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Multinational corporations are clawing market share from Chinese brands in their home market. In response, China’s automakers are pushing to preserve protectionist policies.
The 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act is a painful reminder to President Obama that Lyndon B. Johnson might have been the last president able to push through such sweeping legislation.
The International Monetary Fund has been moving away from its single-minded focus on spending cuts, and broadening its scope.
The review suggests that the first to sign up through the new insurance marketplaces were more likely to face serious health problems than those who get coverage through their employer.
Some doctors who take Medicare received millions of dollars each in a single year, according to newly released data that provides an unprecedented look at the practice of medicine in the United States.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 9, 2014, covering April 9, 2014.
Soundtrack
Shakira
Johnny Cash
Memphis May Fire
Pharrell Williams
2014Gil Askey, American trumpet player, composer, and producer (born 1925)[†]
Gilbert Askey was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, producer and musical director who was born in Austin, Texas, and emigrated to Australia in 1988.
2014Chris Banks, American football player (born 1973)[†]
Warren Christopher Banks was an American football guard in the National Football League (NFL). Drafted out of the University of Kansas by the Broncos with the 226th overall pick in the seventh round of the 1996 NFL draft, Banks won a Super Bowl ring as a member of the Broncos' Super Bowl XXXIII championship team in 1998. Banks also played for the Barcelona Dragons and Atlanta Falcons. Banks died at his home in Abingdon, Maryland, on April 9, 2014.
2014Rory Ellinger, American lawyer and politician (born 1941)[†]
Rory Vincent Ellinger was an American lawyer and politician. Ellinger was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He served as the Representative for Pagedale, University City, and Wellston in St. Louis County in the Missouri House of Representatives. He was elected to his first two-year term in November 2010 on the Democratic Party ticket.
2014Norman Girvan, Jamaican economist, academic, and politician (born 1941)[†]
Norman P. Girvan was a Jamaican professor, Secretary General of the Association of Caribbean States between 2000 and 2004. He was born in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica. He died aged 72 in Cuba on 9 April 2014, after having suffered a fall while hiking in Dominica in early 2014. He had been a member of the United Nations Committee on Development Policy since 2009, and in 2010 was appointed the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's personal representative on the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy. He was Professor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI).
2014Aelay Narendra, Indian politician (born 1946)[†]
Ale Narendra was an Indian politician who was a member of the 13th and 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Medak Lok Sabha in 1999 and Medak in 2004. He was 3 time MLA from Himayatnagar Constituency in 1983, 1988, 1992. He was one of the biggest proponents for Telangana statehood. Ale Narendra and other individuals associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
2014A. N. R. Robinson, Trinbagonian politician, 3rd President of Trinidad and Tobago (born 1926)[†]
Arthur Napoleon Raymond Robinson, was a Trinidad and Tobago politician who was the third president of the country, serving from 19 March 1997 to 17 March 2003. He was also Trinidad and Tobago's third prime minister, serving in that capacity from 18 December 1986 to 17 December 1991. He is recognized for his proposal that eventually led to the founding of the International Criminal Court.
2014Svetlana Velmar-Janković, Serbian author (born 1933)[†]
Svetlana Velmar-Janković was a Serbian novelist, essayist, chronicler of Belgrade, and first female laureate of the Isidora Sekulić Award. She was considered to be one of the most important Serbian female authors of her time. In 2001, the French President Jacques Chirac honored her with the Chevalier medal of Legion of Honor because she always took care to preserve the humanist values which unite her and her country with the rest of Europe.
2014A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.[†]
The Franklin Regional High School stabbing was a mass stabbing that took place on April 9, 2014, at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania. Alexander Hribal, a 16-year-old sophomore at the school, used a pair of eight-inch kitchen knives to stab and slash 20 students and a security guard. Four students sustained life-threatening injuries, but all survived.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]