On this day
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In a game whose attraction is its national reach, Willie Randolph’s presence at Yankee Stadium provided local intrigue for an evening filled with history and emotion.
The prospect of exchanging one of the country’s most despised prisoners for corpses has raised hackles.
Hamburgers and cheeseburgers have begun to invade Paris, even in restaurants run by three-star chefs.
A sense of gloom gripped Washington as the Federal Reserve chairman warned of the risks of a slowdown.
As mortgage foreclosures continue to rise, owners are opening their homes as a way to make ends meet.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 16, 2008, covering July 16, 2008.
Lil Wayne
Coldplay
Soundtrack
G Unit
John Mayer
2008Jo Stafford, American singer (born 1917)[†]
Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an American traditional pop singer, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s. Admired for the purity of her voice, she originally underwent classical training to become an opera singer before following a career in popular music and by 1955 had achieved more worldwide record sales than any other female artist. Her 1952 song "You Belong to Me" topped the charts in the United States and United Kingdom, becoming the second single to top the UK Singles Chart and the first by a female artist to do so.
2008Lindsay Thompson, Australian politician, 40th Premier of Victoria (born 1923)[†]
Lindsay Hamilton Simpson Thompson AO, CMG was an Australian politician and army officer who served as the 40th premier of Victoria from 1981 to 1982. He previously served as the 19th deputy premier of Victoria from 1972 to 1981.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]