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The United Automobile Workers is taking a campaign global to promote a unionization effort at Nissan’s plant in Canton, Miss.
Over the course of three Twitter posts about Apple from the activist investor Carl C. Icahn, the company’s market capitalization rose about $17 billion.
What is notable about the start of the new fall TV season, according to network executives, is a surge in not just delayed viewing, but very-delayed viewing.
Norbert Leo Butz plays a whopper-spinning traveling salesman in this Broadway musical celebrating tall tales, based on a the novel and film.
In November, 11 rural counties will hold a vote on whether to secede from the state and work to form their own — or maybe join Wyoming.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 2, 2013, covering October 7, 2013.
Jack Johnson
Justin Moore
Chris Young
Various Artists
Avicii
2013Mick Buckley, English footballer (born 1953)[†]
Mick Buckley was an English footballer who played for Everton, Sunderland, Hartlepool United, Carlisle United and Middlesbrough as a midfielder.
2013Terry Burnham, American actress (born 1949)[†]
Elizabeth Teresa "Terry" Burnham was an American actress. She had most of her career as a child actress in television series. She is best known for her performance in the Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare as a Child", which originally aired in 1960.
2013Patrice Chéreau, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1944)[†]
Patrice Chéreau was a French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor and producer. In France he is best known for his work for the theatre, internationally for his films La Reine Margot and Intimacy, and for his staging of the Jahrhundertring, the centenary Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festival in 1976. Winner of almost twenty movie awards, including the Cannes Jury Prize and the Golden Berlin Bear, Chéreau served as president of the jury at the 2003 Cannes festival.
2013David E. Jeremiah, American admiral (born 1934)[†]
David Elmer Jeremiah was a United States Navy admiral who served as the second vice chairman and also the acting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. After his retirement from the Navy in February 1994, he worked in the field of investment banking. He served as partner and President, CEO and later Chairman of Technology Strategies & Alliances Corporation, a strategic advisory and investment banking firm engaged primarily in the aerospace, defense, telecommunications, and electronics industries. During his military career Jeremiah earned a reputation as an authority on strategic planning, financial management and the policy implications of advanced technology.
2013Leandro Mendoza, Filipino police officer and politician, 36th Executive Secretary of the Philippines (born 1946)[†]
Leandro "Larry" Ramos Mendoza was a Filipino policeman and public official who served as Executive Secretary of the Philippines. He previously served as Chief of the Philippine National Police and Transportation and Communications secretary.
2013Joe Rogers, American lawyer and politician, 45th Lieutenant Governor of Colorado (born 1964)[†]
Joseph Bernard Rogers was an American politician and attorney who served as the 45th Lieutenant Governor of Colorado from 1999 to 2003. He was a member of the Republican Party and unsuccessfully mounted congressional campaigns in 1996 and 2002.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]