On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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Pledging to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050 from 2005 levels, the de Blasio administration plans to overhaul the energy standards in city buildings.
After eight months of enmity over the protracted presidential election, Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah will have to confront the challenges of jointly governing their country.
The People’s Climate March in Manhattan was a spectacle even for a city known for doing things big, and it was joined, in solidarity, by demonstrations on Sunday across the globe, from Paris to Papua New Guinea.
Female sports broadcasters driving the Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson stories see this as a potentially watershed moment for their profession, a turning point that could bring them more fully into the conversation.
“Gotham,” on Fox, takes place in a Gotham City when Bruce Wayne is still a boy and James Gordon is not yet the police commissioner.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 17, 2014, covering September 21, 2014.
Maroon 5
Jeezy
Soundtrack
Ariana Grande
Bob Marley And The Wailers
2014Michael Harari, Israeli intelligence officer (born 1927)[†]
Michael Harari was an Israeli intelligence officer in the Mossad. He was notably involved in the Lillehammer affair, an attempted revenge killing following the Munich massacre that instead resulted in the murder of an innocent individual in a case of mistaken identity. He was later involved in Operation Entebbe.
2014Caldwell Jones, American basketball player and coach (born 1950)[†]
Caldwell "Pops" Jones Jr. was an American professional basketball player.
2014Sheldon Patinkin, American director and playwright (born 1935)[†]
Sheldon Arthur Patinkin was a chair of the Theater Department of Columbia College Chicago, artistic director of the Getz Theater of Columbia College, Artistic Consultant of The Second City and of Steppenwolf Theatre and co-director of the Steppenwolf Theatre Summer Ensemble Workshops.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]