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The EU gave the final approval for the deployment of a 1,800-member policing and administration mission in Kosovo.
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A company source said Toshiba Corp is planning to give up on its HD DVD format for high-definition video, conceding defeat to the competing Blu-Ray technology backed by Sony Corp.
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In Maryland a car plowed into a crowd that had gathered to watch a drag race on a suburban road, killing 8 people and injuring at least four.
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Egyptian border guards shot and killed an Eritrean woman and arrested her two young daughters after they tried to cross illegally into Israel.
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US President George W. Bush in Benin, opening a five-country Africa tour,stepped up pressure on Kenyan leaders to accept a power-sharing deal to end their country's deadly political crisis.
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It was reported that the first flowering in 50 years had taken place in the bamboo forests of Bangladesh leading to a plague of rats. The last flowering in 1958 also caused a similar rodent plague.
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In Italy Michael Seifert (83), a former SS prison guard who was sentenced to life in prison in Italy for Nazi war crimes, was jailed near Naples, hours after he was extradited from Canada. Seifert, known as the "Beast of Bolzano," was convicted in absentia in 2000 by a military tribunal in Verona on nine counts of murder committed while he was an SS guard at a prison transit camp in Bolzano, northern Italy.
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- Current / Future Events
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1991 –
Princess Alexandra of Luxembourg, Princess of Luxembourg
1988 –
Denílson Pereira Neves, Brazilian footballer
1988 –
Diego Capel, Spanish footballer
1987 –
Theresa Goh, Singaporean Paralympic swimmer
1985 –
Zoi Dimoschaki, Greek swimmer
1983 –
Tuomo Ruutu, Finnish ice hockey player
1981 –
Jay Howard, British racing driver
1981 –
Jerry Owens, American baseball player
1981 –
Qyntel Woods, American basketball player
1980 –
Agim Kaba, American actor and film producer
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February, 16
- Births
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2009,
Stephen Cardinal Kim Sou-hwan, Korean Cardinal, Protopriest of the Holy Roman Church (b. 1921)
2006,
Johnny Grunge, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
2006,
Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player (b. 1925)
2005,
Nicole DeHuff, American actress (pneumonia) (b. 1975)
2005,
Queen Narriman, second and last wife of King Farouk and mother of their only child King Fuad II (b. 1933)
2004,
Shirley Strickland, Australian athlete (b. 1925)
2004,
Doris Troy, American singer (b. 1937)
2003,
Rusty Magee, American composer
2003,
Eleanor "Sis" Daley, wife of Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley (b. 1907)
2002,
Walter Winterbottom, England football manager (b. 1913)
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February, 16
- Deaths
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