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In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]
2008Hiroaki Aoki, Japanese-American wrestler and businessman, founded Benihana (born 1938)[†]
Hiroaki Aoki , better known as Rocky Aoki, was a Japanese-born American restaurateur, professional offshore powerboat racer and amateur wrestler. He was the founder of the Japanese cuisine restaurant chain Benihana, and Genesis magazine.
2008Mike Souchak, American golfer (born 1927)[†]
Michael Souchak was an American professional golfer. He won fifteen events on the PGA Tour in the 1950s and 1960s and represented the United States for the Ryder Cup in 1959 and 1961.
2008Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations tribunal.[†]
Ljube Boškoski is a Macedonian politician and former Minister of Internal Affairs of Macedonia.
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A man was charged with reckless endangerment after his elderly father died in a hot vehicle with the windows rolled up in Beacon.
The Mets are now only a game and a half behind the first-place Philadelphia Phillies in the National League East.
David H. Koch has agreed to contribute $100 million toward the renovation of the New York State Theater.
Members of the Army Marksmanship Unit, a little-known squad dedicated to training and employing Olympic-level shooters, have won 21 Olympic medals.
The latest in a long line of model dwellings aimed at telling us how we might live in years to come, Disney’s new Innoventions Dream Home turns out to be positively retrograde.
A multibillion-dollar contract for refueling tankers will be reopened after a report found flaws in the original process.
A main symbol of downtown New York music is expanding to Brooklyn and beyond, with outposts to open in Boise, Idaho, and Spokane, Wash.
Nduka Obaigbena, a Nigerian media mogul — part Bono, part Diddy — has been challenging his country’s often brutal kleptocracy for decades.
The rec room, once a wood-paneled corner of the basement with a dumpy couch and a TV with rabbit ears, is enjoying a revival in more upscale form.
Melinda R. Katz, a candidate for city comptroller, wants to set up an account for next fall’s election so she can keep collecting big donations from the real estate industry this year.
Parking meter rates would double during heavy traffic periods in portions of Manhattan and Brooklyn as part of an experimental city program beginning this fall.
For the second time in three starts for his new team, Sidney Ponson pitched a gem for six innings, as the Yankees won their fourth in a row.