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Russell Westbrook’s front-row presence at Fashion Week may have caught attendees by surprise, but the All-Star basketball player believes he belongs among their ranks.
President Vladimir V. Putin has, at least for now, made Russia indispensable in containing the conflict in Syria.
Power brokers turned up the pressure on William C. Thompson Jr., the second-place finisher in the primary in the New York City mayoral race, to back Bill de Blasio.
Labor leaders meeting in Los Angeles approved a sharply worded resolution that demanded changes to the federal health care law.
President Obama’s handling of his confrontation with Syria has been an unusual instance of a commander in chief seemingly thinking out loud and changing his mind on the fly.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 11, 2013, covering September 12, 2013.
Avenged Sevenfold
Luke Bryan
Big Sean
Juicy J
Robin Thicke
2013Ray Dolby, American engineer and businessman, founded Dolby Laboratories (born 1933)[†]
Ray Milton Dolby was an American engineer and inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR. He helped develop the video tape recorder while at Ampex and was the founder of Dolby Laboratories.
2013Warren Giese, American football player, coach, and politician (born 1924)[†]
Warren E. Giese was an American state legislator in South Carolina and a college football coach. He served as the head football coach for the South Carolina Gamecocks for five years at the University of South Carolina. He later served in the South Carolina State Senate.
2013Erich Loest, German author and screenwriter (born 1926)[†]
Erich Loest was a German writer born in Mittweida, Saxony. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Hans Walldorf, Bernd Diksen and Waldemar Naß.
2013Candace Pert, American neuroscientist and pharmacologist (born 1946)[†]
Candace Beebe Pert was an American neuroscientist and pharmacologist who discovered the opioid receptor, the cellular binding site for endorphins in the brain.
2013NASA confirms that its Voyager 1 probe has become the first manmade object to enter interstellar space.[†]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the United States's civil space program, aeronautics research and space research. Established in 1958, it succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to give the American space development effort a distinct civilian orientation, emphasizing peaceful applications in space science. It has since led most of America's space exploration programs, including Project Mercury, Project Gemini, the 1968–1972 Apollo program missions, the Skylab space station, and the Space Shuttle. Currently, NASA supports the International Space Station (ISS) along with the Commercial Crew Program and oversees the development of the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System for the lunar Artemis program.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]