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It was reported that Thomas Monaghan, founder of Domino’s Pizza, hoped that the new town of Ave Maria in southwestern Florida would be governed under strict Roman Catholic principles. The town was being constructed around Ave Maria Univ. east of Naples. The town and university, bankrolled by Monaghan with $250 million, were set to open in 2007.
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General Motors Corp. said it has made major steps in developing a commercially viable hydrogen-powered vehicle and expects it can get the emission-free cars into dealerships in the next four to nine years.
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An oil spill in Alaska curtailed Prudhoe Bay production. At least 265,000 gallons spilled onto the tundra from a British Petroleum
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In Bangladesh Shaikh Abdur Rahman, the fugitive leader of an Islamic militant group wanted for a deadly wave of bombings. surrendered to police after a 33-hour siege. Rahman, who fought in the Afghan war after graduating from Medina University in Saudi Arabia, formed the Jamayetul Mujahideen in the late 1990s.
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Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko defiantly told his Western critics to stay out of his country's affairs, while an opposition rival for the presidency was beaten by security forces and detained.
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In Croatia 8 former soldiers were convicted of torturing ethnic Serbs in a wartime prison, four years after they were cleared of the same charges in a trial later annulled as being flawed.
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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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