| July 21, 2009 | - Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys announced that he has cancer. “It's a pain in the ass,” he said.
| Source:
Sky News
|
| March 4, 2009 | - A Nevada man was found guilty of sexually assaulting two small girls. The verdict was based on a video that showed the man, an animal trainer for Siegfried & Roy named Chester Stiles, raping a two-year-old girl.
| Source:
Las Vegas Review-Journal
|
| February 17, 2009 | - Drummer Louie Bellson, whom Duke Ellington called “the world's greatest musician,” died. Bellson once recalled the advice of tenor-saxophone legend Lester Young, who helped him learn to play bebop: “Lou, just play titty-bop, titty-bop, and don't drop no bombs.'”
| Source:
LAT
|
| January 18, 2009 | - At a monster-truck rally in Tacoma, Washington, a metal part flew loose from a truck doing doughnuts, killing a six-year-old boy. “You go out for a night of fun,” said Jessie Hizey, the boy's father, “and you lose your son.”
| Source:
Parts of Monster Truck Examined After Boy's Death
|
| December 25, 2008 | -
Eartha Kitt, who sang “Santa Baby,” died.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| November 11, 2008 | - Huseyin Kalkan, the mayor of Batman, Turkey, said that the town would sue Warner Bros. for a portion of the royalties from the movie
The Dark Knight
.“ ”There is,“ said Kalkan, ”only one Batman."
| Source:
Variety
|
| October 16, 2008 | - Jazz trumpeter and big-band arranger Neal Hefti, who wrote the “Batman” theme song, died at age 85. “He told me he tore up more paper on 'Batman' than on any other work he ever did,” said his son. “He had to find something that worked with the lowest common denominator, so it would appeal to kids, yet wouldn't sound stupid.” “Nananana, nananana, nananana, nananana,” went the song, a 12-bar blues that won Hefti his only Grammy, “Batman!”
| Source:
NYT
|
| September 27, 2008 | -
Paul Newman died.
| Source:
CNN
|
| August 29, 2008 | - Hip-hop mogul P. Diddy announced that the rising price of fuel had forced him to give up private-jet travel. “Can you believe this, I'm actually flying commercial!” he said. “Gas prices are too motherfuckin' high. I want to give a shout-out to all my Saudi Arabian brothers and sisters and all my brothers and sisters from all the countries that have oil. If y'all could please send me some oil for my jet, I would truly appreciate it.”
| Source:
E!Online
|
| August 22, 2008 | - Nearly half a million people in developing nations were manufacturing virtual weapons and mounts to sell to players of online video games such as World of Warcraft.
| Source:
BBC
|
| July 27, 2008 | - During a children's production of “Annie, Jr.” at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, 58-year-old unemployed truck driver Jim J. Adkisson opened fire on a packed sanctuary with a twelve-gauge shotgun. “We were just, 'Oh, my God, that's not part of the play,'” said Amira Parkey, 16, who was playing Miss Hannigan. After killing one man and wounding seven others (one of whom later died from her wounds), Adkisson was tackled by John Bohstedt, who was playing Daddy Warbucks.
| Source:
AP
|
| July 27, 2008 | - Actress Estelle Getty died.
| Source:
The Times
|
| July 5, 2008 | -
Bozo the Clown and Jesse Helms died, and the new waxwork Hitler at the Berlin Madame Tussauds museum was beheaded.
| Source 1:
CNN.com
Source 2:
BBCNews.com
Source 3:
BBCnews.com
|
| July 3, 2008 | - A judge ruled that Google subsidiary YouTube must provide Viacom, which is suing over copyright claims, with details of the viewing habits of everyone who has logged in and watched a video.
| Source:
BBCNews.com
|
| June 30, 2008 | - The Maine National Guard has been offering “Flat Daddies” and “Flat Mommies,” life-size cardboard cutouts of deployed service members, to spouses, children, and relatives waiting for them to return.
| Source:
Boston Globe
|
| June 23, 2008 | -
Air Force veteran, comedian, and self-described “old fuck” George Carlin died at 71.
| Source:
WP
|
| June 23, 2008 | - Kyrgyz novelist Chingiz Aitmatov and television journalist Tim Russert died.
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
New Yorker
|
| June 18, 2008 | - Kermit Scott, a former philosophy professor who inspired Jim Henson's puppet Kermit the Frog, died.
| Source:
AP via Newsday
|
| June 13, 2008 | - After twice watching a video that, prosecutors alleged, showed R&B singer R. Kelly having sex with and urinating on his then 13-year-old goddaughter, a jury in Chicago acquitted the 41-year-old on 14 counts of child pornography.
| Source:
CNN
|
| May 26, 2008 | - Dick Martin, co-host of Laugh In, died at 86.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| May 8, 2008 | -
Pop country singer Eddy Arnold, known for such hits as “Make the World Go Away,” died just days before his ninetieth birthday. “He died,” said Grand Ole Opry star Jim Ed Brown, “of a broken heart.”
| Source:
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
|
| April 13, 2008 | -
Bob Dylan won a Pulitzer Prize.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| March 17, 2008 | - Michael Stipe, lead singer of R.E.M., announced that he is gay. “I thought it was pretty obvious,” said Stipe, who has been explaining that he is not heterosexual for nearly a decade.
| Source:
US Weekly
|
| February 5, 2008 | -
Tom Jones insured his chest hair for $7 million.
| Source:
Daily Mail
|
| February 4, 2008 | - A video released by hip-hop musician will.i.am showed Herbie Hancock, John Legend, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kate Walsh, and Scarlett Johansson chanting and singing, “Yes, we can,” in support of Barack Obama, and a representative for John Cougar Mellencamp, a John Edwards supporter, asked John McCain to stop playing Mellencamp's “Our Country” and “Pink Houses” at his campaign rallies.
| Source 1:
Washington Post
Source 2:
Rolling Stone
|
| December 14, 2007 | - A surprising number of very young actors were among those nominated for the Golden Globe Awards. “If you are old enough to pick up a gun and go to Iraq and kill someone,” explained the chief executive of Focus Features, “you should have the resources to express yourself in the grandest possible way.”
