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Togo’s Pres. Gnassingbe Eyadema (69) died of a heart attack. The military quickly announced that his son would replaced him as head of state. The constitution called for the speaker of parliament to succeed the president in the event of his death.
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A Yemeni court overruled earlier rulings and imposed harsher sentences, including a death sentence, on three militants convicted of attacking a French oil tanker and a helicopter carrying U.S. employees of an oil company.
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The crown prince of Saudi Arabia called for the creation of an international anti-terrorism center to trade information in an effort to prevent attacks.
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At least 21 shellfish hunters, all apparently Chinese nationals, died when they were trapped by fast-rising tides in treacherous Morecambe Bay in northern England. In 2006 Lin Liang Ren (29) was found guilty in the deaths of the shellfish pickers at Warton Sands. Lin's girlfriend, Zhao Xiao Qing (21) and cousin Lin Mu Yong (31) were also convicted of facilitating the deaths. Liangren was sentenced to 14 years in prison. Xiaoqing was sentenced to 2 years and 9 months. Muyong was sentenced to 4 years and 9 months.
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In Haiti an armed opposition group, led by Butteur Metayer, seized control of Gonaives, Haiti's fourth-largest city, burning a police station, freeing prisoners and leaving at least four people reported dead and 20 wounded in clashes with police.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces captured more than 100 suspected guerrillas in raids across the country, arresting one of Saddam Hussein's intelligence chiefs and another Iraqi believed involved in a suicide bombing last month, a U.S.
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Indian soldiers shot and killed 10 suspected Muslim militants in the forests of northern Kashmir.
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MAY, 22
- Current / Future Events
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976 –
anjo, Emperor of Japan (d. 1017)
1989 –
Cristine Reyes, Filipino actress
1989 –
Jeremy Sumpter, American actor
1986 –
Ashley Lane, American professional wrestler
1986 –
Billy Sharp, English footballer
1986 –
Manuel Fernandes, Portuguese footballer
1986 –
Reed Sorenson, American racecar driver
1986 –
Vedran Corluka Croatian football player
1985 –
Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
1985 –
Crystal Hunt, American actress
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February, 5
- Births
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2008,
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru, founder of Transcendental Meditation (b. c. 1917)
2007,
Alfred Worm, Austrian investigative journalist (b. 1945)
2007,
Leo T. McCarthy, American politician and 43rd Lieutenant Governor of California (1983Feb 51995) (b. 1930)
2007,
Fred Ball, American movie studio executive, actor, and the brother of comedienne Lucille Ball (b. 1915)
2006,
Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actress and comedian (b. 1930)
2006,
Franklin Cover, American actor (b. 1928)
2005,
Gnassingbe Eyadema, President of Togo (b. 1937)
2004,
John Hench, American animator (b. 1908)
2003,
Helge Boes, American Central Intelligence Agency officer
2000,
Claude Autant-Lara, French film director (b. 1901)
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February, 5
- Deaths
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