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Pierre Omidyar will finance the news site drawing Glenn Greenwald away from The Guardian, where he reported on the revelations by Edward Snowden.
Mayor Cory A. Booker of Newark defeated Steve Lonegan to take the New Jersey seat that Senator Frank R. Lautenberg held until he died in June.
Republicans could have turned the problem-plagued rollout of the health care law into an argument against it, but instead a failed campaign to strip the law of federal money has left the party in disarray.
Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave,” based on the true story of Solomon Northup, drives straight to the heart of the cruelties of oppression.
The weakness renewed worries about the headwinds that Goldman and other banks are facing in big money-producing areas like fixed-income trading.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 16, 2013, covering October 17, 2013.
Justin Timberlake
Drake
Lorde
Luke Bryan
Tyler Farr
2013Mother Antonia, American-Mexican nun and activist (born 1926)[†]
Mother Antonia Brenner, better known as Mother Antonia was an American religious sister and activist who chose to reside and care for inmates at the notorious maximum-security La Mesa Prison in Tijuana, Mexico. As a result of her work, she founded a new community called the Eudist Servants of the 11th Hour.
2013Terry Fogerty, English rugby player and coach (born 1944)[†]
Terence "Terry" H. Fogerty was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s, and coached in the 1980s. He played at representative level for Great Britain, Lancashire, and Commonwealth XIII, and at club level for Halifax, Wigan and Rochdale Hornets, as a prop or second-row, and coached at club level for Rochdale Hornets. Fogerty is a Halifax Hall of Fame Inductee.
2013Arthur Maxwell House, Canadian neurologist and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador (born 1926)[†]
Arthur Maxwell House, was a Canadian neurologist and the tenth lieutenant governor of Newfoundland and Labrador.
2013Lou Scheimer, American animator, producer, and voice actor, co-founded the Filmation Company (born 1928)[†]
Louis Scheimer was an American producer and voice actor who was one of the original founders of Filmation. He was also credited as an executive producer of many of its cartoons.
2013Rene Simpson, Canadian-American tennis player (born 1966)[†]
Rene Simpson Collins was a Canadian professional tennis player from Sarnia, Ontario. She reached a WTA singles ranking of 70 in 1989 and had a successful NCAA career for Texas Christian University.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]