| Source:
New York Times
|
| December 13, 2007 | -
Ike Turner died.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| November 5, 2007 | -
Rapper Jay-Z was flashing euros in a recent video, and supermodel Gisele Bundchen was refusing to accept payment in dollars.
| Source 1:
YouTube
Source 2:
Telegraph.co.uk
|
| November 2, 2007 | -
Hollywood screenwriters went on strike. “I'm really scared,” said Oren Ashkenazi, a dry cleaner who caters to Warner Brothers.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| November 2, 2007 | - Duane “The Dog” Chapman's cable show, Dog the Bounty Hunter, was suspended indefinitely after a tape surfaced in which Chapman used a racial slur to describe his son's girlfriend. “It's not 'cause she's black,” said Chapman. “It's because we use the word 'nigger' sometimes here. I'm not gonna take a chance ever in life of losing everything I've worked for for 30 years because some fucking nigger heard us say 'nigger' and turned us in to the Enquirer magazine.” Chapman's son subsequently sold the tape of the conversation to the National Enquirer.
| Source 1:
Reuters
Source 2:
Star Bulletin
Source 3:
National Post
|
| October 10, 2007 | - The Colombian game show “Nothing but the Truth” was canceled after a woman won $25,000 for admitting to have hired a hit man to kill her husband.
| Source:
AP
|
| October 8, 2007 | -
British clergy were condemning the nomination of video game “Resistance: Fall of Man,” which features a fire-fight scene set in Manchester Cathedral, for an award. “For a global manufacturer to recreate one of our great cathedrals with photo-realistic quality,” said the Bishop of Manchester, “and encourage people to have gun battles in the building is beyond belief and highly irresponsible.”
| Source:
vnunet.com
|
| October 7, 2007 | - American pastors were luring teenage boys to church by installing large-screen game consoles equipped for group sessions of the video game “Halo.” Responding to concerns that the explicit and realistic violence in “Halo” is at odds with Christian values, Gregg Barbour, a youth minister in Colorado, stated, “We want to make it hard for teenagers to go to hell.” “Teens are our 'fish',” he wrote in a letter to parents. “So we’ve become creative in baiting our hooks.”
| Source:
NYT
|
| October 1, 2007 | -
Sylvester Stallone, filming the sequel to “Rambo” near the Burmese border, described the country as “a hellhole beyond your wildest dreams.”
| Source:
AP via MyWay
|
| October 1, 2007 | -
Miss Moneypenny died.
| Source:
AFP
|
| September 22, 2007 | -
Marcel Marceau died quietly.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| August 31, 2007 | -
Princess Diana had been dead for ten years.
| Source:
NY Times
|
| August 30, 2007 | - Guitar player Bo Diddley suffered a heart attack.
| Source:
BBC
|
| August 4, 2007 | -
Eddie Murphy confirmed that he fathered a child with Scary Spice.
| Source:
BBC
|
| July 31, 2007 | - In India, where dung-smoke clouds were warming the upper atmosphere, more than 1,000 people had been killed in recent floods, and Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt was sentenced to six years of “rigorous imprisonment” for possession of illegal firearms. “Don't get perturbed,” the judge told Dutt, “for you have many years to go and work like the 'Mackenna's Gold' actor Gregory Peck.”
| Source 1:
BBC
Source 2:
Mumbai Mirror
Source 3:
Mumbai Mirror
Source 4:
BBC
Source 5:
ABC News (Australia)
Source 6:
The Hindu
|
| July 30, 2007 | -
Ingmar Bergman
died.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| June 19, 2007 | - The Swedish government recognized that one man's preference for heavy metal music constitutes a disability, making the man eligible for state benefits.
- The Swedish government recognized that one man's preference for heavy metal music constitutes a disability, making the man eligible for state benefits.
| Source:
The Local
|
| June 12, 2007 | - Sony apologized to the Church of England after a gun-filled computer game set in a British cathedral prompted the church to accuse the company of “virtual desecration.”
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| April 27, 2007 | -
David Halberstam and Jack Valenti died.
| Source 1:
The New Yorker
Source 2:
Washington Post
|
| April 16, 2007 | - Angry crowds in India were burning Richard Gere in effigy.
| Source:
Breitbart.com
|
| April 3, 2007 | - The estate of deceased actor James Doohan, who was best known for his performance as the space mechanic “Scotty” on Star Trek, paid $495 to have his ashes rocketed into orbit.
| Source:
Playfuls.com
|
| April 3, 2007 | - Singer/songwriter Billy Joe Shaver, author of such hits as “Georgia on a Fast Train” and “I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday)” was sought by police in Texas after he shot a “drunk, aggressive stranger.”
| Source:
CNN.com
|
| March 1, 2007 | - On
The Late Show with David Letterman
, Senator John McCain confirmed that he is running for president. Candidly discussing the war in Iraq, he said, “We've wasted a lot of our most precious treasure, which is American lives.” In response to Democrats who scolded him for using the word ”wasted,” McCain replied, ”I should have used the word 'sacrificed'.”
| Source:
CNN
|
| February 19, 2007 | -
Actor Ralph Fiennes admitted to having sex in an aircraft bathroom with a stewardess, whom his spokeswoman called a “sexual aggressor.”
| Source:
ThisIsLondon
|
| February 17, 2007 | -
Britney Spears
shaved her head.
| Source:
AP via CNN
|
| February 10, 2007 | -
Anna Nicole Smith dropped dead on the floor of a casino hotel in Hollywood, Florida.
| Source:
The online wire
|
| February 7, 2007 | - Keith Urban, a country singer, sued Keith Urban, a painter, after the latter Urban registered the Internet domain name keithurban.com “with the intent of producing confusion.”
| Source:
Playfuls.com
|
| February 1, 2007 | -
Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan was awarded France's highest civilian honor, the Legion d'Honneur, and was kicked in the head by a camel.
