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1949-the republic of East Germany was formed.

1985-palestine gunmen hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in the Mediterranian.. The hijackes kelled an elderly jewish american tourist, Leon Klinghoffer, they surrendored two days after taking over the ship.

1991-univ of OK law professor Anita Hill publicly accused Supreme court nominee Clarance Thomas of making sexually inappropriate comments when she worked for him... thomas denied..

1998-Matthew shepard, a gay college student at the Univ of WY, was beaten, robbed, and left tied to a wooden fence post outside of Laramie... he died five days later... Russell Henderson and Aaron Mckinney are serving life sentences.

2004-Pres George W. and Vice Pres Cheney conceded that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction as they tried to shift the Iraq war debate to a new issue---wheter the invasion was justified because Saddam was abusing a U.N oil for food program.

birthdays
al martino, singer, 82
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 78
joy behar, 67
oliver north, 66
jill larson, actress, 62
john mellancamp, 58
tico torres (bonjovi, 56
simon cowell, 50
toni braxton, 42
nicole ari parker, actress, 39
taylor hicks, 33

CHART TOPPERS

1971-
maggie mae-rod stewart
the night they drove old dixie down-joan baez
superstar-carpenters
easy loving-freddie hart

1979-
sad eyes-robert john
dont stop till you get enough-mj
sail on-commodores
the cheater's waltz-t.g. sheppard

1987-
didnt we almost have it all-whitney
you again-the forster sisters

1997-
barely breathing-duncan sheik
for u, i will-monica
how do i live-leann rhimes
return of the mack-mark morrison

2005-
fee good inc-gorillaz
dont lie-black eyed peas
scars-papa roach
my humps-blackeyed peas
gold digger-kanye west