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September 23, 2013

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Headlines from September 23, 2013

F.A.A. Nears New Rules on Devices

By Jad Mouawad and Nick Bilton

Faced with the flood of personal electronics on airplanes, the government has spent the last year looking for ways to modify its policy and keep passengers safe.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 18, 2013, covering September 23, 2013.

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    Album cover for Yours Truly by Ariana Grande

    Yours Truly

    Ariana Grande

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    Album cover for Love And War by Tamar Braxton

    Love And War

    Tamar Braxton

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    Album cover for Hesitation Marks by Nine Inch Nails

    Hesitation Marks

    Nine Inch Nails

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    Album cover for Love In The Future by John Legend

    Love In The Future

    John Legend

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    Album cover for Crash My Party by Luke Bryan

    Crash My Party

    Luke Bryan

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Notable Deaths

Abdul Hamid al-Sarraj

2013Abdel Hamid al-Sarraj, Syrian colonel and politician (born 1925)[†]

Abdul Hamid Sarraj was a Syrian military officer and politician. When the United Arab Republic was declared, Sarraj, a staunch Arab nationalist and supporter of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, played a key role in the leadership of the Syrian region of the UAR. Due to the repression by the UAR of the Syrian communists he was nicknamed Sultan Abdul Hamid referring to the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II.

Gil Dozier

2013Gil Dozier, American captain, lawyer, and politician (born 1934)[†]

Gilbert Lynel "Gil" Dozier, was an attorney, businessman, farmer, and rancher who served from 1976 to 1980 as the Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry. A Democrat, Dozier's political career ended with felony convictions and imprisonment for nearly four years. Most of his adult life was spent in and about Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Ruth Patrick

2013Ruth Patrick, American botanist and immunologist (born 1907)[†]

Ruth Myrtle Patrick was an American botanist and limnologist specializing in diatoms and freshwater ecology. She authored more than 200 scientific papers, developed ways to measure the health of freshwater ecosystems and established numerous research facilities.

Historical Events

Typhoon Usagi (2013)

2013Twenty-five people are killed after Typhoon Usagi passes Hong Kong and China.[†]

Typhoon Usagi, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Odette, was a tropical cyclone which affected Taiwan, the Philippines, China, and Hong Kong in mid September 2013. Usagi , which refers to the constellation Lepus in Japanese, was the fourth typhoon and the nineteenth tropical storm in the basin. Developing into a tropical storm east of the Philippines late on September 16, Usagi began explosive intensification on September 19 and ultimately became a violent and large typhoon. Afterwards, the system weakened slowly, crossed the Bashi Channel on September 21, and made landfall over Guangdong, China on September 22.

Historical Context for September 23, 2013

In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]