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UN forces raided a police station occupied by armed former soldiers in Petit-Goave, 45 miles west of Port-au-Prince, setting of a gunbattle that killed two former soldiers and one Sri Lankan peacekeeper.
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Insurgents targeted Iraqi security forces and government buildings with gunfire, suicide bomb attacks and mortar rounds, leaving at least five people dead. A bomb blast near Kirkuk killed a U.S. soldier and wounded three. US troops killed 26 militants following an attack on a convoy SE of Baghdad.
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A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck off the coast of southern Japan, killing one person and injuring at least 381 others.
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A visibly frustrated Pope John Paul made a brief but silent appearance at his Vatican apartment window after missing his first Palm Sunday Mass in 26 years as pontiff.
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Thousands of protesters marched in Australia to mark the first anniversary of the Iraq war. Protests extended across Asia with some 30,000 marching in Japan. Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide rallied against the U.S.-led war in Iraq on the first anniversary of the start of the conflict.
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The Economist reported that a Goldman Sachs study found consumers in Australia and Spain to be the most vulnerable, of 19 countries, to higher interest rates or recession.
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In Guyana thousands marched through Georgetown, demanding the government order an independent investigation into claims of a state-sponsored hit squad blamed for more than 40 killings in the past year.
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MAY, 23
- Current / Future Events
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1990 –
Joaquin Maria Gutierrez, Filipino violinist
1989 –
Catherine McNeil, Australian model
1989 –
Tamim Iqbal, Bangladeshi cricketer
1987 –
Daniel Maa Boumsong, Cameroonian football player
1987 –
Jô, Brazilian footballer
1987 –
Patrick Boyle, Scottish footballer
1987 –
Pedro Ken, Brazilian footballer
1987 –
Rollo Weeks, English actor
1987 –
Sergei Kostitsyn, Belarusian hockey player
1986 –
Dean Geyer, Australian singer and actor
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March, 20
- Births
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2009,
Mel Brown, American/Canadian Blues Guitarist (b. 1939)
2008,
Eric Ashton, English rugby league footballer (b. 1935)
2008,
Shoban Babu, Indian actor (b. 1937)
2008,
Brian Wilde, English actor (b. 1921)
2008,
Klaus Dinger, German Musician (b. 1946)
2007,
Gilbert E. Patterson, presiding bishop of COGIC (b. 1939)
2007,
Taha Yassin Ramadan, Iraqi politician (b. 1938)
2007,
Hawa Yakubu, Ghanaian politician (b. 1948)
2005,
Armand Lohikoski, Finnish film director (b. 1912)
2004,
Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (b. 1909)
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March, 20
- Deaths
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