On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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Democrats are more reliant than they have ever been on the very kind of big-money groups they have spent years trying to outlaw.
Poor and haunted by the devastating 2010 earthquake, Haiti’s women’s national team is pursuing a spot at next summer’s Women’s World Cup in Canada.
The author who mocked the Frog Pond will join Boston’s literary big fish with the unveiling of a statue in the city.
Brandon Belt’s home run lifted San Francisco past Washington in the longest game by time — 6 hours 23 minutes — in major league postseason history.
Giraffes may be popular — a staple of zoos, corporate logos and the plush toy industry — but until recently almost nobody studied giraffes in the field so there is much we don’t know about them.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 1, 2014, covering October 5, 2014.
Barbra Streisand
Chris Brown
Tim McGraw
George Strait
Train
2014David Chavchavadze, English-American CIA officer and author (born 1924)[†]
David Chavchavadze was a British-born American author and a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer of Georgian-Russian origin.
2014Andrea de Cesaris, Italian racing driver (born 1959)[†]
Andrea de Cesaris was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1980 to 1994.
2014Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer (born 1930)[†]
Geoffrey Lamont Holder was a Trinidadian-American actor, dancer, musician, director, choreographer, and artist. He was a principal dancer for the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, before his film career began in 1957 with an appearance in Carib Gold. For his theatre work, he won two Tony Awards, Best Direction of a Musical and Best Costume Design in a Musical for the original Broadway production of The Wiz.
2014Yuri Lyubimov, Russian actor and director (born 1917)[†]
Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov was a Soviet and Russian stage actor and director associated with the internationally renowned Taganka Theatre, which he founded in 1964. He was one of the leading names in the Russian theatre world.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]