Britain's longest marriage lasted 81 years. Frank and Anita Milford met at a YMCA dance in Plymouth, Devon, in 1926 - the year of the invention of penicillin. The couple married two years later. Frank Milford was 101 when he passed away. Frank and Anita Milford had two...
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Abdul- Aziz al-Hakim was a kings-maker in Iraqi politics who channeled rising Shiite Muslim power after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Abdul- Aziz al-Hakim died August 26, 2009 after a battle with lung cancer....
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Sir Bobby Robson, the legendary English football star has died at the age of 76 after along battle with cancer. He was a legend in the English football world, and led England to the World semi-finals at Italia in...
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Walter Cronkite was a star television news anchor for many years. He was watched and liked and trusted by many millions of Americans for years. Millions more disliked and distrusted and refused to watch his show. He will live on in television news history. "Walter...
Known as the Most Trusted Man in America, Walter Cronkite has did at 92 years old."Walter Cronkite, America's preeminent television journalist of the 1960s and 1970s who as anchor and managing editor of "CBS...
Oscar Mayer, the man behind the famous Oscar Mayer meat brand has died at the age of 95 from 'complications of old age' according to his wife Geraldine. "He was the third Oscar Mayer in the family that founded...
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What a tragedy, an umpire got hit by the ball in the ground and dies.This incident took place when he was umpiring a league match and a fielders through hit him on head." A cricket umpire has died after being hit on the head by the ball during a match. Alcwyn Jenkins, 72, was...
Steve McNair, former Quarterback from the Baltimore Ravens and Tennessee Titans is dead at the age of 36. NewsChannel5 from Nashville is reporting that Steve was found with a female victim in an apparent double...
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Air France flight heading for Paris, France, from Montreal, Canada, had to make an emergency stop late at night today in St. John, Newfoundland, Canada after one of the passengers on board passed away. The body of the man was unloaded from the plane at the airport. It is not...
" A Continental Airlines Inc. pilot died on a flight to Newark, New Jersey, from Brussels this morning, forcing two backup pilots to take control of the plane, authorities said. The plane, carrying 247...
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An eight-year-old boy in New Mexico has died of the Bubonic Plague, and his ten-year-old sister has been hospitalized. This is the first recorded case of the plague in the nation this year. It is not known exactly how they contracted the disease, but health officials are...
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Wayne Allwine, the voice of beloved cartoon Mickey Mouse for 32 years, has died at the age of 62 from complications with diabetes, with his wife, Russi Taylor, who was the voice of Minnie Mouse, by his side. Mr....
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A second Arizona resident has died from swine flu according to state officials."The swine flu fatality was reported to be from the Gila River Indian Reservation, according to officials, but further information was not immediately available. A spokeswoman for the reservation...
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Famous Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti passed away from liver failure at the age of 88 on Sunday. Benedetti was know as one of Latin America’s most influential writers, having had authored numerous novels, poems, short stories and plays, among them “The Truce”, “Left...
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Bob Rosburg, the winner of the 1959 U.S. PGA Championship and long-time ABC Sports anaylst has died at 82 in Palm Springs, California. Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said that Bob Rosburg was a great PGA player...