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Iran said it would sponsor a conference to examine the scientific evidence supporting the Holocaust.
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The US military freed 509 Iraqi detainees from three prisons in Iraq, including two journalists who work for Reuters.
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Police in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, arrested Brian Hooks and Thomas Daugherty, two teenagers charged with murdering Norris Gaynor (45), a homeless man. Three such attacks were conducted in the early hours of January 12, leaving Gaynor dead and two others seriously wounded. In 2008 Brian Hooks (21) and Thomas Dougherty (19) faced trial for murder and attempted murder. 2 other youths played lesser roles. On Oct 23 Dougherty was sentenced to life in prison.
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The NASA space capsule, Stardust, returned safely to Earth in a desert near Salt Lake City with the first dust ever fetched from a comet, a cosmic bounty that scientists hope will yield clues to how the solar system formed.
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Chileans voted in a presidential runoff election that pitted Michelle Bachelet, a socialist pediatrician promising to maintain the country's free-market policies, against Sebastian Pinera, a Harvard-trained economist and multimillionaire businessman vowing to fight poverty. Michelle Bachelet (54) won the elections with 53% of the vote, compared to 46% for Pinera.
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Iran’s Pres. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proposed his 1st budget bill. The government expected some $36 billion in oil revenues, promised to build 300,000 housing units and planned to maintain energy subsidies amounting to 10% of GDP.
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Separatist gunmen shot dead several Nigerian troops and overran an oil plant run by the Anglo-Dutch Shell, amid fears for the safety of four kidnapped foreign workers. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Nigerian Delta (MEND) claimed responsibility. MEND told Shell to pay $1.5 billion to the state of Bayelsa for pollution it said Shell has caused.
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MAY, 23
- Current / Future Events
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1990 –
Chris Warren Jr., American actor
1990 –
Fernando Forestieri, Italian footballer
1989 –
Alexei Cherepanov, Russian hockey player (d. 2008)
1989 –
Keiffer Hubbell, American ice dancer
1988 –
Sonny Moore, American musician From First to Last
1987 –
Aria C Jalali, American musician
1987 –
David Knight, English footballer
1987 –
Greg Inglis, Australian rugby league player
1987 –
Kelly Kelly, American WWE Diva
1987 –
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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