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Event Search Results for "January"
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Iran’s state media reported that more than 50 followers of the minority Baha'i faith were convicted of distributing propaganda against the country's Islamic regime. The faith was banned after the 1979 Islamic revolution, and it is not recognized in the Iranian constitution as a religious minority.
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A suicide car bomber targeted a US patrol in Mosul, killing at least one Iraqi and wounding as many as 15. Iraqi police north of Baghdad found 19 bullet-riddled bodies near the former insurgent stronghold of Muqdadiyah. In Baghdad a bombing at a checkpoint wounded five American soldiers and three civilians. Iraqi officials claimed it was a suicide bombing and said two people were killed. An Iraqi television cameraman and his driver were killed in a roadside bombing north of Baghdad. The female correspondent and camera assistant traveling with them were wounded.
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Japan's coast guard said it has sent a team of officers to protect its whaling fleet against intensifying protests by environmentalists.
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Japan said it was setting up a fund to help African countries enhance protection of intellectual property rights, calling it key to boosting the continent's economic potential.
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Scientists in New Zealand reported that smoking a joint is equivalent to 20 cigarettes in terms of lung cancer risk and warned of an "epidemic" of lung cancers linked to cannabis.
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In Kenya former UN chief Kofi Annan launched formal mediation efforts to end the post-election crisis, where the killing of an opposition legislator stoked bloody protests. Gunmen killed Mugabe Were, an opposition lawmaker in Nairobi, triggering a new flare-up of the ethnic fighting. A gang hefting machetes dragged a doctor from the president's Kikuyu tribe from his clinic "and then cut and cut until his head was off."
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In Mexico City Elvira Arellano, a deported Mexican migrant who holed up in a Chicago church to fight for immigrants' rights, rallied support for Flor Crisostomo (28), another woman now seeking refuge in the same building. Four Mexican military officers and one soldier, were turned over to prosecutors for alleged links to Alfredo Beltran Leyva, but their cases weren't made public until Oct 31.
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Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf returned home after a weeklong trip to Europe. Security forces exchanged gunfire with Islamic militants holed up at a house in Karachi, with 3 militants and two policemen dead. A fourth militant, who was wounded in the shootout, died later in the day. Hundreds of students in Miran Shah protested Pakistan's support for the US-led war on terror.
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Saudi Arabia said it had killed some 158,000 chickens after the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain was found at an infected farm. The agriculture ministry also said more than 4.5 million fowl have been killed in provinces around the capital, but it did not specify when the killing took place.
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In Sri Lanka the defense ministry said its troops smashed 16 guerrilla bunkers in the district of Mannar and killed at least 22 rebels. Tamilnet said at least 11 school children and the principal of the school were among those killed when the Sri Lanka Army triggered a Claymore mine targeting a bus carrying school children.
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Displaying results 41-50 (of 7324)
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FEB, 9
- Current / Future Events
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1996 –
Jimmy Bennett, American actor
1992 –
Avan Jogia, Canadian actor
1990 –
Camille Winbush, American actress
1989 –
Gia Farrell, American singer
1989 –
Wu Chia-ching, Taiwanese pool player
1987 –
Magdalena Neuner, German biathlete
1987 –
Joe O'Cearuill, Irish footballer
1986 –
Princess Raiyah bint Al Hussein, of Jordan
1985 –
David Gallagher, American actor
1985 –
Rachel Melvin, American actress
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February, 9
- Births
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2009,
Eluana Englaro, an Italian woman who lived in a persistent vegetative state for 17 years (b. 1970)
2008,
Christopher Hyatt Occultist,Philosopher and Author. (b. 1943)
2008,
Jazeh Tabatabai, Iranian avant-garde painter, poet and sculptor. (b. 1931)
2008,
Trichen Jurme Kunzang Wangyal, the eleventh Mindrolling Trichen, Tibetan Buddhist lama of the Nyingma school (b. 1930)
2008,
Scott Halpin, American musician, temporary drummer for (The Who) (b. 1954)
2007,
Hank Bauer, American baseball player (b. 1922)
2007,
Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (b. 1934)
2006,
Freddie Laker, British airline entrepreneur (b. 1922)
2006,
Nadira, Indian actress (b. 1932)
2005,
Tyrone Davis, American soul singer (b. 1938)
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February, 9
- Deaths
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