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May

HIGHLIGHTS OF PAST NEWS EVENTS

CAMILLE BOHANNON

Mt. St. Helens as it looks today from downtown Portland, Oregon.

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Apr

PAST NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

ED DONAHUE

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Jan

LAST SURVIVOR OF QUAKE DIES AT 109

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – The last known survivor of the devastating San
Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 has died. A relative confirmed
William A. "Bill" Del Monte died at a retirement home in nearby Marin
County on Monday.

He was 11 days shy of his 110th birthday. His niece, Janette Barroca
of San Francisco confirmed his death of natural causes. Del Monte
was just three months old when the quake struck.

In a statement, Mayor Edwin M. Lee of San Francisco called Mr. Del
Monte “a true friend to our city.”

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Dec

HIGHLIGHTS OF PAST NEWS EVENTS

Ross Simpson

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.)
(July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006)

Betty Ford pauses at the casket of her husband, former US president
Gerald Ford, as it lies in state in the US Capitol in Washington on 1
January 2007.