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January 25, 2014

Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.

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Headlines from January 25, 2014

The Elders of Organic Farming

By Carol Pogash

For nearly a week, two dozen pioneers of sustainable agriculture from the United States and Canada shared decades’ worth of stories, secrets and anxieties.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 22, 2014, covering January 25, 2014.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Frozen by Soundtrack

    Frozen

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    7
  2. 2
    Album cover for Beyonce by Beyonce

    Beyonce

    Beyonce

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    5
  3. 3
    Album cover for My Own Lane by Kid Ink

    My Own Lane

    Kid Ink

    Last week
    —
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    1
  4. 4
    Album cover for The Marshall Mathers LP 2 by Eminem

    The Marshall Mathers LP 2

    Eminem

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    10
  5. 5
    Album cover for Pure Heroine by Lorde

    Pure Heroine

    Lorde

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    15

Notable Deaths

Arthur Doyle

2014Arthur Doyle, American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and flute player (born 1944)[†]

Arthur Doyle was an American jazz saxophonist, bass clarinettist, flutist, and vocalist who was best known for playing what he called "free jazz soul music". Writer Phil Freeman described him as having "one of the fiercest, most unfettered saxophone styles in all of jazz", "a player so explosive that it seems like microphones and recording equipment can barely contain him".

2014Heini Halberstam, Czech-English mathematician and academic (born 1926)[†]

Heini Halberstam was a Czech-born British mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. He is remembered in part for the Elliott–Halberstam conjecture from 1968.

Dave Strack

2014Dave Strack, American basketball player and coach (born 1923)[†]

David H. Strack was an American athletic director for the University of Arizona and head basketball coach at the University of Michigan. He was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.

Morrie Turner

2014Morrie Turner, American cartoonist (born 1923)[†]

Morris Nolton Turner was an American cartoonist. He was creator of the strip Wee Pals, the first American syndicated strip with a racially integrated cast of characters.

Historical Context for January 25, 2014

In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]