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Two Haitian security guards employed by the US Embassy were shot to death near the American ambassador's official residence.
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In India tens of thousands of Indians waving black and white flags and chanting "Death to Bush!" rallied in New Delhi to protest a visit by President Bush.
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In Iraq a car bomb near a traffic police office in a primarily Shiite neighborhood in southeast Baghdad killed at least 23 people and wounded 58. A bomb hidden under a car detonated as a police patrol passed near downtown Tahrir Square. 3 civilians died and 15 were wounded. Mortar shells fell on 3 houses in the mixed Sunni-Shiite town of Mahmoudiya, 20 miles south of Baghdad, killing 3 civilians. A fifth mortar shell slammed into the mixed Qadisiyah neighborhood in west Baghdad, killing a woman and wounding a child. At least 47 people were killed as sectarian and insurgent killings continued.
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It was reported that Japan was on the verge of a shift in monetary policy. An end to a policy of easy money, begun in 2001 to spur spending, was expected to have a major effect on global financial markets as interest rates got forced up.
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Inmates of Juweideh prison released Jordan's top prison official along with a half-dozen police officers they had taken hostage, ending a 14-hour riot in 3 prisons that broke out over the fate of two convicted al-Qaida killers.
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Kosovo PM Bajram Kosumi resigned, days after the start of crucial talks on whether the province will gain full independence or remain part of Serbia.
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Security forces in western Nepal found 29 bodies of soldiers and suspected rebels at the site of a fierce clash. Five insurgents were reported killed in an accidental explosion.
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MAY, 23
- Current / Future Events
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1990 –
Harry Eden, English actor
1990 –
Nikolas Tsattalios, Australian soccer player
1989 –
Carlos Vela, Mexican footballer
1989 –
Sonya Kitchell, American singer
1988 –
Katija Pevec, American actress
1988 –
Trevor Cahill, American Baseball Player (Oakland Athletics)
1987 –
Sammie, American singer
1986 –
Jonathan Spector, American soccer player
1985 –
Andreas Ottl, German footballer
1985 –
J Leman, American Football Player
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March, 1
- Births
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2008,
Raul Reyes Second-in-command of FARC guerrilla (b. 194
2006,
Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947)
2006,
Harry Browne, American politician and author (b. 1933)
2006,
Johnny Jackson, American musician (b. 1951)
2005,
Peter Malkin Israeli secret agent (b. 1927)
2001,
Henry Wade, American lawyer (b. 1914)
2000,
Dennis Danell, American guitarist (Social Distortion) (b. 1961)
1995,
Vladislav Listyev, Russian television journalist (b. 1956)
1995,
Georges J.F. Kohler, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1946)
1991,
Edwin H. Land, American scientist and inventor (Polaroid Corporation) (b. 1909)
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March, 1
- Deaths
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