Wall Street Mayham

September 15th, 2008
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Credit noose tightened around big Walstreet banks - Lehman brothers and Merril Lynch are the latest victims

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200809151644DOWJONESDJONLINE000722_FORTUNE5.htm

http://www.thestreet.com/story/10437422/1/two-more-wall-street-dominoes-fall.html?puc=googlefi&cm_ven=GOOGLEFI&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA


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2008 Olympics gets underway in Beijing, China : 08-08-08

August 8th, 2008
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With an impressive opening ceremony, China puts on a great show and plays host to the Olympics of 2008.
As an added touch the date 8-8-8 is considered very lucky in Chinese culture

Official Olympic site : http://en.beijing2008.cn/


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Barrack O’Bama becomes Democratic presidential candidate

June 4th, 2008
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It has been a historic race for Democratic party presidential nomination. A woman (Hillary Clinton) and an African-American (B arrack Obama) were seeking the nomination. After long, long campaign Obama secured the nomination.
Even though, this is American politics, this election with a woman and an african-american candidates, drew world attention.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7434753.stm


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Devastating earth quake in China

May 13th, 2008
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A strong earth quake, measuring 7.8 wrecked China’s Sichauan province!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/asia_pacific/2008/china_quake/default.stm


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Benazir Bhutto is killed in Pakistan

December 27th, 2007
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BBC news story
Wikipedia story


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Hollywood writers go on Strike

November 5th, 2007
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New York times story here.
BBC story.

Last strike was in 1988


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Protests in Burma

October 5th, 2007
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BBC story.
Monks are spearheading protests.


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Canadian Dollar equals US Dollar, in 31 years

September 20th, 2007
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Canadian dollar is no longer the ‘underdog’. Today CA$ traded at the same value as US$

See here : http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/2007-09-20-canada-parity_N.htm


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Barry Bonds breaks home run record : 756

August 7th, 2007
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San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bond set the record for most career home runs in Baseball history. Previous record was held by Hank Aaron since 1974

San Francisco Chronicle Article

BBC link : http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/baseball/6936213.stm


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Isreal troops pull out of Gaza

September 11th, 2005
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BBC : http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/11/newsid_4954000/4954594.stm


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