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Self-publishing is expanding beyond first-time writers who canât get deals, as big names like the playwright and author David Mamet are choosing this route, another sign that digital disruption is reshaping the publishing market.
Surgeons faced life-changing decisions as patients arrived with gruesome leg trauma.
Clifford Odetsâs 1949 drama, âThe Big Knife,â opened on Broadway in a sluggish, soulless revival starring the talented Bobby Cannavale.
A Times examination found that unlicensed sellers advertise scores of weapons on free classified ads Web sites where people legally barred from gun ownership can buy them.
Michael Bay sees âPain & Gain,â to be released on April 26, as a movie with a message: âPeople just donât appreciate what they have.â
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 17, 2013, covering April 17, 2013.
Justin Timberlake
The Band Perry
Tyler| the Creator
Blake Shelton
Lil Wayne
2013Carlos Graça, SĂŁo TomĂ©an politician, Prime Minister of SĂŁo TomĂ© and PrĂncipe (born 1931)[â ]
Carlos Alberto Monteiro Dias da Graça was a São Toméan politician who served as the country's sixth prime minister.
2013Bi Kidude, Tanzanian Taarab singer (born â1910)[â ]
Fatuma binti Baraka, popularly known as Bi Kidude, was a Zanzibari-born Tanzanian Taarab singer. She has been called the "queen of Taarab and Unyago music" and was inspired by Siti binti Saad. Born in the village of Kitumba in modern-day Kati District of Unguja South Region and raised in the village of Mfagimaringo, Bi Kidude was the daughter of a coconut seller in colonial Zanzibar. Bi Kidude's exact date of birth is unknown and much of her life story is uncorroborated, but she was believed to be the oldest touring singer in the world before her death. In 2005, Bi Kidude received the WOMEX award for her contribution to music and culture in Zanzibar. She was the subject of two documentaries by film maker Andrew Jones.
2013Yngve Moe, Norwegian bass player and songwriter (born 1957)[â ]
Yngve Moe was a Norwegian bass guitarist and founding member of the rock band Dance with a Stranger.
2013V. S. Ramadevi, Indian politician, 13th Governor of Karnataka (born 1934)[â ]
V. S. Ramadevi was an Indian politician who was the first lady to become the 8th Governor of Karnataka and 9th Chief Election Commissioner of India from 26 November 1990 to 11 December 1990. She was the first woman to become Chief Election Commissioner of India. She was succeeded by T. N. Seshan. Ramadevi was the first woman to serve as Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha, from 1 July 1993 to 25 September 1997. She was also the first and to date, the only female Governor of Karnataka, from 2 December 1999 to 20 August 2002.
2013An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others.[â ]
On April 17, 2013, an ammonium nitrate explosion occurred at the West Fertilizer Company storage and distribution facility in West, Texas, United States, while emergency services personnel were responding to a fire at the facility. Fifteen people were killed, more than 160 were injured, and more than 150 buildings were damaged or destroyed. Investigators confirmed that ammonium nitrate was the material that exploded. On May 11, 2016, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives stated that the fire had been deliberately set. That finding has been disputed.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[â ]