On this day
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Centre College in Danville, Ky., announced in July that it had received a $250 million donation, the largest outright gift ever made to a liberal arts college, but it left out a small detail.
Property-management companies are coming under fire for using questionable and possibly illegal tactics in their work for banks.
Five years ago, the government abandoned Lehman Brothers to its fate. Was that a mistake, or did it help bring the financial crisis under control?
A string of drug-related deaths at big music festivals has highlighted the risks not only to fans, but to the businesses looking to profit from the craze.
In a battle over whether the Web should remain open, judges expressed doubt over a requirement that service providers treat all traffic equally.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 4, 2013, covering September 10, 2013.
Luke Bryan
John Mayer
TGT
Jimmy Buffett
Earl Sweatshirt
2013John Hambrick, American journalist and actor (born 1940)[†]
John James Hambrick was an American broadcast journalist, reporter, actor, voice over announcer and TV documentary producer.
2013Ibrahim Makhous, Syrian politician, Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1925)[†]
Ibrahim Makhūs or Ibrahim Makhous or Brahim Makhous and Arabic: إبراهيم ماخوس was a Syrian Baathist politician who sat on the Regional Command from 1966 to 1970. He served as foreign minister during Salah Jadid's rule.
2013Josef Němec, Czech boxer (born 1933)[†]
Josef Němec was a boxer from Czechoslovakia.
2013Clay Shaw, American accountant and politician (born 1939)[†]
Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. was an American jurist and Republican politician who served as mayor of Fort Lauderdale and represented South Florida in the United States House of Representatives from 1981 until 2007. He was defeated for re-election by Ron Klein in 2006.
2013Jack Vance, Canadian general (born 1933)[†]
Lieutenant-General John Elwood "Jack" Vance, was a Canadian Forces officer who became Vice Chief of the Defence Staff in Canada.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]