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The US Supreme Court told the Justice Department to butt out of the private decisions of terminally ill patients in Oregon, the only state that specifically allows physician-assisted suicide. The court ruled 6-3 ruling that Congress hadn't given the Justice Department authority to take such action.
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The US SEC voted on proposals for a massive revamp on how companies disclose executive pay.
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Austria said it will honor an arbitration court decision and give five precious Gustav Klimt paintings to a California woman who says the Nazis stole them from her Jewish family.
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Outgoing President Eduardo Rodriguez fired Bolivia's army chief over his decision to have 28 Chinese shoulder-launched missiles destroyed in the US.
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California executed Clarence Ray Allen, its oldest death row inmate, minutes after his 76th birthday, despite arguments that putting to death an elderly, blind and wheelchair-bound man was cruel and unusual punishment. He was sentenced to death in 1982 for hiring a hit man who killed a witness and two bystanders.
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Cambodia, under US pressure, released four prominent government critics from a Phnom Penh prison but said they will still face defamation charges.
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In Ghana first lady Laura Bush announced a US-backed program to provide 15 million textbooks for students in sub-Saharan Africa where more than one-third of primary school aged children are not enrolled in school.
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FEB, 10
- Current / Future Events
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1995 –
Connor Cruise, American actor; adopted son of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman
1989 –
Hollie-Jay Bowes, English actress
1986 –
Hale Appleman, American actor
1985 –
Kang-In, South Korean singer (Super Junior)
1985 –
Riyu Kosaka, Japanese singer BeForU
1985 –
Simone Simons, Dutch singer (Epica)
1983 –
Álvaro Arbeloa, Spanish Footballer
1983 –
Andrea Lowell, American model
1983 –
Johannes Herber, German basketball player
1983 –
Julie Budet, French Electronic-Pop Musician
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January, 17
- Births
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2009,
Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist, writer, and historian (b. 1943)
2008,
Bobby Fischer, American chess player (b. 1943)
2008,
Ernie Holmes, American football player (b. 1948)
2008,
Allan Melvin, American actor (b. 1923)
2007,
Art Buchwald, American humorist (b. 1925)
2007,
Yevhen Kushnaryov, Ukrainian politician (b. 1951)
2006,
Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (b. 1930)
2006,
Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon (b. 1925)
2005,
Charlie Bell, Australian fast food executive (b. 1960)
2005,
Virginia Mayo, American actress (b. 1920)
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January, 17
- Deaths
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