On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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The West Wing was mostly empty, cleared of aides who were sick or told to work from home, and staff in the White House residence were in full personal protective equipment.
A 40-foot-long dinosaur fossil named Stan was the headliner at an auction of Impressionist and Modern art worth more than $300 million.
As Covid-19 cases grow in the Great Plains, one official said residents need to know âhow perilously close we are to the edge.â
Mistrust of vaccines runs deep in African-American communities. Against formidable odds, Father Paul Abernathy and his teams are trying to convince residents of Pittsburghâs historic Black neighborhoods to volunteer for trials testing a Covid-19 shot.
New Yorkers, it seems, still want to dine out, eat carbs and cheese, buy lipstick and get high (but maybe not in that order).
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 7, 2020, covering October 7, 2020.
Machine Gun Kelly
SuperM
Joji
Pop Smoke
Deftones
2020Mario Molina, Mexican chemist (born 1943)[â ]
Mario JosĂ© Molina-Pasquel HenrĂquez was a Mexican physical chemist. He played a pivotal role in the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole, and was a co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in discovering the threat to the Earth's ozone layer from chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) gases. He was the first Mexican-born scientist to receive a Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the third Mexican-born person to receive a Nobel prize.
In 2020, the world population was approximately 7,887,001,292 people[â ]