| Source 1:
AP via CHINAdaily
Source 2:
Reuters via iol.co.za
|
| January 25, 2007 | - Six teenage girls were arrested on conspiracy charges after a list of 300 assassination targets, including Tom Cruise and the Energizer Bunny, was discovered in a trash can in a rural Tennessee high school. “I was very scared, my friends were scared,” said sophomore Lakyn Ledford, who stayed home after learning that student-athletes were also on the list.
| Source:
AP via SFGate.com
|
| January 11, 2007 | - Dan Gulley Jr., an Alabama septuagenarian, turned himself in to police after shooting his friend David Brooks Jr. twice in the stomach during a quarrel about the height of deceased soul singer James Brown.
| Source:
Breitbart
|
| January 10, 2007 | - Members of the Baker's Dozen, an all-male Yale
a cappella group recuperating from injuries they suffered when a gang of prep school students attacked them on New Year's Eve, were asked by police to return to San Francisco to identify their assailants. “The kids are scared shitless,” said a father of one of the singers.
| Source:
San Francisco Chronicle
|
| December 6, 2006 | - The invention of rap was traced back to Muhammad Ali.
| Source:
ESPN
|
| November 30, 2006 | -
Danny Devito called the president a “numbnuts.”
| Source:
National Ledger
|
| November 28, 2006 | - Matt Lauer, host of the Today Show, declared the onset of civil war in Iraq. Lauer's former co-host and current CBS anchor Katie Couric refused to agree with Lauer, insisting instead that Iraq had only slipped “ever closer” to civil war; ABC's Charles Gibson, another former morning television host, said, “You can call it anarchy, you can call it chaos, you can call it civil war . . . "
| Source:
Boston Globe and Newsbuster.org
|
| November 20, 2006 | - The host of a popular satirical Iraqi
television show was found murdered. “He was a star in the galaxy of Iraqi
arts,” said the show's director. “Now, he's another sacrifice on the altar of this slaughtered country.”
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| November 20, 2006 | -
Tom Cruise married Katie Holmes in a Scientology ceremony in Italy.
| Source:
Canada.com
|
| November 20, 2006 | - Actor Michael Richards, who played Kramer on the TV show Seinfeld, was videotaped repeatedly screaming a racial epithet at a heckler.
| Source:
MSNBC
|
| November 10, 2006 | - Fifty performances of “Saddam at the Gallows,” a new play due to open in Kolkata, India, had already sold out.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| November 10, 2006 | -
Ed Bradley and Jack Palance died.
| Source 1:
CBS News
Source 2:
Los Angeles Times.
|
| October 16, 2006 | - In New York City, CBGB closed, but the Russian Tea Room will reopen.
| Source 1:
AP via USA Today
Source 2:
New York Times
|
| October 7, 2006 | -
Tower Records, which is bankrupt, announced that it had been sold and that its assets would be liquidated.
| Source:
The Hollywood Reporter
|
| October 5, 2006 | - An aid group in Afghanistan was showing children a movie about landmines. “I learned,” said an 11-year-old girl, “that you should stay away from fields that have red stones.” At the end of the film, a puppet named Chuche is given back his arms and legs.
| Source:
The Christian Science Monitor
|
| September 28, 2006 | - The U.S. military, short of buglers who can play taps at military funerals, was waiting for an order of 700 automated $500 digital bugles.
| Source:
The St. Petersburg Times
|
| September 22, 2006 | -
Michael Jackson was considering opening a leprechaun-themed
amusement park in Ireland.
| Source:
MSNBC
|
| September 20, 2006 | - A poll conducted by the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery found that 46 percent of American women wanted to be surgically altered to resemble Jennifer Aniston.
| Source:
CNN
|
| September 19, 2006 | - A survey showed that rap music fans are unlikely to recycle.
| Source:
Innovations Report via Nerve.com
|
| September 14, 2006 | -
Russia said that it could send Madonna into space as early as 2009.
| Source:
Russia-InfoCentre
|
| September 5, 2006 | - Pop star Prince disputed Justin Timberlake's claim to have “brought sexy back.”
| Source:
Contactmusic.com via Nerve.com
|
| September 5, 2006 | -
Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, died after a stingray stabbed him in the heart.
| Source:
NEWS.co.au
|
| August 29, 2006 | - Children in Dublin saw a clown crushed to death.
| Source:
AP
|
| August 28, 2006 | - American heavy-metal band Fecal Corpse were denied entry to Canada.
| Source:
Toronto Sun
|
| August 18, 2006 | -
Sir Mick Jagger lost his voice.
| Source:
The Daily Mail
|
| July 14, 2006 | - Police in Seattle were looking for a gang of angry machete-wielding clowns.
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
|
| July 14, 2006 | -
Red Buttons died.
| Source:
Chicago Tribune
|
| June 22, 2006 | -
Daryl Hannah was forcibly removed from a walnut tree in South Los Angeles.
| Source:
Philadelphia Inquirer
|
| June 21, 2006 | -
Angelina Jolie called her income “stupid.”
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| June 17, 2006 | -
Paul McCartney turned 64.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| June 14, 2006 | -
Marine Corporal Joshua Belile apologized for appearing in “Hadji Girl,” an Internet-distributed
video in which he plays guitar and jokes about killing an Iraqi family. “They should have known,” he sang, “they were fuckin' with a Marine.”
| Source:
The Mercury News
|
| May 31, 2006 | -
Elizabeth Taylor denied reports that her health was failing.
| Source:
Breitbart
|
| May 30, 2006 | -
Ted Nugent denied both poking his erect penis through a map of West Virginia and urinating on a nun.
| Source:
Belfast Telegraph
|
| May 15, 2006 | -
Snoop Dogg was banned for life from the United Kingdom.
| Source:
FemaleFirst.co.uk
|
| May 2, 2006 | - In England the Archbishop of York played African drums and led a conga line as he wore a hoodie.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| May 1, 2006 | - A Vatican official called on Catholics to boycott the "Da Vinci Code" movie.
| Source:
Catholic News Service
|
| April 30, 2006 | -
Keith Richards fell out of a coconut tree.
| Source:
The Washington Post
|
| April 18, 2006 | -
Singer Mary J. Blige said that she had found God. “My God is a God who wants me to have things,” she said. “He wants me to bling.”
| Source:
MSNBC
|
| April 12, 2006 | - Theater programs for the deaf, operating on a shoestring, were trying to figure out who in Congress cut their $2 million in federal funding in December 2004.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| April 11, 2006 | -
Iran announced that it had successfully produced low-grade enriched uranium; to celebrate, men in traditional dress danced with uranium samples.
