On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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It is no longer enough to record seemingly every last moment of life with your smartphone, it seems. Near death is fair game, too.
Among young people and certain gregarious and gestural adults, the hug has become the default greeting, and handshakes have faded.
Antonio Pierce, a captain for the 2008 Super Bowl champion Giants, has taken over as head coach at Long Beach Polytechnic High, a dominant program in Southern California.
Loopholes in a law have left hundreds of thousands of service members across the country vulnerable to potentially predatory loans.
Gov. John W. Hickenlooper and his opponent, Bob Beauprez, are trying to appeal to urban and rural voters who are split ideologically.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 24, 2014, covering September 27, 2014.
Lecrae
Maroon 5
Jhene Aiko
Ryan Adams
Lee Brice
2014Gaby Aghion, French fashion designer, founded Chloé (born 1921)[†]
Gabrielle Aghion was a French fashion designer and founder of the French fashion house Chloé. She is said to have coined the phrase "prêt-à-porter".
2014Wally Hergesheimer, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1927)[†]
Walter Edgar Hergesheimer was a Canadian ice hockey forward.
2014Abdelmajid Lakhal, Tunisian actor and director (born 1939)[†]
Abdelmajid Lakhal was a Tunisian theatre and film actor and theatre director. He was considered to be a professional and versatile interpreter. Recently, he performed classical pieces translated into Arabic, at the Municipal theatre of Tunis, which were well received. He was known on Arab Television for acting in many telefilms.
2014James Traficant, American lawyer and politician (born 1941)[†]
James Anthony Traficant Jr. was an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio. A staunch economic populist known for his flamboyant personality, he represented the 17th congressional district, which centered on his hometown of Youngstown and included parts of three counties in northeast Ohio's Mahoning Valley.
201463 people are killed in an eruption of Mount Ontake in Japan.[†]
A volcanic eruption of Mount Ontake took place on September 27, 2014, killing 63 people. Mount Ontake is a volcano located on the Japanese island of Honshu around 100 kilometres (62 mi) northeast of Nagoya and around 200 km (120 mi) west of Tokyo. It was the first fatal volcanic eruption in Japan since the 1991 eruption at Mount Unzen, and the deadliest volcanic eruption in Japan since Torishima killed an estimated 150 people in 1902.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]