2004 |  Geffen Records releases With the Lights Out -- a CD/DVD boxed set of Nirvana
recordings, including 68 previously unreleased titles.
(photo credit: Geffen Records)
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| 2004 | CBS-TV announces that Dan Rather will step down on March 9, 2005 -- ending his 24-year career as network evening news anchor.
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| 2004 | A UN report finds that women compose nearly half of the 37.2 million adults infected worldwide with HIV.
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| 1996 | An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767 crashes during a hijacking off the Comoros Islands, killing 125 of the 175 people on board.
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| 1992 | Country music singer and fiddler Roy Acuff dies of heart failure in Nashville, Tennessee, at age 89.
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| 1991 | Freddy Mercury, lead singer for the rock band Queen, announces that he is suffering from AIDS; Mercury would die at home the next day at age 45.
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| 1983 | Actress Mary Tyler Moore marries Dr. Robert Levine.
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| 1980 | A number of earthquakes rock southern Italy; 4800 are killed.
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| 1971 | The People's Republic of China gets a seat at the U.N. Security Council.
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| 1945 | The WWII rationing of most foods, such as butter and meat, ends.
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| 1943 | Allied forces gain control of the South Pacific island of Tarawa, during WWII.
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| 1937 | The New York production of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men opens at the Music Box Theater on Broadway.
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| 1936 | Henry Luce publishes the first issue of Life magazine.
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| 1903 | Enrico Caruso makes his American debut at New York's Metropolitan Opera House, appearing in Rigoletto.
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