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The New York Giants won the Super Bowl XLII over for the favored New England Patriots 17-14.
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Jorge Liderman (50), a composer and professor at UC Berkeley, was struck and killed by a BART train at the El Cerrito station in a suspected suicide.
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Australian PM Kevin Rudd announced a summit of 1,000 ordinary citizens to address long-term challenges facing the nation, saying the best ideas could influence government policy. He also scolded the country's opposition for haggling over the exact content of a planned apology to Australia's Aborigines, saying its meaning will be quite clear.
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Chadian forces backed by tanks and helicopter gunships struggled to repel a rebel assault on the capital, and insurgents claimed to have trapped the president in his palace. Chadian rebels, reportedly backed by Sudanese military aircraft, launched an attack on the eastern town of Adre, which borders on Sudan's Darfur region.
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In southern China railway service inched back to normal, a day after one person died in a stampede by frustrated train passengers who were stranded for days because of snow ahead of an important holiday.
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Egyptian troops closed the last breach in Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip, ending 11 days of free movement for Palestinian residents of the blockaded territory.
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In southwest Germany an apartment building fire killed at least nine people, five of them children, and left 20 people hospitalized in Ludwigshafen.
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- Current / Future Events
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1994 –
Quincy Washington, BBC TV Show Winner
1990 –
Sean Kingston, Jamaican/American singer/rapper
1989 –
Ryne Sanborn, American actor
1989 –
Slobodan Rajkovic, Serbian footballer
1988 –
Kyuhyun, a singer, a member of Korean boy group Super Junior
1983 –
Richard Bartel, American football player
1983 –
Silambarasan Rajendar, Indian Tamil actor
1982 –
Alan Gurr, Australian V8 Supercar driver
1982 –
Jessica Harp, American singer (The Wreckers)
1981 –
Alisa Reyes, American actress and singer
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February, 3
- Births
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2009,
Sheng-yen, Buddhist monk and founder of Dharma Drum Mountain. (b. 1930)211 Feb 4 Septimius Severus, Emperor of Rome (b. 146)
1991,
Harry Ackerman, American TV executive producer (b. 1912)
1991,
Nancy Kulp, American actress (b. 1921)
1989,
John Cassavetes, American actor (b. 1929)
1989,
Lionel Newman, American movie music orchestra leader, composer and arranger (b. 1916)
1985,
Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1912)
1975,
William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (b. 1873)
1975,
Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (b. 1904)
1969,
Eduardo Mondlane Mozambican independence founder (b. 1920)
1967,
Joe Meek, English record producer (b. 1929)
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February, 3
- Deaths
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