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Hundreds of US soldiers entered the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in the first major push into the area since an American-led security sweep began last month around Baghdad. US troops raided a mosque in Baghdad and captured three suspected insurgents hiding inside. At least 10 people died in violence, including three women and a child, all Shiite pilgrims heading to the holy city of Karbala, killed in a roadside bombing in Hillah. Two policemen were killed and three hurt in clashes the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. A British-Iraqi raid on a police intelligence headquarters in southern Iraq found 30 prisoners with signs of torture and an alleged death squad leader was captured.
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Ivory Coast's Pres. Laurent Gbagbo signed a peace accord with Guillaume Soro, the country's main rebel leader, calling for a new government to hold elections by the year's end, and for the dismantling of a vast buffer zone separating the two sides. The latest deal is the result of meetings between the two camps that started in early February under the oversight of Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore.
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An aide said PM Shinzo Abe will stand by Japan's 1993 apology over forcing Asian women to have sex with Japanese troops in the last century, after the leader's denial that Tokyo used coercion caused an international uproar.
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Avalanches killed at least five skiers in the Swiss and French Alps following days of heavy snow.
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Thirty-six Yemenis with alleged ties to al-Qaida went on trial on charges they planned to take part in foiled suicide attacks on oil and gas installations in the country.
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The US Army announced it would start a criminal investigation into the 2004 friendly fire death of former professional football player Patrick Tillman in Afghanistan.
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Jenny McCarthy received 3 Razzies: worst picture, worst actress and worst screenplay as producer, for the gross-out romantic comedy “Dirty Love.”
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FEB, 9
- Current / Future Events
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1993 –
Yves Michel-Beneche, American actor
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Abigail Mavity, American actress
1993 –
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
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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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