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August 16, 2008

Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 13, 2008, covering August 16, 2008.

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    Album cover for Love On The Inside by Sugarland

    Love On The Inside

    Sugarland

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    Album cover for Breakout by Miley Cyrus

    Breakout

    Miley Cyrus

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    Album cover for Mamma Mia! by Soundtrack

    Mamma Mia!

    Soundtrack

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    Album cover for Rock N Roll Jesus by Kid Rock

    Rock N Roll Jesus

    Kid Rock

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    Album cover for Tha Carter III by Lil Wayne

    Tha Carter III

    Lil Wayne

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Notable Deaths

Dorival Caymmi

2008Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian singer-songwriter and actor (born 1914)[†]

Dorival Caymmi was a Brazilian singer, songwriter, actor, and painter active for more than 70 years, beginning in 1933. He contributed to the birth of Brazil's bossa nova movement, and several of his samba pieces, such as "Samba da Minha Terra", "Doralice" and "Saudade da Bahia", have become staples of música popular brasileira (MPB). Equally notable are his ballads celebrating the fishermen and women of Bahia, including "Promessa de Pescador", "O Que É Que a Baiana Tem?", and "Milagre". Caymmi composed about 100 songs in his lifetime, and many of his works are now considered to be Brazilian classics. Both Brazilian and non-Brazilian musicians have covered his songs.

Ronnie Drew

2008Ronnie Drew, Irish musician, folk singer and actor (born 1934)[†]

Joseph Ronald Drew was an Irish singer, folk musician and actor who had a fifty-year career recording with The Dubliners.

Masanobu Fukuoka

2008Masanobu Fukuoka, Japanese farmer and author (born 1913)[†]

Masanobu Fukuoka was a Japanese farmer and philosopher celebrated for his natural farming and re-vegetation of desertified lands. He was a proponent of no-till, herbicide and pesticide-free cultivation methods from which he created a particular method of agriculture, commonly referred to as "natural farming" or "do-nothing farming".

Historical Events

Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago)

2008The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at 1,389 feet (423 m), at the time becoming the world's highest residence above ground-level.[†]

The Trump International Hotel and Tower is a skyscraper condo-hotel in the Near North Side community area in downtown Chicago, Illinois. The building, named for Donald Trump, was designed by architect Adrian Smith of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Bovis Lend Lease built the 100-story structure, which reaches a height of 1,388 feet (423.2 m) including its spire, its roof topping out at 1,169 feet (356 m). It is next to the main branch of the Chicago River, with a view of the entry to Lake Michigan beyond a series of bridges over the river. The building received publicity when the winner of the first season of The Apprentice reality television show, Bill Rancic, chose to manage the construction of the tower over managing a Rancho Palos Verdes–based Trump National Golf Course & Resort in the Los Angeles metro area.

Historical Context for August 16, 2008

In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]