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In Oregon the new $57 million Portland Aerial Tram officially began operations. Two 78-passenger cabins carried commuters from the Banks of the Willamette to the campus of the Oregon Health and Sciences Univ. on Marquam Hill.
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In China a gas explosion in the Yile Coal Mine in the southern town of Shuitang in Guizhou province killed at least 15 miners.
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon held up Congo's first elections in 46 years as a sign of hope for the rest of Africa, praising the country's fragile democracy on his first tour of the continent.
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Two car bombs in quick succession struck a market in a mainly Shiite district in Baghdad, killing at least 13 people and wounding more than 40. US airstrikes killed 14 terror suspects and destroyed a safe house for foreign fighters during a raid south of Baqouba that also led to the capture of two other suspects. At least one rocket struck Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, and two people suffered minor injuries. Two mortar shells slammed into a residential district in the western Baghdad neighborhood of Hurriyah, killing two people and wounding seven others. Armed men who wore commando uniforms and drove cars with license plates commonly used by the Interior Ministry stormed a computer company and kidnapped seven people, including shoppers, in the mainly Christian neighborhood of Sina'a. A taxi driver was shot to death after he was caught in the crossfire during clashes in the northern city of Mosul. The bodies of five men were pulled from the Tigris River in Suwayrah. A US Marine died from wounds suffered in fighting in Anbar province, and two soldiers were fatally injured in separate bombings in the Baghdad area.
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Guinea's union leaders ended a deadly 17-day strike after the president agreed to name a new prime minister with boosted powers.
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Gunmen carjacked a US Embassy vehicle on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital and killed two women in the car.
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Police in Tijuana, Mexico, got their guns back three weeks after they were forced to turn over weapons to federal authorities because of allegations they were colluding with drug traffickers.
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FEB, 10
- Current / Future Events
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1988 –
Kerlon Moura Souza, Brazilian footballer
1987 –
Katy Rose, American pop singer
1987 –
Lily Donaldson, British model
1987 –
Zuleidy Spanish porn star
1984 –
Davetta Sherwood, American actress
1983 –
Carlo Colaiacovo, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 –
Gavin Floyd, American baseball player
1983 –
Mike Zagurski, American baseball player
1981 –
Alicia Molik, Australian tennis player
1980 –
Chanda Gunn, American ice hockey player
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January, 27
- Births
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2009,
John Updike, American Novelist (b. 1932)
2009,
R. Venkataraman, 8th President of India (b. 1910)
2008,
Gordon B. Hinckley, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1910)
2008,
Suharto, President of Indonesia (b. 1921)
2008,
Louie Welch, mayor of Houston (b. 1918)
2007,
Tige Andrews, American actor (b. 1920)
2007,
Yang Chuan-kwang, Taiwanese athlete (b. 1933)
2006,
Johannes Rau, 8th President of Germany (b. 1931)
2006,
Gene McFadden, American singer and songwriter (b. 1948).
2006,
Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (disappeared) (b. 1965)
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January, 27
- Deaths
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