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• One year ago: At New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund and potential candidate for president of France, was removed from a Paris-bound plane and charged with sexually assaulting a Manhattan hotel maid, Nafissatou Diallo (na-fee-SAH'-too dee-AH'-loh). (Strauss-Kahn later resigned; the charges against him were eventually dropped.)
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• Today's Birthdays: Opera singer Patrice Munsel is 87. Photo-realist artist Richard Estes is 80. Former Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., is 70. Rock singer-musician Jack Bruce (Cream) is 69. Movie producer George Lucas is 68. Actress Meg Foster is 64. Movie director Robert Zemeckis is 61. Rock singer David Byrne is 60. Actor Tim Roth is 51. Rock singer Ian Astbury (The Cult) is 50. Rock musician C.C. (aka Cecil) DeVille is 50. Actor Danny Huston is 50. Rock musician Mike Inez (Alice In Chains) is 46. Fabrice Morvan (ex-Milli Vanilli) is 46. Rhythm-and-blues singer Raphael Saadiq is 46. Actress Cate Blanchett is 43. Singer Danny Wood (New Kids on the Block) is 43. Movie writer-director Sofia Coppola (KOH'-pah-lah) is 41. Singer Natalie Appleton (All Saints) is 39. Singer Shanice is 39. Rock musician Henry Garza (Los Lonely Boys) is 34. Rock singer-musician Dan Auerbach is 33. Rock musician Mike Retondo (Plain White T's) is 31. Actress Amber Tamblyn is 29. Actress Miranda Cosgrove is 19.
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• Thought for Today: "Silence cannot hide anything -- which is more than you can say for words." -- From the play "The Ghost Sonata" by Swedish author-playwright August Strindberg (born 1849, died this date in 1912).
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