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In 2001, Robert Stevens, photo editor for America media Inc. of Boca Raton Fla., publisher of the National Enquirer and other tabloids, died after being infected with anthrax.

And in 2001 sports, Barry Bonds hit his 71st home run, most by a player in one season, breaking Mark McGwire's 1998 Major League Baseball record. The San Francisco Giants slugger finished the season with 73 homers.

In 2005, scientists announced that a form of bird flu that jumped directly to humans was the real cause of a 1918 pandemic that killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide.

In 2007, U.S. sprinter Marion Jones, who won five medals during the 2000 Olympic Games, three of them gold, admitted taking steroids to enhance her track performance. She drew a two-year ban and forfeiture of medals on her guilty plea to lying to federal investigators.

In 2009, the investigating U.N. nuclear agency concluded that Iran had sufficient information to be able to design and produce an atomic bomb.

 

In 2010, Faisal Shahzad, the man who left an explosives-laden vehicle in New York's Times Square, hoping to detonate it on a busy night, was sentenced to life in prison.

Also in 2010, at least 97 people were killed and 81 others seriously injured following flash floods on the Indonesian island of New Guinea.

In 2011, Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc. and hailed by his colleagues as a visionary and creative genius, died at age 56, two months after resigning as chief executive officer because he could no longer meet (his) duties and expectations. Jobs pioneered the concept of the personal computer with such popular devices as the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad tablet.


Copyright 2012 by United Press International

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