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June 4, 2007

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 30, 2007, covering June 4, 2007.

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    Album cover for Minutes To Midnight by Linkin Park

    Minutes To Midnight

    Linkin Park

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    Album cover for Sex Love & Pain by Tank

    Sex Love & Pain

    Tank

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    Album cover for Call Me Irresponsible by Michael Buble

    Call Me Irresponsible

    Michael Buble

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    Album cover for Sky Blue Sky by Wilco

    Sky Blue Sky

    Wilco

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    Album cover for One Of The Boys by Gretchen Wilson

    One Of The Boys

    Gretchen Wilson

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Notable Deaths

Clete Boyer

2007Clete Boyer, American baseball player and coach (born 1937)[†]

Cletis Leroy "Clete" Boyer was an American professional baseball third baseman — who occasionally played shortstop and second base — in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Athletics (1955–57), New York Yankees (1959–66), and Atlanta Braves (1967–71). Boyer also spent four seasons with the Taiyō Whales of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). In his 16-year big league career, Boyer hit 162 home runs, with 654 runs batted in (RBI), and a .242 batting average, in 1,725 games played.

2007Bill France Jr., American businessman (born 1933)[†]

William Clifton France, better known as Bill France Jr. or Little Billy, was an American motorsports executive who served from 1972 to 2000 as the chief executive officer (CEO) of NASCAR, the sanctioning body of the US-based stock car racing. He succeeded his father, NASCAR founder Bill France Sr. as its CEO. His son, Brian France, was the CEO from 2003 to 2018.

Craig L. Thomas

2007Craig L. Thomas, American captain and politician (born 1933)[†]

Craig Lyle Thomas was an American politician who served as United States Senator from Wyoming from 1995 until his death in 2007. He was a member of the Republican Party. In the Senate, Thomas was considered an expert on agriculture and rural development. He had served in key positions in several state agencies, including a long tenure as Vice President of the Wyoming Farm Bureau from 1965 to 1974. Thomas resided in Casper for twenty-eight years. In 1984, he was elected from Casper to the Wyoming House of Representatives, in which he served until 1989.

Historical Context for June 4, 2007

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