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In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[†]
2007Thomas S. Kleppe, American soldier and politician, 41st United States Secretary of the Interior (born 1919)[†]
Thomas Savig Kleppe was an American politician who served as the Representative from North Dakota. He was also the Administrator of the Small Business Administration and the U.S. Secretary of the Interior.
2007Clem Labine, American baseball player (born 1926)[†]
Clement Walter Labine was an American right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) best known for his years with the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers from 1950 to 1960.
2007Ivan Safronov, Russian colonel and journalist (born 1956)[†]
Ivan Ivanovich Safronov was a Russian journalist and columnist who covered military affairs for the daily newspaper Kommersant. He died after falling from the fifth floor of his Moscow apartment building. His apartment was on the third floor. There are speculations that he may have been killed for his critical reporting: the Taganka District prosecutor's office in Moscow initiated a criminal investigation into Safronov's death, and in September 2007, officially ruled his death a suicide.
2007Henri Troyat, Russian-French historian and author (born 1911)[†]
Henri Troyat was a Russian-French writer, biographer, historian, and novelist.
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U.S. paper mills are a test case for a possible confrontation with China over tariffs on imports of Chinese-made paper.
For all its urban grittiness, there is something oddly bucolic about seeing New York from the back of a pedicab.
Seeing the aurora borealis is the visual equivalent of bagging big game for tourists who come to Alaska in the dead of winter.
Clammy with fear of irrelevance, states have abandoned their traditional dates for presidential primaries, and moved up the voting to the first Tuesday in February 2008.
In a plan devised to penetrate China, a fertile untapped market, the N.F.L. is training Gao Wei, Ding Long and Shen Yalei to become the first Chinese to play in America’s most popular sports league.
Mullah Obaidullah is the most important Taliban leader to be captured since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan.
Americans are willing to pay higher taxes to guarantee that everyone has health insurance, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
The record will show that the first Yankees’ swing in the first game of spring training produced a home run. These are the Yankees, so the expectations might as well start high.
After four years of strong growth, low interest rates and prosperity, investors appear to have become too complacent about risks.
The government may be arriving far too late to prevent damage to borrowers from subprime mortgages, and just in time for its intervention to make things worse.
Federal drug regulators have started a broad review of the safety of popular cough and cold remedies meant for children, a top official said.
Downloading is no longer a theoretical hope for the future in the classical music landscape.