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
|
| April 5, 2006 | -
Katie Couric announced that she would leave NBC's "Today" show to become the anchor of "The CBS Evening News."
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| March 25, 2006 | - A Los Angeles judge ordered David Hasselhoff to stay at least 100 yards from his estranged wife, Pamela Bach.
| Source:
AP via Yahoo! News
|
| March 19, 2006 | - Tresa Waggoner, an elementary school music teacher in Bennett, Colorado, was suspended from her job after local parents complained that she was a lesbian devil worshiper; the parents drew this conclusion after learning that Waggoner showed her classes a videotape of the opera Faust performed with sock puppets.
| Source:
The Los Angeles Times
|
| March 13, 2006 | - A 38-year-old California
clown kidnapped the 14-year-old girl who is carrying his child.
| Source:
NBC San Diego
|
| March 9, 2006 | - Three college students in Alabama were arrested for setting nine churches on fire. One of the students, Benjamin Moseley, was planning to appear in a school theater production called "Young Zombies in Love."
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| February 26, 2006 | -
Don Knotts died.
| Source:
The New York Post
|
| February 19, 2006 | - The U.S. Army was using a computer game called “Tactical Iraqi” to teach Marines how to interpret Iraqis' gestures; “Tactical Pashto” and “Tactical Levantine” are in development.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| February 4, 2006 | -
"Grandpa" Al Lewis died.
| Source:
Newsday.com
|
| February 3, 2006 | -
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi performed a love ballad on Rome radio. "You are chocolate and coffee," he sang. "The samba that you have within you comes to me as I come to you."
| Source:
The Scotsman
|
| January 26, 2006 | - In Manchester, England, the BBC was planning an Easter tribute in which Jesus Christ will sing "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division before joining Judas in a duet of "Blue Monday" by New Order. Later, as Roman soldiers flay him, Jesus will sing "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" by The Smiths.
| Source:
The Guardian
|
| January 24, 2006 | -
Disney announced it would buy Pixar.
| Source:
E! Online via Yahoo! News
|
| January 24, 2006 | -
President Bush said that he had not yet seen the film "Brokeback Mountain."
| Source:
NBC13.com
|
| January 6, 2006 | -
Lou Rawls died.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| December 11, 2005 | - Comedian Richard Pryor died.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| November 29, 2005 | - In New York City, a defense contractor named David H. Brooks rented out two floors of the Rainbow Room for his daughter Elizabeth's bat mitzvah. Tom Petty, Kenny G, and members of Aerosmith performed, as did 50 Cent. The total cost of the party was reported as $10 million. “Go shorty,” rapped 50 Cent, “it's your bat mitzvah, we gonna party like it's your bat mitzvah.”
| Source:
New York Daily News
|
| November 22, 2005 | -
Chris Whitley, Pat Morita, and George Best died.
| Source 1:
Rolling Stone
Source 2:
The Star
Source 3:
Herald Sun
|
| November 19, 2005 | - The Senate refused to consider a Democratic resolution to honor Bruce Springsteen.
| Source:
Common Dreams
|
| November 18, 2005 | -
Dick Cheney visited Iraq and informed American soldiers that he was not Jessica Simpson. He also watched as Iraqi soldiers holding imaginary guns practiced a vehicle sweep.
| Source:
SFGate.com
|
| November 10, 2005 | -
California
voters rejected four initiatives proposed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. “If I was to make another Terminator movie,” said Schwarzenegger, “I would tell Terminator to travel back in time to tell Arnold not to have another special election.” Schwarzenegger then visited China, where he was greeted by hundreds of flag-waving children.
| Source 1:
ABC News
Source 2:
BBC News
|
| November 5, 2005 | -
U.S. and Iraqi forces launched Operation Al Hajip Elfulathi (Steel Curtain) in Husaybah, a town on Iraq's Syrian border that serves as a transit point and staging area for militants. The offensive began on the third day of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of Ramadan. “Instead of having my family for a picnic in an amusement park,” said a refugee named Omar Obaidi, “I am taking them out of the town, walking and expecting death every moment.” A statement promising retaliation for the offensive, purported to be from Al Qaeda, was posted on a local mosque. In Baquba the spokesman for the Iraqi National Dialogue Council was shot five times.
| Source:
The Washington Post
|
| November 3, 2005 | - The mayor of Las Vegas called for vandals who deface freeways to have their thumbs cut off on TV. “They would get a trial first,” he offered.
| Source:
The Guardian
|
| October 28, 2005 | -
George Takei, who played Mr. Sulu on Star Trek, announced that he is gay.
| Source:
Advocate.com
|
| October 24, 2005 | -
William Shatner
passed a kidney stone.
| Source:
14WFIE
|
| October 20, 2005 | -
Republican groups were calling on the federal government to halt all funds to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which currently receives $400 million each year in federal funding. "That is enough money," said Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, "to build 40 elementary schools."
| Source:
CBC.ca
|
| October 20, 2005 | - A Canadian named Gordon Chin was sentenced to 18 months probation for owning cartoon porn, including naked Pokemon images.
| Source:
XBiz News
|
| October 20, 2005 | - Lamb and Lynx Gaede, thirteen-year-old twin sisters who perform as the band Prussian Blue, were under criticism for singing songs that praise Rudolph Hess. "We just want to preserve our race," explained Lynx.
| Source:
ABC News
|
| October 20, 2005 | - A video recording was released that showed U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan shouting insults through a loudspeaker after setting alight the corpses of two Taliban fighters. "Wow, look at the blood coming out of the mouth on that one," said a soldier. "Fucking straight death metal."
| Source:
The Guardian
|
| October 15, 2005 | -
Prince was told he should undergo hip-replacement surgery to repair the damage done from years of performing in high heels.
