Bush declared an end to major combat operations in Iraq on May 1, 2003.

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It was May 1, 2003 when President George W. Bush made his dramatic landing on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, arriving in the passenger seat of a Lockheed S-3 Viking fighter jet.

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Under the power-sharing deal, Tutsi President Pierre Buyoya is due to swap places with his Hutu Vice-President Domitien Ndayizeye on 1 May 2003.

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