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A search for new locations has taken on greater urgency for Western retailers, whose complex manufacturing needs already shrink the pool of potential locations.
In the midst of a vote on whether to split the roles of chairman and chief executive at JPMorgan Chase, the firm providing tabulations stopped giving snapshots to the proposal’s sponsors.
Alfonse M. D’Amato, a former leader of the state Republican Party, is the biggest financial backer for William C. Thompson Jr. in the New York mayoral race.
As Nelson Mandela, 94, grows more fragile, the struggle in South Africa over how he will be remembered, and what he has to pass on, has become increasingly acrimonious.
Of the crises facing American troops today, suicide ranks among the most emotionally wrenching — and confounding.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 15, 2013, covering May 16, 2013.
Kenny Chesney
Michael Buble
Justin Timberlake
Fantasia
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
2013Angelo Errichetti, American politician (born 1928)[†]
Angelo Joseph Errichetti was an American Democratic Party politician who served as Mayor of Camden, New Jersey, and in the New Jersey Senate before being indicted during Abscam.
2013Bryan Illerbrun, Canadian football player (born 1957)[†]
Bryan Illerbrun was a professional Canadian football offensive lineman who played fourteen seasons in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for three teams. He was a part of the BC Lions' Grey Cup victory in 1985 and the Saskatchewan Roughriders' Grey Cup victory in 1989.
2013Frankie Librán, Puerto Rican-American baseball player (born 1948)[†]
Francisco Librán Rosas was a Puerto Rican athlete who distinguished himself for performing professionally on all three major sports in the island. Most notably, Librán played as an infielder in Major League Baseball during the late 60s. He batted and threw right-handed, and was listed at 6 ft (1.8 m) tall and 168 lb (76 kg). Librán also practiced track and field, and softball. Because of his versatility, he is usually referred to as "the most complete Puerto Rican athlete". He is survived by his two daughters Yeidie J. Librán and Yara E. Librán.
2013Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1933)[†]
Heinrich Rohrer was a Swiss physicist who shared half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for the design of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). The other half of the Prize was awarded to Ernst Ruska. The Heinrich Rohrer Medal is presented triennially by the Surface Science Society of Japan with IBM Research – Zurich, Swiss Embassy in Japan, and Ms. Rohrer in his memory. The medal is not to be confused with the Heinrich Rohrer Award presented at the Nano Seoul 2020 conference.
2013Paul Shane, British actor and comedian (born 1940)[†]
Paul Shane was a British actor and comedian. He was known for his television work, in particular for playing Ted Bovis in the 1980s BBC sitcom Hi-de-Hi!.
2013Dick Trickle, American race car driver (born 1941)[†]
Richard Leroy Trickle was an American race car driver. He raced for decades around the short tracks of Wisconsin, winning many championships along the way. Trickle competed in the ASA, ARTGO, ARCA, All Pro, IMCA, NASCAR, and USAC.
2013Bernard Waber, American author and illustrator (born 1921)[†]
Bernard Waber was an American children's author most famous for the books The House on East 88th Street (1962), Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (1965) and the subsequent books in the Lyle series.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]