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September 15, 2017

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 13, 2017, covering September 15, 2017.

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    Album cover for Luv Is Rage 2 by Lil Uzi Vert

    Luv Is Rage 2

    Lil Uzi Vert

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    Album cover for 17 by XXXTENTACION

    17

    XXXTENTACION

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    Album cover for Villains by Queens Of The Stone Age

    Villains

    Queens Of The Stone Age

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    Album cover for Fifth Harmony by Fifth Harmony

    Fifth Harmony

    Fifth Harmony

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    Album cover for DAMN. by Kendrick Lamar

    DAMN.

    Kendrick Lamar

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Notable Deaths

Harry Dean Stanton

2017Harry Dean Stanton, American actor (born 1926)[†]

Harry Dean Stanton was an American actor. In a career that spanned more than six decades, Stanton played supporting roles in films including Cool Hand Luke (1967), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Dillinger (1973), The Godfather Part II (1974), Alien (1979), Escape from New York (1981), Christine (1983), Repo Man (1984), One Magic Christmas (1985), Pretty in Pink (1986), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Wild at Heart (1990), The Straight Story (1999), The Green Mile (1999), The Man Who Cried (2000), Alpha Dog (2006), Inland Empire (2006), Rango (2011), The Avengers (2012), and Seven Psychopaths (2012). He had rare lead roles in Paris, Texas (1984) and in Lucky (2017).

Historical Events

Parsons Green train bombing

2017The Parsons Green bombing takes place in London.[†]

On 15 September 2017, at around 08:20 BST, an explosion occurred on a District line train at Parsons Green Underground station, in London, England. Thirty people were treated in hospital or an urgent care centre, mostly for burn injuries, by a botched, crude "bucket bomb" with a timer containing the explosive chemical TATP. Police arrested the main suspect, 18-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker Ahmed Hassan, in a departure area of the Port of Dover the next day, and subsequently raided several addresses, including the foster home of an elderly couple in Sunbury-on-Thames where Hassan lived following his arrival in the United Kingdom two years earlier claiming to be an asylum seeker.

Historical Context for September 15, 2017

In 2017, the world population was approximately 7,645,617,954 people[†]