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Sara Jane Olson, '70s radical-turned-suburban mother, was sentenced in Los Angeles to 20 years to life in prison for plotting to blow up a pair of police cars 27 years earlier. On March 17 2008 Olson was released on parole, but soon returned to prison for another year due to an alleged clerical error made in 2004. In 2009 Olson (62) was freed from prison in California and returned to Minnesota to serve a year long parole.
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Talk magazine announced it was shutting down, less than three years after its highly publicized launch.
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Estimates of Afghan civilian deaths from US bombing were set at 1,000 to 1,300 by the Mass. think tank, Project on Defense Alternatives.
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US forces took 6 terrorism suspects, held since October, from Bosnia after local courts ruled that there was too little evidence to hold them. The suspects included Bensayah Belkacem, a key European al Qaeda lieutenant. Protesters clashed with riot police.
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In Brazil Celso Daniel, the PT mayor of Santo Andre, a Sao Paulo suburb, was kidnapped by a gang seeking to free comrades from prison. His bullet-riddled body was found Jan 20. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Brazil claimed responsibility (Brazilian Revolutionary Action Front) for the killing and the Sep murder of another Workers’ Party mayor.
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Bayer AG disclosed that as many as 100 deaths might be linked to Baycol, a promising cholesterol drug that was withdrawn in Aug 2001.
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Five Colombian police officers died while protecting a downed UH-1N helicopter. The US helicopter was destroyed to keep it out of rebel hands.
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- Current / Future Events
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885 –
Daigo, Emperor of Japan (d. 930)
1993 –
Morgan York, American actress
1988 –
Ronald Guglielmone Jr., American singer-songwriter
1987 –
Johan Djourou, Swiss football player
1985 –
Dale Begg-Smith, Australian freestyle skier
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Minissha Lamba, Indian Actress and Model
1985 –
Riccardo Montolivo, Italian soccer player
1984 –
Benji Schwimmer, American dancer
1984 –
Kristy Lee Cook, American Idol 7 cast member
1984 –
Maarja Kivi, Estonian singer
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January, 18
- Births
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2009,
Tony Hart, British artist and TV presenter (b. 1925)
2009,
Grigore Vieru, Romanian poet (b. 1935)
2009,
Bob May, Actor (b. 1939)
2008,
Georgia Frontiere, American football team owner (b. 1927)
2008,
Frank Lewin, American composer and music theorist (b. 1925)
2008,
John Stroger, first African-American Cook County Board President (b. 1929)
2007,
Brent Liles, American musician (Agent Orange/Social Distortion) (b. 1963)
2006,
Jan Twardowski, Polish poet (b. 1915)
2005,
Lamont Bentley, American actor (b. 1973)
2003,
Edward "The Sheik" Farhat, American professional wrestler (b. 1926)
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January, 18
- Deaths
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