On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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The debate that began three years ago after revelations about government surveillance has become more personal, now that smartphones are involved.
Conversations with volunteers at a small Trump campaign office in an old cigar factory yielded some surprises on the subjects of race, ethnicity and bigotry.
Early-stage investors, the venture capitalists who identify and fund a promising company at its infancy, often reap the greatest returns.
Members of a tight-knit transgender community come together to support a dying friend in this musical.
A victory by Gov. John Kasich in his home state would toughen Donald J. Trump’s path to the Republican nomination, while Senator Bernie Sanders, a Democrat, seeks a repeat of his Michigan upset.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 9, 2016, covering March 14, 2016.
Adele
Rihanna
Justin Bieber
Yo Gotti
Chris Stapleton
2016John W. Cahn, German-American metallurgist and academic (born 1928)[†]
John Werner Cahn was an American scientist and recipient of the 1998 National Medal of Science. Born in Cologne, Weimar Germany, he was a professor in the department of metallurgy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1964 to 1978. From 1977, he held a position at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Cahn had a profound influence on the course of materials research during his career. One of the foremost authorities on thermodynamics, Cahn applied the basic laws of thermodynamics to describe and predict a wide range of physical phenomena.
2016Peter Maxwell Davies, English composer and conductor (born 1934)[†]
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was an English composer and conductor, who in 2004 was made Master of the Queen's Music.
2016Suranimala Rajapaksha, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (born 1949)[†]
Rajapakse Mohottige Don Suranimala Rajapaksha was a Sri Lankan politician. Rajapaksha was first elected to the Parliament of Sri Lanka in 1994 and he was the Minister of School Education in the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka from 2001 to 2004. He was a member of the United National Party (UNP) and a member of the UNP Working Committee. He was also appointed as the Coordinating secretary to the prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in 2015. At the time of his death he acted as the special envoy (representative) to the Prime Minister. His younger son Kanishka Rajapaksha was also appointed as the Coordinating Assistant to the Prime Minister after the death of Rajapaksha. Kanishka is an attorney at law.
In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]