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• Ten years ago: The Iraqi Governing Council chose Iyad Allawi (EE'-yahd ah-LAH'-wee), a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, to become prime minister of Iraq's interim government. Some three dozen people were killed by a powerful earthquake in northern Iran.
• Five years ago: A white New York City police officer killed an off-duty black colleague in a friendly fire incident in East Harlem. (A grand jury declined to indict Officer Andrew Dunton in the shooting of Officer Omar Edwards, who had drawn his gun and was chasing a man who had broken into his car.) Kavya Shivashankar, a 13-year-old girl from Kansas, spelled "Laodicean (lay-AHD'-uh-SEE'-uhn)" (lukewarm or indifferent in religion or politics) to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
• One year ago: Calling it perhaps the biggest money-laundering scheme in U.S. history, federal prosecutors charged seven people with running what amounted to an online, underworld bank, saying that Liberty Reserve handled $6 billion for drug dealers, child pornographers, identity thieves and other criminals around the globe.
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• Today's Birthdays: Rockabilly singer-musician Sonny Burgess is 85. Actress Carroll Baker is 83. Producer-director Irwin Winkler is 83. Actor John Karlen is 81. Basketball Hall-of-Famer Jerry West is 76. Actress Beth Howland is 73. Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is 70. Singer Gladys Knight is 70. Actress-director Sondra Locke is 70. Singer Billy Vera is 70. Singer John Fogerty is 69. Country musician Jerry Douglas (Alison Krauss and Union Station) is 58. Actor Louis Mustillo is 56. U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C.., is 54. Actor Brandon Cruz (TV: "The Courtship of Eddie's Father") is 52. Country singer Phil Vassar is 50. Actress Christa Miller is 50. Singer-musician Chris Ballew (Presidents of the USA) is 49. Rapper Chubb Rock is 46. Singer Kylie Minogue (KY'-lee mihn-OHG') is 46. Actor Justin Kirk is 45. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is 43. Olympic gold medal figure skater Ekaterina Gordeeva is 43. Television personality Elisabeth Hasselbeck is 37. Actor Jesse Bradford is 35. Actress Monica Keena is 35. Pop singer Colbie Caillat (kal-LAY') is 29. Actress Carey Mulligan is 29. Actor Joseph Cross is 28.
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• Thought for Today: "Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it, until it has passed over us and taken with it a part of ourselves." - John Burroughs, American author and naturalist (1837-1921).
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