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The storm turned beach paradises into half-habitable emergency zones as it headed toward Florida, where panicked residents were scrambling to find gasoline and water.
In 1940, a young Manhattan editor rescued thousands of refugees from the Nazis, bringing many to America. His life has special resonance today.
âThereâs nobody who knows how much we spend. Youâre the only person I ever said those numbers to out loud.â
Reid Hoffman, who founded LinkedIn, is funding groups to create a bulwark against Mr. Trumpâs agenda. Whether his start-up approach is effective is unclear.
The music producer came to New York for the sleaze and the flea circus. He stayed to make the mixtapes of a cityâs imagination.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 6, 2017, covering September 8, 2017.
Brand New
Kodak Black
Kendrick Lamar
Neck Deep
Kesha
2017Pierre BergĂ©, French businessman (born 1930)[â ]
Pierre Vital Georges BergĂ© was a French industrialist and patron. He co-founded the fashion label Yves Saint Laurent (YSL), and was a longtime business partnerâand onetime significant otherâof its namesake designer.
2017Blake Heron, American actor (born 1982)[â ]
Blake Christopher Heron was an American actor. He was best known for his starring role as Marty Preston in the 1996 film Shiloh. He died of an accidental drug overdose, aged 35.
2017Jerry Pournelle, American author and journalist (born 1933)[â ]
Jerry Eugene Pournelle was an American scientist in the area of operations research and human factors research, a science fiction writer, essayist, journalist, and one of the first bloggers. In the 1960s and early 1970s, he worked in the aerospace industry, but eventually focused on his writing career. In an obituary in Gizmodo, he was described as "a tireless ambassador for the future."
2017LjubiĆĄa SamardĆŸiÄ, Serbian actor and director (born 1936)[â ]
LjubiĆĄa SamardĆŸiÄ, nicknamed Smoki, was a Serbian actor and director, best known as Ć urda in the VruÄ vetar TV series, and Inspector BoĆĄko SimiÄ in the comedy crime series Policajac sa Petlovog brda and film of the same name.
2017Don Williams, American musician (born 1939)[â ]
Donald Ray Williams was an American country music singer, songwriter, and 2010 inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He began his solo career in 1971, singing popular ballads and amassing 17 number- one country hits. His straightforward yet smooth bass-baritone voice, soft tones, and imposing build earned him the nickname "The Gentle Giant". In 1975, Williams starred in a movie with Burt Reynolds and Jerry Reed called W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings.
2017Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announce the beginning of the Deir ez-Zor campaign, with the stated aim of eliminating the Islamic State (IS) from all areas north and east of the Euphrates.[â ]
The Syrian civil war began with the Syrian revolution in March 2011, when popular discontent with the Ba'athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad triggered large-scale protests and pro-democracy rallies across Syria, as part of the wider Arab Spring. The Assad regime responded to the protests with lethal force, sparking a civil war. The Syrian revolution lasted almost 14 years and culminated in the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024. Many sources regard this as the end of the civil war.
In 2017, the world population was approximately 7,645,617,954 people[â ]