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In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]
2014John T. Downey, American CIA agent and judge (born 1930)[†]
John Thomas Downey or Jack Downey was an American judge and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. As a CIA operative, he was shot down over China during the Korean War and was held prisoner for over twenty years. While Downey was never part of the US military, the CIA described him as the longest-held prisoner of war in United States history.
2014Bill Frenzel, American lieutenant and politician (born 1928)[†]
William Eldridge Frenzel was an American politician and businessman who represented Minnesota's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1991. A member of the Republican Party, Frenzel previously served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1963 to 1971.
2014Ray Sadecki, American baseball player (born 1940)[†]
Raymond Michael Sadecki was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. He is best remembered as the left-handed complement to Bob Gibson, who in 1964, won 20 games to lead the St. Louis Cardinals to their first World Series title in eighteen years. He was notable for throwing the palmball.
2014Patrick Suppes, American psychologist and philosopher (born 1922)[†]
Patrick Colonel Suppes was an American philosopher who made significant contributions to philosophy of science, the theory of measurement, the foundations of quantum mechanics, decision theory, psychology and educational technology. He was the Lucie Stern Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Stanford University and until January 2010 was the Director of the Education Program for Gifted Youth also at Stanford.
The country’s gross domestic product shrank by an annualized pace of 1.6 percent in the most recent quarter, threatening a planned tax increase.
Called administrative in nature, the investigation was seeking to verify that properly licensed personnel were the only ones distributing the medications to players.
In Guinea’s Forest Region, villages that have refused outside help to fight the Ebola outbreak are starting to soften their resistance.
The new screen is eight stories tall and nearly as long as a football field, spanning the entire block from 45th Street to 46th Street on Broadway.
Thaiya Spruill-Smith is technically dead but hooked up to machines because her mother wants her organs to help others, while her father says that would be a desecration.
As negotiations resume this week, there is skepticism among leaders in the United States and many of its allies that a deal can be struck.
Hugh Jackman stars in Jez Butterworth’s Broadway play “The River,” a poetic tease of a drama.
In “Our Lady of Kibeho,” a girl’s visions of the Virgin Mary spread beyond her Rwandan village school.
A community in Indiana came together after an 11-year-old sustained a severe head injury during a game.
Barry Diller, the billionaire chairman of IAC/InterActiveCorp, has pledged $130 million toward a park and performance space that would sit atop a platform off the Hudson River shoreline.
Rachel Noerdlinger, the chief of staff to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, said that after the arrest of her son on Friday, she believed she needed to spend more time with her family.
The $66 billion acquisition by Actavis would be the largest deal this year and would thwart the takeover effort of Valeant and William A. Ackman.