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January 4, 2013

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Headlines from January 4, 2013

Still Stopping Me in My Tracks

By Christopher Gray

An architectural historian’s favorite buildings.

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Inquiry Into Tech Giants’ Tax Strategies Nears End

By Charles Duhigg and David Kocieniewski

Companies like Apple have drawn scrutiny because of their penchant for shifting profits overseas, resulting in low American tax bills.

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Subway Deaths Haunt Those at Trains’ Controls

By Matt Flegenheimer

Dozens of people jump and fall to their deaths on New York City’s tracks every year, and many train operators say the images are vivid, even years later.

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S.E.C. Ends Scrutiny of Former Top Aide to Buffett

By Ben Protess

The Securities and Exchange Commission has decided not to file insider trading charges against David L. Sokol, a onetime top lieutenant at Berkshire Hathaway and aide to Warren E. Buffett, according to Mr. Sokol’s lawyer, Barry Wm. Levine.

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Lawyers, Saying DNA Cleared Inmate, Pursue Access to Data

By Ethan Bronner

Attorneys for a man incarcerated for 10 years for a rape say his exoneration by DNA evidence, after months of litigation, proves such data must be made available to defense lawyers.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 2, 2013, covering January 4, 2013.

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Red
Taylor Swift
Last week
1
Peak
1
Weeks
9
2
Trouble Man: Heavy Is The Head
T.I.
Last week
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Peak
2
Weeks
1
3
Unorthodox Jukebox
Bruno Mars
Last week
2
Peak
2
Weeks
2
4
Take Me Home
One Direction
Last week
4
Peak
1
Weeks
6
5
Christmas
Michael Buble
Last week
3
Peak
1
Weeks
19

Notable Deaths

2013Anwar Shamim, Pakistani general (born 1931)^[†]

Mohammad Anwar Shamim NI(M) HI(M) SJ SI(M) OI LoM ; was the Chief of Air Staff, appointed to the post in 1978 until retiring in 1985.

2013Zoran Žižić, Montenegrin politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (born 1951)^[†]

Zoran Žižić was a Yugoslav and Montenegrin politician. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Montenegro in the first two Đukanović cabinets from 1991 to 1996, and was the first Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia following the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in 2000.

Historical Events

2013A gunman kills eight people in a house-to-house rampage in Kawit, Cavite, Philippines.^[†]

The Kawit shooting was a mass murder that occurred in barangay Tabon 1 in Kawit, Philippines, on January 4, 2013. 41-year-old Ronald Baquiran Bae killed at least seven people and a dog, and wounded twelve other people with a semiautomatic pistol, before he was shot and killed by police. Another man, 27-year-old John Paul Lopez, who was said to have been employed by Bae as his house caretaker, was later arrested for assisting the gunman during the shooting by reloading his pistol magazine. The motive of the suspect is unclear, officials said.

Historical Context for January 4, 2013

In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people^[†]

Headlines from January 4, 2013

Still Stopping Me in My Tracks

Inquiry Into Tech Giants’ Tax Strategies Nears End

Subway Deaths Haunt Those at Trains’ Controls

S.E.C. Ends Scrutiny of Former Top Aide to Buffett

Lawyers, Saying DNA Cleared Inmate, Pursue Access to Data

Red

Trouble Man: Heavy Is The Head

Unorthodox Jukebox

Take Me Home

Christmas

Notable Deaths

Historical Events

Historical Context for January 4, 2013