| Source:
Herald Sun
|
| October 10, 2005 | -
UNICEF released a short film that shows an airstrike attack on a village of Smurfs.
| Source:
News.telegraph
|
| October 6, 2005 | - It was also announced that a great white shark named for Nicole Kidman had been tracked as it swam from South Africa to Australia and back. “We suspect,” said a scientist, “that she went for reproductive reasons.”
| Source:
Reuters
|
| October 5, 2005 | - It was announced that Tom Cruise had impregnated Katie Holmes.
| Source:
People
|
| October 4, 2005 | -
Country music star Chris Cagle announced the birth of a new child and asked for privacy. “Both mother and child are in good health,” he wrote on his website. “Since the birth, however, we have discovered that biologically, the child is not mine.”
| Source:
AZCentral.com
|
| October 3, 2005 | -
Burt Bacharach was recording a protest album with Dr. Dre. "Burt's pissed," explained a friend.
| Source:
IOL.CO.ZA
|
| September 29, 2005 | - Novelist Michael Crichton was called before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works so that he could criticize the theory of global warming.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| September 14, 2005 | -
Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. was questioned by members of the Senate and managed to avoid direct answers to many of the questions posed to him. He did reveal, however, that "Dr. Zhivago" and "North by Northwest" were his favorite films. Antiabortion groups felt that Roberts was doing just fine.
| Source 1:
KPAX
Source 2:
The Washington Post
|
| September 9, 2005 | - The Pentagon held a "Freedom Walk." Walkers were forced to register online ahead of time, to march along a fenced-in route, and to listen to Clint Black perform his song "Iraq and Roll."
| Source:
The Washington Post
|
| September 7, 2005 | -
Bob Denver, best known for his role as the hapless, incompetent, shipwrecked Gilligan, died.
| Source:
SFGate.com
|
| September 5, 2005 | - “George Bush,” said rapper Kanye West, “doesn't care about black people.”
| Source:
The Mercury News
|
| September 3, 2005 | - “I don't think,” said President George W. Bush, “anyone anticipated the breach of the levees.” Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the disaster “exceeded the foresight of the planners, and maybe anybody's foresight.” The flooding had been anticipated by National Geographic magazine, Scientific American magazine, the Times-Picayune newspaper, FEMA, and Mr. Bill.
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
CNN.com
Source 3:
The Times-Picayune
Source 4:
The Independent
Source 5:
National Geographic
Source 6:
Scientific American
Source 7:
Mr. Bill
|
| August 29, 2005 | -
Suge Knight was shot in the leg.
| Source:
GlobeAndMail.com
|
| August 22, 2005 | - A fourteen-year-old German boy was ordered to tear down the 300-foot-long roller coaster he had built in his back yard.
| Source:
Ananova
|
| August 22, 2005 | -
Robert Moog died.
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| August 22, 2005 | -
Chinese authorities were criticizing the televised Mongolian Cow Sour Yogurt Supergirl Contest for its worldliness.
| Source:
The Australian
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| August 17, 2005 | - A file folder describing the affirmative-action work of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts went missing from the Reagan Library after it was reviewed by White House lawyers, and it was revealed that Roberts had once refused a request from Michael Jackson for a special letter of commendation from the Reagan White House.
| Source 1:
The Washington Post
Source 2:
BBC News
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| August 16, 2005 | -
Victoria Beckham, also known as Posh Spice, said that she had never read a book in her life, although she had written a 528-page autobiography.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| August 9, 2005 | - A British puppeteer was ordered to stop using a Saddam Hussein
puppet as the sausage-stealing villain in his Punch and Judy show.
| Source:
BBC News
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| August 9, 2005 | - A South Korean man played video games for 50 straight hours, then died.
| Source:
Reuters
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| August 4, 2005 | - The Pentagon was teaching scientists how to write screenplays.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| July 27, 2005 | - Many Iraqis were hoping to be selected for a new reality television show, called "Labor and Materials," in which a construction crew shows up unannounced and rebuilds a family's bombed-out home. Three thousand people have applied in Baghdad alone.
| Source:
Christian Science Monitor
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| July 22, 2005 | -
Michael Jackson announced that he would build another Neverland near Berlin.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| July 10, 2005 | - The Godfather was being made into a video game.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| July 8, 2005 | -
Air Supply played the Karl Marx theater in Cuba.
| Source:
ABC13.com
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| June 27, 2005 | -
Tigger died, as did Piglet.
| Source:
CBC.ca
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| June 16, 2005 | -
Deep Throat and the Runaway Bride were both working on movie deals.
| Source 1:
Sify.com
Source 2:
ABC News
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| June 16, 2005 | -
Scotland's Cottle and Austin Circus fired Todd the Human Cannonball because he was afraid of flying and replaced him with Diego the Human Rocket.
| Source:
The Times
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| June 14, 2005 | -
Michael Jackson was acquitted.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| June 12, 2005 | - It was reported that interrogators at Guantánamo Bay tortured prisoners with the music of Christina Aguilera; it was also revealed that American military torturers performed a satirical puppet show for one victim.
| Source:
Drudge Report
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| June 12, 2005 | -
Pink Floyd announced that it would reunite for a concert.
| Source:
Chron.com
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| June 8, 2005 | -
Paul Anka
released an album on which he sings "The Lovecats" by The Cure and "Eyes Without a Face" by Billy Idol.
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 8, 2005 | -
Anne Bancroft died.
| Source:
The Belfast Telegraph-Digital
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| June 3, 2005 | - Researchers discovered a formula to determine the humor value of a sitcom: (((R * D + V) * F) + S)/A.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| May 31, 2005 | - The British children's home Strawberry Field, which inspired the Beatles song “Strawberry Fields Forever,” closed.
