Jazz musician and composer Dizzy Gillespie died on this day in 1993 in Englewood, N.J.
Source: Library of Congress
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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of Dec. 29-Jan. 4
This week, readers sent us comments on our Whoppers story, our mailbag, our bias and Climategate (but it’s not what you think!).
In the FactCheck Mailbag we feature some of the e-mail we receive. Readers can send comments to editor@factcheck.org. Letters may be edited for length.
January 5, 2010
Risk for fractures from osteoporosis or low bone mass will affect one in two Americans aged 50 and older by 2020.
Source: CDC
January 4, 2010
The Census Bureau projects that this month net international migration will add one person every 37 seconds to the U.S. population.
Source: Census Bureau
January 3, 2010
The mathematical formula for determining which college teams will play in the Bowl Championship Series was first created in 1997.
Source: Bowl Championship Series
January 2, 2010
This month, the Census Bureau projects that one birth will occur every eight seconds and one death every 12 seconds in the U.S.
Source: Census Bureau
January 1, 2010
The Census Bureau has projected that the U.S. population on Jan. 1, 2010, will be 308,400,408, an increase of 0.9 percent from New Year’s Day 2009.
Source: Census Bureau
December 31, 2009
As of 2008, the Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball has been a 12-foot geodesic sphere (twice the size of the old New Year’s Eve Ball), weighing 11,875 pounds. It is covered in 2,668 Waterford Crystals.
Source: Times Square Alliance
December 30, 2009
In 1904, the first subway line in New York City opened, and the city’s first New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square took place.
Source: Times Square Alliance
December 29, 2009
Sarah Thomas became the first woman to officiate a college bowl game on Dec. 26, when she worked as the line judge in the Pizza Bowl between Ohio and Marshall.
Source: Associated Press