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For a $28 million salary — prorated based on the date he is added to the major league roster — Roger Clemens has returned to the Yankees, who trail the Boston Red Sox by five and a half games in the American League East but got a pitcher both teams wanted.
Chris Drury had a goal and assist in the Sabres’ four-goal second period that erased an early deficit and sent Buffalo to a victory Sunday over the Rangers in Game 6.
The movie took in an estimated $148 million in domestic ticket sales and broke records internationally.
Members of the Ottaway family, a minority partner in Dow Jones, said a takeover by Rupert Murdoch would ruin the company and The Wall Street Journal.
Cleveland’s defense kept the Nets’ from getting into an offensive flow as the Cavaliers opened the Eastern Conference semifinals with a victory Sunday.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 2, 2007, covering May 7, 2007.
Avril Lavigne
Nine Inch Nails
Various Artists
Bucky Covington
Martina McBride
2007Isabella Blow, English magazine editor (born 1958)[†]
Isabella Blow was an English magazine editor. She was mentor to Philip Treacy, and is credited with discovering the models Stella Tennant and Sophie Dahl, and fashion designer Alexander McQueen, beginning when she bought the entirety of his graduate show inspired by Jack the Ripper.
2007Diego Corrales, American boxer (born 1977)[†]
Diego "Chico" Corrales Jr. was an American professional boxer who competed from 1996 to 2007. He was a multiple-time world champion in two weight divisions, having held the International Boxing Federation (IBF) super featherweight title from 1999 to 2000; the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) super featherweight title in 2004; the WBO lightweight title from 2004 to 2006; and the World Boxing Council (WBC), and Ring magazine lightweight titles from 2005 to 2006.
2007Octavian Paler, Romanian journalist and politician (born 1926)[†]
Octavian Paler was a Romanian writer, journalist, politician in Communist Romania, and civil society activist in post-1989 Romania.
2007Yahweh ben Yahweh, American cult leader, founded the Nation of Yahweh (born 1935)[†]
Yahweh ben Yahweh was an American religious leader, black separatist and black supremacist and founder of the black supremacist Nation of Yahweh, a new religious movement headquartered in Florida that, at its peak, had thousands of black American devotees. He preached that Jesus was black and that "white devils" temporarily rule over black people, and was seen as teaching hate. Yahweh was indicted on three counts of federal racketeering and extortion charges, of which he was found not guilty. However, he was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder.
In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[†]