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The Bush administration proposed the most far-ranging overhaul of the financial regulatory system since the stock market crash of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression. Alphonso Jackson, the Bush administration's top housing official, under criminal investigation and intense pressure from Democratic critics, announced he is quitting.
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The US investment banking company Lehman Brothers sued the Japanese trading company Marubeni, seeking to recover $350 million in financing it says was obtained fraudulently.
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American director Jules Dassin
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A clash in southern Afghanistan killed a Danish soldier and wounded two others. A separate attack on a NATO patrol killed two British troops. an airstrike killed three men irrigating land close to a road in Kandahar province. The men may have been mistaken for militants planting roadside bombs. In Helmand province police arrested Mullah Naqibullah, a senior Taliban commander who has escaped twice from Afghan prisons. Naqibullah was nabbed during a clash that left three insurgents dead.
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Some of England's most sacred soil was disturbed for the first time in more than four decades as archaeologists worked to solve the enduring riddle of Stonehenge: When and why was the prehistoric monument built?
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Chad's state radio announced that the president has pardoned six French aid workers convicted of kidnapping 103 children.
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Constantius Chlorus, Roman Emperor (d. 306)
1988 –
Hogan Ephraim, English footballer
1987 –
Humpy Koneru, Indian chess grandmaster
1986 –
Cveta Majtanovic, Serbian singer, winner of Pop Idol.
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David Clarkson, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 –
James Jones, American football player
1983 –
Paddy McCarthy, Irish footballer
1983 –
Vlasios Maras, Greek gymnast
1982 –
Lennon Murphy, American rock singer/songwriter
1982 –
Philippe Mexès, French footballer
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March, 31
- Births
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2009,
Jarl Alfredius, Swedish news anchor (b. 1943)
2009,
Raúl Alfonsín, Argentinean ex president (b. 1927)
2008,
Jules Dassin, American film director (b. 1911)
2008,
Bill Keightley (Mr. Wildcat), American basketball equipment manager (b. 1926)
2007,
Paul Watzlawick, Austrian-born theoreticist (b. 1921)
2006,
Angela Devi, American adult model (b. 1975)
2006,
Jackie McLean, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1931)
2005,
Stanley J. Korsmeyer, American oncologist (b. 1951)
2005,
Justiniano Montano, Filipino politician (b. 1905)
2005,
Frank Perdue, American poultry farmer (b. 1920)
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March, 31
- Deaths
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