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In northeastern China a coal mine explosion killed at least 24 miners as rescue workers scrambled to find 13 more trapped miners.
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Rebels who overran Haiti's second-largest city began detaining people identified as supporters of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and said they soon will attack Haiti's capital. Fifty combat-ready U.S. Marines were on their way to Port-au-Prince to secure the U.S. Embassy and its staff.
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In India an explosion and fire at India's main space center killed at least six people. The accident took place at the solid propellant fuel plant at the government's Dhawan Space Center, on Sriharikota Island just off India's southeastern coast.
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In Iran conservatives formally reclaimed control of parliament after disputed elections that were boycotted by reformists who called the vote a "historical fiasco" without free choice.
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In Iraq a suicide bomber detonated an explosive-packed vehicle outside an Iraqi police station in a Kurdish neighborhood of Kirkuk, killing at least seven people and wounding at least 35 others.
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The World Health Organization launched a massive immunization campaign targeting 63 million children in 10 African countries as a polio outbreak spread from heavily Muslim northern Nigeria.
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In the 45th US Grammy's in NYC Norah Jones won 3 awards as did Bruce Springsteen for his 9/11-inspired album "The Rising." (SFC, 2/24/03
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FEB, 10
- Current / Future Events
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1994 –
Dakota Fanning, American actress
1989 –
Evan Bates, American ice dancer
1986 –
Holly Brook, American musician
1986 –
Jerod Mayo, American Football player
1986 –
Kazuya Kamenashi, Japanese pop star (KAT-TUN)
1986 –
Ola Svensson, Swedish Pop Singer
1983 –
Aziz Ansari, Indian American Comedian
1983 –
Emily Blunt, British actress
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Mido, Egyptian footballer
1983 –
Mirco Bergamasco, Italian rugby player
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February, 23
- Births
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2008,
Janez Drnovšek, Slovenian prime minister and president (b. 1950)
2008,
Paul Frère, Belgian race car driver and motorsport journalist (b. 1917)
2008,
Douglas Fraser, Scottish pilot (b. 1916)
2007,
Donnie Brooks, American singer (b. 1936)
2007,
John Ritchie, British footballer (b. 1941)
2006,
Benno Besson, Swiss actor and film director (b. 1922)
2006,
Telmo Zarraonaindía, Spanish footballer (b. 1921)
2004,
Vijay Anand, Indian film director (b. 1934)
2004,
Neil Ardley, English jazz pianist and composer (b. 1937)
2004,
Carl Anderson, American singer (b. 1945)
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February, 23
- Deaths
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