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In Sao Paulo, Brazil, thousands of fans surged through security barriers at an autograph session for a wildly popular Mexican band, leaving three people crushed to death and 38 injured.
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Dumarsais Simeus (65), a presidential candidate whose name was dropped from the ballot despite two Haitian Supreme Court rulings, said the interim president, the prime minister and the electoral council should be jailed.
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Indian airport workers called off a four-day anti-privatization strike that had created chaos at the nation's airports after the government promised them job security.
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The UN vowed to discipline two officials implicated in a report that detailed conflicts of interest and flawed management in the U.N. oil-for-food program. Secretary-General Kofi Annan will discipline Benon Sevan and another UN official, Joseph Stephanides, who may have "tainted" bidding for an oil-for-food contract, (AP, 2/4/05)
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Gunmen seized Giuliana Sgrena, an Italian journalist in central Baghdad, in a hail of gunfire after she had been interviewing people who fled the US assault last year on the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Fallujah. Sgrena was freed a month later; however, an Italian agent who'd secured her release was killed by U.S. gunfire at a checkpoint.
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Japan confirmed its 1st human death from mad-cow disease. It was suspected that the man died as a result of beef he consumed in England around 1989.
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In Nepal dozens of paramilitary police raided an underground political meeting and rounded up a group of party officials, days after the king seized power and banned public gatherings.
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MAY, 22
- Current / Future Events
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1988 –
Carly Patterson, American gymnast
1988 –
Eoin McDowell, Irish rugby player
1987 –
Lucie Šafárová, Czech tennis player
1986 –
Mohammad Mahmudullah, Bangladeshi cricketer
1985 –
Bug Hall, American actor
1984 –
Mauricio Pinilla, Chilean footballer
1983 –
Jarrad Waite, Australian rules footballer
1982 –
Chris Sabin, American professional wrestler
1982 –
Kimberly Wyatt, American singer and dancer (Pussycat Dolls)
1982 –
Tomas Vaitkus, Lithuanian professional road racing cyclist
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February, 4
- Births
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2009,
Lux Interior, Frontman of the garage rock band The Cramps (b. 1946)
2008,
Stefan Meller, Polish foreign minister (b. 1942)
2007,
Steve Barber, American baseball pitcher (b. 1938)
2007,
José Carlos Bauer, Brazilian World Cup footballer (b. 1925)
2007,
Ilya Kormiltsev, Russian poet and translator (b. 1959)
2007,
Barbara McNair, American singer and actress (b. 1934)
2007,
Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-born American abstract painter and sculptor (b. 1922)
2006,
Betty Friedan, American feminist (b. 1921)
2006,
Myron Waldman, American animator (b. 1908)
2005,
Ossie Davis, American actor, activist (b. 1917)
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February, 4
- Deaths
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