On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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The president boasted of “marrying” Nancy Pelosi to four progressive congresswomen of color, betting that he can cast the entire Democratic Party as radical.
On the Supreme Court, John Paul Stevens transformed from a Republican antitrust lawyer into the leader of the court’s liberal wing.
A San Francisco company financed by Mr. Musk, Neuralink says it has created a device that could one day wire data links directly to the brain.
A baffling alert. A race to the wrong building. Notre-Dame still stands only because firefighters decided to risk everything, a New York Times reconstruction has found.
Privacy concerns caused the computerized eyewear to fail with the general public. But researchers believe it could help autistic children learn to recognize emotion and make eye contact.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 17, 2019, covering July 17, 2019.
Various Artists
Billie Eilish
Chris Brown
Lil Nas X
Machine Gun Kelly
2019Marie Sophie Hingst, German historian and blogger who falsely claimed to be descended from Holocaust survivors[†]
Marie Sophie Hingst was a German historian and blogger who falsely claimed to be descended from Holocaust survivors. Born in Wittenberg to a Protestant family, she fabricated a Jewish background and sent documentation for 22 misrepresented or non-existent relatives, who she claimed were Holocaust victims, to the official Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem.
In 2019, the world population was approximately 7,811,293,698 people[†]