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In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]
2013Scott Adams, American football player (born 1966)[†]
Scott Alexander Adams was an American professional football player who played guard for a six-season career, in-which he played for the Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints, Chicago Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Atlanta Falcons.
2013Ratiba El-Hefny, Egyptian soprano and director (born 1931)[†]
Ratiba Hefny was an Egyptian international Opera singer (soprano) who performed in more than 500 opera performances. She was the dean of the Higher Institute of Arabic Music in Cairo, and became the director of the Cairo Opera House in 1988.
2013Patsy Swayze, American dancer and choreographer (born 1927)[†]
Yvonne Helen "Patsy" Swayze was an American film choreographer, dancer, and dance instructor, and the mother of actors Patrick Swayze and Don Swayze. Her credits include choreography for Urban Cowboy, Liar's Moon and Hope Floats.
2013A gunman kills twelve people at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.[†]
The Washington Navy Yard shooting occurred on September 16, 2013, when 34-year-old Aaron Alexis fatally shot 12 people and injured three others in a mass shooting at the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), inside the Washington Navy Yard, in southeast Washington, D.C. The attack took place in the Navy Yard's Building 197; it began around 8:16 a.m. EDT and ended when police killed Alexis around 9:25 a.m. It is the deadliest mass shooting in Washington, D.C. history, as well as the second deadliest mass murder on a U.S. military base, behind the 2009 Fort Hood shooting.
Native advertising is advertising that wears the uniform of journalism, mimicking the storytelling aesthetic of the host site. Some say it could dilute the power of a brand over time.
Some wonder if there is room in the city for another political and media Web site, even if it is made in the image of successful Politico.
Now investors and deal makers hope that Twitter’s stock sale will help the once-soaring tech sector take flight again.
Peyton Manning efficiently led a multifaceted, diverse offense in the Broncos’ victory as Eli Manning and a one-dimensional Giants offense sputtered and other components of the team failed.
“Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play,” by Anne Washburn at Playwrights Horizons, imagines a postdisaster world where the retelling of a “Simpsons” episode helps create security and culture.
The accord on chemical arms is seen as a major turning point by both sides in Syria, leaving the rebels deflated and government supporters jubilant.
A white middle-class family’s decision to move to a poor black township for a month had many debating whether it was about empathy or slum tourism.
Don Ramos, who holds several weight-lifting world records for his age group, has had a Forrest Gumpian odyssey, 80 years of life that were nullified by one drug test.
For veterans longing to salve the scars of an old war and their half-Vietnamese children wanting to know their roots, the need to find one another has become more urgent than ever.
The Russian-American deal to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons gives President Obama some breathing space, but the list of things that could still go wrong is daunting.
After a three-game sweep by the Red Sox, the Yankees are three games out of a wild-card spot — four in the loss column — with two other teams between them and the leaders with 12 games remaining.
A former Navy reservist killed at least 12 people on Monday in a mass shooting at a naval office building in Washington, and then was killed by the police, officials said.