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Pres. Bush signed an exemption to allow the US Navy to continue using high-power sonar off the coast of Southern California. Anti-submarine warfare training would still not go forward because an injunction was in place against the practice due to its effect on whales and other marine mammals. On Feb 4 a federal judge rejected the Bush exemption.
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Republican Mitt Romney won the Michigan primary with 39.4% of the vote. McCain got 30% and Huckabee 15.4%.
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A US District judge ordered the border city of Eagle Pass, Texas, to surrender 233 acres to the federal government for the construction of a border fence by the Homeland Security Dept.
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US lawyers for the families of seven Americans killed in the Sep, 1989, bombing of French UTA Flight 772 said a federal judge in Washington has ordered Libya and six of its officials to pay more than $6 billion in damages.
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In southern Thailand suspected Muslim insurgents exploded a bomb that left at least 39 people injured in a market in Yala.
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Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq in the latest in a series of cross-border air strikes.
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Citigroup Inc. said it lost $9.8 billion in last year's final three months, the largest quarterly deficit in its 196-year history. The company slashed its dividend and 4,200 jobs as it recorded a mammoth write-down for bad bets on the mortgage industry. Vikram Pandit planned a $14.5 capital infusion from sovereign wealth funds and others.
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FEB, 9
- Current / Future Events
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Chris Warren Jr., American actor
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Fernando Forestieri, Italian footballer
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Alexei Cherepanov, Russian hockey player (d. 2008)
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Keiffer Hubbell, American ice dancer
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Sonny Moore, American musician From First to Last
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Aria C Jalali, American musician
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David Knight, English footballer
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Greg Inglis, Australian rugby league player
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Kelly Kelly, American WWE Diva
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Michael Seater, Canadian actor
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January, 15
- Births
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2008,
Mark Haigh-Hutchinson, Game Designer (b. 1964)
2008,
Brad Renfro, American actor (b. 1982)
2007,
Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (b. 1908)
2007,
James Hillier, Canadian inventor of electron microscope (b. 1915)
2007,
Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Iraqi Revolutionary Court (b. 1945) (executed)
2007,
Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein (b. 1951) (executed)
2007,
David Vanole, American soccer player (b. 1963)
2007,
Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino writer and diplomat (b. 1905)
2006,
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)
2005,
Elizabeth Janeway, American author (b. 1913)
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January, 15
- Deaths
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