Shimon Peres's birthday

TAX2003092212 - TEL AVIV, SEPT. 22, 2003 (UPI) -- Shimon Peres makes remarks, during a convention in Tel Aviv University, Israel, on Sept. 22, 2003, marking Peres' 80th birthday. A parade of global figures, from Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev to U.S. actress Kathleen Turner, came to Israel to help mark the 80th birthday of Shimon Peres, a Nobel laureate. RLW/ZIV KOREN/POOL UPI

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