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April 22, 2006

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Headlines from April 22, 2006

For $2.4 Million, 7 Racing Yachts Get Parking Spot

By Patrick McGeehan

Workers are dredging North Cove Marina in Battery Park City for seven racing yachts that are taking part in Volvo Ocean Race, round-the-world race whose next leg ends at Statue of Liberty; DonJon Marine Co, New Jersey-based dredging outfit, is being paid $2.44 million by Battery Park City Authority to remove about 25,000 cubic yards of silt from bottom of basin by May 1; photo (M)

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C.I.A. Fires Senior Officer Over Leaks

By David Johnston and Scott Shane

CIA dismisses senior career officer for disclosing classified information to reporters, including material for Pulitzer Prize-winning articles in Washington Post about agency's secret overseas prisons for terror suspects; several government officials identify official as Mary O McCarthy; her dismissal provides fresh evidence of Bush administration's determined efforts to stanch leaks of classified information; Justice Dept has opened preliminary investigation into disclosure of information to Post (M)

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 19, 2006, covering April 22, 2006.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Me And My Gang by Rascal Flatts

    Me And My Gang

    Rascal Flatts

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    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    1
  2. 2
    Album cover for NOW 21 by Various Artists

    NOW 21

    Various Artists

    Last week
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    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    1
  3. 3
    Album cover for King by T.I.

    King

    T.I.

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    2
  4. 4
    Album cover for High School Musical by Soundtrack

    High School Musical

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    13
  5. 5
    Album cover for Greatest Hits Vol 2: Reflected by Tim McGraw

    Greatest Hits Vol 2: Reflected

    Tim McGraw

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    2

Notable Deaths

Henriette Avram

2006Henriette Avram, American computer scientist and academic (born 1919)[†]

Henriette Davidson Avram was a computer programmer and systems analyst who developed the MARC format, the international data standard for bibliographic and holdings information in libraries. Avram's development of the MARC format in the late 1960s and early 1970s, at the Library of Congress had a revolutionizing effect on the practice of librarianship, making possible the automation of many library functions and the sharing of bibliographic information electronically between libraries using pre-existing cataloging standards.

Alida Valli

2006Alida Valli, Italian actress (born 1921)[†]

Baroness Alida Maria Laura Altenburger von Marckenstein-Frauenberg, better known by her stage name Alida Valli, or simply Valli, was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films in a 70-year career, spanning from the 1930s to the early 2000s. She was one of the biggest stars of Italian film during the Fascist era, once being called "the most beautiful woman in the world" by Benito Mussolini, and was internationally successful post-World War II. According to Frédéric Mitterrand, Valli was the only actress in Europe to equal Marlene Dietrich or Greta Garbo.

Historical Context for April 22, 2006

In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]