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The Kansas City Royals staged a three-run rally in the eighth inning, thanks in part to a key error by Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy.
Daniel Murphy’s defensive miscue helped the Kansas City Royals take a 3-1 series lead against the Mets, but there were plenty of failures around him as well.
The results of a snap election represent a stunning electoral comeback, and ensure another period of single-party government in Turkey.
A day of mourning was held Sunday for 224 who died in the Egyptian Sinai crash, while the transportation minister said flight recorders had been found.
The senators brought similar backgrounds and Tea Party fervor to Washington, but any alliance between them frayed as they moved closer to seeking the White House.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 28, 2015, covering November 1, 2015.
Selena Gomez
The Game
The Weeknd
Fetty Wap
Drake & Future
2015Thomas R. Fitzgerald, American lawyer and judge (born 1941)[†]
Thomas Robert Fitzgerald was a chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court. Amid the impeachment of governor Rod Blagojevich, Fitzgerald became the first Illinois chief justice to preside over a gubernatorial impeachment trial.
2015Houston McTear, American sprinter (born 1957)[†]
Houston McTear was an American sprinter, who emerged from desperate poverty in the Florida Panhandle to become an international track star in the mid-1970s.
2015Charles Duncan Michener, American entomologist and academic (born 1918)[†]
Charles Duncan Michener was an American entomologist born in Pasadena, California. He was a leading expert on bees, his magnum opus being The Bees of the World published in 2000.
2015Günter Schabowski, German journalist and politician (born 1929)[†]
Günter Schabowski was a German politician who served as an official of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, the ruling party during most of the existence of East Germany. After climbing up the party ladder, he became the regime's unofficial spokesman. He gained worldwide fame in November 1989 when he improvised a slightly mistaken answer to a press conference question about the future of the Berlin Wall, that seemed to announce the Wall's immediate end and raised popular expectations much more rapidly than the government planned. Massive crowds gathered at the Wall the same night, which forced its opening after 28 years. Soon afterward, the entire inner German border was opened; not much later, East Germany ceased to exist.
2015Fred Thompson, American actor, lawyer, and politician (born 1942)[†]
Freddie Dalton Thompson was an American politician, attorney, lobbyist, columnist, actor, and radio personality. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States senator from Tennessee from 1994 to 2003. He was an unsuccessful candidate in the Republican Party presidential primaries for the 2008 United States presidential election.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]