On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 12, 2007, covering December 18, 2007.
Josh Groban
Eagles
Alicia Keys
Various Artists
Garth Brooks
Soundtrack
Miley Cyrus
Celine Dion
Carrie Underwood
Mannheim Steamroller
2007Hans Billian, Polish-German actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1918)[†]
Hans Billian was a German film director, screenwriter, and actor noted for the "sex comedies" he directed in the 1970s. He was also credited as Hans Billan, Phillip Halliday, and Christian Kessler.
2007Gerald Le Dain, Canadian lawyer and judge (born 1924)[†]
Gerald Eric Le Dain, was a Canadian lawyer and judge, who sat on the Supreme Court of Canada from 1984 to 1988.
2007William Strauss, American author and playwright (born 1947)[†]
William Strauss was an American author, playwright, theater director, and lecturer. As an author, he is known for his work with Neil Howe on social generations and for Strauss–Howe generational theory. He is also known as the co-founder and director of the satirical musical theater group the Capitol Steps, and as the co-founder of the Cappies, a critics and awards program for high school theater students.
2007Alan Wagner, American businessman and critic (born 1931)[†]
Alan Cyril Wagner was an American television executive, radio personality, writer, and opera historian and critic. He served as the East Coast vice president of programming at CBS from 1976 to 1982. After he left CBS, he became the first president of Disney Channel, but only served in the role for a year.
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Mitt Romney said he felt as if his campaign to become the Republican presidential nominee was, in a sense, an extension of his father’s unsuccessful bid in 1968.
A descendant of a previous owner of two Picassos claims they were sold under duress during the Nazi regime, and that the paintings, now at the Guggenheim and the Museum of Modern Art, belong to him.
Thousands of former New Orleanians are breaking their ties with the damaged city for which they yearn.
Which came first: the order or the universe? And can science ever supply an answer?
William J. Dane, a dapper, refreshingly irreverent art scholar from New Hampshire, has been tending to the Newark Library’s astounding collection of prints and rare books for six decades.
Congress is on the verge of telling American business to create a huge new industry capable of converting agricultural wastes and other plant material into automotive fuel.
The success of the girl’s basketball team at Sequoyah High, a small-town all-Indian school, and its star guard help a town and a tribe to aim higher.
NBC announced that Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien will return to the air even if writers are still striking.
An emergency radio network intended to connect all emergency agencies and local police and fire departments in New York State has failed its first major test, prompting concerns.
The sports world is giving New Yorkers more than their usual quotient of agita recently.
Russia delivered nuclear fuel for an Iranian power plant that is at the center of the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program.
The last several months have seen a brutal assault on our faith in the redemptive power of sport and the episode that bothered me the most was the wormy departure of Bobby Petrino.