On this day
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The year in deals brought highs like the turnaround at A.I.G., the noble mea culpa at JPMorgan Chase and the potentially promising future of Yahoo.
In Washington, where President Obama and the Republican-controlled House are apt to clash, big bipartisan legislative dreams seem all but certain to be miniaturized as incremental policy visions.
Rudolph W. Giuliani has put his Rolodex behind Joseph J. Lhota, the recent Metropolitan Transit Authority chief whom he sees as a pragmatist and a contender.
The national birthrate is now about half what it was during the late 1950s, as Hispanic women, who have generally had the highest fertility rates in the country, are choosing to have fewer children.
The 1991 Persian Gulf war has been cast as a model for a successful intervention, but debates continue today about the way the White House brought the war to an abrupt end.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 26, 2012, covering January 1, 2013.
Taylor Swift
Bruno Mars
Michael Buble
One Direction
Rod Stewart
2013Christopher Martin-Jenkins, English journalist (born 1945)[â ]
Christopher Dennis Alexander Martin-Jenkins, MBE, also known as CMJ, was a British cricket journalist and a President of MCC. He was also the longest serving commentator for Test Match Special (TMS) on BBC Radio, from 1973 until diagnosed with terminal cancer in March 2012.
2013Patti Page, American singer and actress (born 1927)[â ]
Clara Ann Fowler, better known by her stage name Patti Page, was an American singer. Primarily known for pop and country music, she was the top-charting female vocalist and best-selling female artist of the 1950s, selling over 100 million records during a six-decade-long career. She was often introduced as "the Singin' Rage, Miss Patti Page". New York WNEW disc-jockey William B. Williams introduced her as "A Page in my life called Patti".
2013At least 60 people are killed and 200 injured in a stampede after celebrations at FĂ©lix HouphouĂ«t-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.[â ]
The 2013 Houphouët-Boigny stampede was a crowd crush that occurred as crowds departed a New Year's Eve fireworks display in the early hours of 1 January 2013 near the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. It resulted in 61 deaths and over 200 injuries, mostly women and children. This was the second time in four years that a fatal crush incident occurred at the stadium.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[â ]