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Revisit the news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]
Michelle Obama is to deliver a commencement address at “the poor man’s Harvard,” where critics say a funding crisis is threatening its mission.
Golden State, facing elimination for a second straight game, trailed for most of the game but preserved its chances of repeating as champion with a late run.
The number of veterans with multiple tours of combat duty is the largest in modern American history — more than 90,000 soldiers and Marines.
Kerr, now Golden State’s coach, played on the Bulls team whose win record the Warriors surpassed, another juggernaut that had to beat back a conference finals challenge.
Europe was again confronted with the horrors of its refugee crisis during a deadly three-day stretch on the sea, which is becoming a more popular migrant route.
The remake of this 1977 generational saga of slavery is optimistic in focusing on its characters’ strength, sober in recognizing that we may never stop needing reminders of whose lives matter.
Surveillance and hacking tools are becoming increasingly popular among a wide range of nations, many of which use the methods to monitor, silence and punish their critics.
The East Hampton Star is a 131-year testament to the central role that local, family-owned newspapers can still play.
A new wave of bleak, post-revolutionary fiction is emerging from writers grappling with the chaotic aftermath and stinging disappointments of the Arab Spring.
Lincoln Center is trying to move forward on a $500 million renovation after its president, a key player, stepped down last month in a scandal.
“X-Men: Apocalypse” took in an estimated $65 million between Friday and Sunday, while “Alice Through the Looking Glass” bombed, generating only $28.1 million.
A boarding school figures into this story that skillfully mixes fantasy, morality and imagination.