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Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[â ]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 30, 2011, covering April 5, 2011.
Adele
Rise Against
Lupe Fiasco
Soundtrack
Mumford & Sons
Justin Bieber
Avril Lavigne
Various Artists
Travis Barker
Marsha Ambrosius
2011Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1925)[â ]
Baruch Samuel Blumberg, known as Barry Blumberg, was an American physician, geneticist, and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on the hepatitis B virus while an investigator at the NIH and at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. He was president of the American Philosophical Society from 2005 until his death.
2011Ange-FĂ©lix PatassĂ©, Central African politician (born 1937)[â ]
Ange-Félix Patassé was a Central African politician who was president of the Central African Republic from 1993 until 2003, when he was deposed by the rebel leader François Bozizé in the 2003 coup d'état. Patassé was the first president in the CAR's history to be chosen in what was generally regarded as a fairly democratic election (1993) in that it was brought about by donor pressure on President André Kolingba and assisted by the United Nations Electoral Assistance Unit.
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The Federal Reserve made emergency survival loans to more than 100 banks that ultimately failed anyway.
A plan to rein in Medicaid and Medicare costs represents a fundamental rethinking of how the two programs work.
Tsuyako Itoâs mother carried her in her first tsunami in 1933, but in March, it was an admirer who took the last geisha of Kamaishi, Japan, to higher ground.
Lonnie Warner sells Newports at two for a dollar; he says taxes and smoking bans are great for business.
With the unrest in Yemen, counterterrorism efforts there have halted, allowing Al Qaeda to increase plotting for possible attacks against Europe and the United States, officials say.
Texas Instruments said it planned to acquire National Semiconductor in a deal that would create the worldâs third-largest semiconductor company.
David L. Sokol has been involved in lawsuits that suggest Berkshire had warnings about his rule-pushing ways.
Until now, Laurent Gbagbo refused to consider stepping down after losing his election last year, defying global condemnation and sanctions. In the end, it came down to force.
After talks with leaders of Congress failed to yield a budget deal, President Obama said there was âno excuseâ for the impasse, and Republican leaders widened their push for cuts.
The comedian Norm Macdonald, a âSaturday Night Liveâ alumnus with notable career ups and downs, is about to star in his own sports show on Comedy Central.
Paintings that a family thought were cheap reproductions turned out to be the work of Jasper F. Cropsey of the Hudson River School.
Boeing had projected a longer lifespan and was surprised that cracks had developed on a Southwest Airlines plane.