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Bob Dylan, with the help of acts like Wilco and My Morning Jacket, brought sounds of honky-tonk country, bluesy rock and soul to his tour stop in Hoboken, N.J.
Together, Omnicom Group and the Publicis Groupe would become the worldâs biggest advertising company, setting their sights on digital media.
â& Sons,â set in New York, is David Gilbertâs ambitious novel about fathers and sons.
âThe Writersâ Roomâ on the Sundance Channel examines the creation of TV shows like âBreaking Bad,â and an HBO documentary, âCasting By,â looks at one casting director credited with starting the careers of numerous actors.
The Brotherhoodâs only reliable partners now are other Islamist groups whose members may be more willing to use violent or radical tactics.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 24, 2013, covering July 28, 2013.
Jay-Z
Ciara
J. Cole
Florida Georgia Line
Imagine Dragons
2013Mustafa Adrisi, Ugandan general and politician, 3rd Vice President of Uganda (born 1922)[â ]
Mustafa Adrisi Abataki was a Ugandan military officer and politician who served as the third vice president of Uganda from 1977 to 1979 and was one of President Idi Amin's closest associates before the two fell out.
2013Eileen Brennan, American actress and singer (born 1932)[â ]
Eileen Brennan was an American actress. She made her film debut in the satire Divorce American Style (1967), followed by a supporting role in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (1971), which earned her a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
2013Rita Reys, Dutch jazz singer (born 1924)[â ]
Rita Reys was a jazz singer from the Netherlands. She was promoted as "Europe's First Lady of Jazz".
2013William Scranton, American captain and politician, 13th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (born 1917)[â ]
William Warren Scranton was an American Republican Party politician and diplomat. Scranton served as the 38th governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967, and as United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 1976 to 1977.
2013Ersilio Tonini, Italian cardinal (born 1914)[â ]
Ersilio Tonini was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Ravenna-Cervia from 1975 to 1990, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1994. When Cardinal Paul Augustin Mayer died on 30 April 2010, Cardinal Tonini became the oldest living cardinal. He died on 28 July 2013, a week after his 99th birthday.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[â ]