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September 24, 2014

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 24, 2014, covering September 24, 2014.

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    Album cover for Anomaly by Lecrae

    Anomaly

    Lecrae

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    Album cover for V by Maroon 5

    V

    Maroon 5

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    Album cover for Souled Out by Jhene Aiko

    Souled Out

    Jhene Aiko

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    Album cover for Ryan Adams by Ryan Adams

    Ryan Adams

    Ryan Adams

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    Album cover for I Dont Dance by Lee Brice

    I Dont Dance

    Lee Brice

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Notable Deaths

Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

2014Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, English aristocrat, socialite, and author (born 1920)[†]

Deborah Vivien Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire,, was an English aristocrat, writer, memoirist, and socialite. She was the youngest and last surviving of the six Mitford sisters, who were prominent members of British society in the 1930s and 1940s.

Christopher Hogwood

2014Christopher Hogwood, English harpsichord player and conductor, founded the Academy of Ancient Music (born 1941)[†]

Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood was an English conductor, harpsichordist, and musicologist. Founder of the early music ensemble the Academy of Ancient Music, he was an authority on historically informed performance and a leading figure in the early music revival of the late 20th century.

2014Madis Kõiv, Estonian physicist, philosopher, and author (born 1929)[†]

Madis Kõiv was an Estonian writer, philosopher and physicist.

Historical Events

Mars Orbiter Mission

2014The Mars Orbiter Mission makes India the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in the world to do so in its first attempt.[†]

Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), unofficially known as Mangalyaan, is a space probe orbiting Mars since 24 September 2014. It was launched on 5 November 2013 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It was India's first interplanetary mission and it made ISRO the fourth space agency to achieve Mars orbit, after Soviet space program, NASA, and the European Space Agency. It made India the first Asian nation to reach Martian orbit, first national space agency In the world to do so with an indigenously developed propulsion system and the second national space agency in the world to do so on its maiden attempt after the European Space Agency did aboard a Roscosmos Soyuz/Fregat rocket in 2003.

Historical Context for September 24, 2014

In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]