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Rickie Fowler has taken a serious approach to the major championships this year, putting the focus on the scorecard rather than his formerly vivid style of dress.
As Kurdish officials said they were making advances against Sunni militants, Iraq's political crisis deepened, with a deadline expiring for the president to choose a nominee for prime minister.
Tony Stewart, a three-time Nascar champion, ran over Kevin Ward Jr., 20, on Saturday while competing in a dirt-track sprint car event in upstate New York.
The labor strife at the Metropolitan Opera has inflamed the passions of opera lovers.
“Not Nothing: Selected Writings by Ray Johnson, 1954-1994” paints that artist’s portrait through his correspondence.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 6, 2014, covering August 10, 2014.
5 Seconds of Summer
Soundtrack
Weird Al Yankovic
Sam Smith
Kidz Bop Kids
2014Jim Command, American baseball player and scout (born 1928)[†]
James Dalton Command was an American professional baseball player and scout. He had two separate trials with the 1954–55 Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball (MLB), starting four games as a third baseman in July 1954, while also serving as a pinch hitter and pinch runner, playing in a total of 14 big league games. However, Command was a versatile performer during a 14-season minor league career – playing all the infield positions, the outfield, and, late in his career, converting to catcher.
2014Dotty Lynch, American journalist and academic (born 1945)[†]
Dotty Lynch was an academic, journalist and political pollster, best known for being the first woman to be chief polltaker for a presidential campaign when she worked for Gary Hart. She also served as political advisor to George McGovern and Jimmy Carter.
2014Kathleen Ollerenshaw, English mathematician, astronomer, and politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester (born 1912)[†]
Dame Kathleen Mary Ollerenshaw, was a British mathematician and politician who was Lord Mayor of Manchester from 1975 to 1976 and an advisor on educational matters to Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s.
2014Bob Wiesler, American baseball player (born 1930)[†]
Robert George Wiesler was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees and Washington Senators in parts of five seasons spanning 1951–1958. Listed at 6' 3", 188 lb., he was a switch-hitter and threw left-handed.
2014Forty people are killed when Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 crashes at Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport.[†]
Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Iranian capital Tehran Mehrabad International Airport to Tabas, South Khorasan province, Iran. On 10 August 2014, the HESA IrAn-140 twin turboprop serving the flight crashed shortly after takeoff from Mehrabad International Airport, falling into a boulevard near the Azadi Stadium. Of the 42 passengers and six crew on board, 40 people died.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]