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 24, 2005 | -
Sylvester Stallone was making a movie about Edgar Allen Poe.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| May 23, 2005 | - Representative Spencer Bachus of Alabama said that a routine by television host Bill Maher bordered on treason. Maher had said that the Army had already picked all of the “low-lying fruit” like Lynndie England, and now needed “warm bodies.”
| Source:
ABC News
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| May 22, 2005 | - Warren Beatty was wondering whether he should run for governor of California.
| Source:
ABC News
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| May 19, 2005 | - A California man was arrested because he lived in a tent for two weeks in order to buy tickets to the new Star Wars movie; his doing so violated a requirement that, as a sex offender, he let police know if he changed lodgings.
| Source:
NCTimes
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| May 17, 2005 | -
Kylie Minogue announced that she has breast cancer.
| Source:
BBC News
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| May 5, 2005 | - It was revealed that Michael Jackson used chimpanzees to dust his house, clean his windows, and brush his toilets.
| Source:
This is London
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| April 21, 2005 | - A Vietnam veteran spit tobacco juice in Jane Fonda's face.
| Source:
Reuters
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| April 14, 2005 | - A Christian radio talk-show host was fired for questioning whether the dead pope would go to heaven.
| Source:
Local6.com
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| April 14, 2005 | - The United Nations released a video game called “Food Force” that lets players pretend they are feeding the starving.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 7, 2005 | - Jenna Bush, the president's daughter, got on all fours and did the “butt dance.”
| Source:
New York Post
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| April 3, 2005 | - Robert Creeley, Terri Schiavo, Johnnie Cochran, Frank Perdue, Mitch Hedberg, and the pope died, as did the man who wrote the theme song to “Gidget.”
| Source 1:
Indianapolis Star
Source 2:
Indianapolis Star
Source 3:
New York Times
Source 4:
New York Times
Source 5:
Fredericksburg.com
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| March 25, 2005 | -
Anita Bryant was still alive.
| Source:
TwinCities.com
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| March 24, 2005 | -
Foghat's guitarist died.
| Source:
AP
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| March 23, 2005 | -
Ozzy Osbourne said that in times of loneliness he talks to his knees.
| Source:
Ananova.com
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| March 22, 2005 | - Several IMAX theaters in the American South decided not to show a film about volcanoes because it might offend Christians.
| Source:
Greenville Online
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| March 22, 2005 | -
Ugandans marched against Bob Geldof.
| Source:
BBC News
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| March 21, 2005 | -
Bobby Short died, as did John DeLorean.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| March 2, 2005 | - A Swiss synesthete who tastes music reported that Bach is creamy.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| March 2, 2005 | -
50 Cent expelled The Game from G Unit. Gunfire followed.
| Source:
BBC News
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| March 1, 2005 | - Three anonymous donors gave $3 million to resurrect the cancelled TV show “Star Trek: Enterprise.”
| Source:
TrekUnited.com
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| March 1, 2005 | - A poll found that Americans want a Democrat to be elected president in the next election on the television show “The West Wing.”
| Source:
Zogby International
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| February 27, 2005 | -
Progressive rock was making a comeback.
| Source:
New York Timesimes
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| February 27, 2005 | - Halle Berry received a “Razzie” award for the worst actress of 2004 for her role in the film “Catwoman.” “I want to thank Warner Brothers for casting me in this piece of shit,” she said. George W. Bush won the worst actor award for his role in “Fahrenheit 9/11.”
| Source:
Reuters
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| February 18, 2005 | - An expert witness in the Robert Blake
murder case testified that he once crawled into a cage filled with crack-smoking
monkeys.
| Source:
E! Online
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| February 11, 2005 | - The government of Uganda was concerned about a production of the play “The Vagina Monologues.” “The author of the film is a known lesbian who lives with another woman,” said James Nsaba Buturo, the minister for information. “She worships the female sexual organ, seeing it as her god.”
| Source:
All Africa
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| February 10, 2005 | -
Arthur Miller died.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| February 7, 2005 | - A four-year-old Michigan boy snuck out of the house and drove his mother's car to a video store.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| February 2, 2005 | - Thirty-year-old actor Leonardo DiCaprio accepted a lifetime achievement award.
| Source:
Elitestv.com
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| February 1, 2005 | - Rapper Calvin "Snoop Dogg" Broadus was accused of sexual assault.
| Source:
Yahoo.com
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| February 1, 2005 | - The selection of a jury of Michael Jackson's peers began.
| Source:
Reuters
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| January 12, 2005 | - E! Television and Britain's BSkyB announced plans to broadcast 30-minute dramatizations of Michael Jackson's child
molestation
trial, based on the testimony from the previous day, in order to get around a ban on cameras in the courtroom.
| Source:
Reuters
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| January 12, 2005 | - The last reel-to-reel tape manufacturer in America went under, forcing indie rockers to hoard tapes.
| Source:
The Wall Street Journal
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| January 11, 2005 | -
Nas
married Kelis.
| Source:
USA Today
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| January 11, 2005 | -
Performers in the 2005 inaugural parade, including marching bands, bell ringers, and Civil War reenactors, were instructed not to look directly at Bush as they pass the parade stand, nor to make any sudden moves.
| Source:
The News-Herald
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| January 6, 2005 | - Director Oliver Stone blamed audiences and the critics for the box office failure of "Alexander."
| Source:
New Age Media Concepts
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| December 24, 2004 | -
Adoptees and adoptive parents were calling on Fox TV to stop the broadcast of a game show called “Who's Your Daddy,” in which an adopted woman has to pick her biological father from a line-up; she wins a prize if she picks correctly.
| Source:
Reuters
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| December 24, 2004 | - Polls showed that “Stairway to Heaven” was the greatest rock song of all time.
| Source:
AFP
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| December 24, 2004 | - A poll found that Britney Spears was the number one star in America.
| Source:
Irish Examiner
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| December 5, 2004 | - Sheriff's deputies searched the Neverland estate for two days and took a DNA sample from inside Michael Jackson's mouth.
| Source:
AP
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| December 3, 2004 | - Sotheby's announced it would auction off items from five Kennedy family homes; items to be sold include Mason jars, broken china, used records, and old magazines.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 2, 2004 | - Brian Williams replaced Tom Brokaw on NBC Nightly News.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 1, 2004 | - And retail sales during the Thanksgiving weekend disappointed.
| Source:
Reuters
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| November 22, 2004 | - British programmers released a game called “JFK: Reloaded,” which recreates the Grassy Knoll. “Players will discover just how hard it is to place those three bullets in exactly the same way that Oswald did,” said a spokesman for the game company.
