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Event Search Results for "February"
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The EU fined Microsoft Corp. $1.3 billion for charging rivals too much for software information. The fine is the largest ever for a single company and the first time the EU has penalized a business for failing to obey an antitrust order.
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French ambassador Bernard Bajolet said France has handed Algeria details of radioactive leaks from nuclear tests in the Algerian desert in the 1960s and should have acted earlier to clean up the damage.
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Germany's highest court found that government surveillance of personal computers violates the individual right to privacy. German investigators said this will restrict their ability to pursue terrorists.
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The German luxury carmaker BMW said that a restructuring plan aimed at boosting profitability would see the overall elimination of 8,100 jobs worldwide.
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Shihab al-Timimi (74), the chief of the Iraqi Journalists' Union died of wounds suffered in an ambush on
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A Palestinian rocket struck a college campus in southern Israel, killing one person and injuring a second. The Hamas militant group said it had fired more than 20 rockets into southern Israel, including eight at Sderot, the town near Gaza where the deadly strike took place. The rocket barrage came hours after an Israeli airstrike killed five Hamas militants earlier in the day. Late in the day Israeli aircraft attacked the empty office of Gaza's Hamas prime minister and the nearby Interior Ministry building. Palestinians said the blasts killed a baby and wounded two dozen people in the surrounding area.
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In Singapore Mas Selamat bin Kastari, an alleged leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah militant network, escaped from the Whitley Road Detention Centre. He was accused of planning to hijack a plane and crash it into the city's Changi Airport.
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Spanish judges acquitted 20 Islamic terror suspects of the most serious charges in an alleged plot to blow up a court, but convicted them of lesser offenses.
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In Sudan unidentified gunmen attacked a village in Darfur, killing about 20 civilians. A Darfur rebel group blamed pro-government militiamen for the dawn raid.
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Turkey said the death toll for rebels reached 230 during the operation in northern Iraq that began last week. The death toll for soldiers stood at 24. Troops killed 77 Kurdish rebels in night-long clashes with 5 Turkish soldiers killed.
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MAY, 22
- Current / Future Events
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1987 –
Novak Djokovic, Serbian tennis player
1985 –
CariDee English, American model
1985 –
Graham Harrell, American football player
1985 –
Marc-Antoine Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 –
Tranquillo Barnetta, Swiss footballer
1984 –
Joe Lauzon, American martial artist
1983 –
John Hopkins, American motorcycling racer
1982 –
Apolo Anton Ohno, American short track speed skater
1982 –
John Bobek, American actor
1981 –
Bryan Danielson, American professional wrestler
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May, 22
- Births
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2008,
Robert Asprin, American author (b. 1946)
2006,
Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organisation (b. 1945)
2006,
Heather Crowe, Canadian activist (b. 1945)
2005,
Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician, long-time General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (b. 1914)
2005,
Julia Randall, American poet (b. 1924)
2005,
Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer (b. 1914)
2004,
Richard Biggs, American actor (b. 1960)
2004,
Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (b. 1945)
2003,
Ousmane Zongo, Burkinabé shooting victim
1998,
José Enrique Moyal, mathematical physicist (b. 1910)
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May, 22
- Deaths
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