On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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In a broad populist campaign, a Georgia-based former insurance agent has joined forces with national leaders of groups pressuring Republicans to oppose a path to legal status for millions of immigrants.
Humanitarian groups are warning of a looming disaster in the former French colony, where Seleka rebels have been looting, raping and killing, and coups have outnumbered fair elections.
Silicon Valley moguls provided the brainpower and financing for a company that could make Cory A. Booker, the Newark mayor and United States Senate candidate, very rich.
It would not be surprising to see Jeff Bezos worry little about turning a quick profit at The Post and instead try to shake up the newspaper industry.
Efforts to change the current system for financing the American dream of owning a home will be difficult, because Americans like inexpensive mortgage loans.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 7, 2013, covering August 7, 2013.
Selena Gomez
Jay-Z
Soundtrack
Kidz Bop Kids
Marc Anthony
2013Samuel G. Armistead, American linguist, historian, and academic (born 1927)[†]
Samuel Gordon Armistead was an American ethnographer, linguist, folklorist, historian, literary critic and professor of Spanish. He is considered one of the most notable Hispanist scholars of the second half of the 20th and early 21st century.
2013Almir Kayumov, Russian footballer (born 1964)[†]
Almir Izmailovich Kayumov was a Russian football player and referee.
2013Anthony Pawson, English-Canadian biologist, chemist, and academic (born 1952)[†]
Anthony James Pawson was a British-born Canadian genetic scientist. He was known and recognized for his work on cellular organization, including how cells respond to growth signals, and how they communicate with each other.
2013Margaret Pellegrini, American actress and dancer (born 1923)[†]
Margaret Pellegrini was an American actress, vaudeville performer and dancer, best known for playing one of the Munchkins from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Until her death in 2013, she was one of the three surviving munchkins, the other two being Jerry Maren and Ruth Robinson Duccini.
2013Meeli Truu, Estonian architect (born 1946)[†]
Meeli Truu was an Estonian architect.
2013Alexander Yagubkin, Russian boxer (born 1961)[†]
Alexander Gennadiyevich Yagubkin was a Soviet Olympic boxer, who competed between 1979 and 1988. The only Soviet boxer to become the World heavyweight champion (1982), he never turned pro due to political restrictions imposed by the Soviet government. He was ranked the world's #2 amateur heavyweight by the AIBA in 1984, and #1 in 1986.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]