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Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 2020, the world population was approximately 7,887,001,292 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 8, 2020, covering July 10, 2020.
Lil Baby
Lil Durk
DaBaby
Post Malone
The Weeknd
Harry Styles
Polo G
Lil Uzi Vert
Drake
Future
2020Lara van Ruijven, Dutch short track speed skater (born 1992)[†]
Lara Victoria van Ruijven was a Dutch short track speed skater. At the 2018 Winter Olympics, she was part of the Dutch 3000 metres relay team that won a bronze medal. She won gold at the World Championships one year later. By doing so, she became the first Dutch woman to win a world short track title at an individual event.
2020Jack Charlton, English footballer and manager (born 1935)[†]
John Charlton was an English professional footballer and manager who played as a centre-back for Leeds. He was part of the England national team that won the 1966 World Cup and managed the Republic of Ireland national team from 1986 to 1996, taking them to two World Cups and one European Championship. He was the elder brother of Manchester United forward Bobby Charlton and one of his teammates in England's World Cup final victory.
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With “The Old Guard” on Netflix, the director of “Love & Basketball” becomes the first Black woman to make a comic-book film: “We don’t get the assumption we can do it, so we have to prove we can.”
Chris Larsen knows that a crypto mogul spending his own money for a city’s camera surveillance system might sound creepy. He’s here to explain why it’s not.
Most New Yorkers who own a second-home hit the road as soon as the virus hit, but a few stayed behind.
His newspaper has withered under a hedge fund. His industry was in turmoil even before a pandemic. But Evan Brandt won’t stop chronicling his town.
High-end development has transformed some Black neighborhoods decades after they were scarred by unrest. And not by coincidence.
“Utopia Avenue,” by the British master of intricate literary puzzles, features a band on the make, lots of inside jokes and references to the author’s previous works.
Early hopes for a quick rebound from the pandemic have yielded to worries about its long-term impact on state finances and the governor’s ambitious agenda.
There aren’t many of them, but some buyers and renters are coming to New York even while thousands have left to escape the coronavirus.
In several states where the virus has surged in recent weeks, the death toll is edging up. That may end a long period in which the national toll has steadily declined.
A longtime champion of women’s rights, Park Won-soon was accused by his secretary of sexual harassment. He is presumed to have killed himself.
Five critics wade into the controversies (like its treatment of slavery) and examine the performances (especially Lin-Manuel Miranda’s) five years after the show debuted.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is denying huge batches of relief requests from students whose schools defrauded them. Even those who aren’t denied are getting very little — or sometimes nothing.