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No due date has ever been made public for the birth of Prince William and Kate Middletonâs first child, but that hasnât stopped crowds from forming outside St. Maryâs hospital.
The United States is conducting a diplomatic full-court press to try to block Edward J. Snowden from finding refuge in Latin America.
Silence has become a luxury in New York that scant few can truly afford, and cultural, technological and economic changes have added to the cityâs din, creating not one culprit but many.
After weeks of silence, the former N.S.A. contractor Edward J. Snowden appealed for help in gaining asylum in Russia as he continued to seek passage to Latin America.
The documentary âThe Act of Killing,â which has Werner Herzog and Errol Morris as executive producers, features an Indonesian death squad leader re-enacting his crimes, often with glee.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 10, 2013, covering July 12, 2013.
Wale
J. Cole
Kanye West
Skillet
Daft Punk
2013Amar Bose, American businessman, founded the Bose Corporation (born 1929)[â ]
Amar Gopal Bose was an American entrepreneur and academic. An electrical engineer and sound engineer, he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for over 45 years. He was also the founder and chairman of Bose Corporation.
2013Takako Takahashi, Japanese author (born 1932)[â ]
Takako Takahashi was a Japanese author. Her maiden name was Takako Okamoto .
2013Elaine Morgan, Welsh writer (born 1920)[â ]
Elaine Morgan OBE, FRSL, was a Welsh writer for television and the author of several books on evolutionary anthropology. She advocated the aquatic ape hypothesis, which advocated as a corrective to what she saw as theories that purveyed gendered stereotypes and failed to account for women's role in human evolution adequately. The Descent of Woman, published in 1972, became an international bestseller, translated into ten languages. In 2016, she was named one of "the 50 greatest Welsh men and women of all time" in a press survey.
2013Alan Whicker, Egyptian-English journalist (born 1921)[â ]
Donald Alan Whicker was a British journalist and television presenter and broadcaster. His career spanned almost 60Â years, during which time he presented the documentary television programme Whicker's World for over 30Â years. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2005 for services to broadcasting.
2013Six people are killed and 200 injured in a French passenger train derailment in BrĂ©tigny-sur-Orge.[â ]
On 12 July 2013, a train crash in the commune of Brétigny-sur-Orge in the southern suburbs of Paris left seven people dead and 428 injured when a passenger train carrying 385 people derailed and hit the station platform.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[â ]