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Disney announced that it had agreed to acquire Pixar Animation Studios in a stock deal valued at $7.4 billion.
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FedEx Corp. said it would take over local distribution from its Chinese joint-venture partner DTW Group in a $400 million buyout.
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Character actor Chris Penn, younger brother of Oscar-winner Sean Penn, was found dead at an apartment near the Pacific Ocean in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Monica.
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Officials said 4 people were killed in Carlsbad, Ca., when a twin-engine plane from Idaho skidded off an airport runway and burst into flames.
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Fayard Nicholas (b.1914), the elder half of the Nicholas Brothers tap dancing duo, died in Los Angeles. The story of the dancing brothers was chronicled in the 2000 book “Brotherhood in Rhythm” by Constance Valis Hill.
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Vienna's subway tracks cracked, German authorities shut a key canal to ships after it iced up, and a zoo moved its penguins indoors as a deadly deep freeze tightened its arctic grip on much of Europe.
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In Brazil rebellious inmates ended a one-day prison uprising in the remote jungle state of Rondonia that left four dead.
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MAY, 23
- Current / Future Events
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1988 –
Jade Ewen, English singer
1986 –
Mischa Barton, English-born American actress
1986 –
Raviv Ullman, Israeli-born American actor
1984 –
Scott Kazmir, American baseball player
1984 –
Witold Kieltyka, Polish drummer (Decapitated) (d. 2007)
1983 –
Scott Speed, American race car driver
1983 –
Shaun Maloney, Scottish footballer
1981 –
Travis Hanson, American baseball player
1980 –
Nicole Marie Lenz, American actress
1980 –
Rocky Boiman, American football player
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January, 24
- Births
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2009,
Reg Gutteridge, British Boxing Journalist (b. 1924)
2009,
Kay Yow, North Carolina State Univ. women's basketball head coach (b. 1942)
2009,
Gérard Blanc, French singer
2008,
Randy Salerno, co-anchor of Chicago's CBS 2 News (b. 1963)
2007,
Krystyna Feldman, Polish actress (b. 1916)
2007,
Guadalupe Larriva, Ecuadorian politician (b. 1956)
2007,
Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World's Oldest Military Veteran (b. 1891)
2006,
Fayard Nicholas, American tap dancer, one-half of The Nicholas Brothers (b. 1914)
2006,
Schafik Handal, Salvadoran politician (b. 1930)
2006,
Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965)
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January, 24
- Deaths
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