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The University of Vienna announced that it plans to build a new Holocaust research center in honor of the late Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal.
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Music retailers said the Rock band Arctic Monkeys have smashed the British record for the fastest-selling debut album of all time.
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Chile’s President-elect Michelle Bachelet unveiled a Cabinet that fulfilled her campaign promise to give half the jobs to women and kept a balance among the four parties in her center-left coalition.
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Feng Xiliang (86), a US-trained journalist, died in Beijing. In 1978 he helped to launch the China Daily, the communist government's main English-language newspaper.
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The controversy over Danish caricatures of Prophet Muhammad escalated as gunmen seized an EU office in Gaza and Muslims appealed for a trade boycott of Danish products. Denmark called for its citizens in the Middle East to exercise vigilance. A roadside bomb targeted a joint Danish-Iraqi military patrol near the southern city of Basra.
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Iran’s Interior Ministry said 7 Iranian soldiers kidnapped last month by Jundallah, (God's Brigade), have been freed. No word was given on the fate of 2 other kidnapped soldiers.
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European Union foreign ministers called on Hamas to recognize the state of Israel, renounce violence and disarm. “It is the view of the Quartet (UN, EU, American and Russia) that all members of a future Palestinian government must be committed to nonviolence, recognition of Israel, and acceptance of previous agreements and obligations, including the Roadmap. We urge both parties to respect their existing agreements, including on movement and access."
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MAY, 23
- Current / Future Events
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2005 –
Prince Hashem bin Al Abdullah II, of Jordan
1990 –
Eiza Gonzalez, Mexican actress/singer
1990 –
Jake Thomas, American actor
1990 –
Luca Sbisa, Swiss ice hockey player
1989 –
Khleo Thomas, American actor and rapper
1988 –
Heather Baker, American socialite
1988 –
Rob Pinkston, American actor
1987 –
Arda Turan, Turkish footballer
1987 –
Rebecca Knox, Irish professional wrestler
1986 –
Nick Evans, American baseball player
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January, 30
- Births
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2009,
Ingemar Johansson, Swedish heavyweight professional boxing champion of the world (b. 1932)
2008,
Jeremy Beadle, British television host, (b. 1948)
2008,
Roland Selmeczi, Hungarian actor (b. 1969)
2008,
Marcial Maciel, Mexican religious leader (b. 1920)
2007,
Nikos Kourkoulos, Greek actor and artistic director (b. 1934)
2007,
Sidney Sheldon, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
2006,
Coretta Scott King, American activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1927)
2005,
Martyn Bennet, Canadian musician (b. 1971)
2005,
Wes Wehmiller, American musician (b. 1971)
2001,
Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (b. 1911)
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January, 30
- Deaths
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