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The disgraced former governor of New York will host a talk show with the columnist Kathleen Parker. Their opinion show replaces Campbell Brownâs news program.
Private equity firms sit atop an estimated $500 Billion and are desperate to find deals worth doing.
BP is moving ahead with an Alaska project considered âonshoreâ because it sits on an artificial island built by the company.
Scrutiny of corporate financing for continuing medical education is growing because of the potential for promoting products over patient interests.
If one companyâs findings hold up, doctors would for the first time have a reliable way to diagnose Alzheimerâs.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 23, 2010, covering June 24, 2010.
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Christina Aguilera
Jack Johnson
Plies
2010Fred Anderson, American jazz tenor saxophonist (born 1929)[â ]
Fred Anderson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist who was based in Chicago, Illinois. Anderson's playing was rooted in the swing music and hard bop idioms, but he also incorporated innovations from free jazz. Anderson was also noted for having mentored numerous young musicians. Critic Ben Ratliff called him "a father figure of experimental jazz in Chicago". Writer John Corbett referred to him as "scene caretaker, underground booster, indefatigable cultural worker, quiet force for good." In 2001, author John Litweiler called Anderson "the finest tenor saxophonist in free jazz/underground jazz/outside jazz today."
2010At Wimbledon, John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France, in the longest match in professional tennis history.[â ]
The Wimbledon Championships, commonly called Wimbledon, is a tennis tournament organised by the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in collaboration with the Lawn Tennis Association annually in Wimbledon, London. It is chronologically the third of the four Grand Slam tennis events each year, held after the Australian Open and the French Open and before the US Open. It is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and is widely regarded as the most prestigious.
2010Julia Gillard assumes office as the first female Prime Minister of Australia.[â ]
Julia Eileen Gillard is an Australian former politician who served as the 27th prime minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013. She held office as the leader of the Labor Party (ALP), having previously served as the 13th deputy prime minister from 2007 to 2010. She is the first and only woman to hold either office in Australian history.
In 2010, the world population was approximately 7,021,732,148 people[â ]