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With the Democratic mayoral primary drawing closer, Anthony D. Weiner hopes voters can let bygones be bygones, and focus on his policy ideas instead.
The car has become a mobile computer, with Internet access and an array of apps, but safety experts worry about driversâ attention.
Dwight Howard committed to the Rockets after mulling offers from five teams and became the first star in modern N.B.A. history to walk away from the Lakers while still in his prime.
Chris Davis, a star this season who arrived for a series in the Bronx with 32 homers, has no regrets about turning down the Yankees after the 2004 amateur draft, he said.
Ahmed Kathrada, a longtime anti-apartheid activist and fellow inmate of Nelson Mandela, has shown Robben Island to world leaders and celebrities.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 3, 2013, covering July 6, 2013.
Kanye West
J. Cole
Mac Miller
Kelly Rowland
Black Sabbath
2013Lo Hsing Han, Burmese businessman, co-founded Asia World (born 1935)[â ]
Lo Hsing Han or Law Sit Han was a Burmese businessman and drug trafficker. He later became a major business tycoon across Burma, with financial ties to Singapore. He was an ethnic Kokang-Chinese. His spouse, Zhang Xiaowen, is a Chinese citizen and native of Gengma County in Yunnan.
2013At least 42 people are killed in a shooting at a school in Yobe State, Nigeria.[â ]
On 6 July 2013, Boko Haram insurgents attacked the Government Secondary School in the village of Mamudo in Yobe State, Nigeria and killed at least 42 people. Most of the dead were students, though some staff members were also killed.
2013A Boeing 777 operating as Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes at San Francisco International Airport, killing three and injuring 181 of the 307 people on board.[â ]
The Boeing 777, commonly referred to as the Triple Seven, is an American long-range wide-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The 777 is the world's largest twinjet and the most-built wide-body airliner. The jetliner was designed to bridge the gap between Boeing's other wide body airplanes, the twin-engined 767 and quad-engined 747, and to replace aging DC-10 and L-1011 trijets. Developed in consultation with eight major airlines, the 777 program was launched in October 1990, with an order from United Airlines. The prototype aircraft rolled out in April 1994, and first flew that June. The 777 entered service with the launch operator United Airlines in June 1995. Longer-range variants were launched in 2000, and first delivered in 2004.
2013A 73-car oil train derails in the town of Lac-MĂ©gantic, Quebec and explodes into flames, killing at least 47 people and destroying more than 30 buildings in the town's central area.[â ]
The Lac-Mégantic rail disaster occurred in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, on July 6, 2013, at approximately 1:14 a.m. EDT, when an unattended 73-car Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA) freight train carrying Bakken Formation crude oil rolled down a 1.2% grade from Nantes and derailed downtown, resulting in the explosion and fire of multiple tank cars. Forty-seven people were killed. More than thirty buildings in Lac-Mégantic's town centre were destroyed, and all but three of the thirty-nine remaining buildings had to be demolished due to petroleum contamination. Initial newspaper reports described a 1 km (0.6-mile) blast radius.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[â ]