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Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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The $2.5 million penalty against State Farm throws into question settlement talks intended to resolve hundreds of lawsuits filed after Hurricane Katrina.
Investors act as if they believe that Iraq will be like Vietnam in a very important way: In the long run, it will have little real significance for the world economy.
U.S. troops raided an Iranian diplomatic office and detained as many as six of the Iranians working inside.
Diametrically opposed options — adding troops, or pulling back — marked the boundaries of a debate on Iraq inside the Bush administration.
IMG Chairman Theodore J. Forstmann turned the sports, media, fashion, entertainment and media marketer into a profitable sports conglomerate and he's proud of it.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 10, 2007, covering January 12, 2007.
Omarion
Akon
Soundtrack
Nas
Young Jeezy
2007Alice Coltrane, American pianist and composer (born 1937)[†]
Alice Lucille Coltrane, also known as Swamini Turiyasangitananda or simply Turiya, was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and Hindu spiritual leader.
2007James Killen, Australian soldier, lawyer, and politician, 38th Australian Minister for Defence (born 1925)[†]
Sir Denis James "Jim" Killen, was an Australian politician and a Liberal Party member of the Australian House of Representatives for almost 30 years, 1955 to 1983, representing the Division of Moreton in Queensland. He served as Vice-President of the Executive Council, Minister for Defence and Minister for the Navy during his parliamentary career.
2007Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught), one of the brightest comets ever observed is at its zenith visible during the day.[†]
Comet McNaught, also known as the Great Comet of 2007 and given the designation C/2006 P1, is a non-periodic comet discovered on 7 August 2006 by British-Australian astronomer Robert H. McNaught using the Uppsala Southern Schmidt Telescope. It was the brightest comet in over 40 years, and was easily visible to the naked eye for observers in the Southern Hemisphere in January and February 2007.
In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[†]