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Jay-Zâs 10th proper album, âAmerican Gangster,â was inspired by the new movie â directed by Ridley Scott, starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe â for which itâs named.
An autopsy was performed on Ryan Shay, who died during the United States Olympic trials for the marathon, but the results will not be final until perhaps the end of the week.
As he coaches one of the highest-ranked high school soccer teams in the country, Martin Jacobson also battles hepatitis C, a disease he contracted in an earlier life as a drug addict.
Robert E. Rubin, named chairman of Citigroup, will seek to revive the troubled bank, which said it would take an additional $8 billion to $11 billion write-down.
Paula Radcliffe and Gete Wami raced well at the New York City Marthon on Sunday. In the shadow of Ryan Shayâs death, it was the only way.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 31, 2007, covering November 5, 2007.
Bruce Springsteen
Kid Rock
Rascal Flatts
Josh Groban
Jimmy Eat World
2007Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer and manager (born 1922)[â ]
Nils Erik Liedholm was a Swedish football midfielder and coach. Il Barone, as he is affectionately known in Italy, was renowned for being part of the Swedish "Gre-No-Li" trio of strikers along with Gunnar Gren and Gunnar Nordahl at AC Milan and the Sweden national team, with which he achieved notable success throughout his career.
2007China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.[â ]
Chang'e 1 was an uncrewed Chinese lunar-orbiting spacecraft, part of the first phase of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program. The spacecraft was named after the Chinese Moon goddess, Chang'e.
2007The Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google.[â ]
Android is an operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen-based mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Android has historically been developed by a consortium of developers known as the Open Handset Alliance, but its most widely used version is primarily developed by Google. First released in 2008, Android is the world's most widely used operating system; the latest version, released on June 10, 2025, is Android 16.
In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[â ]