On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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Exactly at what age a child is ready to stay home alone is a quandary that raises questions about safety, maturity, class, cultural traditions and peer pressure.
A highway that was once the showpiece of the United States reconstruction effort is now a dangerous gantlet of mines and attacks.
The ethical quandaries of the free ride were spotlighted by the disclosure of a computer glitch that allowed hundreds of people to get free rail tickets and MetroCards.
A bank that flew under the radar screen has quietly racked up a market value of $10 billion, eclipsing troubled giants that have been swamped by mortgage and credit card losses.
About 80 people have collaborated on a group art project bound for the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, where the annual Burning Man art festival-rave-love-in takes place the week before Labor Day.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 13, 2008, covering August 14, 2008.
Sugarland
Miley Cyrus
Soundtrack
Kid Rock
Lil Wayne
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]