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Cuba announced a major shake-up of its troubled farm sector on May Day, shifting control of the island's farms from officials at the Agriculture Ministry to more than 150 local councils.
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A speeding tourist bus carrying dozens of Europeans and Canadians overturned, rolled off an embankment and burst into flames on a desert highway in Egypt's Sinai peninsula. At least nine passengers were killed and about 30 wounded.
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Rescuers found the bodies of five French ski mountaineers who had been missing since the day before when they were swept away by an avalanche during an excursion on Punta Basei, a 10,000-foot peak in Italy's northwestern Alps.
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In Hong Kong 18 people were killed and at least 44 injured when a coach taking elderly local residents to a religious ceremony overturned.
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It was reported that Iran has stopped using dollars for oil deals as it seeks to reduce reliance on the US.
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A double suicide bombing killed at least 36 people during a wedding procession as people cheered the bride and groom in Balad Ruz, a town northeast of Baghdad. A car bomb aimed at a US patrol in Baghdad killed at least nine Iraqi civilians and wounded 26. A roadside bomb struck an Iraqi patrol car, killing two Iraqi soldiers in Mosul. 3 al-Qaida insurgents fired on US soldiers as they tried to stop a vehicle near Mosul. The soldiers returned fire, killing all three as well as the driver of the vehicle. The US military said it killed 18 militants overnight amid escalating fighting in the Shiite slum Sadr City. Around Iraq, at least 1,080 Iraqi civilians and security forces were killed nationwide last month, average of 36 a day, according to an AP tally, down from March's total of 1,269, or an average of 41 per day.
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Roberto Velasco, head of Mexico’s federal police organized crime division, was murdered. Police later said the murder was likely ordered by Arturo Beltran Leyva, a capo in the Sinaloa drug cartel.
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MAY, 23
- Current / Future Events
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1997 –
Ariel Gade, American actress
1991 –
Creagen Dow, American actor
1990 –
Caitlin Stasey, Australian actress
1988 –
Anushka Sharma, Indian Actress and Model
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Graeme Owens, English footballer
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Nicholas Braun, American actor
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Marcus Drum, Australian Rules Football
1987 –
Matt Di Angelo, English Actor
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Shahar Pe'er, Israeli tennis player
1986 –
Adam Casey, Australian footballer
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May, 1
- Births
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2009,
Danny Gans, Canadian-born Las Vegas entertainer (b. 1956)
2008,
Anthony Mamo, Malta's first President (b. 1909)
2008,
Deborah Jeane Palfrey, Washington, D.C. prostitution service owner (b. 1956)
2008,
Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, last surviving member of the July 20 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944 (b. 1917)
2006,
Big Hawk, American rapper (b. 1969)
2006,
Johnny Paris, American saxophonist (Johnny and the Hurricanes) (b. 1940)
2006,
Rob Lacey, Christian Author. (b. 1962)
2003,
Miss Elizabeth, American wrestler (b. 1960)
2000,
Steve Reeves, American actor (b. 1926)
1998,
Eldridge Cleaver, American activist (b. 1935)
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May, 1
- Deaths
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