The July 13, 2007 was a Friday under the star sign of ♋. It was the 193 day of the year. President of the United States was George W. Bush.
If you were born on this day, you are 18 years old. Your last birthday was on the Sunday, July 13, 2025, 356 days ago. Your next birthday is on Monday, July 13, 2026, in 8 days. You have lived for 6,931 days, or about 166,354 hours, or about 9,981,260 minutes, or about 598,875,600 seconds.
Date: 13 July 2007
By Jeff Z. Klein
Jeff Klein
The Copa América is hurtling toward its unspeakable climax, the Argentina-Brazil tournament final in Maracaibo on Sunday. Today is our last chance to catch up with various news, notes and other stories that have emerged since it all began on June 26.
Date: 13 July 2007
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Energizer Holdings, the battery maker, will acquire Playtex Products for $18.30 a share.
Date: 13 July 2007
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Fitch Ratings said it might downgrade bonds valued at $7.1 billion due to rising delinquencies and defaults on subprime mortgages.
Date: 13 July 2007
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
India’s industrial production growth slowed for a second month in May as the highest interest rates in five years crimped demand and currency gains weakened exports. Output at factories, utilities and mines rose 11.1 percent from the period a year earlier, after a revised 12.4 percent increase in April, the Central Statistical Organization said. Economists were expecting a 12 percent gain. Manufacturing output rose 11.9 percent in May from a year earlier, the slowest pace in four months. Mining gained 3.7 percent.
Date: 13 July 2007
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
L’Oréal, the cosmetics maker, said second-quarter sales rose 10 percent on gains in Eastern Europe and Asia and a recovery in North America. Sales rose to 4.25 billion euros ($5.85 billion) from 3.85 billion euros a year earlier. L’Oréal, based in Paris, has expanded in emerging markets from Russia to Brazil to stoke growth as customers in those countries spend more money on cosmetics products. “Our most dynamic category was skin care,which has a lot of added value,” the chief executive, Jean-Paul Agon, above, said on a conference call.
Date: 13 July 2007
By David E. Sanger and Thom Shanker
David Sanger
WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush's Iraq strategy now boils down to this: He is trying to buy time for a surge that is living on borrowed time.
Date: 14 July 2007
By John F. Burns
John Burns
Khalid W. Hassan, an Iraqi reporter and interpreter for The Times, died in Iraq’s murderous turmoil.
Date: 13 July 2007
By Alissa J. Rubin
Alissa Rubin
In a southeastern neighborhood in Baghdad, clashes between the American military and Shiite militias have left at least 16 people dead, including 2 journalists.
Date: 13 July 2007
By Douglas Martin
Douglas Martin
Mr. Dempster fed the seemingly insatiable appetite for word of how minor aristocrats and wayward members of the British establishment were misbehaving.