U.N. condemns North Korea for launching a long-range Unha rocket; North Korea claims its purpose is to put its first satellite into space, but critics say the launch is a disguised ballistic missile test

2012 Event - Vietnamese police break up anti-China protests over oil and gas claims in the disputed territorial waters of the South China Sea

2012 Event - Philippine President Benigno Aquino, announces a state of national calamity after Typhoon Bopha claims over 450 lives

2012 Event - The Japanese Coast Guard reports six Chinese Marine Surveillance ships are sighted near the disputed Senkaku Islands; China claims the 'two surveillance ship fleets' are in waters around the islands for purposes of 'patrols and law enforcement'

2012 Event - Robert Spitzer, a retired American psychiatrist, claims his 2001 study was 'fatally flawed'; the study falsely supported the myth that gay people could be 'cured'

2012 Event - A Harvard Medical School study claims that red meat increases the risk of death and has additional negative health implications

2011 Event - The Justice and Development party of Morocco claims victory after Moroccans vote in a parliamentary election

2011 Event - A new census measure claims that a record number of Americans, 49.1 million, are living below the poverty line

2011 Event - The World Health Organization claims over 5 million Ethiopian are susceptible to developing cholera due to the breakout of acute watery diarrhea

2011 Event - The Tokyo Electric Power Company claims three Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant reactors partially melted down during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami

2011 Event - Libya's military claims it will stop fighting Sunday to allow the rebels to turn themselves in

2011 Event - In an interview held before the third anniversary of deadly unrest, Gyaincain Norbu claims Tibetans have 'never been freer'

2011 Event - In an effort to disprove claims that he has fled the country, Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi appears on television and claims to remain head of the revolution

2011 Event - Rebel leader Yoweri Museveni continues his 30-year rule after being re-elected President of Uganda; the opposition claims the election was a 'sham'

2010 Event - In Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko claims he won the presidential election with 79% of the vote; hundreds protesting the vote were arrested

2010 Event - Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus claims innocence while being investigated for diverting millions of dollars of aid money from Grameen Bank

2010 Event - In a Potsdam speech, Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, claims multiculturalism has 'failed' in Germany

2010 Event - BP claims that if the ban on offshore drilling permits continues, it may not be able to pay compensation for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

2009 Event - North Korea claims it has entered the final phase of uranium enrichment, tells the United Nations it is open to dialogue

1997 Event - Federal judge sentences Autumn Jackson, who claims to be Bill Cosby's daughter, to 26 months for trying to extort $40 million from him

1995 Event - Art Modell 1st meets (he claims) with Baltimore to move Browns

1994 Event - Susan Smith claims her 2 kids were carjack (she actually killed them)

1990 Event - Manuel Noriega claims U.S. denied him a fair trial

1990 Event - Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq

1989 Event - Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife

1988 Event - Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane

1985 Event - French government claims no knowledge of assault on Rainbow Warrior

1984 Event - Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parlimetary elections

1977 Event - Djibouti (Afars and Issas) claims Independence from France

1977 Event - Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives

1963 Event - Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb

1960 Event - Ivory Coast claims independence from France

1960 Event - Disaster on U.S.S.R. (Baikonoer) launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin and team (165 die-unconfirmed); U.S.S.R. claims killed in plane crash

1957 Birthday - Daisy Fuentes, Havana Cuba, VJ, MTV International, claims 1964

1953 Birthday - Grace Jones, born in Kingston, Jamacia, she claims but actually 5/19/48

1950 Event - Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees

1947 Event - Coal mine explosion in Centralia, Illinois, claims 111

1939 Event - Hitler claims German-Polish non-attack treaty still in effect

1939 Event - Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica

1936 Event - Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates

1931 Event - Norway claims Peter I Island

1923 Event - New Zealand claims Ross Dependency

1923 Event - New Zealand claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica

1918 Event - Germany claims Baltic states, Finland and Ukraine from Russia

1915 Event - Thomas Masaryk claims independence for Czechoslovakia

1915 Event - Hurricane claims 275 in Mississippi Delta

1915 Event - Japan claims economic control of China

1913 Event - Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court

1908 Event - Frederick A. Cook claims to reach North Pole, he didn't

1871 Event - Meeting of Alabama claims commission

1859 Event - Man in San Francisco claims himself Norton I, emperor of America

1855 Event - U.S. Court of Claims forms for cases against government

1850 Event - British blockade Piraeus, Greece to enforce mercantile claims

1846 Event - Captain Montgomery claims Yerba Buena, San Francisco, for U.S.

1824 Event - Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54 degrees 40' N

1819 Event - Spain renounces claims to Oregon Country, Florida (Adams-Onis Treaty)

1803 Event - Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France

1792 Event - Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain

1790 Event - New York gives up claims to Vermont for $30,000

1682 Event - Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France

1648 Event - English army claims king Charles I responsible for bloodshed

1641 Event - Paul de Chomedy de Maisonneuve claims Montreal

1604 Event - Tsar Ivan IV defeats False Dmitri, who claims to be the true tsar

1583 Event - Gilbert claims Newfoundland (1st English colony in North America)

1542 Event - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo claims California for Spain

1539 Event - Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain

1534 Event - Jacques Cartier, lands in Canada, claims it for France

1526 Event - Francis I forced to give up claims in Burgundy, Italy and Flanders

1500 Event - Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil and claims it for Portugal

1497 Event - John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England (believes he found Asia in Nova Scotia)

1492 Event - Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba and claims it for Spain

1348 Event - Rudolph of Oron claims Jews have confessed to poisoning wells

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