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In the Bahamas the Compleat Angler Hotel on North Bimini Island was destroyed by fire. The hotel's owner Julian Brown helped the guests escape before disappearing in the flames to fight the fire. The hotel claimed to be a one-time writing headquarters for Ernest Hemingway and advertised room No. 1 as the place where Hemingway worked on "To Have and Have Not."
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Bolivia's president-elect ended an around-the-world tour with a promise to respect foreign investments and vowed not to nationalize the Bolivian operations of Brazil's state oil company Petrobras SA.
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US baseball owners and players agreed to a more stringent drug policy. It would suspend first-time offenders for 10 days and randomly tested players year-round.
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The FBI said it may have to scrap a costly computer system overhaul.
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The European-built space probe Huygens entered the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
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A Black Hawk helicopter crashed during a counternarcotics mission in the jungles of southwest Colombia, killing all 20 soldiers aboard.
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Sir Mark Thatcher pleaded guilty to unwittingly helping to finance a foiled coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, accepting a $506,000 fine and suspended jail sentence.
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MAY, 22
- Current / Future Events
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1995 –
Qaasim Middleton, American musician and actor
1989 –
Bryan Arguez, American soccer player
1989 –
Triinu Kivilaan, Estonian singer
1987 –
Lee Seung Gi, K-pop singer
1987 –
Marc Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 –
Joannie Rochette, Canadian figure skater
1983 –
Ronny Turiaf, French basketball player
1983 –
William Hung, American Idol contestant
1983 –
Julian Morris, English actor
1982 –
Guillermo Coria, Argentine tennis player
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January, 13
- Births
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2009,
Doña Mary Ejercito, Filipino supercentarian, mother of Joseph Ejercito Estrada (b. 1905)
2009,
Patrick McGoohan, American actor (b. 1928)
2009,
Mansour Rahbani, Lebanese composer and lyricist (b. 1925)
2009,
Nancy Bird Walton, Australian aviator (b. 1915)
2008,
Sergei Larin, Lithuanian tenor (b. 1956)
2008,
Johnny Podres, American baseball player (b. 1932)
2007,
Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1949)
2007,
Danny Oakes, American racecar driver (b. 1911)
2006,
Frank Fixaris, American sportscaster (b. 1934)
2006,
Marc Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967)
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January, 13
- Deaths
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