Efforts to Avert Sectarian Reprisals After Shrine Attack
Appeals for calm appeared to have headed off the risk of a new sectarian convulsion, at least for now.
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Appeals for calm appeared to have headed off the risk of a new sectarian convulsion, at least for now.
The White House and senators from both parties mapped out possible changes to the stalled immigration bill.
JPMorgan Chase is expected to announce today that it has struck a deal to build a skyscraper near ground zero.
Brian M. McLaughlin, an indicted union leader, works each day next to members of his own union.
Four leading Democratic and Republican senators proposed legislation aimed at penalizing China over its export practices.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 13, 2007, covering June 14, 2007.
R. Kelly
Maroon 5
Linkin Park
Jason Aldean
Daughtry
2007Bryce James, American basketball player[â ]
Bryce Maximus James is an American basketball player, and recent graduate of Sierra Canyon School. He is the second child of National Basketball Association (NBA) player LeBron James and the younger brother of NBA player Bronny James. He primarily plays the shooting guard position. As of March 2024 he is 6Â feet 6Â inches (1.98Â m) tall and weighs 185 pounds (84Â kg).
2007Ruth Graham, Chinese-American author, poet, and painter (born 1920)[â ]
Ruth McCue Bell Graham was a Chinese-born American Christian author. She was born in Qingjiang, Jiangsu, Republic of China, the second of five children. Her parents, Virginia Leftwich Bell and L. Nelson Bell, were medical missionaries at the Presbyterian Hospital 300 miles (480Â km) north of Shanghai. At age 13 she was enrolled in Pyeng Yang Foreign School in Pyongyang, Korea, where she studied for three years. She completed her high school education at Montreat, North Carolina, while her parents were there on furlough. She graduated from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois.
2007Robin Olds, American general and pilot (born 1922)[â ]
Robin Olds was an American fighter pilot and general officer in the United States Air Force (USAF). He was a "triple ace", with a combined total of 17 victories in World War II and the Vietnam War. He retired in 1973 as a brigadier general, after 30 years of service.
2007Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Austrian politician, 9th President of Austria (born 1918)[â ]
Kurt Josef Waldheim was an Austrian politician and diplomat. Waldheim was the secretary-general of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981 and the president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. While he was running for the latter office in the 1986 election, the revelation of his service in Greece and Yugoslavia during World War II, and of his knowledge of Nazi atrocities as an intelligence officer in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht, raised international controversy.
In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[â ]