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Joel and Ethan Coen’s crime saga "No Country for Old Men" won a leading four Academy Awards, including best picture. All four acting prizes went to Europeans: Frenchwoman Marion Cotillard, the best-actress winner for "La Vie En Rose"; Spaniard Javier Bardem, who took supporting actor for "No Country"; and Brits Daniel Day-Lewis and Tilda Swinton, he claiming his second best-actor honor for "There Will Be Blood," she winning supporting actress for "Michael Clayton." (AP, 2/25/08)
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Ralph Nader, consumer activist, launched an independent campaign for the White House.
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In southern Afghanistan a roadside bomb tore through a convoy carrying Kandahar governor Asadullah Khalid, missing the official but killing three policemen.
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The first flight by a commercial airline to be partly powered by biofuels took off from London on a short trip to Amsterdam billed as heralding a new eco-friendlier era of airline travel.
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Pearl Cornioley, British spy (nom de guerre was Genevieve Touzalin), died. She parachuted into France during WWII posing as a cosmetics saleswoman to deliver coded messages to Resistance members.
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In China’s Hubei province water plant workers from Jianli County found that the Dongjing River, a tributary of the Han, had turned red and foamy. The pollution forced authorities to cut water supplies to as many as 200,000 people.
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Greek Cypriots elected Dimitris Christofias, leader of the Communist Akel Party, as its new president with just over 53 percent of the vote, ahead of conservative former Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides with 46.6 percent. Christofias had campaigned on a pledge to act quickly to restart long-stalled talks to reunify the island.
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AUG, 1
- Current / Future Events
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1991 –
Madison Hubbell, American ice dancer
1989 –
Kosta Koufos, American basketball player
1987 –
Chieko Kawabe, Japanese singer, model and actress
1987 –
Daniel Reilly, British entrepreneur
1987 –
Mayuko Iwasa, Japanese entertainer and model
1986 –
Wojtek Wolski, Polish ice hockey player
1984 –
Clivio Piccione, Monegasque racing driver
1984 –
Sterling James Keenan, American professional wrestler
1982 –
Emanuel Villa, Argentine footballer
1982 –
Klára Zakopalová, Czech tennis player
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February, 24
- Births
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2008,
Larry Norman, American musician, singer, songwriter and producer (b. 1947)
2007,
Bruce Bennett, American actor (b. 1906)
2007,
Leroy Jenkins, American composer and violinist (b. 1932)
2007,
Lamar Lundy, American football player (b. 1935)
2007,
Damien Nash, American football player (b. 1982)
2006,
Octavia Butler, American author and MacArthur Foundation Fellow (b. 1947)
2006,
Don Knotts, American actor (b. 1924)
2006,
John Martin, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1947)
2006,
Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (b. 1925)
2006,
Dennis Weaver, American actor (b. 1924)
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February, 24
- Deaths
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