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January 16, 2009

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Revved Down but Charged Up

By Lawrence Ulrich

While some of the vehicles on display at the Detroit auto show will surely turn out to be hokum, the variety and scale suggest that change is afoot.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 14, 2009, covering January 16, 2009.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Fearless by Taylor Swift

    Fearless

    Taylor Swift

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    8
  2. 2
    Album cover for I Am...Sasha Fierce by Beyonce

    I Am...Sasha Fierce

    Beyonce

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    7
  3. 3
    Album cover for 808s & Heartbreak by Kanye West

    808s & Heartbreak

    Kanye West

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    6
  4. 4
    Album cover for Twilight by Soundtrack

    Twilight

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    6
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    9
  5. 5
    Album cover for Dark Horse by Nickelback

    Dark Horse

    Nickelback

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    7

Notable Deaths

2009Joe Erskine, American boxer and runner (born 1930)[†]

Joseph Harold "Joey" Erskine was an American athlete who was active as a welterweight boxer in 1953 and 1954, and as a long distance runner from 1975 to 1980.

John Mortimer

2009John Mortimer, English lawyer and author (born 1923)[†]

Sir John Clifford Mortimer was a British barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author. He is best known for short stories about a barrister named Horace Rumpole, adapted from episodes of the TV series Rumpole of the Bailey also written by Mortimer.

Andrew Wyeth

2009Andrew Wyeth, American painter (born 1917)[†]

Andrew Newell Wyeth was an American visual artist and one of the best-known American artists of the middle 20th century. Though he considered himself to be an "abstractionist," Wyeth was primarily a realist painter who worked in a regionalist style, often painting the land and people of his hometown in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and his summer home in Cushing, Maine.

Historical Context for January 16, 2009

In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]