On this day
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A few New York theaters and concert halls are experimenting with orchestras playing not from the traditional pit, but from a distant room or even a separate building.
Calling the killing of a 17-year-old in Florida “a tragedy,” President Obama said, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.”
Joba Chamberlain had surgery on Thursday after dislocating his ankle on a kids’ trampoline in Tampa, a potentially career-threatening injury for the Yankees pitcher.
Conservative women have formed a core of Rick Santorum’s support since the primaries began, drawn by his message of family values and his personal biography.
No. 13-seeded Ohio flustered top-seeded North Carolina, but the Tar Heels won their 11th consecutive regional semifinal game, a streak that includes three national championship runs.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 21, 2012, covering March 24, 2012.
Bruce Springsteen
Adele
Various Artists
Lady Antebellum
Coldplay
2012Paul Callaghan, New Zealand physicist and academic (born 1947)[†]
Sir Paul Terence Callaghan was a New Zealand physicist who, as the founding director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology at Victoria University of Wellington, held the position of Alan MacDiarmid Professor of Physical Sciences and was President of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance.
2012Nick Noble, American singer-songwriter (born 1926)[†]
Nick Noble was an American pop singer, who was best known for his recordings of "The Tip of My Fingers" and "Moonlight Swim".
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]