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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will take much of his City Hall team with him as he creates a consulting group to help him reshape cities around the globe.
Florida State’s Jameis Winston, who faced scrutiny this season after being accused of rape, finished 1,501 points ahead of A J McCarron for the seventh-largest victory margin in Heisman history.
A party known as Ataka, which means attack, champions “Bulgaria for Bulgarians” and has denounced Syrian refugees as terrorists whom Bulgaria, the European Union’s poorest nation, must expel.
Mr. O’Toole’s performance in the epic 1962 film earned him overnight fame and established him as one of his generation’s most charismatic actors.
The decision by President Xi Jinping to investigate the former head of the domestic security apparatus is the first time that such a high-level official has been the focus of a formal corruption inquiry.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 11, 2013, covering December 15, 2013.
One Direction
Eminem
Garth Brooks
The Robertsons
Katy Perry
2013Harold Camping, American evangelist, author, radio host (born 1921)[†]
Harold Egbert Camping was an American Christian radio broadcaster and evangelist. Beginning in 1958, he served as president of Family Radio, a California-based radio station group that, at its peak, broadcast to more than 150 markets in the United States. In October 2011, he retired from active broadcasting following a stroke, but still maintained a role at Family Radio until his death. Camping is notorious for issuing a succession of failed predictions of dates for the End Times, which temporarily gained him a global following and millions of dollars of donations.
2013Joan Fontaine, British-American actress (born 1917)[†]
Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland, known professionally as Joan Fontaine, was an English-American actress best known for her roles in Hollywood films during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Fontaine appeared in more than 45 films in a career that spanned five decades. She was the younger sister of actress Olivia de Havilland. Their rivalry was well-documented in the media at the height of Fontaine's career.
2013Dyron Nix, American basketball player (born 1967)[†]
Dyron Patrick Nix was an American professional basketball player. During his professional career, he played in the National Basketball Association (NBA), as well as in several pro leagues overseas.
2013The South Sudanese Civil War begins when opposition leaders Dr. Riek Machar, Pagan Amum and Rebecca Nyandeng vote to boycott the meeting of the National Liberation Council at Nyakuron.[†]
The South Sudanese Civil War was a multi-sided civil war in South Sudan fought from 2013 to 2020, between forces of the government and opposition forces. The civil war caused rampant human rights abuses, including forced displacement, ethnic massacres, and killings of journalists by various parties. Since the war's end, South Sudan has been governed by a coalition formed by leaders of the former warring factions, Salva Kiir Mayardit and Riek Machar. The country continues to recover from the war while experiencing ongoing and systemic ethnic violence.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]