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The Royal Mail's 350-year-long monopoly of the letter-delivery business in Britain ended, as new rules kicked in to allow rival operators to win a slice of the market.
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Toronto wrapped up 2005 with 78 homicides, 52 of them gun-related.
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The Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) failed to start due to legal and regulatory reforms. Juan Carlos Paiz of the Guatemalan Union of Nontraditional Products blamed the US in large part for the delay, saying Washington was requiring too much of its poorer partners. The 6 participating nations included, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua,
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Russia took over the annual presidency of the G8 club of industrialized democracies for the first time from Britain on New Year's Day.
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Spanish smokers faced a wrenching change New Year's Day as a nationwide ban on tobacco in the workplace came into force in a country known for its smoky bars.
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In southern Peru Antauro Humala, retired army major, led a nationalist group that seized a police station ambushed a police vehicle responding to the scene, killing four officers and wounding several more.
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Romania enacted a law forbidding int’l. adoptions except to biological grandparents in an effort to help it win EU membership.
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MAY, 22
- Current / Future Events
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1998 –
Marlene Lawston, American child actress
1992 –
He Kexin, Chinese gymnast
1992 –
Jack Wilshere, English footballer
1992 –
Oren Williams, American actor
1989 –
Marvin Austin, American football player
1987 –
Devin Setoguchi, Canadian professional hockey player
1987 –
Gilbert Brule, Canadian professional hockey player
1987 –
Meryl Davis, American ice dancer
1986 –
Lee Sungmin, Member of Korean boyband Super Junior
1985 –
Jeff Carter, Canadian hockey player
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January, 1
- Births
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2009,
Claiborne Pell, U.S. senator (b. 1918)
2009,
Nizar Rayan, Hamas leader (b. 1962)
2008,
Salvatore Bonanno, son of Joseph Bonanno (b. 1932)
2008,
Peter Caffrey, Irish actor (b. 1949)
2008,
Pratap Chandra Chunder, Union minister of India (b. 1919)
2008,
Harold Corsini, American photographer (b. 1919)
2007,
A. I. Bezzerides, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1908)
2007,
Leon Davidson, American scientist known for studying UFOs (b. 1922)
2007,
Leonard Fraser, Australian serial killer (b. 1951)
2007,
Julius Hegyi, American conductor (b. 1923)
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January, 1
- Deaths
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