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ter 24 years.
• In 1998, country singer Tammy Wynette died at her Nashville home at age 55.
• Ten years ago: Jordan's military court convicted eight Muslim militants (six of them in absentia) and sentenced them to death for the 2002 killing of U.S. aid official Laurence Foley in a terror conspiracy linked to al-Qaida. Lawmakers ousted Lithuania's scandal-ridden president Rolandas Paksas for abuse of office. The University of Connecticut's women's basketball team beat Tennessee 70-61 to win a third consecutive NCAA title, a day after UConn also won the men's championship.
• Five years ago: An earthquake in central Italy killed some 300 people in the country's deadliest quake in nearly three decades. President Barack Obama paid tribute to the memory of modern Turkey's founding father, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, during a visit to Ankara; delivering a speech to the Turkish Parliament, Obama declared the U.S. "is not and never will be at war with Islam." Michael Jordan, along with former Dream Team teammates David Robinson and John Stockton, were elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame; Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan and Rutgers women's coach C. Vivian Stringer were also part of a class. North Carolina won the NCAA championship, ending Michigan State's inspirational run with a 89-72 rout.
• One year ago: Iran and six world powers failed to reach agreement during talks in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on how to reduce fears that Tehran might use its nuclear technology to make weapons. Militants killed six Americans, including diplomat Anne Smedinghoff, 25, and an Afghan doctor in a pair of attacks in Afghanistan, the deadliest day for the United States in the war in eight months.
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• Today's Birthdays: Nobel Prize-winning scientist James D. Watson is 86. Composer-conductor Andre Previn is 85. Country singer Merle Haggard is 77. Actor Billy Dee Williams is 77. Actor Roy Thinnes is 76. Writer-comedian Phil Austin (Firesign Theatre) is 73. Movie director Barry Levinson is 72. Actor John Ratzenberger is 67. Baseball Hall of Famer Bert Blyleven is 63. Actress Marilu Henner is 62. Olympic bronze medal figure skater Janet Lynn is 61. Actor Michael Rooker is 59. U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., is 58. Rock musician Warren Haynes is 54. Rock singer-musician Frank Black is 49. Actress Ari Meyers is 45. Actor Paul Rudd is 45. Actor-producer Jason Hervey is 42. Rock musician Markku Lappalainen (mar-KOO' lap-uh-LAN'-en) is 41. Actor Zach Braff is 39. Actress Candace Cameron Bure is 38. Actor Teddy Sears is 37. Jazz and rhythm-and-blues musician Robert Glasper is 36. Actress Eliza Coupe is 33. Actor Bret Harrison is 32. Actor Charlie McDermott is 24.
• Thought for Today: "If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." - Anatole France, French author and critic (1844-1924).
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