On this day
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“Dancing,” which more than four million people have viewed on YouTube, is the online equivalent of a platinum hit, seeping from one computer to the next like a virus.
Tampa Bay owns baseball’s best record after no less than 88 games and with a payroll roughly equal to the combined yearly salaries of Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter.
James Levine opened the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer season at Tanglewood with a concert performance of Berlioz’s biggest, meatiest and most hair-raisingly passionate score, the opera “Les Troyens.”
In the current spate of reality series there is no one for whom we might feel sorry, no one to hate, but a whole lot about which we might feel very bad.
Decades after the Apollo astronauts brought the first Moon rocks back to Earth, they are still providing scientists with new secrets.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 2, 2008, covering July 8, 2008.
Coldplay
Lil Wayne
Soundtrack
Various Artists
Plies
2008John Templeton, American-born British businessman and philanthropist (born 1912)[†]
Sir John Marks Templeton was an American-born British investor, banker, fund manager, and philanthropist. In 1954, he entered the mutual fund market and created the Templeton Growth Fund, which averaged growth over 15% per year for 38 years. A pioneer of emerging market investing in the 1960s, Money magazine named him "arguably the greatest global stock picker of the century" in 1999.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]