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August 4, 2007

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Headlines from August 4, 2007

Report Says S.E.C. Erred on Pequot

By Gretchen Morgenson and Walt Bogdanich

A report by Congressional investigators says that the S.E.C. bungled a promising investigation two years ago into suspicious trading at Pequot Capital Management.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 1, 2007, covering August 4, 2007.

  1. 1
    Album cover for NOW 25 by Various Artists

    NOW 25

    Various Artists

    Last week
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    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    1
  2. 2
    Album cover for Hannah Montana 2 (Soundtrack)/Meet Miley Cyrus by Miley Cyrus

    Hannah Montana 2 (Soundtrack)/Meet Miley Cyrus

    Miley Cyrus

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    4
  3. 3
    Album cover for T.I. Vs T.I.P. by T.I.

    T.I. Vs T.I.P.

    T.I.

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    3
  4. 4
    Album cover for Hairspray by Soundtrack

    Hairspray

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    20
    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    2
  5. 5
    Album cover for Coco by Colbie Caillat

    Coco

    Colbie Caillat

    Last week
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    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    1

Notable Deaths

Lee Hazlewood

2007Lee Hazlewood, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1929)[†]

Barton Lee Hazlewood was an American country and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer, most widely known for his work with guitarist Duane Eddy during the late 1950s and singer Nancy Sinatra in the 1960s and 1970s. His collaborations with Sinatra as well as his solo output in the late 1960s and early 1970s have been praised as an essential contribution to a sound often described as "cowboy psychedelia" or "saccharine underground". Rolling Stone ranked Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra No. 9 on its list of the 20 Greatest Duos of All Time.

Raul Hilberg

2007Raul Hilberg, Austrian-American political scientist and historian (born 1926)[†]

Raul Hilberg was a Jewish Austrian-born American political scientist and historian. He was widely considered to be the preeminent scholar on the Holocaust. Christopher R. Browning has called him the founding father of Holocaust studies and his three-volume, 1,273-page magnum opus, The Destruction of the European Jews, is regarded as seminal for research into the Nazi Final Solution.

Historical Events

NASA

2007NASA's Phoenix spacecraft is launched.[†]

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the United States's civil space program, aeronautics research and space research. Established in 1958, it succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to give the American space development effort a distinct civilian orientation, emphasizing peaceful applications in space science. It has since led most of America's space exploration programs, including Project Mercury, Project Gemini, the 1968–1972 Apollo program missions, the Skylab space station, and the Space Shuttle. Currently, NASA supports the International Space Station (ISS) along with the Commercial Crew Program and oversees the development of the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System for the lunar Artemis program.

Historical Context for August 4, 2007

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