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Brazil pressured Google to turn over data from Web sites that the government said were used by criminals. Authorities gave Google 15 days to comply or face a daily fine of $23,000.
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Cambodia’s PM Hun Sen pushed a bill through the lower house of parliament banning extra-marital affairs. The legislation could get adulterers up to a year in jail.
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Disrupting the start of the Labor Day weekend, the remnants of Tropical Storm Ernesto drenched the Mid-Atlantic region, cut power to more than 400,000 customers and forced evacuations. 3 people were reported killed in North Carolina and Virginia.
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Greece beat the Americans 101-95 in the semifinals of the world championships in Saitama, Japan.
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Hungarian poet Gyorgy Faludy (95), a legend of resistance to the rise of Nazism and Communism, died at his home in Budapest. He spent 1950-1953 in the Stalinist concentration camp at Recsk. Faludy won international fame with his autobiographical novel "My Happy Days in Hell" in the 1960s, which related his escape from fascist Hungary and his return, and imprisonment, in a country under communist rule.
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In Afghanistan fighting across the volatile south killed nine Afghan policemen, at least 13 suspected Taliban and a British soldier.
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Human rights activists and African Union officials said the Sudanese government has launched a major offensive against rebels in war-torn Darfur.
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MAY, 23
- Current / Future Events
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1994 –
Bianca Ryan, American singer
1993 –
Ilona Mitrecey, French singer
1989 –
Juliana Lohmann, Brazilian actress
1988 –
Gabriel Ferrari, American soccer player
1988 –
Mushfiqur Rahim, Bangladeshi cricketer
1987 –
Dann Hume, New Zealand musician (Evermore)
1986 –
Anthony Allen, English rugby union player
1986 –
Gaël Monfils, French tennis player
1985 –
Camile Velasco, Filipino-American singer
1984 –
Joseph Trohman, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
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September, 1
- Births
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2008,
Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (b. 1940)
2008,
Jerry Reed, American country music singer, country guitarist, session musician, songwriter, and actor (b. 1937)
2007,
Roy McKenzie, New Zealand philanthropist (b. 1922)
2006,
Sir Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b. 1918)
2006,
Bob O'Connor, mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (b. 1944)
2006,
Nellie Connally, wife of Texas governor John Connally (b. 1919)
2006,
Warren Mitofsky, American pollster (b. 1934)
2005,
R. L. Burnside, American musician (b. 1926)
2005,
Thanos Leivaditis, Greek actor (b. 1934)
2004,
Ahmed Kuftaro, Grand Mufti of Syria (b. 1915)
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September, 1
- Deaths
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