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A blast on a bus in Russia’s Stavropol region killed two people. An exploding gas canister was suspected.
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A Canadian jury in British Columbia convicted Robert 'Willie' Pickton (58), a pig farmer, of murdering six women, handing him an automatic life sentence but finding that the killings were not planned. Pickton still faced 20 more murder charges for the deaths of women, most of them prostitutes and drug addicts from a seedy Vancouver neighborhood. On Dec 11 Pickton was sentenced to life in prison with no hope of parole for 25 years.
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A charter aircraft flying from the Czech Republic crashed near Kiev airport in Ukraine killing at least 5 people.
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Anne Darwin, whose husband is accused of faking his own death in an insurance scam, was arrested upon her return to Britain from Panama on suspicion of fraud. Police said Darwin masterminded an elaborate fraud to pay off family debts.
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Beijing's foreign exchange regulator said the ceiling on foreign investment in Chinese securities will be raised to $30 billion from $10 billion.
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Bolivia’s constitutional assembly approved a new charter that would empower Pres. Evo Morales to run for re-election indefinitely. The new constitution required approval by Bolivians in a national referendum expected in 2008.
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In Arvada, Colorado, a suburb of Denver, a gunman walked into a training center dormitory for young Christian missionaries and opened fire, killing two of the center's staff members and wounding two others. 2 more people, including the gunman, were killed at the New Life megachurch in Colorado Springs. Matthew Murray, killed himself.
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MAY, 22
- Current / Future Events
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1990 –
LaFee, German singer
1983 –
Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer
1983 –
Jermaine Beckford, English footballer
1982 –
Tamilla Abassova, Russian cyclist
1982 –
Nathalie De Vos, Belgian athlete
1981 –
Mardy Fish, American tennis player
1981 –
Diya Mirza, Indian actress
1980 –
Ryder Hesjedal, Canadian cyclist
1979 –
Chen Hao, Chinese actress
1979 –
Olivia Lufkin, Japanese singer
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December, 9
- Births
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2008,
Ibrahim Dossey, Ghanaian football player (b. 1972)
2008,
Yuri Glazkov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1939)
2007,
Thore Skogman, Swedish entertainer (b. 1931)
2007,
Gordon Zahn, American sociologist and pacifist (b. 1918)
2005,
György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (b. 1912)
2005,
Robert Sheckley, American author (b. 1928)
2004,
David Brudnoy, American radio personality (b. 1940)
2004,
Lea De Mae, Czech actress (b. 1976)
2003,
Paul Simon, American politician (b. 1928)
2003,
Norm Sloan, American basketball coach (b. 1926)
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December, 9
- Deaths
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