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Event Search Results for "January"
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Officials in impoverished Tajikistan said they would be forced to cut power to much of the country as residents endured one of the coldest winters in 25 years. Tajikistan is rich in water resources, but the cold weather has frozen rivers flowing into the Nurek reservoir.
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In Venezuela 4 gunmen held more than 30 people hostage inside a bank during a lengthy and tense standoff with police that began with a botched robbery in the town of Altagracia de Orituco.
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Gordon B. Hinckley (b.1910), the humble head of the Mormon church, died in Salt Lake City. He added millions of new members and labored long to burnish the faith's image as a world religion.
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Chinese police shot and killed two members of a "terrorist gang" and rounded up 15 others during a raid in the restive northwestern Muslim region of Xinjiang. Police found guns, homemade bombs, training materials and "extremist religious ideological materials" during a raid in Urumqi.
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At least 10 bodies were recovered after a boat capsized on Lake Tanganyika in eastern Congo. An official later said the overloaded boat was piloted by a drunken captain.
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Egyptian forces brandishing electrified batons stopped Gaza cars from crossing the breached border and tightened security at checkpoints to try to confine Palestinians who moved freely into Egypt for a fifth straight day.
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France's Societe Generale said Jerome Kerviel, the young trader blamed for losses that cost the bank more than $7 billion, hacked computers and used "several techniques of fraud." Judicial officials said the man would remain in custody a further 24 hours. The bank said Kerviel had built up a position worth some $73.5 billion, which was eventually closed or hedged by Jan 23 with a loss of $7.21 billion.
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Indonesia, the nation hardest hit by bird flu, recorded its 100th human death as the virus picked up speed across Asia.
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In Iraq an American soldier was killed in a roadside bombing.
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In Lebanon protesters angry about electricity rationing clashed with troops in Beirut's worst riots in a year, leaving 7 Shia youths dead.
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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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