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May 4, 2013

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Headlines from May 4, 2013

JPMorgan Directors Feel Heat in a Vote

By Susanne Craig and Jessica Silver-Greenberg

As the bank grapples with regulatory battles, some shareholders are taking public aim at individual directors who hold crucial positions on the bank’s audit and risk committees.

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Bushwick Gets a Fresh Coat

By Amy O'Leary

Joseph Ficalora, in pain from bad memories everywhere he looked and fed up with vandals tagging his neighborhood with graffiti, has turned the streets of Bushwick, Brooklyn, into an outdoor gallery.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 1, 2013, covering May 4, 2013.

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    Album cover for Save Rock And Roll by Fall Out Boy

    Save Rock And Roll

    Fall Out Boy

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    Album cover for Indicud by Kid Cudi

    Indicud

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    Album cover for The 20/20 Experience by Justin Timberlake

    The 20/20 Experience

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    Album cover for Based On A True Story ... by Blake Shelton

    Based On A True Story ...

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    Album cover for Mosquito by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

    Mosquito

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Notable Deaths

Otis Bowen

2013Otis Bowen, American physician and politician, 44th Governor of Indiana (born 1918)[†]

Otis Ray Bowen was an American politician and physician who served as the 44th Governor of Indiana from 1973 to 1981 and as Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Cabinet of President Ronald Reagan from 1985 to 1989.

Christian de Duve

2013Christian de Duve, English-Belgian cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)[†]

Christian René Marie Joseph, Viscount de Duve was a Nobel Prize-winning Belgian cytologist and biochemist. He made serendipitous discoveries of two cell organelles, peroxisomes and lysosomes, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 with Albert Claude and George E. Palade. In addition to peroxisome and lysosome, he invented scientific names such as autophagy, endocytosis, and exocytosis on a single occasion.

Javier Diez Canseco

2013Javier Diez Canseco, Peruvian sociologist and politician (born 1948)[†]

Javier Diez Canseco Cisneros was a Peruvian politician and member of the Peruvian Congress representing the Socialist Party of Peru (PS), of which he was a founding member and also served as its Party President.

Mario Machado

2013Mario Machado, Chinese-American journalist and actor (born 1935)[†]

Mário Machado was an American television and radio broadcaster and actor. He made television history when, in 1970, he became the first American of Chinese heritage to be an on-air television news reporter and anchor in Los Angeles and perhaps in the nation.

Morgan Morgan-Giles

2013Morgan Morgan-Giles, English admiral and politician (born 1914)[†]

Rear-Admiral Sir Morgan Charles Morgan-Giles, was a Royal Navy officer, decorated during the Second World War, who later served as a Conservative Member of Parliament. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living former member of the House of Commons.

2013César Portillo de la Luz, Cuban guitarist and composer (born 1922)[†]

César Portillo de la Luz was a Cuban musician, lyricist and composer. Born in Havana, Cuba, Portillo is credited with founding the filin music genre. The Miami Herald described Portillo as "a fundamental author of Latin American music" and "one of Cuba's most celebrated composers". Portillo is also cited as "the most distinguished lyricist of his generation" and "one of the most prolific Cuban composers of the twentieth century".

Historical Context for May 4, 2013

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