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Derek Jeter, beginning a rehabilitation assignment, played five innings for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre against Lehigh Valley but did not get to test his ankle much.
The pilot at the controls on Asiana Flight 214 was said to have had only 43 hours of experience flying a Boeing 777, and an airline spokeswoman said that it was his first time piloting a 777 into San Francisco.
Andy Murray of Scotland beat Novak Djokovic of Serbia in straight sets to put an end to a 77-year drought for the British men at Wimbledon.
Gannett and the Tribune Company have recently purchased groups of TV stations in locations where political advertising can be highly lucrative.
Firefighters facing increasingly dangerous blazes are getting an assist from digital apps, aerial mapping and other tools.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 3, 2013, covering July 7, 2013.
Kanye West
J. Cole
Mac Miller
Kelly Rowland
Black Sabbath
2013Artur Hajzer, Polish mountaineer (born 1962)[â ]
Artur Henryk "SĆonâ Hajzer was a Polish mountaineer. Hajzer summitted seven eight-thousanders, several via new routes and made the first winter climb of Annapurna on February 3, 1987.
2013Robert Hamerton-Kelly, South African-American pastor, theologian, and author (born 1938)[â ]
Robert Gerald Hamerton-Kelly was a Christian theologian, ordained United Methodist pastor, ethics scholar, and author and editor of several books on religion and violence. He served as Dean of the Chapel at Stanford Memorial Church at Stanford University for 14 years and was on the faculty of the university for more than 30 years. A leading advocate of the work of René Girard's theory of mimetic desire, Hamerton-Kelly co-founded several organizations dedicated to the study of the theory and edited several important texts about it.
2013Donald J. Irwin, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut (born 1926)[â ]
Donald Jay Irwin was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut's 4th district, Connecticut State Treasurer and mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut.
2013Ben Pucci, American football player and sportscaster (born 1925)[â ]
Benito Modesto "Ben" Pucci was an American professional football tackle who played three seasons for the Buffalo Bisons, Chicago Rockets and Cleveland Browns in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) between 1946 and 1948.
2013A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.[â ]
The de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter is a single-engined, high-wing, propeller-driven, short take-off and landing (STOL) aircraft developed by de Havilland Canada. It was conceived to be capable of performing the same roles as the earlier and highly successful Beaver, including as a bush plane, while also being a larger aircraft.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[â ]