On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
Portrait 1080 × 1920 PNG · created on your device
A bankruptcy filing would be one of the largest since the economy began to weaken and could presage a long-awaited shake-up among companies bought by private equity firms in the last three years.
From Ireland to India, housing markets that soared over the last decade are falling back to earth.
The Smoking Gun, the Web site that specializes in ferreting out embarrassing legal documents, is a happy byproduct of the digital revolution.
Noise — outrageous, unceasing, pounding noise — is the backdrop to a tense time in Egypt, prompting protests.
A professor has developed computer algorithms that collect publicly available information on a given subject, turn them into books, printed on demand or delivered digitally.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 9, 2008, covering April 14, 2008.
Day26
Panic! At The Disco
Counting Crows
Danity Kane
Various Artists
2008Tommy Holmes, American baseball player and manager (born 1917)[†]
Thomas Francis Holmes was an American right and center fielder and manager in Major League Baseball who played nearly his entire career for the Boston Braves. He hit over .300 lifetime (.302) and every year from 1944 through 1948, peaking with a .352 mark in 1945 when he finished second in the National League batting race and was runner-up for the NL's Most Valuable Player Award.
2008Ollie Johnston, American animator and voice actor (born 1912)[†]
Oliver Martin Johnston Jr. was an American motion picture animator. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, and the last surviving at the time of his death from natural causes. He was recognized by The Walt Disney Company with its Disney Legend Award in 1989. His work was recognized with the National Medal of Arts in 2005.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]