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• Ten years ago: Fourteen people were killed when barges being pushed by a towboat crashed into the piers of the Interstate 40 bridge in Oklahoma, causing part of the structure to fall into the Arkansas River. President George W. Bush visited Paris, where he met with French President Jacques Chirac (zhahk shih-RAHK') Alvaro Uribe (oo-REE'-bay) was elected Colombia's president. Helio Castroneves (EHL'-ee-oh kas-troh-NEH'-vehs) won his second straight Indianapolis 500 despite a protest filed by Paul Tracy. Roman Polanski's film "The Pianist" won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
• Five years ago: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (NOO'-ree ahl-MAHL'-ih-kee), U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker and American commander Gen. David Petraeus flew to Iraq's blistering western desert in a rare joint outing to highlight gains there in the fight against insurgents.
• One year ago: Congress passed a four-year extension of post-Sept. 11 powers contained in the Patriot Act to search records and conduct roving wiretaps in pursuit of terrorists; President Barack Obama, in France, signed the measure using an autopen machine minutes before the provisions were set to expire at midnight. Astronauts Mike Fincke and Gregory Chamitoff made history as the final spacewalkers of NASA's 30-year shuttle program, completing construction of the International Space Station with the smooth addition of an extension pole. Ratko Mladic (RAHT'-koh MLAH'-dich), the brutal Bosnian Serb general suspected of leading the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys, was arrested after a 16-year manhunt.
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• Today's Birthdays: Actor Alec McCowen is 87. Sportscaster Brent Musberger is 73. Country musician Gates Nichols (Confederate Railroad) is 68. Rock musician Garry Peterson (Guess Who) is 67. Singer Stevie Nicks is 64. Actress Pam Grier is 63. Actor Philip Michael Thomas is 63. Country singer Hank Williams Jr. is 63. Former astronaut Sally K. Ride is 61. Actress Margaret Colin is 55. Country singer-songwriter Dave Robbins is 53. Actor Doug Hutchison is 52. Actress Genie Francis is 50. Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait is 50. Singer Lenny Kravitz is 48. Actress Helena Bonham Carter is 46. Rock musician Phillip Rhodes is 44. Actor Joseph Fiennes (FYNZ) is 42. Singer Joey Kibble (Take 6) is 41. Actor-producer-writer Matt Stone is 41. Contemporary Christian musician Nathan Cochran is 34.
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• Thought for Today: "I am never afraid of what I know." -- Anna Sewell, English author (1820-1878).
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