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Saturday, September 26, 1998
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I've had 10 years of my life deformed by this. I've had friends of mine threatened, I've had my family frightened, messed around with, I've had people that I care about shot and killed. I could ask for apologies. I'm not doing so.
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Author Salman Rushdie
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- President Clinton continues a fund-raising trip to California with a stop in Los Angeles.
- European Union finance ministers meet in Vienna, Austria.
- Funeral services for Olympic gold-medalist Florence Griffith Joyner are to be held in Lake Forest, California.
- Cindy Crawford, Aretha Franklin, David Crosby, Graham Nash, and Michael Bolton are to participate in the National Cancer March in Washington, D.C.
- On Sunday, September 27, German voters head to the polls for national elections.
- On Monday, September 28, a hearing is scheduled for U.S. embassy bombing suspect Khalid Salim, charged in the August 7 attack on the embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.
- On Tuesday, September 29, Major League Baseball playoffs begin.
- Wednesday, September 30, is the last day of the 1998 World's Fair in Lisbon, Portugual.
- On Thursday, October 1, a hearing is scheduled in Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, in the case of a pilot and navigator of a Marine jet that clipped an Italian ski gondola in February 1998.
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- Singer Lynn Anderson is 51.
- Actress Melissa Sue Anderson ("Little House on the Prairie") is 36.
- Singer Bryan Ferry is 53.
- Actress Linda Hamilton ("Terminator 2") is 42.
- Singer Cindy Herron (En Vogue) is 33.
- Actress Mary Beth Hurt ("Six Degrees of Separation") is 50.
- Fitness expert Jack LaLanne is 84.
- Singer Julie London is 72.
- Singer Olivia Newton-John is 50.
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- In 1777, British troops occupied Philadelphia during the American Revolution.
- In 1789, Thomas Jefferson was appointed America's first secretary of state.
- In 1914, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission was established.
- In 1950, United Nations troops recaptured the South Korean capital of Seoul from the North Koreans.
- In 1957, the musical "West Side Story" opened on Broadway.
- In 1960, the first televised debate between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy took place in Chicago.
- In 1980, the Cuban government abruptly closed Mariel Harbor, ending the "freedom flotilla" of Cuban refugees that began the previous April.
- In 1986, William H. Rehnquist was sworn in as the 16th chief justice of the United States, while Antonin Scalia joined the Supreme Court as its 103rd member.
- In 1991, four men and four women began a two-year stay inside a sealed-off structure in Oracle, Arizona, called "Biosphere Two."
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