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September 16, 2007

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Where the Deals Are

By Lisa Prevost

As housing prices remain strong in Manhattan, the suburbs are seeing them decline, especially in areas that have the longest commutes to the city.

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It’s Just a Matter of Equity

By Gretchen Morgenson

A warning that “innovations” are eroding a once-superior business model, from the man whom many consider to be the intellectual father of private equity.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 12, 2007, covering September 16, 2007.

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    Album cover for High School Musical 2 by Soundtrack

    High School Musical 2

    Soundtrack

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    Album cover for The Altar And The Door by Casting Crowns

    The Altar And The Door

    Casting Crowns

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    Album cover for Hustlenomic$ by Yung Joc

    Hustlenomic$

    Yung Joc

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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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    Album cover for The Dutchess by Fergie

    The Dutchess

    Fergie

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    3
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Notable Deaths

Robert Jordan

2007Robert Jordan, American engineer and author (born 1948)[†]

James Oliver Rigney Jr., better known by his pen name Robert Jordan, was an American author of epic fantasy. He is best known as the author of The Wheel of Time series, which comprises 14 books and a prequel novel. He is one of several writers to have written original Conan the Barbarian novels; his are considered by fans to be some of the best of the non-Robert E. Howard efforts. Jordan also published historical fiction using the pseudonym Reagan O'Neal, a western as Jackson O'Reilly, and dance criticism as Chang Lung. Jordan claimed to have ghostwritten an "international thriller" that is still believed to have been written by someone else.

Historical Events

One-Two-Go Airlines Flight 269

2007One-Two-Go Airlines Flight 269 carrying 130 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand, killing 90 people.[†]

One-Two-Go Airlines Flight 269 (OG269) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Bangkok to Phuket, Thailand. On 16 September 2007, about 15:41 ICT, the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 operating the flight crashed into an embankment beside runway 27 at Phuket International Airport (HKT) bursting into flames upon impact during an attempted go-around after an aborted landing, killing 90 of the 130 people on board. It is the third deadliest aviation incident to occur in Thailand.

2007Security guards working for Blackwater Worldwide shoot and kill 17 Iraqis in Nisour Square, Baghdad.[†]

The Nisour Square massacre occurred on September 16, 2007, when employees of Blackwater Security Consulting, a private military company contracted by the United States government to provide security services in Iraq, shot at Iraqi civilians, killing 17 and injuring 20 in Nisour Square, Baghdad, while escorting a U.S. embassy convoy. The killings outraged Iraqis and strained relations between Iraq and the United States. In 2014, four Blackwater employees were tried and convicted in U.S. federal court; one of murder, and the other three of manslaughter and firearms charges. In 2020, all four convicted were pardoned by President Donald Trump. United Nations experts said the pardons "violate U.S. obligations under international law and more broadly undermine humanitarian law and human rights at a global level".

Historical Context for September 16, 2007

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