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Mike Nifong, the disgraced former district attorney of Durham County, N.C., was sentenced to a day in jail after being held in criminal contempt of court for lying to a judge when pursuing rape charges against three falsely accused Duke University lacrosse players.
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A car bomb exploded near a police vehicle in Russia's troubled North Caucasus region, killing four police officers in Nazran, Ingushetia.
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A federal appeals court allowed the US Navy to resume underwater sonar blasts in anti-submarine warfare tests off of Southern California, saying military needs come be-fore whales. A federal judge ruled that giant pumps in northern California supplying water to southern California were killing smelt and would have to be shut down for much of the year.
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As of today at least 3,737 members of the US military have died since the be-ginning of the Iraq war in March 2003. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 3,061 died as a result of hostile action. Iraqi health officials said up to 10 people have died from chol-era in northern Iraq.
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Australia and India agreed to study the possibility of a free trade agreement. Trade Minister Warren Truss said it was a natural result of New Delhi's rising economic power.
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China officially put in place systems to recall unsafe food and toys, one of its strongest steps yet to deal with recurring quality problems. At least 12 miners were missing af-ter an explosion in central China. Authorities continued their efforts to reach 181 workers trapped in flooded coal shafts for two weeks.
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Colombia's Alvaro Uribe and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez agreed to al-low a representative of Colombia's largest guerrilla group to travel to Caracas for talks aimed at freeing dozens of rebel-held hostages, including three U.S. defense contractors.
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- Current / Future Events
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Petros Kravaritis, Greek footballer
1986 –
Feng Tianwei, Singaporean table tennis player
1985 –
Andrew Foster, Australian rules footballer
1984 –
Charl Schwartzel, South African golfer
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Matti Breschel, Danish road bicycle racer
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Ted Ligety, American alpine skier
1983 –
Larry Fitzgerald, American football player
1982 –
Alexei Mikhnov, Ukrainian-born ice hockey player
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Chris Duhon, American basketball player
1982 –
G. Willow Wilson, American journalist and comic book writer
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August, 31
- Births
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2008,
Jerry Reed, American country music singer and actor (b. 1937)
2008,
Ike Pappas, American news correspondent (b. 1933)
2008,
Victor Yates, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1939)
2007,
Gay Brewer, American golfer (b. 1932)
2007,
Karloff Lagarde, Mexican professional wrestler (b. 1928)
2006,
Mohamed Abdelwahab, Egyptian footballer (b. 1983)
2006,
Tom Delaney, British racing driver (b. 1911)
2006,
Derrick Wayne Frazier, American convicted murderer (b. 1977)
2005,
Joseph Rotblat, Polish-British physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1908)
2005,
Michael Sheard, British actor (b. 1940)
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August, 31
- Deaths
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