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Japan's parliament passed the nation's most austere budget in 8 years, marking another achievement for PM Junichiro Koizumi and his efforts to cut the huge public debt.
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Nepalese army helicopters launched an attack on a gathering of communist rebels in the mountains of north-central Nepal, killing at least four people.
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The Dutch Equal Treatment Commission ruled that a Muslim woman who refuses to shake men's hands for religious reasons cannot be barred from a Dutch teacher-training program.
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Gunmen loyal to rival pro-Taliban clerics fought street battles in Pakistan's tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, leaving at least 25 people dead.
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Malaysia’s government said it will end subsidies to flag carrier Malaysia Airlines and let it operate only 19 domestic routes, in competition with budget carrier AirAsia, under a major restructuring that will shed thousands of jobs.
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In Nigeria a weeklong census ended as workers scrambled to tally everyone across Africa's most-populous nation, but many remained uncounted in the exercise, marred by violence and the lack of forms, census takers and money.
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Militants demanding control of revenues from Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta released their last remaining foreign hostages, two Americans and a Briton, but the group threatened to continue attacks on oil installations.
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MAY, 23
- Current / Future Events
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972 –
King Robert II of France (d. 1031)
1995 –
Taylor Atelian, American actress
1990 –
Scott Selwood, Australian rules footballer
1988 –
Brenda Song, American actress
1987 –
Chad Denny, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 –
SoCal Val, American professional wrestling valet
1985 –
Caroline Winberg, Swedish supermodel
1985 –
Dario Baldauf, Austrian footballer
1985 –
Stijn De Smet, Belgian footballer
1984 –
Laura Critchley, British singer/song writer
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March, 27
- Births
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2009,
Jack Dreyfus, American businessman (b. 1913)
2008,
Jean-Marie Balestre, French president of motor sport's FIA (b. 1921)
2008,
George Pruteanu, Romanian literary critic and politician (b. 1947)
2007,
Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1929)
2006,
Dan Curtis, American television producer and director (b. 1928)
2006,
Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (b. 1925)
2006,
Stanislaw Lem, Polish writer (b. 1921)
2006,
Ruari McLean, British typographer (b. 1917)
2006,
Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and political advisor to Ronald Reagan (b. 1924)
2005,
Wilfred Bigelow, Canadian heart surgeon (b. 1913)
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March, 27
- Deaths
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