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Heavy snow shut down a major highway north of Los Angeles and slowed post-holiday travel in the Sierra Nevada as Californians grappled with a 2nd week of stormy weather.
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Will Eisner (b.1917), comic book pioneer, died in Fla. In 1978 he wrote and drew his graphic novel “A Contract With God.” It was the 1st of a trilogy that included “A Life Force” (1983) and “Dropsie Avenue” (1995).
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In eastern Afghanistan a US soldier was killed and three others wounded in a clash with militants.
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India’s death toll from the Dec 26 tsunami was expected to top 15,000.
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J.N. Dixit (68), India’s national security advisor, died in New Delhi.
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Ukraine gave in and agreed to pay Turkmenistan a third more for natural gas following a shut-off.
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The Algerian Interior Ministry said security forces had arrested the leader of the Armed Islamic Group, the radical insurgency movement responsible for brutal village massacres several years ago, and killed his replacement. The arrest of Nourredine Boudiafi and the killing of Chaabane Younes were near-fatal blows to the seriously weakened GIA, as the movement is known. Islamic extremists killed 18 people in an ambush of an army convoy south of the capital Algiers.
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FEB, 10
- Current / Future Events
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1989 –
Alex D. Linz, American actor
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Anya Rozova, Russian model and America's Next Top Model contestant
1989 –
Julia Nunes, American singer and ukulele player
1989 –
Mustapha Hussein Saddam Hussein's grandson, Qusay Hussein's son (d. 2003)
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Rodrigo de la Cadena, Mexican artist and performer
1986 –
Jacob Timpano, Australian soccer player
1986 –
Jessica O'Rourke, American soccer player
1986 –
Lloyd Polite, American R&B singer
1985 –
John David Booty, American football player
1985 –
Linas Kleiza, Lithuanian basketball player for the Denver Nuggets
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January, 3
- Births
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2009,
Pat Hingle, American actor (b. 1924)
2009,
Ulf G. Lindén, Swedish entrepreneur (b. 1937)
2009,
Hisayasu Nagata, Japanese politician (b. 1969)
2008,
Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (b. 1953)
2008,
Natasha Collins, British actress and television presenter (b. 1976)
2008,
Yo-Sam Choi, South Korean boxer (b. 1972)
2008,
Werner Dollinger, German politician and economist (b. 1918)
2007,
Janos Furst, Hungarian orchestral conductor (b. 1935)
2007,
Sergio Jiménez, Mexican actor (b. 1937)
2007,
Earl Reibel, Canadian hockey player (b. 1930)
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January, 3
- Deaths
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