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Russian and US space chiefs signed agreements in Moscow to cooperate on unmanned missions that would search for potential water deposits beneath the surface of the moon and Mars.
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A Dutch court rejected a prosecution appeal against the release of Philippine communist leader Jose Maria Sison, accused of being involved in murders in the Philippines.
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PM John Howard said Australia will not take any more refugees from Africa until at least the middle of next year. He said Australia's 13,000-a-year refugee intake was being "rebalanced" from Africa to the Middle East and Asia where the need was more acute.
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A pressurized air pipe snapped at the mine near Johannesburg and tumbled down a shaft, causing extensive damage to an elevator and stranding 3,200 miners more than a mile underground. More than 2,000 trapped gold miners were rescued in a dramatic all-night operation, and efforts gathered speed to bring hundreds more to the surface. By the next night all the miners had emerged safely.
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Afghan troops backed by NATO-led forces clashed with suspected Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, leaving 20 militants dead.
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An Islamic court in northern Nigeria banned a play written by a civil rights activist which satirizes the implementation of Sharia law in 12 mainly Muslim states. The upper Sharia court in the Tudun Wada neighborhood of the northern city of Kaduna issued the order restraining Shehu Sani from selling or circulating his play, "Phantom Crescent."
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Disaster officials began evacuating 400,000 people as a typhoon approached Vietnam's central coast, packing winds up to 83 mph. Typhoon Lekima slammed into Vietnam's central coast, killing two people, destroying hundreds of houses and unleashing floods in one of the country's poorest regions.
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MAY, 23
- Current / Future Events
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1996 –
Adair Tishler, American child actress
1990 –
Rhian Denise Ramos, Filipino actress
1988 –
Tadhg Kelly, American actor
1987 –
Zuleyka Rivera, Puerto Rican Miss Universe
1985 –
Nathalie Kelley, Australian actress
1984 –
Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, American singer
1984 –
Chris Marquette, American actor
1984 –
Yoon Eun-Hye, South Korean actress
1983 –
Frederico Chaves Guedes, Brazilian footballer
1983 –
Hiroki Suzuki, Japanese actor
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October, 3
- Births
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2008,
Karam ud Din, Pakistani Navy officer (b. 1941)
2007,
M. N. Vijayan, Indian writer, orator, and academic (b. 1930)
2006,
Alberto Ramento, Filipina bishop died in 2006 on October 3 (b. 1937)
2006,
John Crank, British mathematician (b. 1913)
2006,
Peter Norman, Australian track star (b. 1942)
2005,
Ronnie Barker, English comic actor (b. 1929)
2004,
John Cerutti, baseball player and announcer (b. 1960)
2004,
Janet Leigh, American actress (b. 1927)
2003,
Florence Stanley, American actress (b. 1924)
2003,
William Steig, American cartoonist and children's author (b. 1907)
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October, 3
- Deaths
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