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July 19, 2007

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Victorian Baths, Unrepressed

By Alexia Brue

Nancy Epstein, the founder and owner of Artistic Tile, decided the master bath would become her Art Deco oasis in her monochromatic 1970s suburban house in New Jersey.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 18, 2007, covering July 19, 2007.

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    Album cover for T.I. Vs T.I.P. by T.I.

    T.I. Vs T.I.P.

    T.I.

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    Album cover for Hannah Montana 2 (Soundtrack)/Meet Miley Cyrus by Miley Cyrus

    Hannah Montana 2 (Soundtrack)/Meet Miley Cyrus

    Miley Cyrus

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    Peak
    1
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    Album cover for My December by Kelly Clarkson

    My December

    Kelly Clarkson

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    Weeks
    2
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    Album cover for Lost Highway by Bon Jovi

    Lost Highway

    Bon Jovi

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    Peak
    1
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    Album cover for Libertad by Velvet Revolver

    Libertad

    Velvet Revolver

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    1

Notable Deaths

A. K. Faezul Huq

2007A. K. Faezul Huq, Bangladeshi journalist, lawyer, and politician (born 1945)[†]

Abul Kalam Faezul Huq was a Bangladeshi politician, lawyer, and columnist. Faezul Huq served as a member of parliament on three occasions, and held various ministerial portfolios including Public Works, Urban Development, Jute, and Textiles after Bangladesh gained independence. He was first elected as a member of the Pakistan National Assembly from the Banaripara Upazila-Swarupkathi-Nazirpur Upazila constituency for the Awami League in 1970.

Roberto Fontanarrosa

2007Roberto Fontanarrosa, Argentinian cartoonist (born 1944)[†]

Roberto Alfredo Fontanarrosa, popularly known as El Negro Fontanarrosa, was an Argentine cartoonist, comics artist and writer. During his extended career, Fontanarrosa became one of the most acclaimed historieta artists of his country, as well as a respected fiction and short story writer. He created two hugely popular comic strips, as well as their parodic protagonists: Inodoro Pereyra, a gaucho, and Boogie, el aceitoso, a gun-for-hire. He also created the comic book Los ClĂĄsicos segĂșn Fontanarrosa, which contained a selection of humorous parodies of universal literature mainstays originally published in the magazine Chaupinela, in the 1970s.

Historical Context for July 19, 2007

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