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October 22, 2007

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 17, 2007, covering October 22, 2007.

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    Album cover for Magic by Bruce Springsteen

    Magic

    Bruce Springsteen

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    Album cover for Still Feels Good by Rascal Flatts

    Still Feels Good

    Rascal Flatts

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    Album cover for Exile On Mainstream by Matchbox Twenty

    Exile On Mainstream

    Matchbox Twenty

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    Album cover for souljaboytellem.com by Soulja Boy Tell'em

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    Soulja Boy Tell'em

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    Album cover for Back Of My Lac' by J. Holiday

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    J. Holiday

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Notable Deaths

Ève Curie

2007Ève Curie, French pianist and journalist (born 1904)[†]

Ève Denise Curie Labouisse was a French and American writer, journalist and pianist. Ève Curie was the younger daughter of Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie. Her sister was Irène Joliot-Curie and her brother-in-law was Frédéric Joliot-Curie. She worked as a journalist and authored her mother's biography Madame Curie and a book of war reportage, Journey Among Warriors. From the 1960s she committed herself to work for UNICEF, providing help to children and mothers in developing countries. Ève was the only member of her family who did not choose a career as a scientist and did not win a Nobel Prize, although her husband, Henry Richardson Labouisse Jr., did collect the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 on behalf of UNICEF, completing the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prize winners.

Historical Events

2007A raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos, with all except one dying in this attack. Eight Sri Lanka Air Force planes are destroyed and ten damaged.[†]

The Raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base, code-named Operation Ellaalan, was a commando raid conducted on SLAF Anuradhapura an Air Force Base in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The attack happened on 22 October 2007.

Historical Context for October 22, 2007

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