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The collapse of a building, the Rana Plaza, is considered the deadliest accident in the history of the garment industry, having claimed at least 377 lives.
Two war horses of the genre, âAll My Childrenâ and âOne Life to Live,â will have their Internet premieres at 5 a.m. Monday on Hulu and iTunes.
Luis Octavio LĂłpez Vega, a former adviser to a Mexican drug czar and a D.E.A. informant, has been in hiding as Mexican officials seek his arrest and American officials have cut ties with him.
If Krigger wins this yearâs Kentucky Derby, he will become the first black jockey to take the honor since 1902. But Krigger is focused simply on winning the race.
After a Twitter hoax caused the Dow to drop temporarily by 150 points, regulators are increasingly concerned about the combination of social media and high-frequency trading.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 24, 2013, covering April 29, 2013.
Paramore
Brad Paisley
Justin Timberlake
Blake Shelton
Eric Church
2013Alex Elisala, New Zealand-Australian rugby player (born 1992)[â ]
Alex Elisala was a Samoa international rugby league footballer who was contracted to the North Queensland Cowboys at the time of his death. He primarily played as a hooker.
2013Pesah Grupper, Israeli politician, 13th Israel Minister of Agriculture (born 1924)[â ]
Pesah Grupper was an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Agriculture between October 1983 and September 1984.
2013John La Montaine, American pianist and composer (born 1920)[â ]
John Maynard La Montaine, also later LaMontaine, was an American pianist and composer, born in Oak Park, Illinois, who won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Piano Concerto No. 1 "In Time of War" (1958), which was premiered by Jorge Bolet.
2013Kevin Moore, English footballer (born 1958)[â ]
Kevin Thomas Moore was an English professional footballer.
2013Marianna Zachariadi, Greek pole vaulter (born 1990)[â ]
Marianna Zachariadi was a Greek pole vaulter who later competed for Cyprus.
2013A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, and injures 43 people.[â ]
On April 29, 2013 at around 10:00am CEST, an explosion occurred in a building in the centre of Prague, Czech Republic. The incident occurred in a townhouse belonging to the Air Navigation Services of the Czech Republic on Divadelnà street in Old Town, Prague 1, close to the Academy of Sciences and National Theatre. The blast could be heard across the whole city centre, as far away as Prague Castle, 1.4 km (1 mi) away from the incident. 43 people were injured by the blast, one seriously. No one was killed. The resulting shock wave from the blast damaged windows in nearby buildings including the National Theatre, Café Slavia, the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU), the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
2013National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, killing all seven people on board.[â ]
National Airlines Flight 102 (N8102/NCR102) was a cargo flight operated by National Airlines between Camp Shorabak near the city of Lashkargah in Afghanistan and Al Maktoum Airport in Dubai, with a refueling stop at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. On 29 April 2013, the Boeing 747-400 operating the flight crashed within the perimeter of the Bagram Airfield moments after taking off, killing all seven people on board.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[â ]