| Today in History:
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AP Highlight in History:
On Feb. 5, 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell urged the U.N. Security Council to move against Iraq, saying that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was harboring terrorists - claims that later turned out to be false.
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| On this date in: |
| 1881 | Phoenix, Ariz., was incorporated. |
| 1917 | Congress passed, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, a law severely curtailing the immigration of Asians. |
| 1937 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed increasing the number of Supreme Court justices. Critics charged that he was attempting to "pack" the court.
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| 1958 | Gamel Abdel Nasser was nominated to become the first president of the new United Arab Republic, a short-lived union of Syria and Egypt. |
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| 1988 | The Arizona House of Representatives impeached Gov. Evan Mecham, who was later convicted in the state Senate and removed from office. |
| 1988 | Panamanian military leader Gen. Manuel Noriega was indicted on bribery and drug trafficking charges in Florida. |
| 1994 | White separatist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted in Jackson, Miss., of murdering civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963. He was sentenced to life in prison. |
| 1997 | Investment bank Morgan Stanley announced a $10 billion merger with Dean Witter. |
| 2001 | Four disciples of Osama bin Laden went on trial in New York in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. |
| 2002 | A federal grand jury indicted John Walker Lindh, the so-called "American Taliban," alleging that he was trained by Osama bin Laden's network and that he conspired with the Taliban to kill Americans. |
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Highlights of This Day in History |
| Today's Birthdays: |
| Actress Laura Linney turns 48 years old today. |
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| Name | Profession | Age |
| Rev. Andrew M. Greeley | Professor, author | 84 |
| Roger Staubach | Football Hall of Famer | 70 |
| Michael Mann | Director | 69 |
| Al Kooper | Rock musician, singer (Blood, Sweat and Tears) | 68 |
| Charlotte Rampling | Actress | 66 |
| Christopher Guest | Actor, screenwriter ("This is Spinal Tap") | 64 |
| Barbara Hershey | Actress | 64 |
| Tom Wilkinson | Actor | 64 |
| Jennifer Granholm | Former governor of Michigan | 53 |
| Tim Meadows | Actor, comedian ("Saturday Night Live") | 51 |
| Jennifer Jason Leigh | Actress | 50 |
| Chris Parnell | Actor-comedian ("Saturday Night Live") | 45 |
| Roberto Alomar | Baseball Hall of Famer | 44 |
| Bobby Brown | R&B singer | 43 |
| Sara Evans | Country singer | 41 |
| Darren Criss | Actor, singer ("Glee") | 25 |
| Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron turns 78 years old today. |
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