On this day
Revisit the news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]
The rain in the Bronx was so severe that Game 6 of the A.L.C.S. between the Yankees and the Los Angeles Angels was postponed until Sunday night.
Sunday’s bombings, which killed over 155 people, poses a challenge to Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, whose popularity has rested on the belief that he has kept Iraq safe.
Piers Dudgeon’s “Neverland,” a crowded and frustrating book about the life and work of J. M. Barrie, blends scholarship, name-dropping and scandal-seeking heavy breathing.
On Friday night, the Dallas Opera opened its 53rd season — and its new Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House — with a new production of Verdi’s “Otello.”
Jeffry Picower, a 67-year-old philanthropist, was one of the largest investors in Bernard L. Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.
Four former “Sex and the City” writers have collaborated on a theater project, titled “Cedar City Falls,” that is a sassy, salty comic soap opera that will unfold in weekly episodes.
In a Broadway revival of Neil Simon’s “Brighton Beach Memoirs,” two brothers share a world within a world.
Skewering dubious edicts by local governments, like a rule that children must salute passing cars, has become a favorite pastime of China’s Web users.
We haven’t seen anything quite like these Comcast-NBC Universal talks since the merger of Time Warner and AOL. And that turned out well, right?
Twitter is “smart enough, or lucky enough” to let its users create new features for it, says an M.I.T. professor.
A listing of new releases with the DVD column last Sunday misidentified the actress who played Sybil Fawlty, the wife of the hotel owner in the Britcom “Fawlty Towers.” She is Prunella Scales not Connie Booth, the real-life wife of the actor John Cleese, who portrayed the hotel owner. (Ms. Booth appeared on the series as the chambermaid.)
A picture caption last Sunday with an article about the Pacifica Quartet, which is succeeding the Guarneri String Quartet as the quartet in residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, misspelled the surname of the violinist shown with the Guarneri String Quartet. He is John Dalley, not Dailey.