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NAACP President Bruce S. Gordon announced he was quitting the civil rights organization after just 19 months at the helm, citing growing strain with board members over the group's management style and future operations.
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In NYC a videotape captured Rose Morat
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In eastern Afghanistan a suicide attack by an explosives-filled minivan hit an American convoy. US Marine Special Forces fleeing a militant ambush opened fire on civilian cars and pedestrians on a busy highway in Nangarhar province. As many as 19 people were killed and 34 wounded in the violence. The marine unit involved was soon ordered to leave Afghanistan. The attack was carried out by a breakaway faction of Hezb-e-Islami that was once led by Younis Khalis, a former mujahedeen commander who died last year. The group is now believed to be led by a son of Khalis. A US-led coalition airstrike destroyed a mud-brick home, killing nine people from four generations of an Afghan family during a clash between Western troops and militants. On May 23
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In Algeria suspected Islamic militants attacked a police checkpoint with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns, killing five officers and wounding three others.
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In the Central African Republic French fighter jets destroyed several rebel vehicles in retaliation for an attack on French troops.
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- Current / Future Events
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1993 –
Yves Michel-Beneche, American actor
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Abigail Mavity, American actress
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Jenna Boyd, American actress
1992 –
Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, daughter of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
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Diandra Newlin, American actress and fashion model
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Stuart O'Keefe, English footballer
1990 –
Andrea Bowen, American actress
1990 –
Fran Mérida, Spanish/English Premier League footballer
1990 –
Maximiliano Oliva, Argentine footballer
1990 –
Paddy Madden, Irish footballer
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March, 4
- Births
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2009,
Joseph Bloch, American concert pianist and professor of piano literature (b. 1917)
2009,
Irving Buchman, American makeup artist (b. 1925)
2009,
John Cephas, American Piedmont blues guitarist (b. 1930)
2009,
Yvon Cormier, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1938)
2009,
Patricia De Martelaere, Flemish writer (b. 1957)
2009,
Horton Foote, American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Academy Award-winning screenwriter (b. 1916)
2009,
George McAfee, former American football player (b. 1918)
2009,
Harry Parkes, English footballer (b. 1920)
2009,
Salvatore Samperi, Italian film director (b 1944)
2009,
Triztán Vindtorn, Norwegian poet and performance artist (b. 1942)
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March, 4
- Deaths
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