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In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[â ]
2013Harry Elliott, American baseball player and coach (born 1923)[â ]
Harry Lewis Elliott was an American professional baseball player who appeared in 92 games in Major League Baseball for the 1953 and 1955 St. Louis Cardinals. A 5Â ft 9Â in (1.75Â m), 175Â lb (79Â kg) outfielder, Elliott threw and batted right-handed.
2013Eduardo FalĂș, Argentinian guitarist and composer (born 1923)[â ]
Eduardo FalĂș was an Argentine folk music guitarist and composer.
2013William Lynch, Jr., American lawyer and politician (born 1947)[â ]
William "Bill" Lynch Jr. was an American politician and political consultant, advising politicians from the Democratic Party. He was a prominent political figure in New York politics, especially within the African-American community. In 1999, Lynch founded the political consulting firm Bill Lynch Associates, LLC (BLA), where he served as chairman from its founding until his death.
2013Gunmen open fire at a Sunni mosque in the city of Quetta killing at least ten people and injuring 30.[â ]
This is a list of terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2013. Some of the incidents are sectarian in nature and the TTP is responsible for a majority of them.
Extremists are carving out pockets of territory for Islamist militants, posing what intelligence officials say may become the greatest security threat in the world today.
Presidents generally choose the leaders of independent commissions, but the other members are picked on Capitol Hill, which means that the leaders can find it difficult to accomplish anything.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo promised to change a system in which employees who mistreated disabled and mentally ill patients rarely lost their jobs, but two years later, little has changed.
If the International Trade Commission decides on Friday that Samsung violated Apple patents, it could give Apple significant power in other patent feuds.
Black voters are far more likely than white voters to view Eliot Spitzer and Anthony D. Weiner favorably, according to surveys.
Opposites attract in the musical comedy âFirst Date,â starring Zachary Levi and Krysta Rodriguez, at the Longacre Theater.
With tens of thousands of business owners in the gulag system, and with a depressed economy, President Vladimir V. Putin has an unusual plan to turn things around.
Lavabit shut down, hinting at a secret government order, and Silent Circle, a similar end-to-end encrypted e-mail provider, followed suit.
Practitioners of parkour have long seen public spaces as their playground, and parkour as the ultimate rebelâs game. But now it has turned into a big business.
Federal prosecutors and the investment firm SAC Capital Advisors agreed on Thursday to a protective order that requires the firm to keep most of its money in its fund while operating under a criminal indictment, according to a person briefed on the case.
President Obama sought to take control of the surveillance debate, releasing a legal justification for domestic spying and calling for more scrutiny of National Security Agency programs.
The men and women who steer six of the best TV dramas talk about the challenges of making a show in the Twitter age.