| Source:
Guardian
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| November 20, 2004 | -
Congress passed a $388 billion spending bill. The bill had $15.8 billion worth of “extras,” including $25,000 for the study of mariachi music and $2 million to buy back the presidential yacht, sold by Jimmy Carter in 1977. The yacht, the U.S.S. Sequoia, currently rents for $2,500 an hour. The bill also allows hospitals and HMOs to refuse to provide abortions, and gave two committee chairmen and their assistants access to income tax returns, without regard to privacy laws. Republicans acknowledged the mistake of the latter provision, and vowed to repeal it.
| Source 1:
USA Today
Source 2:
USA Today
Source 3:
sequoiayacht.com
Source 4:
LA Times
Source 5:
AP
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| November 17, 2004 | -
Egypt decided to allow foreign belly dancers.
| Source:
ABC13, AP
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| November 13, 2004 | -
Wu-Tang Clan co-founder Russell Jones, also known as O.D.B., Ol' Dirty Bastard, Dirt McGirt, and Big Baby Jesus, died at age 35.
| Source:
ABC News
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| October 13, 2004 | - The FCC fined Fox television $1.2 million for a broadcast of "Married by America" in April 2003 that featured strippers covered in whipped cream.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| September 14, 2004 | - A new study found that Legionella bacteria, the cause of Legionnaire's disease, lurks in a quarter of all hot tubs.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| August 19, 2004 | - Twenty people were stuck on a roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure amusement park after a power outage; eight people were stuck upside down.
| Source:
CBS 2 New York
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| July 16, 2004 | - A study found that children who watch two hours of TV a night risk becoming fat smokers with high cholesterol.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| July 7, 2004 | -
Japan's defense ministry said that it will issue its annual defense whitepaper as a "manga" comic book.
| Source:
Reuters
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| July 2, 2004 | -
Colin Powell sang and danced to "YMCA" for foreign ministers at a conference on Asian-Pacific security.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| May 27, 2004 | -
MTV declined to air advertisements for Super Size Me, a documentary about a man who eats nothing but McDonald's food for a month, because it was determined that the ads unjustly disparage fast food.
| Source:
Reuters
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| April 30, 2004 | - Six American soldiers, including a general, were facing court martial over the torture and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison, which was famous for its torture chambers under Saddam Hussein. Photographs of the abuse were broadcast on U.S. television; one image depicted a hooded prisoner standing on a box with wires attached to his genitals.
| Source:
BBC
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| April 28, 2004 | - "Brother Guide" Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya arrived in Brussels, along with his white stretch Mercedes limo and four female bodyguards wearing tight uniforms, to meet with European officials. He called on the United States and China to rid themselves of nuclear and chemical weapons. "Hopefully," he said, "nothing will force us to go back to the days when we used our cars and explosive belts."
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 16, 2004 | - American troops in Fallujah were playing AC/DC's album Back in Black very loudly to annoy gunmen. The troops were also broadcasting Arabic insults, such as "you shoot like a goat herder."
| Source:
Associated Press
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| March 20, 2004 | -
Virgin Atlantic Airways decided not to install urinals shaped like a woman's open lips at a first-class lounge at New York's JFK Airport.
| Source:
ABC.com.au
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| March 14, 2004 | -
Luciano Pavarotti gave his last staged performance.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| March 6, 2004 | -
Martha Stewart revealed that she was "distressed" to have been convicted for lying about an improper stock trade that saved her about $45,000. Stewart's television show was withdrawn by WCBS, and there was speculation that her company might not be able to survive its association with a convicted felon.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 2, 2004 | - A video store was blown up in Afghanistan.
| Source:
New York Times
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| February 9, 2004 | - A British company was selling MP3 players designed to be attached to Kalashnikov rifles; the player, which replaces the ammunition clip on the rifle, holds 3,000 audio books or 9,000 songs.
| Source:
News.com.au
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| January 17, 2004 | -
Afghanistan's supreme court reimposed a ban on television images of women singing on TV, just a few days after the Taliban-era ban was lifted.
| Source:
Reuters
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| December 25, 2003 | -
Britain's Beagle 2 spacecraft apparently landed on Mars, though it failed to transmit its nine-note homing signal, which was composed by a pop band called Blur.
| Source:
Daily Telegraph
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| December 19, 2003 | - Nielsen Media Research said that a reality TV show featuring Internet sex star and hotel heiress Paris Hilton received better ratings than the Diane Sawyer interview with President Bush.
| Source:
CNN
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| November 21, 2003 | - Krist Novoselic, the former bassist for Nirvana, was thinking about running for lieutenant governor of Washington.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 23, 2003 | - The emirate of Dubai announced that it will build a $5 billion amusement park that will include an artificial rain forest and a ski slope.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| October 11, 2003 | -
Clint Eastwood gave up acting,
| Source:
Telegraph
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| October 10, 2003 | -
Sting was made a commander of the British Empire, and Roger Moore, a former James Bond, was made a knight.
| Source:
St. Petersburg Times
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| October 9, 2003 | -
Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California and told his son that being governor will be a lot like making a movie.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 6, 2003 | - Almost 3 million people in Britain watched an illusionist play Russian roulette live on television,
| Source:
Guardian
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| October 4, 2003 | - Roy Horn, of Siegfried and Roy, was mauled by a rare white Bengal tiger during a Las Vegas performance and dragged offstage.
| Source:
San Francisco Chronicle
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| October 2, 2003 | - a rapper named C-Murder was found guilty of murder,
| Source:
Launch
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| September 25, 2003 | - The recording industry let it be known that it was promoting a "stealing is bad" curriculum for the nation's schools that will include classes on the history of copyright and games such as Starving Artist, a role-playing game in which children pretend to be musicians who no longer receive royalties because their work has been copied on the Internet.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 25, 2003 | -
Charlton Heston was named as the first recipient of the Charlton Heston Prize.
| Source:
BBC
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| September 18, 2003 | - The Dalai Lama met with singer Ricky Martin and then said that it was too early to tell whether the conquest of Iraq was a mistake.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 17, 2003 | -
Los Angeles banned lap dancing.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 12, 2003 | - The White House reopened for tourism.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 11, 2003 | - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said that a new Security Council resolution would be helpful, because it would allow other countries to pretend that the Iraqi occupation was a multinational operation, which would justify sending more money.
