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In NYC an apartment building on Manhattan’s East Side was crushed in a giant crane collapse that killed 7 people and injured 17.
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It was reported that spores of Ug99
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Azerbaijan warned it would review relations with France, Russia and the US af-ter they voted against a UN resolution calling on Armenia to pull out of Azerbaijani territory.
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Congo’s foreign debt stood at $12 billion and interest payments consumed a large chunk of its budget.
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In Afghanistan a suicide car bomb attack near a convoy of international troops killed a 13-year-old Afghan child and wounded a soldier in Khost province. 3 militants were killed in the former Taliban stronghold of Musa Qala in Helmand province.
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In Albania 26 people, including several children, were killed and over 250 in-jured by a series of large explosions at an army base on the outskirts of the capital Tirana. The explosions began when workers were moving stocks of old Chinese and Soviet shells stored at the base. Some workers were repackaging 40-year-old Chinese-made shells to disguise their origin. In September Kosta Trebicka, a businessman turned whistle-blower, was killed when his jeep crashed on a remote mountain road.
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China's legislature re-elected Hu Jintao as president, giving him a second five-year term as leader of the world's most populous country. It also returned Hu as head of the Central Military Commission, the body overseeing the armed forces.
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Displaying results 8-14 (of 280)
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FEB, 9
- Current / Future Events
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938 –
Romanos II, Byzantine emperor (d. 963)
1991 –
Kie Kitano, Japanese actress
1989 –
Caitlin Wachs, American actress
1988 –
Ever Guzman, Mexican footballer
1987 –
Taiwan Brown, American video jockey
1986 –
Adrianne Leon, American singer-songwriter and actress
1985 –
Antti Autti, Finnish snowboarder
1985 –
Eva Amurri, American actress
1985 –
James MacLurcan, Australian actor
1985 –
Kellan Lutz, American model and actor
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March, 15
- Births
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2009,
Ron Silver, American actor (b. 1946)
2008,
Mikey Dread,Jamaican singer (b. 1954)
2008,
Vytautas Kernagis, Lithuanian singer, TV shows announcer (b. 1951)
2008,
Ken Reardon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
2007,
Charles Harrelson, American hitman and father of Woody Harrelson (b. 1938)
2007,
Bowie Kuhn, American commissioner of baseball (b. 1926)
2007,
Stuart Rosenberg, American film and television director (b. 1927)
2006,
George Rallis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1918)
2006,
Red Storey, Canadian football player and hockey referee (b. 1918)
2005,
Bob Bellear, Australian judge (b. 1944)
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March, 15
- Deaths
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