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November 12, 2015

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 11, 2015, covering November 12, 2015.

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    Album cover for Sounds Good Feels Good by 5 Seconds of Summer

    Sounds Good Feels Good

    5 Seconds of Summer

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    Album cover for Storyteller by Carrie Underwood

    Storyteller

    Carrie Underwood

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    Album cover for Beauty Behind The Madness by The Weeknd

    Beauty Behind The Madness

    The Weeknd

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    Album cover for Fetty Wap by Fetty Wap

    Fetty Wap

    Fetty Wap

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    Album cover for Reloaded: 20 #1 Hits by Blake Shelton

    Reloaded: 20 #1 Hits

    Blake Shelton

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Notable Deaths

MĂĄrton FĂŒlöp

2015MĂĄrton FĂŒlöp, Hungarian footballer (born 1983)[†]

MĂĄrton FĂŒlöp was a Hungarian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Jihadi John

2015Jihadi John, terrorist (born 1988)[†]

Mohammed Emwazi was a British militant of Kuwaiti origin seen in several videos produced by the Islamist extremist group Islamic State (IS) showing the beheadings of a number of captives in 2014 and 2015. A group of his hostages nicknamed him "John" since he was part of a four-person terrorist cell with English accents whom they called 'The Beatles'; the press later began calling him "Jihadi John".

Historical Events

Suicide attack

2015Two suicide bombers detonate explosives in Bourj el-Barajneh, Beirut, killing 43 people and injuring over 200 others.[†]

A suicide attack is a deliberate attack in which the perpetrators knowingly sacrifice their own lives as part of the attack. These attacks are a form of murder–suicide that is often associated with terrorism or war. When the attackers are labelled as terrorists, the attacks are sometimes referred to as an act of "suicide terrorism". While generally not inherently regulated under international law, suicide attacks in their execution often violate international laws of war, such as prohibitions against perfidy and targeting civilians.

Historical Context for November 12, 2015

In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]