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April 6, 2010

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Facing Suit, Pipe Maker Extends Guarantee

By Mary Williams Walsh

JM Eagle, fighting to retain sales amid allegations that it knowingly sold defective pipe, said its guarantee will cover pipe that is already in the ground, as well as the pipe that the company will sell in the future.

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Now to Explain the Party Favors

By Andrew Ross Sorkin

When Charles O. Prince III and Robert E. Rubin testify on Thursday about Citigroup, there is a chance to address a sense that on Wall Street, even big mistakes have no consequences.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 31, 2010, covering April 6, 2010.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Need You Now by Lady Antebellum

    Need You Now

    Lady Antebellum

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    8
  2. 2
    Album cover for Here I Am by Marvin Sapp

    Here I Am

    Marvin Sapp

    Last week
    —
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    1
  3. 3
    Album cover for Battle Of The Sexes by Ludacris

    Battle Of The Sexes

    Ludacris

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    2
  4. 4
    Album cover for The Edge by Various Artists

    The Edge

    Various Artists

    Last week
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    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    1
  5. 5
    Album cover for The Fame by Lady Gaga

    The Fame

    Lady Gaga

    Last week
    8
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    73

Notable Deaths

Wilma Mankiller

2010Wilma Mankiller, American tribal leader (born 1945)[†]

Wilma Pearl Mankiller was a Native American activist, social worker, community developer and the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, she lived on her family's allotment in Adair County, Oklahoma, until the age of 11, when her family relocated to San Francisco as part of a federal government program to urbanize Indigenous Americans. After high school, she married a well-to-do Ecuadorian and raised two daughters. Inspired by the social and political movements of the 1960s, Mankiller became involved in the Occupation of Alcatraz and later participated in the land and compensation struggles with the Pit River Tribe. For five years in the early 1970s, she was employed as a social worker, focusing mainly on children's issues.

Corin Redgrave

2010Corin Redgrave, English actor (born 1939)[†]

Corin William Redgrave was an English actor.

Historical Events

Central Reserve Police Force

2010Maoist rebels kill 76 CRPF officers in Dantewada district, India.[†]

The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is a central armed police force in India under the Ministry of Home Affairs. The CRPF assists states and Union Territories in maintaining law and order and internal security. It is composed of the Central Reserve Police Force (Regular) and Central Reserve Police Force (Auxiliary).

Historical Context for April 6, 2010

In 2010, the world population was approximately 7,021,732,148 people[†]