Rumsfeld said that tourism will soon be a major industry in Iraq.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 6, 2003 | - A man died and several others were injured while riding Disneyland's Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.
| Source:
Austin American-Statesman
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| September 3, 2003 | - Britney Spears, a pop star, declared her faith in President Bush: "Honestly," she said, "I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that."
| Source:
CNN
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| September 2, 2003 | -
Charles Bronson died.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 1, 2003 | - A public-access television show in New York City held the world's largest picnic.
| Source:
New York Daily News
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| July 31, 2003 | - To dispel fears of SARS, the Canadian government sponsored a rock concert, popularly known as "SARSstock," for 430,000 attendees.
| Source:
New York Times
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| July 28, 2003 | - A British hip-hop DJ attempted to break the world record for playing records, but gave up after seventy hours due to "exhaustion." Said an employee at the community center where the feat was attempted: "We all feel a little deflated but seventy hours is a long time."
| Source:
Ananova
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| June 16, 2003 | - CBS News sent an interview request to Pfc. Jessica Lynch, the American P.O.W. whose dramatic rescue in Iraq turned out to be largely simulated, that included "ideas" from CBS Entertainment, MTV, and Simon & Schuster; some news critics found the combination of news and entertainment offers "troubling."
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 5, 2003 | - The U.S. Air Guitar Championships were held at the Pussycat Lounge in New York City.
| Source:
Time Out New York
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| February 4, 2003 | - There were rumors of a lawsuit against Warner Brothers because Dobby the house elf in the latest Harry Potter
movie so closely resembles President Vladimir Putin of Russia.
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| September 17, 2002 | - Former president Bill Clinton told David Letterman that he has a room at home in Chappaqua where he takes his saxophone, shuts the door, and blows the night away.
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| July 16, 2002 | -
Bono, the rock star, denied that he had a hair implant.
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| January 1, 2002 | -
People in Minneapolis, Minnesota, were still bickering over the wisdom of putting up a statue of Mary Tyler Moore throwing her hat in the air.
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| December 18, 2001 | - An Italian lost part of his penis while watching a porno movie after he inserted it into a vacuum cleaner.
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| November 13, 2001 | -
Harry Potter fans looted a theatre after the movie premiered in Scotland.
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| October 23, 2001 | - An Israeli
death squad assassinated a Hamas leader while he was praying on his roof. “This is not the first and not the last,” Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared. A few days later a Palestinian
death squad assassinated Rehavan Zeevi, Israel's minister of tourism, who had been a strong advocate of “transferring” all Palestinians out of the occupied territories.
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| September 4, 2001 | - Puff Daddy, a rapper, told a German magazine that the Queen of England has a poor fashion sense: “She should stick to muted shades and combine gray, black, and earth tones,” said Mr. Daddy. “Those pastel shades she wears don't suit her at all and she has to do something about that haircut.”
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| August 21, 2001 | - Princess Diana's former butler was charged with stealing a diverse collection of objects from the royal family including “an Indiana Jones bullwhip,” snapshots and cards from “Mummy” to her boys, Versace handbags, a book, a pepper grinder, recordings of Abba, Phil Collins, Neil Diamond, Elton John, and Leo Sayer, and an autographed picture of David Hasselhoff.
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| August 14, 2001 | -
NASA was planning to commission the boy-band Natural to compose a pop song to improve the agency's image among young people and to encourage an interest in space exploration. “If we have to do it by being hip,” said a NASA space nerd, “so be it.”
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| July 10, 2001 | -
English students at Cambridge University were asked in a final exam to analyze the following lines from a 1979 Bee Gees song: “It's tragedy . . . Tragedy when you lose control and you got no soul, it's tragedy.” Professor John Kerrigan, chairman of the examination board, defended the inclusion of the Bee Gees: “There are elements to the Bee Gees songs that could have directed you to the great central canonical texts,” he said. “The line in the Bee Gees song where he sings 'the feeling's gone and you can't go on' is a fair summary of the end of King Lear.”
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| June 26, 2001 | - Minneapolis, hoping to boost tourism, was preparing to install a bronze statue of Mary Tyler Moore throwing her hat in the air at the corner of Seventh Street and Nicollet Avenue, just like on TV. “Tossing the hat inspired so many women,” Mayor Sharon Sayles-Belton told a reporter. “It showed us we're capable. We're bold. And we're cute.”
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| May 29, 2001 | -
Charlton Heston was reelected president of the National Rifle Association.
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| May 22, 2001 | -
Researchers found that Oscar-winning movie stars live longer, and that flying frequently across several time zones can shrink your brain.
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| February 6, 2001 | - Four elementary students in Louisiana were strip-searched by a principal who was looking, unsuccessfully, for $20 that had been stolen; a memo was later issued advising that strip-searches of students was a “no-no.” A man in Maldonado, Uruguay, crucified himself to protest violence against children, which he blamed on a “lack of true love.” Newspapers continued to publish righteous editorials condemning the Grammy Award nomination of Eminem, a rapper whose songs are as popular as they are violent.
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| January 23, 2001 | - At an inaugural party, before the stony gaze of Abraham Lincoln, Mr. Bush got up on stage and danced with Ricky Martin.
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| September 26, 2000 | - Vice President Al Gore and Senator Joseph Lieberman reassured Hollywood campaign contributors that they did not intend to censor entertainment products despite their claims to the contrary last week.
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| September 26, 2000 | - A four-year-old boy was critically injured when he was pinned under Disneyland's Roger Rabbit Toon Spin ride.
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| August 22, 2000 | -
Police fired tear gas, pepper spray, beanbags, and rubber bullets into a crowd of protesters after a Rage Against the Machine concert outside the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. According to one report, the police were tired and wanted to go home but hippies and anarchists refused to leave.
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