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A tiny start-up in Silicon Valley is one of 15 first-time advertisers that will compete for attention on Sunday against the usual lineup of deep-pocketed brands.
As the Seahawks’ defensive passing game specialist, Rocky Seto deals with the minutiae of the game as the “detail guy.”
Buying a used car in the United States can be a dangerous proposition if the vehicle has an unadvertised safety defect.
The diplomatic break touched off by Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to negotiate an address to Congress without first telling President Obama reflects their fundamentally different world views.
As officials in 14 states grapple with a measles outbreak, the parents at the heart of America’s anti-vaccine movement are being blamed for a public-health crisis.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 28, 2015, covering January 31, 2015.
Meghan Trainor
Taylor Swift
Kidz Bop Kids
Ed Sheeran
Mark Ronson
2015Vic Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1929)[†]
Victor Stanley Howe was a Canadian professional ice hockey right wing. He played 33 games in the National Hockey League with the New York Rangers between 1951 and 1955. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1948 to 1957, was spent in various minor leagues. Howe's brother, Gordie, and nephews Mark and Marty all played in the NHL as well; both Gordie and Mark are in the Hockey Hall of Fame.
2015Udo Lattek, German footballer, coach, and journalist (born 1935)[†]
Udo Lattek was a German professional football player and coach.
2015Lizabeth Scott, American actress (born 1922)[†]
Lizabeth Virginia Scott was an American actress, singer, and model for the Walter Thornton Model Agency, known for her "smoky voice" and being "the most beautiful face of film noir during the 1940s and 1950s". After understudying the role of Sabina in the original Broadway and Boston stage productions of The Skin of Our Teeth, she emerged in such films as The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), Dead Reckoning (1947), Desert Fury (1947), and Too Late for Tears (1949). Of her 22 films, she was the leading lady in all but three. In addition to stage and radio, she appeared on television from the late 1940s to early 1970s.
2015Richard von Weizsäcker, German captain and politician, 6th President of Germany (born 1920)[†]
Richard Karl Freiherr von Weizsäcker was a German politician (CDU), who served as President of Germany from 1984 to 1994. Born into the aristocratic Weizsäcker family, who were part of the German nobility, he took his first public offices in the Protestant Church in Germany.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]