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In California AT&T set this day for ending its automated time of day phone service, saying it needed the prefix for new phone numbers.
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Antoine Ghanem (64), an anti-Syrian lawmaker from the Christian Phalange Party, was killed in a blast in Beirut. Six other people also died.
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Bachan Athwal (70), a London grandmother, was jailed for life for ordering the execution of Surjit Athwal, her cheating daughter-in-law in India, after discovering she was having an affair with a married man. Athwal’s 43-year-old son Sukhdave was also found guilty and jailed for a minimum 27-year term.
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China’s government froze prices that it controls for the rest of the year, in the latest sign of mounting concern over inflation, which reached 6.5% in the year through August.
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Dan Rather (75) filed a $70 million lawsuit alleging that CBS and its former parent company intentionally botched the aftermath of a discredited story about President Bush's military service to curry favor with the administration.
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Gabriele Pauli (50), Bavaria's most glamorous politician, shocked the Catholic state in Germany by suggesting marriage should last just 7 years. She said after that time, couples should either agree to extend their marriage or it should be automatically dissolved.
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In Cambodia Nuon Chea, the top surviving leader of the notorious Khmer Rouge, whose radical policies were responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people, was charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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MAY, 23
- Current / Future Events
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Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor (d. 912)
1994 –
Alex Etel, British actor
1991 –
Demelza Reveley, Australian model
1990 –
Saki Fukuda, Japanese actress
1987 –
Danielle Panabaker, American actress
1986 –
Gerald Ciolek, German cyclist
1986 –
Ken Gushi, Japanese racing driver
1986 –
Mandy Musgrave, American actress
1986 –
Peter Vack, American voice actor
1984 –
Eamon, American pop singer
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September, 19
- Births
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2006,
Elizabeth Allen, American actress (b. 1929)
2006,
Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (b. 1950)
2006,
Chuck Rio, American singer and saxophonist (The Champs) (b. 1929)
2006,
Hugh Kawharu, New Zealander Ngati Whatua Maori chief (b. 1927)
2006,
Martha Holmes, American photographer (b. 1923)
2004,
Eddie Adams, American photographer (b. 1933)
2004,
Árpád Bogsch, Hungarian-born American civil servant (b. 1919)
2004,
Skeeter Davis, American singer (b. 1931)
2004,
Ellis Marsalis, Sr., American businessman, musician, and activist
2003,
Slim Dusty, Australian singer (b. 1927)
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September, 19
- Deaths
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