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FEBRUARY 10 - IN THE HISTORY Calender Search
 
2005
Arthur Miller (b.1915), the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, died. His most famous fictional creation, Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman" (1949), came to symbolize the American Dream gone awry.
2005
Vancouver, Canada, began a trial program giving addicts free heroin on condition that they accept treatment.
2005
Chile raised its key interest rate to 2.75% from 2.5%.
2005
In Haiti police hunting a rebel leader stormed a compound used by the disbanded army, exchanging gunfire with defenders. A grade school girl was killed in the crossfire.
2005
A car bomb detonated by remote control exploded in a crowded central Baghdad square moments after an American military convoy passed, killing at least two Iraqis and wounding two others. Insurgents attacked Iraqi police in Salman Pak and killed at least 6.
2005
North Korea announced for the first time that it has nuclear arms and rejected moves to restart disarmament talks anytime soon, saying it needs the weapons as protection against an increasingly hostile United States.
2005
Police in Nepal's capital arrested 12 rights activists and quashed a rally to protest the king's emergency rule, while rebels in the southwest killed five policemen and freed comrades from a jail during a raid on a town.
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