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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[†]
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The former Bulls Derrick Rose and Joakim Noah returned to Chicago on Friday night and were greeted by boos and cheers as they helped the Knicks win, 117-104.
This was the season Major League Baseball was going to get serious about reducing fan injuries, by extending protective netting. A woman’s injury in Game 7 of the World Series proved otherwise.
Assigning sexually demeaning rankings to incoming members of the women’s soccer team leads the prestigious university to cancel the remainder of the men’s season.
A rare visit to the city’s western side revealed weariness and violence despite President Bashar al-Assad’s claims that residents are safe.
Dismissed early on by critics, the first lady has evolved into a powerful presence on the campaign trail.
On their new television show, “Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party,” an odd couple dispense wit and kitchen wisdom.
The mammoth Yale endowment fund run by David Swensen has been a training ground for investment managers, its alumni now scattered through the nonprofit world.
Once so close they flirted with a merger, the software giants became archrivals when they realized the value of the data amassed by social networks.
Black lawyers, racial justice groups and liberal donors, led by the hedge fund billionaire George Soros, are combining forces to try to propel more African-American district attorneys into office.
A state that once seemed promising for Democrats in their bid to take back the Senate is now seeing a fight for every vote.
Regardless of who wins the presidency, a brutal election battle has left the nation’s image tarnished, in the eyes of its own people and the world.
It has been a long, long, long year and a mad, mad, mad election. Time to vote.