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In 2020, the world population was approximately 7,887,001,292 people[â ]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 8, 2020, covering July 13, 2020.
Lil Baby
Lil Durk
DaBaby
Post Malone
The Weeknd
Harry Styles
Polo G
Lil Uzi Vert
Drake
Future
2020Grant Imahara, American electrical engineer, roboticist, and television host (born 1970)[â ]
Grant Masaru Imahara was an American electrical engineer, roboticist, and television host. He was best known for his work on the television series MythBusters, on which he designed, built, and operated numerous robots and machines to test myths over the course of the show.
2020Zindzi Mandela, South African politician, diplomat, and third daughter of Nelson Mandela (born 1960)[â ]
Zindziswa "Zindzi" Mandela, also known as Zindzi Mandela-Hlongwane, was a South African diplomat and poet, and the daughter of anti-apartheid activists and politicians Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Zindzi was the youngest and third of Nelson Mandela's three daughters, including sister Zenani Mandela.
2020After a five-day search, the body of American actress and singer Naya Rivera is recovered from Lake Piru in California, where she had drowned.[â ]
On July 8, 2020, American actress and singer Naya Rivera was declared missing after she failed to return from a boating excursion on Lake Piru near her home in California. Shortly afterwards, her rented boat with her four-year-old son, Josey Dorsey, was located. Dorsey was unharmed. A search conducted by various authorities in southern California began, though Rivera was formally presumed dead the next day; the search lasted until the morning of July 13, 2020, when her body was recovered and she was pronounced dead from drowning at the age of 33. The death was ruled accidental, with the investigation determining Rivera exhausted herself saving her son's life in the water. In November 2020, Rivera's ex-husband, Ryan Dorsey, and estate brought wrongful death lawsuits against Ventura County and the management of Lake Piru.
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The Trump administration lifted a ban on sales of silencers to private overseas buyers that was intended to protect U.S. troops from ambushes. The change was championed by a lawyer for the president who had worked for a firearms trade group.
Even groups that regularly disagree on labor issues said there should be significant public investment in programs that can upgrade the skills of American workers.
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