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Paul Beatty becomes the first American author to win the Man Booker Prize for his novel "The Sellout".
2016-10-25

Former American Olympic Games champion Caitlyn Jenner announces that she is a trans woman.
2015-04-24

Luise Rainer, German-born American actress ("The Great Ziegfeld", "The Good Earth"), Academy Award winner (1936, 1937), dies of pneumonia at the age of 104.
2014-12-30

North Korea says it will put on trial two American tourists, Jeffrey Fowle and Michael Miller, for crimes against the state.
2014-06-30

American classical pianist Van Cliburn dies in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, at the age of 78.
2013-02-27

American plastic surgeon and Nobel Prize winner Joseph Murray, who performed the first kidney transplantation, dies at 93.
2012-11-26

Two American scientists, Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka, win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on discovering the inner workings of G protein-coupled receptors.
2012-10-10

At least two American Marines and 16 Taliban fighters are killed in a Taliban attack on Camp Bastion airbase in Afghanistan's Helmand province, says a spokesman at nearby Camp Leatherneck.
2012-09-14

An Israeli court rules that Israel is not responsible for the death of American activist Rachel Corrie at the hands of an Israeli Army bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003.
2012-08-28

The funeral of American entertainer Whitney Houston is held at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey.
2012-02-18