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Five years ago: At Camp Pendleton, Calif., four Marines were charged with murder in the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha; four Marine officers were accused of failures in investigating and reporting the deaths. (Of the eight, six had charges dismissed, and one was acquitted of making false statements; Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, who had his unpremeditated murder charge reduced to voluntary manslaughter, has yet to stand trial.) Final results showed opponents of Iran's ultra-conservative president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (ah-muh-DEE'-neh-zhahd), winning nationwide elections for local councils.
One year ago: The Census Bureau announced that the nation's population on April 1, 2010, was 308,745,538, up from 281.4 million a decade earlier. A divided Federal Communications Commission approved, 3-2, new rules known as "net neutrality" meant to prohibit broadband companies from interfering with Internet traffic flowing to their customers. The No. 1-ranked Connecticut women's basketball team topped the 88-game winning streak by John Wooden's UCLA men's team from 1971-74, beating No. 22 Florida State 93-62. Chip Kelly, in just his second season leading Oregon, was voted AP Coach of the Year.
Today's birthdays: Country singer Freddie Hart is 85. Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno is 85. Actor Ed Nelson is 83. Talk show host Phil Donahue is 76. Movie director John Avildsen is 76. Actress Jane Fonda is 74. Actor Larry Bryggman is 73. Singer Carla Thomas is 69. Musician Albert Lee is 68. Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas is 67. Actor Josh Mostel is 65. Actor Samuel L. Jackson is 63. Movie producer Jeffrey Katzenberg is 61. Singer Betty Wright is 58. International Tennis Hall-of-Famer Chris Evert is 57. Actress Jane Kaczmarek is 56. Country singer Lee Roy Parnell is 55. Entertainer Jim Rose is 55. Actor-comedian Ray Romano is 54. Country singer Christy Forester (The Forester Sisters) is 49. Rock musician Murph (The Lemonheads; Dinosaur Jr.) is 47. Actor-comedian Andy Dick is 46. Rock musician Gabrielle Glaser is 46. Actor Kiefer Sutherland is 45. Actress Karri Turner is 45. Actress Khrystyne Haje is 43. Country singer Brad Warren (The Warren Brothers) is 43. Actress Julie Delpy is 42. Country singer-musician Rhean (rehn) Boyer (Carolina Rain) is 41. Contemporary Christian singer Natalie Grant is 40. Actor Glenn Fitzgerald is 40. Singer-musician Brett Scallions is 40. Rock singer Lukas Rossi (Rock Star Supernova) is 35. Rock musician Anna Bulbrook (Airborne Toxic Event) is 29. Country singer Luke Stricklin is 29.
Thought for today: "It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them." -- Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French author and dramatist (1732-1799)
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