March 12, 1928: To Die in L.A.
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The St. Francis Dam bursts, killing over 500 people in one of the century's worst civil engineering disasters. Compiled by Tony Long.
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LONDON  &#151; John Lennon was shot and killed outside his New York City apartment after deciding he wanted to return home to see his son rather than go out for dinner, Yoko Ono said in an interview broadcast Sunday.
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LOS ANGELES  - The man is gone, but the  voice is lingering on.
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Eddie Adams, an Associated Press photojournalist famous for his photo of a communist guerrilla being executed in a Saigon street, died Sept. 19 in Manhattan of complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease). He was 71.
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Law and Order and Dirty Dancing actor Jerry Orbach dies of prostate cancer at the age of 69.
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1932 &#151; Brooklyn's Johnny Frederick hit his sixth pinch home run of the season, a major league record, in the ninth inning to spark the Dodgers to a 4-3 triumph over the Chicago Cubs at Ebbets Field.
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LOS ANGELES -- Health officials plan to announce Monday whether the death of a 62-year-old Claremont, Calif., man was the fourth in Los Angeles County known to have been caused by West Nile virus.
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LOS ANGELES - The ashes of legendary actor Marlon Brando were spread in Tahiti and Death Valley, according to a newspaper report.    A memorial service for Brando, who died of lung failure at age 80 on July 1, was held at the home of Hollywood producer Mike Medavoy and was attended by Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson and Sean Penn, the Los Angeles Times reported in Wednesday editions...
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Charlie Sifford throws up his arms after he dropped a short par putt on the 18th green to tie Harold Henning of South Africa at the end of 72 holes in the $100,000 Los Angeles Open golf tournament, Sunday, Jan. 13, 1969.
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LOS ANGELES ï¿½ South Los Angeles area residents and their allies are expected to rally Monday afternoon, Nov. 15, to protest the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisorsï¿½ proposal to close the Martin Luther
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By Jenna Russell and Peter DeMarco, Globe Staff And Globe Correspondent | September 12, 2004. At ground zero in New York City and at Boston memorials, the names of the dead were spoken aloud again yesterday.
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By ASHLEY M. HEHER CHICAGO - Malachi Ritscher envisioned his death as one full of purpose. He carefully planned the details, mailed a copy of his apartment key to a friend, created to-do lists for his family.
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An autopsy was performed Monday on comic Richard Jeni but the cause of his death won't be known for several weeks, according to the Los Angeles County coroner's office. Jeni died Saturday from a gunshot wound. He was 49.
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This past Saturday (November 13th), the rapper known as Olâ Dirty Bastard died after collapsing in a New York recording studio. Just 35-years-old, the cause of death is at this time unknown, but earlier
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Virginia Mayo, a 1940s screen siren who co-starred opposite such greats as Danny Kaye and James Cagney, died near Los Angeles on Monday of pneumonia and heart failure, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site. She was 84.
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According to reports that surfaced earlier this week, the New York medical examinerâs office has declared that rapper Olâ Dirty Bastard died of an accidental overdose.
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LOS ANGELES When an AIDS patient at a Los Angeles hospital had a heart attack and died last week -- county officials say a nurse didn&#39;t notice.