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Roger Waters (born 1943) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and composer. He was a founder member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became the band's lyricist, principal songwriter and conceptual leader. The band subsequently achieved international success with the concept albums such as The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, and The Wall. Although Waters' primary instrument in Pink Floyd was the bass guitar, he also experimented with synthesisers and tape loops and played rhythm guitar on recordings and in concerts. Amid creative differences within the group, Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985 and began a legal battle with the remaining members over their intended use of the band's name and material. They settled the dispute out of court in 1987, though the four members did not play together until Live 8, nearly 18 years later. Waters released Ça Ira (a three-act opera based on the French Revolution) in 2005, and in 2010 staged The Wall Live concert tour, an updated version of the original Pink Floyd album. (Full article...)

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The Library of Birmingham (pictured), the largest municipal public library in the United Kingdom, opens.
Diana Nyad, at the age of 64, becomes the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage.
Verizon Communications agrees to acquire Vodafone's stake in Verizon Wireless for US$130 billion, the third-largest corporate deal ever.
Irish poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Seamus Heaney dies at the age of 74.
A newly discovered canyon under the Greenland ice sheet is found to be the world's longest.

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September 6

1901 – U.S. President William McKinley was fatally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
1943 – A group of businessmen in Monterrey, Mexico, founded the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, now one of the largest universities in Latin America.
1955 – A Turkish mob attacked ethnic Greeks in Istanbul, killing at least 13 people and damaging more than 5,000 Greek-owned homes and businesses.
1963 – Victor Krulak (pictured) was sent on a mission by the Kennedy administration to assess the progress of the Vietnam War, and the viability of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem against the backdrop of the Buddhist crisis and Xa Loi Pagoda raids.
2000 – The Millennium Summit, a meeting of world leaders to discuss the role of the United Nations at the turn of the 21st century, opened in New York City.

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Fumihiko Maki (b. 1928) is a Japanese architect who received the 1993 Pritzker Prize for his work. He often explores the use of new materials, and fuses the cultures of East and West.

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