On this day
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Organizations have raised millions to help Newtown, Conn., but some who have experienced mass tragedies in the past said charities had failed to distribute aid to those most in need.
The top-seeded Jayhawks overcame a halftime deficit against their former coach Roy Williams and advanced to the Round of 16.
It is still unclear how Boris A. Berezovsky died, but what is certain is that a humiliating court ruling last August helped to drive the exiled oligarch into despair.
The deal, struck after hours of meetings in Brussels, would drastically reduce the size of the country’s banking sector and scrap the controversial tax on bank deposits.
The private equity giant Blackstone Group and the investor Carl C. Icahn have each separately submitted preliminary takeover proposal for Dell, the embattled computer maker.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 20, 2013, covering March 25, 2013.
Luke Bryan
Jimi Hendrix
Bruno Mars
Mumford & Sons
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
2013Léonce Bernard, Canadian politician, 26th Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island (born 1943)[†]
Joseph Gérard Léonce Bernard, was an Acadian-Canadian politician, who was the 26th Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island, the third Island Acadian to hold this position.
2013Ben Goldfaden, American basketball player and educator (born 1913)[†]
Benjamin Paul Goldfaden was an American professional basketball player. He played two games in the Basketball Association of America (BAA) as a member of the Washington Capitols during the 1946–47 season. Goldfaden spent most of his professional career playing in the American Basketball League.
2013Anthony Lewis, American journalist and academic (born 1927)[†]
Joseph Anthony Lewis was an American public intellectual and journalist. He was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and was a columnist for The New York Times. He is credited with creating the field of legal journalism in the United States.
2013Jean Pickering, English runner and long jumper (born 1929)[†]
Jean Catherine Pickering was a female track and field athlete from Great Britain, who competed mainly in the 80 metres hurdles and long jump.
2013Jean-Marc Roberts, French author and screenwriter (born 1954)[†]
Jean-Marc Roberts was a French editor, novelist, and screenwriter.
2013John F. Wiley, American lieutenant, football player, and coach (born 1920)[†]
John Franklin "Smiling Jack" Wiley was an American football player and coach. He played professionally a tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1946 to 1950. Willey served as the head football coach at his alma mater, Waynesburg College—now known as Waynesburg University—in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, from 1951 to 1954, compiling a record of 22–9–1.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]