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Coca-Cola announced that it had signed an agreement to acquire Fuze Bever-age LLC in a deal estimated at $225-250 million. Fuze was launched in 2001.
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Romanian President Traian Basescu told Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates that pi-rated Microsoft software helped Romania to build a vibrant technology industry.
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In South Africa 20 people, including four children, were killed in a car accident in Mpumalanga province.
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Oil giant Exxon Mobil topped its own record for the biggest annual profit by a US company last year, racking up earnings that amounted to $4.5 million an hour for the world's largest publicly traded oil company.
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Whitney Balliett (80), jazz chronicler writer for the New Yorker magazine, died.
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John Bryan, underground press writer and editor, died in SF. He had started the Open City Press, San Francisco’s 1st alternative paper, in 1964.
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The United States presented hundreds of armored vehicles and trucks and thou-sands of weapons to the Afghan army as Afghanistan braces for renewed fighting with Taliban-led insurgents. In southern Afghanistan Taliban militants overran Musa Qala, where a conten-tious peace agreement was negotiated last fall, roaming through the town center, burning its government compound and threatening elders. In eastern Paktika province coalition aircraft dropped two bombs, killing as many as seven militants.
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FEB, 10
- Current / Future Events
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1990 –
Laura Marling, British singer-songwriter
1989 –
Hurricane Chris, American rapper
1987 –
Giuseppe Rossi, Italian footballer
1986 –
Lauren Conrad, American TV star
1985 –
Dean Shiels, Northern Irish footballer
1985 –
Jodi Gordon, Australian actress and model
1985 –
Rachael Scdoris, American dog musher
1984 –
Darren Fletcher, Scottish footballer
1984 –
Lee Thompson Young, American actor
1983 –
Jurgen Van Den Broeck, Belgian cyclist
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February, 1
- Births
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2008,
Beto Carrero, Brazilian theme park owner and entertainer (b. 1937)
2007,
Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer (b. 1911)
2007,
Seri Wangnaitham, Thai dance choreographer (b. 1937)
2007,
Whitney Balliett, American jazz critic (b. 1926)
2007,
Ray Berres, American baseball player (b. 1907)
2007,
Ahmad Abu Laban, Danish Muslim leader (b. 1946)
2006,
Dick Bass, American football player (b. 1937)
2006,
Bryce Harland, New Zealand diplomat (b. 1931)
2005,
John Vernon, Canadian actor (b. 1932)
2004,
May O'Donnell, American modern dancer and choreographer (b. 1909)
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February, 1
- Deaths
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