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Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 16, 2016, covering November 18, 2016.
Jeezy
Kenny Chesney
Meek Mill
Avenged Sevenfold
Lady Gaga
Pentatonix
Drake
Soundtrack
Original Broadway Cast
Michael Buble
2016Sharon Jones, American soul and funk singer (born 1956)[†]
Sharon Lafaye Jones was an American soul and funk singer. She was the lead singer of Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, a soul and funk band based in Brooklyn, New York. Jones experienced breakthrough success relatively late in life, releasing her first record when she was 40 years old. In 2014, Jones was nominated for her first Grammy, in the category Best R&B Album, for Give the People What They Want.
2016Denton Cooley, American surgeon and scientist (born 1920)[†]
Denton Arthur Cooley was an American cardiothoracic surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial heart. Cooley was also the founder and surgeon in-chief of The Texas Heart Institute, chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at clinical partner Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, consultant in Cardiovascular Surgery at Texas Children's Hospital and a clinical professor of Surgery at McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
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Within the professional political class, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo now seem to be elevating their longstanding rivalry to one for the role of progressive opponent in chief.
Stripped of its cinematic distractions, this Off Broadway adaptation directed by John Doyle comes across as blunt and bland.
Towers, an arena, even a salt shed: Over the past decade, the cityscape has been transformed.
The move could put a retired intelligence officer who believes Islamist militancy poses an existential threat in one of the most powerful roles in shaping military and foreign policy.
Even in this age of dating apps and websites, neighborhood continues to play a huge role in how, and whom, people choose to date.
As the population surges and drug gangs expand, hijacking opportunities along the Amazon have flourished, and police forces are struggling to keep up.
If successful, Marsha Wetzel’s lawsuit against a senior living community in Illinois could set a legal precedent establishing housing providers’ responsibilities.
Lower prices can be had by relying on a few innovative approaches without having to camp outside a big box store.
Our fixation on diversity cost us this election — and more.
Mr. Pompeo, a congressman from Kansas, gained prominence for his role in the House investigation into the 2012 attacks on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.
The president-elect on Friday tapped loyalists who reflect the hard-line views of his campaign, though he is also expected to meet with critics such as Mitt Romney.