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The new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society will jump-start the memories of any New Yorker who witnessed Sept. 11, 2001.
Gen. David H. Petraeus said that by next summer the U.S. should be able to reduce its troop strength in Iraq to the level it was at before the recent increase.
Eli Manning has started 42 consecutive games, but the streak is in jeopardy heading toward Sundayâs contest against the Packers at Giants Stadium.
Paint with higher levels of lead often sells for a third of the cost of paint with low levels, so Chinese factory owners sometimes cut corners and use the cheaper leaded paint.
On Monday night at the Toronto International Film Festival, a hero of the blacklist era was expected to deliver some posthumous words that might finally put to rest the hunt for good guys and bad.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 5, 2007, covering September 11, 2007.
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Talib Kweli
Miley Cyrus
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Various Artists
2007Ian Porterfield, Scottish footballer and manager (born 1946)[â ]
John Ian Porterfield was a Scottish professional footballer, and an experienced football coach who worked at both club and international level for almost 30 years. At the time of his death, he was the coach of the Armenia national football team.
2007Gene Savoy, American explorer, theologian, and author (born 1927)[â ]
Douglas Eugene "Gene" Savoy was an American explorer, author, religious leader, and theologian. He served as Head Bishop of the International Community of Christ, Church of the Second Advent from 1971 until his death. Rising to prominence as one of the premier explorers of Peru in the 1960s, he is best known for his claims to have discovered more than 40 lost cities in Peru and is credited with bringing to light a number of Peruâs most important archeological sites, including Vilcabamba, the last refuge of the Incas during the Spanish conquest, and Gran Pajaten, which he named but did not discover.
2007Jean SĂ©guy, French sociologist and author (born 1925)[â ]
Jean SĂ©guy was a French sociologist of religions. He was particularly interested in cults, religious conflicts and Christianity. He was also member of the Ăcole des hautes Ă©tudes en sciences sociales. He served as editor-in-chief of the journal Archives de sciences sociales des religions between 1980 and 1988.
2007Joe Zawinul, Austrian keyboard player and songwriter (born 1932)[â ]
Josef Erich Zawinul was an Austrian jazz and jazz fusion keyboardist and composer. First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with Miles Davis and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion, a musical genre that combined jazz with rock. He co-founded the groups Weather Report and The Zawinul Syndicate. He pioneered the use of electric piano and synthesizer, and was named "Best Electric Keyboardist" twenty-eight times by the readers of DownBeat magazine.
2007Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs.[â ]
Conventional weapons or conventional arms are weapons whose damaging impact comes from kinetic, incendiary, or explosive energy. They stand in contrast to weapons of mass destruction.
In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[â ]