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FEBRUARY 15 - IN THE HISTORY Calender Search
 
2007
A leftist student leader was murdered in the central Philippines, amid plans to set up special tribunals to try people suspected of carrying out extrajudicial killings. Farly Alcantara (22) was head of the League of Filipino Students at Camarines Norte State College.
2007
President Paul Kagame said in an interview published in The Times that Rwanda wants to join the Commonwealth, the 53-nation grouping of former British colonies, in what will be seen as a rebuke to France.
2007
Top US auditors told Congress that over $10 billion paid to military contractors for Iraq reconstruction and troop support was either excessive or unsupported by documents.
2007
A US federal judge ordered a trial for a suit seeking $105 million from Sudan for aid to al-Qaeda in the USS Cole bombing that killed 17 in 2000.
2007
Jim Black (72), US House speaker from North Carolina, pleaded guilty to illegally taking thousands of dollars from chiropractors while pushing their legislative agenda. Black was sentenced to 5 years in prison for political corruption.
2007
A new version of the US $1 coin, paying tribute to American presidents, went into general circulation. A unknown number were mistakenly struck without their edge inscription “In God We Trust.” (AP, 2/15/07)(SFC, 3/8/07
2007
Hundreds of drivers became stranded on a stretch of eastern Pennsylvania that had been hit by a monster storm. The National Guard was called in to deliver food and other necessities to a 50-mile line of vehicles trapped on I-78.
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