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Event Search Results for "January"
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Canada bowed out of the 2009 UN conference on racism in Durban, South Africa, saying it would likely "degenerate into ... expressions of intolerance and anti-Semitism."
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In Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick responded to revelations by the Detroit Free Press regarding an affair with a top aide in 2002-2003. He said that period represented a difficult time in his life. Some 14,000 text messages revealed that he had lied under oath during testimony in 2007 over the use of his security unit to cover up his extramarital affair with Christine Beatty, his Chief of Staff.
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In Chile retired Col. Ivan Quiroz was arrested in the southern city of Concepcion after remaining at large for four months. He went into hiding to avoid a 10-year prison sentence in a human rights case dating from the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet He had been convicted as member of a secret police unit that killed 12 members of a pro-communist urban guerrilla gang in 1987.
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In France an economic commission headed by Jacques Attali issued a report: 300 Decisions for Changing France,” which had been requested by Pres. Sarkozy.
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PM Costas Karamanlis became the first Greek premier to pay an official visit to Turkey in nearly 50 years, reflecting warmer ties between two countries that have come close to war several times.
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In Iran a top interior ministry official said more than 2,000 reformers seeking democratic changes within Iran's hard-line ruling establishment have been disqualified from running in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
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In Iraq an explosion struck an apartment building in Mosul shortly after police arrived to investigate a tip about a weapons cache inside, killing at least 38 people and injuring 225. The huge blast destroyed about 50 buildings in the Mosul slum. It was later blamed on the Seifaddin Regiment, some 150 foreign and Iraqi fighters who entered Iraq from Syria a few months earlier. A relief organization later said more than 60 people were killed and 280 wounded based on estimates from relatives who buried victims without officially registering them. Gunmen opened fire on an Iraqi army checkpoint in central Baghdad, killing 8 soldiers and wounding two.
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Italy’s Premier Romano Prodi won a confidence vote in parliament's lower house, but his chances for success in the upper house appeared to worsen as more allies defected amid growing pressure on the center-left leader to resign.
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In Malaysia tens of thousands of ethnic Indian Malaysians gathered at the Batu Caves temple outside Kuala Lumpur to celebrate Thaipusam, one of Hinduism’s biggest festivals. In past years over a million have turned out. The reduced turnout was due to a boycott called by the Hindu rights Action Force (Hindraf), despite PM Badawi’s promise to make Thaipusam a public holiday in the capital.
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Nepal's government reversed a fuel price hike after two days of nationwide protests and clashes in the capital.
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Displaying results 141-150 (of 7324)
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MAY, 23
- Current / Future Events
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1988 –
Morgan Pressel, American golfer
1987 –
Walker Lane, American Musician
1986 –
Jordan Zimmermann, American baseball player
1986 –
Ruben Zadkovich, Australian footballer
1985 –
Ross Wallace, Scottish footballer
1984 –
Adam Wylie, American actor
1983 –
Alex Shelley, American professional wrestler
1983 –
Cristiano Bilanzola, Canadian musician and film-maker
1983 –
Heidi Range, English singer (Sugababes)
1982 –
Cyrill Gloor, Swiss footballer
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May, 23
- Births
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2009,
Roh Moo-hyun, 16th President of the Republic of Korea (b. 1946)
2008,
Utah Phillips, American folksinger and activist (b. 1935)
2006,
Clifford Antone, American businessman (b. 1949)
2006,
Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (b. 1921)
2006,
Frits Bernard, American activist (b. 1920)
2006,
Kazimierz Górski, Polish footballer (b. 1921)
2006,
Richard Quinn, Christopher Quinn's Brother (b. 1985)
2004,
Ramon Margalef, Spanish scientist (b. 1919)
2003,
Jean Yanne, French actor and director (b. 1933)
2002,
Sam Snead, American golfer (b. 1912)
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May, 23
- Deaths
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