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In Ethiopia a series of blasts killed one person and injured several others in Addis Ababa, the first fatality in a string of mysterious explosions in the capital.
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In Haiti scavengers found 10 human skulls in a trash heap, the second such grisly find in as many days in Port-au-Prince, where authorities speculated that the bones may have come from a Voodoo ritual.
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Shiite leaders cut off political talks and denounced the US over a weekend raid that they said killed worshippers in a mosque. In northern Iraq a suicide bombing killed at least 40 people at an army recruitment center in Kasak.
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Gunmen kidnapped 16 employees of an Iraqi trading company in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood.
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In an audiotape broadcast Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Saddam Hussein's chief deputy, purportedly called for Arab leaders to back Iraq's Sunni-backed insurgency.
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Abu Umar, a major Al-Qaeda figure in Iraq, was killed near Baquba.
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PM Silvio Berlusconi said on radio that he does not want Italy to become a multiethnic, multicultural country, drawing plaudits from a right-wing ally and criticism from center-left opponents.
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- 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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