On This Day in History: March 5, 2008

Hillary Clinton Barack Obama
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Reality TV competition champions offered Hillary Clinton advice on how to save her failing campaign.

A pair of men discovered a whale vomit valued at more than half a million dollars.

Katie Holmes wore clothes.

Barack Obama’s grandmother slammed Hillary Clinton’s campaign for dirty tricks and "untruths."

"Untruths are told that don't have anything to do with what Barack is about," she said in the local Luo language, her gray hair smoothed neatly under a headwrap. "I am very against it."

Obama and fellow senator Hillary Clinton are close in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination after results from races on Tuesday. Clinton, who was trailing Obama, won the crucial states of Texas and Ohio and won big in Rhode Island. Obama's thin lead narrowed further after he only picked up Vermont.

In recent weeks, two Clinton volunteers in the state of Iowa resigned after forwarding false e-mails falsely saying he was a Muslim and a threat to national security.

Talented rapper and terrible prison break mastermind Papoose turned 30, First baseman Paul Konerko turned 32, The Longest Yard star Michael Irvin turned 42, and Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror star Eva Mendes turned 34.

Published under: Hillary Clinton

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