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April 2, 2005
Pope John Paul II passes away at 9:37 p.m. Vatican time (CEST)
at the age of 84, thus beginning the period of Sede vacante.
(Wikinews)
Sumatran earthquake: Nine Australian Defence
Force personnel are missing, presumed dead, after a Sea King
helicopter crash on the Indonesian island of Nias. Two personnel
survive. (Wikinews)
Scientists at the California Institute
of Technology devise a method to weigh the smallest mass ever,
a cluster of xenon atoms weighing a few zeptograms, or billionths
of a trillionth of a gram. (BBC) (AIP Bulletin)
Riccardo Muti resigns as music director
of La Scala opera house, Milan after 18 years, following a vote
of no-confidence by 700 orchestra members and staff last month.
(BBC)
In France, radical wine producers attack the offices of agriculture
ministries in Montpellier and Carcassonne with dynamite. A group
calling itself Comité Régional d'Action Viticole
(Crav) takes responsibility.(BBC) (WineNews, SA) (Independent)
In Nepal, former prime minister Girija
Prasad Koirala is released from house arrest and demands the
return to democracy. (New Kerala) (Telegraph, India) (BBC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2005
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