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A suit over a test to be marketed by 3M has escalated into a legal morass ensnaring 3M’s chief executive, Britain’s secretary of defense and a Washington lawyer.
The fire shut down a sewage treatment plant, sending millions of gallons of sewage into the Hudson and Harlem Rivers.
With strong harvests, and reduced crime-fighting budgets, thefts of farm products have risen in California’s rural areas.
So far so good was Wall Street’s reaction to Europe’s latest effort to relieve Greece’s debt burden, but the plan’s effect on the markets in the coming days was unclear.
European leaders now accept that the Continent has a responsibility not just to prevent collapse but to get the Greek economy moving again.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 20, 2011, covering July 22, 2011.
Beyonce
Adele
Selena Gomez & The Scene
Jason Aldean
Bad Meets Evil
2011Linda Christian, Mexican-American actress (born 1923)[†]
Linda Christian was a Mexican film actress who appeared in Mexican and Hollywood films. Her career reached its peak in the 1940s and 1950s. She played Mara in the last Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan film Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948). She is also noted for being the first Bond girl, appearing in a 1954 television adaptation of the James Bond novel Casino Royale. In 1963, she starred as Eva Ashley in an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour titled "An Out for Oscar".
2011Cees de Wolf, Dutch footballer (born 1945)[†]
Cees de Wolf was a Dutch professional footballer who played as a left winger.
2011Norway attacks: A bomb explodes, targeted at government buildings in central Oslo, followed by a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.[†]
The 2011 Norway attacks, also called 22 July or 22/7 in Norway, were two domestic terrorist attacks by far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik against the government, the civilian population, and a Workers' Youth League (AUF) summer camp, in which a total of 77 people were killed.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]