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Michael Young drove in five runs for the Rangers, who are going back to the World Series, and this time they would appear to be the favorite to win it.
A nine-day festival of 21st-century music began with the American Composers Orchestra playing premieres of five diverse works conducted by George Manahan.
An exhibition to open at the New-York Historical Society on Nov. 11 delves into American taste in art during a crucial period from the 1830s through the 1860s.
Ahmad Bradshaw set a career high for scoring and ran 30 yards to set up Lawrence Tynes’s game-winning field goal with 1:35 left.
Dan Wheldon died after his car burst into flames in a wreck that involved 14 others at the Las Vegas Indy 300.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 12, 2011, covering October 16, 2011.
J. Cole
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Adele
Tony Bennett
Wilco
2011Dan Wheldon, English race car driver (born 1978)[†]
Daniel Clive Wheldon was a British motor racing driver who won the 2005 IndyCar Series Drivers' Championship for Andretti Green Racing (AGR). He won the Indianapolis 500 in 2005 and 2011, and was co-winner of the 2006 24 Hours of Daytona with Chip Ganassi Racing (CGR).
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]