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In one of the most stunning primary election upsets in congressional history, Mr. Cantor, the House majority leader, was soundly defeated by David Brat, a Tea Party-backed candidate.
A program for teenage boys in Chicago makes a contribution to the battle against entrenched income inequality.
The objection to hand over email stored in an Irish data center is believed to be the first time a corporation has challenged a domestic search warrant seeking digital information overseas.
A decision by the Food and Drug Administration to question the use of wooden planks to age some cheeses has prompted an uproar among artisanal cheese makers and some consumers.
The bank made its final multibillion-dollar settlement offer Monday, but it was said to be short of what the Justice Department wants it to pay for its role in the mortgage crisis.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 11, 2014, covering June 11, 2014.
Coldplay
Brantley Gilbert
Mariah Carey
Soundtrack
Austin Mahone
2014Ruby Dee, American actress (born 1922)[â ]
Ruby Dee was an American actress. She was married to Ossie Davis, with whom she frequently performed until his death in 2005. She received numerous accolades, including an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Obie Award, and a Drama Desk Award, as well as a nomination for an Academy Award. She was honored with the National Medal of Arts in 1995, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2000, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004.
2014Rafael FrĂŒhbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor and composer (born 1933)[â ]
Rafael FrĂŒhbeck de Burgos was a Spanish conductor and composer. FrĂŒhbeck was born in Burgos, Spain to a family of German ancestry. He first took up conducting while on military service in the Spanish Army before graduating from the Hochschule fĂŒr Musik in Munich. FrĂŒhbeck was principal conductor of various orchestras around the world, starting with the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra from 1958 to 1962, then moving on to the Spanish National Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra of Tokyo and many others. Throughout his career FrĂŒhbeck de Burgos recorded on a number of labels. He was a member of the Academy of Fine Arts and History InstituciĂłn FernĂĄn GonzĂĄlez. His honours include the 2011 Conductor of the Year award from Musical America.
2014Susan B. Horwitz, American computer scientist, engineer, and academic (born 1955)[â ]
Susan Beth Horwitz was an American computer scientist noted for her research on programming languages and software engineering, and in particular on program slicing and dataflow-analysis. She had several best paper and an impact paper award mentioned below under awards.
2014Mipham Chokyi Lodro, Tibetan lama and educator (born 1952)[â ]
Mipham Chokyi Lodro, also known as Kunzig Shamar Rinpoche, was the fourteenth Shamarpa of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. The Shamarpa is the second-most important teacher of the Karma Kagyu school, after the Karmapa.
2014Benjamin Mophatlane, South African businessman (born 1973)[â ]
Leetile Benjamin Mophatlane was a South African business magnate, and former Chief Executive Officer of Business Connexion Group. He died on 11 June 2014 after suffering cardiac arrest while in a meeting in Rosebank in Johannesburg.
2014Carlton Sherwood, American soldier and journalist (born 1947)[â ]
Carlton Alex Sherwood was an American journalist who produced the anti-John Kerry film Stolen Honor. Sherwood served on two news teams which were responsible for the award of the Pulitzer Prize and the Peabody Award to their organizations.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[â ]