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July 10, 2007

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 4, 2007, covering July 10, 2007.

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    Album cover for Lost Highway by Bon Jovi

    Lost Highway

    Bon Jovi

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    Album cover for Icky Thump by The White Stripes

    Icky Thump

    The White Stripes

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    Album cover for 5th Gear by Brad Paisley

    5th Gear

    Brad Paisley

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    Album cover for Big Dog Daddy by Toby Keith

    Big Dog Daddy

    Toby Keith

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    Album cover for Memory Almost Full by Paul McCartney

    Memory Almost Full

    Paul McCartney

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Notable Deaths

Abdul Rashid Ghazi

2007Abdul Rashid Ghazi, chancellor of Faridia University. (born 1964)[†]

Abdul Rashid Ghazi was a Pakistani Islamic scholar and diplomat-turned Islamist dissident who served as khatib of Lal Masjid and the Chief Executive (President) of Faridia University. Prior to this he had also briefly worked for UNESCO, a specialized agency of the United Nations.

Doug Marlette

2007Doug Marlette, American cartoonist and author (born 1949)[†]

Douglas Nigel Marlette was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American editorial cartoonist who, at the time of his death, had also published two novels and was "finding his voice in writing long-length fiction." His popular comic strip Kudzu, distributed by Tribune Media Services from 1981 to 2007, was adapted into a musical comedy.

Historical Events

2007Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.[†]

Erden Eruç is a Turkish-American adventurer who became the first person in history to complete an entirely solo and entirely human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth on 21 July 2012 in Bodega Bay, California, United States. The journey had started from Bodega Bay a little more than five years earlier on 10 July 2007. The modes of transport included a rowboat to cross the oceans, a sea kayak for shorelines, a bicycle on the roads and hiking on trails, along with canoes for a few river crossings. The route he followed was 66,299 km (41,196 mi) long, crossed the equator twice and all lines of longitude, and passed over twelve pairs of antipodal points, meeting all the requirements for a true circumnavigation of the globe. Guinness World Records has officially recognized Eruç for the "First solo circumnavigation of the globe using human power" on a journey that lasted 5 years 11 days 12 hours and 22 minutes.

Historical Context for July 10, 2007

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