On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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Experts say that doctors, despite the dangers, often keep patients on high-strength painkillers known as opioids for years without properly checking to see if their conditions improve.
Last month, Lindsey Vonn completed a record-setting race season, the greatest by a woman in the history of the Alpine skiing’s World Cup. But her best year came in the midst of a thorny divorce.
With smartphones, people are confronting the task of calculating their data usage to avoid unexpected fees.
Money for the primary training program for dislocated workers is 18 percent lower than it was in 2006, even though there are six million more people looking for work now.
Amid a growing perception that Mitt Romney will be the party’s nominee, the biggest of the Republican “super PACs” is set to begin its first major anti-Obama advertising campaign.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 4, 2012, covering April 9, 2012.
Soundtrack
Adele
The Shins
One Direction
Odd Future
2012Malcolm Thomas, Welsh rugby player and cricketer (born 1929)[†]
Malcolm Campbell Thomas was a Welsh and British Lions international rugby union player. A centre, he played club rugby for Newport. He won 27 caps for Wales and was selected to play in the British Lions on two tours of Australia and New Zealand.
2012Boris Parygin, Soviet philosopher, psychologist, and author (born 1930)[†]
Boris Dmitrievitch Parygin was a Soviet and Russian philosopher, sociologist and one of the founders of social psychology and member of a wide range of international academies. Parygin was a specialist in a sphere of philosophical and psychological problems of social psychology – its history, methodology, theory and praxeology.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]