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The Federal Communications Commission has received hundreds of thousands of comments on a plan that would govern how data is passed along through the Internet.
Unpredictable hours and on-call shifts have kindled a nationwide movement to give part-time workers more rights.
Most cigarette flavorings have been outlawed since 2009, out of concern that they lure the young into nicotine addiction, but the industry is adding hundreds of flavors every month.
When asked by federal regulators to explain deadly crashes, G.M. repeatedly said it had no answers — despite having reached internal conclusions on the causes.
Despite retiring as president and chief executive, Dr. Herbert Pardes continues to earn millions as executive vice chairman of the hospital’s board of trustees.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 16, 2014, covering July 16, 2014.
Trey Songz
Ed Sheeran
Sam Smith
Seether
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2014Karl Albrecht, German businessman, co-founded Aldi (born 1920)[†]
Karl Hans Albrecht was a German entrepreneur who founded the discount supermarket chain Aldi with his brother Theo. He was the richest person in Germany for many years. In February 2014, he was ranked the 21st-richest person in the world by Hurun Report.
2014Mary Ellen Otremba, American educator and politician (born 1950)[†]
Mary Ellen Dinkel Otremba was an American politician and a former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives who represented District 11B, which includes portions of Douglas and Todd counties in the west central part of the state. A Democrat, she was also a substitute teacher and farmer. On May 19, 2010, she announced that she would not seek an eighth term.
2014Johnny Winter, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1944)[†]
John Dawson Winter III was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. Winter was known for his high-energy blues rock albums, live performances, and slide guitar playing from the late 1960s into the early 2000s. He also produced three Grammy Award-winning albums for blues singer and guitarist Muddy Waters. After his time with Waters, Winter recorded several Grammy-nominated blues albums. In 1988, he was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame and in 2003, he was ranked 63rd in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
2014Heinz Zemanek, Austrian computer scientist and academic (born 1920)[†]
Heinz Zemanek was an Austrian computer pioneer who led the development, from 1954 to 1958, of one of the first complete transistorised computers on the European continent. The computer was nicknamed Mailüfterl — Viennese for "May breeze" — in reference to Whirlwind, a computer developed at MIT between 1945 and 1951.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]