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apologized. The final first-run episode of "Friends" aired on NBC, drawing an average 52.5 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research.
• Five years ago: After a day of meetings at the White House, President Barack Obama declared he'd gotten the commitments he wanted from the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan to more aggressively fight Taliban and al-Qaida militants. Gov. John Baldacci (bahl-DAH'-chee) signed a bill making Maine the fifth state to legalize same-sex marriage (however, the law was later overturned by a public vote).
• One year ago: Kidnap-rape victims Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, three women who'd gone missing separately about a decade earlier while in their teens or early 20s, were rescued from a house just south of downtown Cleveland. (Their captor, Ariel Castro, hanged himself in prison in September 2013 at the beginning of a life sentence plus 1,000 years.) Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill was sentenced by a federal judge in Newark, N.J., to three months in prison for failing to pay about $1 million in taxes over the previous decade. Italian statesman Giulio Andreotti, 94, died in Rome.
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• Today's Birthdays: Baseball Hall-of-Famer Willie Mays is 83. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., is 80. Rock singer Bob Seger is 69. Singer Jimmie Dale Gilmore is 69. Gospel singer-comedian Lulu Roman is 68. Actor Alan Dale is 67. Actor Ben Masters is 67. Actor Gregg Henry is 62. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is 61. TV personality Tom Bergeron is 59. Actress Roma Downey is 54. Rock singer John Flansburgh (They Might Be Giants) is 54. Actor George Clooney is 53. Actor Clay O'Brien is 53. Rock singer-musician Tony Scalzo (Fastball) is 50. Actress Leslie Hope is 49. Rock musician Mark Bryan (Hootie and the Blowfish) is 47. Rock musician Chris Shiflett (Foo Fighters) is 43. Actress Stacey Oristano is 35. Actress Adrianne Palicki is 31. Actress Gabourey Sidibe (GA'-bah-ray SIH'-duh-bay) is 31. Actress-comedian Sasheer Zamata (TV: "Saturday Night Live") is 28. Actress-singer Naomi Scott is 21.
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• Thought for Today: "The people no longer believe in principles, but will probably periodically believe in saviours." - Jacob Christoph Burckhardt, Swiss historian (1818-1897).
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