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2006 - Square Enix releases the Final Fantasy XII video game for the PlayStation 2 in the USA.

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2007 - World Economic Forum releases The Global Competitiveness Report 2007-2008, at 11:00 CET.

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2007 - A bus bomb in the central Russian city of Tolyatti kills eight and injures over 50 people.

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2008 - Papua New Guinea is the second country to release a colored circulating coin, a 50-toea coin with red on white logo of the Central Bank of Papua New Guinea, marking the 35th anniversary of the bank.

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2008 - Death of Pulitzer Prize-winning author (The Good War) Louis "Studs" Terkel in Chicago, Illinois, USA, at age 96.

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2009 - Death of Qian Xuesen, Chinese scientist (born 1911).

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