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Five years ago: In a wrenching videotaped statement, kidnapped aid worker Margaret Hassan begged Britain to help save her by withdrawing its troops from Iraq, saying these "might be my last hours." (Hassan was apparently killed by her captors a month later.) President George W. Bush signed a corporate tax overhaul to close loopholes and provide $136 billion in new tax breaks for businesses, farmers and others. One year ago: Wall Street tumbled again as investors worried that the global economy was poised to weaken. The major indexes fell more than 4 percent, including the Dow Jones industrial average, which finished with a loss of 514 points. The fishing vessel Katmai sank in the Bering Sea off Alaska's Aleutian Islands, killing seven crewmen; four survived. India launched its first mission to the moon to redraw maps of the lunar surface. (India lost contact with its lunar satellite Chandrayaan-1 last August.) The Philadelphia Phillies won Game 1 of the World Series, defeating the Tampa Bay Rays 3-2.
Today's birthdays: Actress Joan Fontaine is 92. Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing is 90. Black Panthers co-founder Bobby Seale is 73. Actor Christopher Lloyd is 71. Actor Derek Jacobi is 71. Actor Tony Roberts is 70. Actress Annette Funicello is 67. Movie director Jan de Bont is 66. Actress Catherine Deneuve is 66. Rock musician Leslie West (Mountain) is 64. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is 62. Actor Jeff Goldblum is 57. Movie director Bill Condon is 54. Actor Luis Guzman is 52. Actor-writer-producer Todd Graff is 50. Rock musician Cris Kirkwood is 49. Olympic gold medal figure skater Brian Boitano is 46. Christian singer TobyMac is 45. Singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding is 44. Actress Valeria Golino is 43. Comedian Carlos Mencia is 42. Country singer Shelby Lynne is 41. Reggae rapper Shaggy is 41. Movie director Spike Jonze ("Being John Malkovich") is 40. Rapper Tracey Lee is 39. Actress Saffron Burrows is 37. Actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson is 34. Actor Michael Fishman is 28. Talk show host Michael Essany is 27. Rock musician Rickard Goransson (Carolina Liar) is 26. Rock musician Zac Hanson (Hanson) is 24. Actor Jonathan Lipnicki is 19. Actress Sofia Vassilieva is 17. Thought for today: "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844-1900)
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