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In Hungary thousands of people protested against Socialist PM Ferenc Gyurc-sany at ceremonies to mark the country's national holiday, demanding his resignation and shouting "traitor."
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Communist rebels armed with rifles, hand grenades and petrol bombs attacked a police post in the jungles of eastern India, killing at least 55 officers. In eastern India farmers angry over plans to build an industrial park on their land torched a government office in a sec-ond day of unrest that has claimed 14 lives.
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The six world powers reached an agreement on a draft resolution for a new package of sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program. It included an embargo on arms ex-ports and an asset freeze on more individuals and companies associated with Tehran's nuclear and missile programs.
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It was reported that the Dominican Republic is looking to Washington for help recovering at least $80 million in damages from a US utility it accuses of dumping thousands of tons of coal ash on the country's beaches, sickening residents and harming the tourism indus-try. The government says 82,000 tons of coal ash were shipped from an AES plant in Guayama, Puerto Rico, and left on beaches in Manzanillo and the Samana Bay port town of Ar-royo Barril between October 2003 and March 2004 without proper government permits.
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Alfredo Castillo, Ecuador's interior minister, resigned as protests over a US free trade plan spread from the Andean highlands to the oil-producing southeast jungle, where po-lice clashed with demonstrators. His comments appeared to support the protesters and showed disloyalty to Pres. Palacio.
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In France a suspected gangland-style car explosion killed one man and injured another on a highway north of Paris.
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Saddam Hussein, testifying for the first time in his trial, called on Iraqis to stop killing each other and instead fight U.S. troops; the judge reprimanded him for making a ram-bling, political speech and ordered the TV cameras switched off. US forces bombed a house during a raid north of Baghdad, killing 13 people, mostly women and children, while insurgent attacks elsewhere left four dead. In Baqouba, a suicide bomber on a bicycle missed a police patrol and killed at least two civilians. Interior Ministry officials announced another driving ban, from 8 p.m. Mar 15 to 4 p.m. Mar 16
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- 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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