On this day
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On a night when Carlos Beltrán played for the first time in a week and the Mets lost their last regular season home game, Pedro Martínez was the focus of attention.
The Met hosts a season-opening gala, dripping with wealth and celebrity, that nearly upstages its own opera.
Along the coast from Texas to Maine, insurance costs are doubling or tripling as part of continuing fallout from Hurricane Katrina.
The studio behind "All the King's Men" ignored one of the harshest realities of movie marketing today: It’s almost impossible to recover from bad buzz.
Democrats say Republicans are trying to suppress the votes of minorities, the poor and the elderly by requiring documentation at the polls.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 20, 2006, covering September 26, 2006.
Beyonce
Audioslave
Bob Dylan
Danity Kane
Soundtrack
2006Byron Nelson, American golfer and coach (born 1912)[†]
John Byron Nelson Jr. was an American professional golfer between 1935 and 1946, widely considered one of the greatest golfers of all time.
2006Iva Toguri D'Aquino, American wartime propaganda broadcaster (born 1916)[†]
Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino was an American citizen visiting Japan when World War II began. Unable to return to the United States, she risked her life smuggling food to American service men held in prisoner of war camps.
In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]