On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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William Stevenson was one of the first foreign correspondents to visit the People’s Republic of China. Decades later, despite its transformation, I recognize the same country.
The coolest reptiles on the planet occasionally freeze solid.
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management company, is opposing a debt settlement deal with Argentina as the country grapples with soaring poverty and the pandemic.
Inadequate testing and protracted delays in producing results have crippled tracking and hampered efforts to contain major outbreaks.
Rockaway Beach has a land’s-end bacchanalian spirit, but it is also a place where you can get to know people just by being there.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 29, 2020, covering July 31, 2020.
Juice WRLD
Pop Smoke
The Chicks
Original Broadway Cast
Lil Baby
2020Alan Parker, English filmmaker (born 1944)[†]
Sir Alan William Parker was an English film director, screenwriter and producer. His early career, beginning in his late teens, was spent as a copywriter and director of television advertisements. After about ten years of filming adverts, many of which won awards for creativity, he began screenwriting and directing films.
In 2020, the world population was approximately 7,887,001,292 people[†]