On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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The nearly naked “desnudas” are just the latest incarnation of the subversive go-getter, an element integral to New York.
Plummeting stock markets worldwide signal that investors have not gotten over the shock of China’s devaluation last week.
Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York wants to rein in the behavior, but if he tries, the city faces many obstacles.
The words are full of passion, but the senator and his followers speak to an angry vision of a broken system that requires fundamental change.
The downturn threatens to end one of the longest bull runs in the history of the United States stock market.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 19, 2015, covering August 21, 2015.
Soundtrack
Future
Taylor Swift
Ed Sheeran
Jill Scott
2015Colin Beyer, New Zealand lawyer and businessman (born 1938)[†]
Colin Andrew Nielsen Beyer was a New Zealand lawyer. He was a partner and then consultant with Simpson Grierson in Wellington. Also a prominent businessman with many governance positions, Beyer was a securities commissioner on the Securities Commission of New Zealand from 2001 until 2010. He was the stepfather of former Member of Parliament Georgina Beyer.
2015Wang Dongxing, Chinese commander and politician (born 1916)[†]
Wang Dongxing was a Chinese military commander and politician, famous for being the chief of Mao Zedong's personal bodyguard force, the 9th Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security. Wang held many important positions, both in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the government; he was Deputy Minister of Public Security in 1955–1958 and again in 1960–1970 and notably served as CCP Vice Chairman from 1977 to 1980, under Chairman Hua Guofeng.
2015Jimmy Evert, American tennis player and coach (born 1924)[†]
James Andrew "Jimmy" Evert was an American tennis coach and player. He was the father of Chris Evert, who was one of the world's top women tennis players in the 1970s and 1980s.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]