On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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Dealers contend that not all recalls require immediate attention, though regulators say recalls, by definition, involve pressing safety concerns.
Across Central America, a kidney disease has killed at least 20,000 people over a decade and is so poorly understood that it does not have a universally agreed upon name.
A Medicaid overhaul in New York has shifted $6 billion in public spending on long-term services for disabled and aged people to managed care companies.
The Russian president traveled to Sevastopol, where he used the anniversary of victory over the Nazis to assert that Moscow had the right to annex the peninsula.
Looking to the future, high school seniors can draw revealing portraits in writing about their financial circumstances.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 7, 2014, covering May 9, 2014.
Soundtrack
Future
Iggy Azalea
Pharrell Williams
August Alsina
2014Giacomo Bini, Italian priest and missionary (born 1938)[†]
Giacomo Bini was a Franciscan priest. Ordained in 1964, he worked as a missionary in Africa, and was appointed Minister General of the Order of the Friars Minor (OFM) for the period 1997–2003. He was fluent in Italian, French, English, Spanish, and Kiswahili.
2014Harlan Mathews, American lawyer and politician (born 1927)[†]
Harlan Mathews was an American politician who was an appointed interim Democratic United States Senator from Tennessee from 1993 to 1994. He previously served in the executive and legislative branches of state government in Tennessee for more than 40 years beginning in 1950.
2014Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy, Indian politician, 12th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (born 1935)[†]
Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy was an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh. A member of the Indian National Congress, he represented the Visakhapatnam constituency in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian legislature. From 1990 to 1992, he served as 12th chief minister of Andhra Pradesh. His wife, Nedurumalli Rajyalakshmi, was a minister in the Government of Andhra Pradesh between 2004 and 2014.
2014Mary Stewart, British author and poet (born 1916)[†]
Mary, Lady Stewart was a British novelist who developed the romantic mystery genre, featuring smart, adventurous heroines who could hold their own in dangerous situations. She also wrote children's books and poetry, but may be best known for her Merlin series, which straddles the boundary between the historical novel and fantasy.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]