On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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In New Orleans, the artists Ersy Schwartz and Josephine Sacabo, who are neighbors and collaborators, live in homes that are equal parts grandeur and mystery, funk and rot.
Assembling an emergency kit, for essentials like heat and light, before snowstorms arrive and the power fails.
This year David Hornsby is involved in four television shows on three channels, including an odd-couple comedy on CBS, “How to Be a Gentleman,” that has its premiere on Thursday night.
A New York City court case pits preservationists against each other over how much the Manufacturers Hanover Trust building, a city landmark, should be allowed to change.
The troupe offered several faces of flamenco at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday, including existential ruminations and an encounter with death itself.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 28, 2011, covering September 29, 2011.
Lady Antebellum
Adele
Lil Wayne
Brantley Gilbert
Staind
2011Sylvia Robinson, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1936)[†]
Sylvia Robinson, known mononymously as Sylvia, was an American singer and record producer. Robinson achieved success as a performer on two R&B chart toppers: as half of Mickey & Sylvia with the 1957 single "Love Is Strange", and her solo record "Pillow Talk" in 1973. She later became known for her work as founder and CEO of the pioneering hip hop label Sugar Hill Records.
2011The special court in India convicted all 269 accused officials for atrocity on Dalits and 17 for rape in the Vachathi case.[†]
Dalit is a term used for untouchables and outcasts, who represented the lowest stratum of the castes in the Indian subcontinent. They are also called Harijans. Dalits were excluded from the fourfold varna of the caste hierarchy and were seen as forming a fifth varna, also known by the name of Panchama.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]