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After rain cut a pregame ceremony short, Rodriguez hit a run-scoring double in the first inning against the Tampa Bay Rays for his final hit in pinstripes.
Insurance companies are facing the problem of selling products in an era of near-zero interest rates, and they’re squeezing many policyholders.
“An African City,” the steamy Ghanaian web series about five young women looking for love, becomes a critique of both Western and African cultures.
The heated presidential campaign of 2016 seeps into private life.
Tens of thousands of asylum seekers are languishing in camps, with more trickling in, and neither Western and Northern Europe nor Turkey are doing much to help.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 10, 2016, covering August 13, 2016.
Drake
Gucci Mane
Twenty One Pilots
Rihanna
Various Artists
2016Kenny Baker, English actor and musician (born 1934)[†]
Kenneth George Baker was an English actor, comedian and musician. He portrayed the character R2-D2 in the Star Wars franchise and also appeared in The Elephant Man, Time Bandits, Willow, Flash Gordon, Amadeus and Labyrinth.
2016Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Indian Hindu leader (born 1921)[†]
Pramukh Swami Maharaj was the guru and Pramukh, or president, of the Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS), a major branch of the Swaminarayan Sampradaya, a Hindu denomination. BAPS regards him as the fifth spiritual successor of Swaminarayan, following Gunatitanand Swami, Bhagatji Maharaj, Shastriji Maharaj, and Yogiji Maharaj. He was believed by his followers to be in constant communion with Swaminarayan, and ontologically, the manifestation of Akshar, the eternal abode of Swaminarayan.
In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]