On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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As cicadas overrun signs, lawns and porches across the region, most homeowners seem resigned to wait out the few weeks of infestation.
The foiling of a 2009 plot to bomb the New York City subway seemed to be the kind of success President Obama was referring to when he defended “modest encroachments on privacy” to protect the country.
While the United States economy is performing relatively well, the nation has fared worse than six of the nine countries surveyed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in job gains.
The Theater on Film and Tape Archive records dozens of live performances each year in an effort to preserve the magic of live theater and give people the chance to see performances that otherwise would be lost to history.
The use of transfer rules to eliminate many of an athlete’s preferred options illustrates the big-business mind-set of college sports and the control that coaches have over players.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 5, 2013, covering June 8, 2013.
Daft Punk
Darius Rucker
The National
French Montana
Soundtrack
2013Paul Cellucci, American soldier and politician, 69th Governor of Massachusetts (born 1948)[†]
Argeo Paul Cellucci was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 69th governor of Massachusetts from 1997 to 2001 and as the United States Ambassador to Canada from 2001 to 2005. He also served as 68th lieutenant governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1999, as well as in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Senate from 1977 to 1991.
2013Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli painter, journalist, and critic (born 1930)[†]
Yoram Kaniuk was an Israeli writer, painter, journalist, and theatre critic.
2013Taufiq Kiemas, Indonesian politician, 5th First Spouse of Indonesia (born 1942)[†]
Muhammad Taufiq Kiemas was an Indonesian politician who served as the Speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly of Indonesia from 2009 until his death in 2013. A member of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), he was the husband of party chairwoman Megawati Sukarnoputri, president of Indonesia from 2001 to 2004. He remains Indonesia's only first gentleman.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]