On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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The inability or unwillingness of OPEC to curb production showed that it was no longer the dominating force behind global fuel supplies and prices.
A group of academics is joining the Saudi government in a project to lower the hurdles keeping women from becoming employed.
Activists are divided by aim and by geography, with goals of justice for Michael Brown or an end to lethal police force against minorities.
The alcohol industry is booming in many states, fueled by a growing taste for whiskey and craft beer, and changes to regulations and tax policies.
An arbitrator’s overturning of Rice’s suspension put yet another crack in the credibility and authority of the N.F.L. commissioner.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 26, 2014, covering November 29, 2014.
Taylor Swift
Foo Fighters
Pink Floyd
Garth Brooks
Big K.R.I.T.
2014Dwayne Alons, American general and politician (born 1946)[†]
Dwayne Arlan Alons was an American politician. A Republican, he sat in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1999 to 2014, representing the 5th district until 2003, and the 4th district thereafter. He was a brigadier general in the Iowa Air National Guard and served as chief of staff at its headquarters. Alons died of cancer on November 29, 2014. He was succeeded in office by John Kooiker.
2014Dick Bresciani, American businessman (born 1938)[†]
Richard L. Bresciani became the Vice President/Publications and Archives for the Boston Red Sox in 2003 after serving as Vice President of Public Affairs since November, 1996. He had been Vice President of Public Relations since August 1987. He was born in Hopedale, Massachusetts. He joined the Red Sox in May, 1972 as assistant public relations director, became publicity director in 1978 and public relations director in June, 1984.
2014Mark Strand, Canadian-born American poet, essayist, and translator (born 1934)[†]
Mark Strand was a Canadian-born American poet, essayist and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990 and received the Wallace Stevens Award in 2004. Strand was a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University from 2005 until his death in 2014.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]