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January 19, 2007

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Approach Boss With Caution

By Jeff Bailey

If the personality of Jonathan G. Ornstein, head of the Mesa Air Group, is outsize, so are his ambitions. He wants to make the regional airline global.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 17, 2007, covering January 19, 2007.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Dreamgirls by Soundtrack

    Dreamgirls

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    5
  2. 2
    Album cover for Konvicted by Akon

    Konvicted

    Akon

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    8
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    Album cover for Daughtry by Daughtry

    Daughtry

    Daughtry

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    Peak
    2
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    7
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    Album cover for FutureSex/LoveSounds by Justin Timberlake

    FutureSex/LoveSounds

    Justin Timberlake

    Last week
    8
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    17
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    Album cover for NOW 23 by Various Artists

    NOW 23

    Various Artists

    Last week
    6
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    9

Notable Deaths

Hrant Dink

2007Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist and activist (born 1954)[†]

Hrant Dink was a Turkish-Armenian intellectual, editor-in-chief of Agos, journalist, and columnist. As editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos, Dink was a prominent member of the Armenian minority in Turkey best known for advocating Turkish–Armenian reconciliation and human and minority rights in Turkey. He was often critical of both Turkey's denial of the Armenian genocide and of the Armenian diaspora's campaign for its international recognition. Dink was prosecuted three times for denigrating Turkishness, while receiving numerous death threats from Turkish nationalists.

Denny Doherty

2007Denny Doherty, Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1940)[†]

Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty was a Canadian singer, songwriter and musician. A tenor, he was a founding member of the 1960s musical group the Mamas & the Papas for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.

Murat Nasyrov

2007Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer-songwriter (born 1969)[†]

Murat Nasyrov was a Kazakhstani and Russian singer of Uyghur ethnicity.

Historical Events

Hrant Dink

2007Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's Istanbul office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast.[†]

Hrant Dink was a Turkish-Armenian intellectual, editor-in-chief of Agos, journalist, and columnist. As editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos, Dink was a prominent member of the Armenian minority in Turkey best known for advocating Turkish–Armenian reconciliation and human and minority rights in Turkey. He was often critical of both Turkey's denial of the Armenian genocide and of the Armenian diaspora's campaign for its international recognition. Dink was prosecuted three times for denigrating Turkishness, while receiving numerous death threats from Turkish nationalists.

Henry Cookson

2007Four-man Team N2i, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the Antarctic pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1965 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.[†]

Henry John Richard Cookson, FRGS is a British polar explorer and adventurer. On 19 January 2007 he, alongside fellow Britons Rory Sweet and Rupert Longsdon, and their Canadian polar guide Paul Landry, became the first team to reach the southern pole of Inaccessibility (POI) by foot, the last visitors being a research team using tracked vehicles & planes in 1965.

Historical Context for January 19, 2007

In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[†]