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An Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a car traveling in Gaza City, wounding 6 people, including two Hamas militants. Militants from the ruling Islamic group Hamas fired two rockets from the Gaza Strip at the Israeli town of Sderot. Israel canceled airstrikes on the houses of Gaza militants after Palestinians formed human shields around them.
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Blackstone Group, a US private-equity firm, bid a record $36-billion, including debt, to buyout Equity Office Properties Trust.
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British PM Tony Blair acknowledged the West had changed strategy in the fight against terrorism, telling Pakistan's president that brokering a broad Mideast peace deal was now as crucial as using force to battle militants.
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Darfur rebels said the Sudanese government has launched a major offensive in North Darfur despite an agreement to hold new talks among all parties to the conflict.
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Fellow dissidents said Col. Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB and Federal Security Service (FSB) poisoned in Britain and now gravely ill and under guard in the hospital, may have been targeted for his outspoken criticism of former colleagues in Moscow. He accused his country's secret service agency of staging apartment-house bombings in 1999 that killed more than 300 people in Russia and sparked the second war in Chechnya.
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Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State, said in a television interview that military victory is no longer possible in Iraq.
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In Bolivia 6 governors of 9 departments announced a break with central government. The 2 main opposition parties walked out of the Senate, leaving it inquorate. The governors opposed moves by Pres. Morales to centralize power, a bill to scrutinize governors’ accounts, and details of voting power of a new Constituent Assembly.
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MAY, 23
- Current / Future Events
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1997 –
McCaughey septuplets, world's first surviving set of septuplets
1988 –
Patrick Kane, American ice-hockey player
1986 –
Milan Smiljanic, Serbian footballer
1986 –
Veronica Scott, American fashion designer
1985 –
Chris Eagles, English footballer
1983 –
Chandra Crawford, Canadian cross-country skier
1983 –
Daria Werbowy, Ukrainian-Canadian model
1981 –
DJ Tukutz, South Korean DJ, Producer, Songwriter(Member of Epik High)
1981 –
Marcus Banks, American basketball player
1980 –
Adele Silva, English actress
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November, 19
- Births
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2007,
Kevin DuBrow, American singer (Quiet Riot) (b. 1955)
2007,
Mike Gregory, English rugby league footballer (b. 1964)
2007,
Dick Wilson, American actor (b. 1916)
2005,
Erik Balling, Danish TV and film director (b. 1924)
2004,
Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor (b. 1914)
2004,
Helmut Griem, German actor (b. 1932)
2004,
Terry Melcher, American record producer; son of Doris Day (b. 1942)
2004,
John Robert Vane, British pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1927)
2004,
George Canseco, Filipino composer (b. 1934)
2003,
Ian Geoghegan, Australian racing driver (b. 1940)
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November, 19
- Deaths
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