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A defiant Democratic-controlled Congress voted to provide health insurance to an additional 4 million lower-income children; President Bush vowed swiftly to cast his second straight veto on the issue.
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A federal jury convicted Vic Kohring, a former Alaska lawmaker, of corruption charges involving tax protections sought by oil companies as part of plans for a multibillion-dollar natural gas pipeline.
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A top UN official said South American traffickers are moving billions of dollars worth of cocaine through Guinea-Bissau, amid growing demand in Europe, an amount so large it dwarfs all other economic sectors combined and could destabilize the coup-prone country.
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An alliance including Google announced a plan to make social networks as open as Netscape’s browser made the web.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former French finance minister, took over as head of the IMF. By convention the IMF chief is European.
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Bombs and shootings killed at least 21 people in attacks across Baghdad and its northern suburbs. US and Iraqi troops arrested 85 suspected insurgents in operations around the country. Two US airmen and an Air Force civilian were killed by an explosive near Balad Air Base.
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Bosnian PM Nikola Spiric resigned in protest at an international envoy's decision to impose EU-backed reforms, deepening the country's worst post-war political crisis.
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MAY, 23
- Current / Future Events
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846 –
ouis the Stammerer, King of West Francia (d. 879)
1997 –
Alex Wolff, American musician and actor
1988 –
Ai Fukuhara, Japanese table tennis Player
1988 –
Masahiro Tanaka, Japanese baseball Player
1988 –
Ross Montague, English football Player
1986 –
Penn Badgley, American actor
1985 –
Dizzee Rascal, English rapper
1984 –
Natalia Tena, English actress
1983 –
Jon Wilkin, English rugby league footballer
1983 –
Josh Wicks, American soccer player
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November, 1
- Births
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2008,
Nathaniel Mayer, American soul musician (b. 1944)
2008,
Jacques Piccard, Swiss ocean explorer (b. 1922)
2008,
Yma Sumac, Peruvian singer (b. 1922)
2007,
Paul Tibbets, US Air Force retired Brigadier General (b. 1915)
2007,
S. Ali Raza, Bollywood Screenwriter (b. 1922)
2006,
William Styron, American author (b. 1925)
2006,
Adrienne Shelly, American actress (b. 1966)
2005,
Skitch Henderson, English bandleader (b. 1918)
2005,
Michael Piller, American screenwriter (b. 1948)
2004,
Mac Dre, American rapper (b. 1970)
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November, 1
- Deaths
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