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Above-average temperatures across the United States thus far are hurting retail sales, and retailers are running out of time to sell their winter inventory.
Several funds plan to go to the European Court of Human Rights if Greece doesn’t make good on its bond payments.
In an unusual orchestration, the Web buzzed with protests large and small on Wednesday, and some opponents of Congressional legislation took their opposition offline, too.
The United States wants to scrap the leap second, but beware: without it, noon will strike at sunrise thousands of years from now.
A quarter-century after the Sanitation Department introduced window stickers in New York, the City Council passed a bill to outlaw them for alternate-side parking violations.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 18, 2012, covering January 19, 2012.
Adele
Drake
The Black Keys
Young Jeezy
Coldplay
2012Peter Åslin, Swedish ice hockey player (born 1962)[†]
Peter Karl Åslin was a Swedish national team ice hockey goaltender.
2012Sarah Burke, Canadian skier (born 1982)[†]
Sarah Jean Burke was a Canadian freestyle skier who was a pioneer of the superpipe event. She was a five-time Winter X Games gold medallist, and won the world championship in the halfpipe in 2005. She successfully lobbied the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to have the event added to the Olympic program for the 2014 Winter Olympics. She was considered a medal favourite in the event. Burke died following a training accident in Utah in 2012.
2012Winston Riley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (born 1943)[†]
Winston Riley was a Jamaican singer, songwriter and record producer. The Jamaica Gleaner notes he was one of the most successful reggae producers.
2012Rudi van Dantzig, Dutch ballet dancer and choreographer (born 1933)[†]
Rudi van Dantzig was a Dutch choreographer, company director, and writer. He was a pivotal figure in the rise to world renown of Dutch ballet in the latter half of the twentieth century. He was co-director and then artistic director of the Dutch National Ballet from 1968 and 1991, and later did choreography for major companies such as Ballet Rambert, The Royal Ballet, the Royal Danish Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, and the Paris Opera Ballet.
2012The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.[†]
Megaupload Ltd was a Hong Kong–based online company established in 2005 that operated from 2005 to 2012 providing online services related to file storage and viewing.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]