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Russians voted for a new president in an election likely to hand victory to First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, President Vladimir Putin's chosen successor, but criticized by the opposition for a lack of real competition. With 99.45 percent of the votes counted, Medvedev had 70.23 percent.
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In Sri Lanka artillery exchanges left at least 25 Tamil rebels and two Sri Lankan soldiers dead as Pres. Rajapakse vowed to destroy the separatist guerrillas.
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Thais went to the polls to vote in the country's first elections for the upper house of Parliament since a 2006 military coup ousted elected PM Thaksin Shinawatra.
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Venezuela and Ecuador ordered troops to their borders with Colombia, sharply raising tensions after Colombia killed a top rebel leader on Ecuadorean soil. Ecuadorean troops recovered the seminude bodies of 15 rebels in their jungle camp. Soldiers also found three wounded women at the camp, a Mexican philosophy student injured by shrapnel and two Colombians, who were evacuated by helicopter to be treated.
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US Defense Secretary Robert Gates fired Army Secretary Francis Harvey as the Bush administration scrambled to respond to an outcry over poor treatment for veterans at the Army's top hospital.
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The US Energy and Defense departments chose Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to design the country’s first new nuclear warhead since the Cold War.
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A charter bus carrying a college baseball team from Ohio’s Mennonite-affiliated Bluffton University plunged off a highway ramp in Georgia and slammed into the pavement below, killing six people, injuring 29 and scattering sports equipment across the road. A 7th player died from his injuries on Mar 9.
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FEB, 9
- Current / Future Events
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1989 –
Marc Donato, Canadian actor
1988 –
Keith Jack, British singer and actor
1988 –
Matthew Mitcham, Australian diver
1988 –
Nadine Samonte, Filipino actress
1985 –
Luke Pritchard, British singer (The Kooks)
1985 –
Reggie Bush, American football player
1985 –
Robert Iler, American actor
1984 –
Elizabeth Jagger, English model and actress
1983 –
Glen Perkins, American baseball player
1983 –
Jay McClement, Canadian ice hockey player
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March, 2
- Births
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2009,
João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira, President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1939)
2009,
Chris Finnegan, British Olympic Boxing Gold Medallist (b. 1944)
2008,
Jeff Healey, Canadian musician (b. 1966)
2007,
Ivan Safronov, Russian journalist (b. 1956)
2007,
Clem Labine, American baseball player (b. 1926)
2007,
Thomas S. Kleppe, U.S. politician (b. 1919)
2007,
Henri Troyat, French writer, dean of the Académie française (b. 1911)
2006,
Milton Katims, American violist and conductor (b. 1909)
2006,
Jack Wild, British actor (b. 1952)
2005,
Rick Mahler, American baseball player (b. 1953)
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March, 2
- Deaths
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