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Marshall Rogers, artist, died in Freemont, Ca. He drew the Batman comics in the 1970s with a mix of new detail and noirish fantasy.
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In Afghanistan militants attacked a police checkpoint near Tirin Kot in Uruzgan province in a clash that left two police and six militants dead. Afghan and US-led coalition troops repelled an attack by insurgents in eastern Paktika province, leaving 12 militants dead. A joint force of Afghan army, police and intelligence killed 11 Taliban militants in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province. Separately, suspected Taliban insurgents clashed with villagers in western Afghanistan, leaving three militants killed and one villager wounded.
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Thieves in Cambodia poisoned a 62-year-old domesticated elephant and sawed off its tusks to sell on the black market. In 2008 2 men were arrested for the killing and faced up to 3 years in prison for the intentional destruction of private property.
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Uttar Pradesh, one of India’s poorest states, numbered some 170 million people.
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The UN Security Council unanimously voted to impose additional sanctions against Iran for its refusal to stop enriching uranium, a move intended to show Tehran that defiance will leave it increasingly isolated.
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At least 74 people were killed or found dead in Iraq. A suicide truck bomber struck a police station in Dora, a mainly Sunni area in Baghdad, killing 20 people. 2 mortar shells landed on a Shiite enclave elsewhere in Dora, killing three people and wounding seven. Gunmen ambushed an Iraqi army checkpoint in Baghdad's western Sunni neighborhood of Jami'a, killing a soldier and wounding two others. A militant also was killed in subsequent clashes. At least 11 other people were killed or found dead, including a civilian who died after a parked truck packed with explosives struck a Shiite mosque in Haswa, and the bullet-riddled bodies of 8 men showing signs of torture in Fallujah. The Islamic State in Iraq, an insurgent umbrella group that includes al-Qaida in Iraq, purportedly claimed responsibility for three suicide bombings near the Anbar province city of Qaim, near the Syrian border, saying in an Internet statement that 45 policemen were killed and 48 were wounded. police said only six people had been killed, including five policemen, and 19 other people wounded. A US Marine was killed during combat in Anbar province.
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Japan's Miki Ando won the women's title at the World Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo, leading a 1-2 finish for the host country with Mao Asada second.
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FEB, 10
- Current / Future Events
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1990 –
Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian/New Zealand actress
1988 –
Ryan Higgins, Zimbabwean cricketer
1986 –
Kohei Hirate, Japanese racing driver
1986 –
Tony McMahon, English footballer
1985 –
Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and model
1984 –
Adrian D'Souza, Indian field hockey player
1984 –
Chris Bosh, American basketball player
1983 –
Kelvin Kwan, Hong Kong singer
1983 –
T. J. Ford, American basketball player
1982 –
Corey Hart, American baseball player
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March, 24
- Births
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2009,
George Kell, American baseball player (b. 1922)
2008,
Chalmers "Spanky" Alford?, American guitarist (b. 1955)
2008,
Neil Aspinall, British record producer (b. 1941)
2008,
Hal Riney, American advertising executive (b. 1932)
2008,
Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914)
2006,
Lynne Perrie, English actress (b. 1931)
2003,
Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian Catholic archbishop (b. 1919)
2002,
César Milstein, Argentine scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1927)
2001,
Muriel Young, English TV entertainer (b. 1928)
1999,
Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's activist (b. 1902)
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March, 24
- Deaths
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