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Nigeria said North Korea had agreed to share its missile technology. Nigerian VP Atiku Abubakar reached the accord with Yang Hyong Sop, the visiting VP of North Korea's Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly. Nigeria rejected the offer under US pressure.
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David Kay, former head of the CIA's weapons search team in Iraq, told Congress no weapons of mass destruction had been found and that prewar intelligence was "almost all wrong." In 2007 Bob Drogin authored “Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War.” Curveball was the code name for an Iraqi chemical engineer who turned up in Germany in 1999 and served as the source for Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons programs.
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A new strain of the Mydoom virus emerged. Mydoom.B was programmed to launch an attack against Microsoft's web site the following week.
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Scientists said they had created a new form of matter, called a fermionic condensate, and predicted it could help lead to the next generation of superconductors for use in electricity generation, more efficient trains and countless other applications. It is the sixth known form of matter, after gases, solids, liquids, plasma and a Bose-Einstein condensate, created only in 1995.
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The UN was shut down and more than one million children had the day off school on the heels of a storm that dumped as much as 36 cm. of snow in the Northeast.
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Lloyd “Pete” Bucher (76), former U-S Navy commander who helped his USS “Pueblo” crew survive brutal captivity in North Korea then faced criticism back home, died in Poway, California.
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Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch (80), a pro football Hall of Famer and later the athletic director at Wisconsin, died.
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- Current / Future Events
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1991 –
Calum Worthy, Canadian actor and musician.
1988 –
Henry Mortensen, American actor
1986 –
Jessica Ennis, British athlete
1986 –
Shruti Haasan, Indian actress
1985 –
Arnold Mvuemba, French footballer
1985 –
Daniel Carcillo, Canadian hockey player
1984 –
Andre Iguodala, American basketball player
1984 –
Stephen Gostkowski, American football player
1981 –
Elijah Wood, American actor
1981 –
Rick Razzano, American football player
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January, 28
- Births
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2009,
Billy Powell, American musician (b. 1952)
2008,
Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece (b. 1939)
2008,
Bengt Lindström, Swedish artist (b. 1925)
2007,
Carlo Clerici, Swiss professional road racing cyclist (b. 1929)
2007,
Father Robert Drinan, Roman Catholic Priest and American politician (b. 1920)
2007,
Karel Svoboda, Czech composer of popular music (b. 1938)
2007,
Hsu Wei Lun, Taiwanese actress (b. 1978)
2007,
Yelena Romanova, Russian athlete (b. 1963)
2007,
Emma Tillman, the world's oldest living person from January 24-28, 2007 (b. 1892)
2006,
Yitzchak Kaduri, rabbi
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January, 28
- Deaths
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