On this day
Revisit the news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]
2013Ferruccio Mazzola, Italian footballer and manager (born 1948)[†]
Ferruccio Mazzola was an Italian former professional footballer and manager, who played as a midfielder. He was the son of former footballer Valentino Mazzola, and the younger brother of retired footballer Sandro Mazzola.
2013George Sauer, Jr., American football player (born 1943)[†]
George Henry Sauer Jr. was an American professional football player who was a wide receiver for six seasons with the American Football League (AFL)'s New York Jets, and later played in the World Football League (WFL). He played college football for the Texas Longhorns. His father, George Henry Sauer Sr., played for the Green Bay Packers from 1935 through 1937.
Foxconn, an electronics contractor in China that was criticized for poor conditions in factories making Apple products, is moving to develop its own goods, like televisions.
The Obama administration insisted it would not veer from its approach, despite strikes near Damascus by Israel and new questions about the use of chemical arms in Syria’s civil war.
The wearable computer is prompting questions of whether it will distract drivers, upend relationships and strip people of what little privacy they still have in public.
The drug maker is now selling its billion-dollar erectile dysfunction drug, among the world’s most counterfeited, directly to men with a prescription.
Republicans are trying to turn President Obama’s health care law into an election weapon and are preparing to exploit every problem and complaint that arises as it is carried out.
An investor invoked a predecessor of Warren E. Buffett when he questioned the Berkshire Hathaway chief about the company’s future.
John A. Catsimatidis, the billionaire Republican mayoral candidate, must confront New York’s relationship with Gristedes, the unloved grocery store for which he is best known.
“Nikolai and the Others,” by Richard Nelson, brings Balanchine, the Stravinskys and other creative émigrés together for the weekend.
The Pentagon explicitly accused China of attacking government systems and defense contractors, possibly to map “military capabilities that could be exploited during a crisis.”
The authorities had been called two times to a house in Cleveland, Ohio, where three young women who disappeared about a decade ago were found.
An angry President Obama and Congress demanded action after a Pentagon survey estimated 26,000 people in the armed forces were assaulted last year, up from 19,000 in 2010.
New York’s top banking regulator has begun an investigation into pension-advance firms, the lenders that woo retirees to sign over their monthly pension checks in return for cash.