On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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Some of the cars being recalled by General Motors for problems related to the ignition switch that are still being driven by their owners may still pose a danger to the owner and other motorists.
After 100 days as mayor, Bill de Blasio is sleeping less than six hours a night, stealing downtime with his son and pledging to “focus even more deeply” on the grass-roots-activist style he took to City Hall.
The bug known as Heartbleed illustrates that the Internet is still in its youth, and vulnerable to all sorts of unseen dangers, including simple human error.
Security researchers say consumers should make sure they change their passwords after a flaw on some websites is fixed, but figuring that out may not be easy.
Ophthalmologists say treatments like cataract operations and an expensive macular degeneration drug skew their Medicare reimbursements.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 9, 2014, covering April 10, 2014.
Soundtrack
Shakira
Johnny Cash
Memphis May Fire
Pharrell Williams
2014Dominique Baudis, French journalist and politician (born 1947)[†]
Dominique Baudis was the French Defender of Rights (ombudsman). Formerly a journalist, politician and mayor of Toulouse, he had been a member of Liberal Democracy and later of the leading centre-right Union for a Popular Movement.
2014Jim Flaherty, Canadian lawyer and politician, 37th Canadian Minister of Finance (born 1949)[†]
James Michael Flaherty was a Canadian politician who served as the federal minister of finance from 2006 to 2014 under Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
2014Richard Hoggart, English author and academic (born 1918)[†]
Herbert Richard Hoggart was an English academic whose career covered the fields of sociology, English literature and cultural studies, with emphasis on British popular culture.
2014Sue Townsend, English author and playwright (born 1946)[†]
Susan Lillian Townsend was an English writer and humorist whose work encompasses novels, plays and works of journalism. She was best known for creating the character Adrian Mole.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]