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Hyman Strachman found a fulfilling hobby after his wife died: sending hundreds of thousands of illicitly copied Hollywood hits to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The downgrade came with Spain emerging as a looming problem for Europe, with fears that the country will be next in line for a huge bailout, after Greece.
Modern candidates announce their intent to run for president on multiple occasions. Ever the innovator, Newt Gingrich has applied that ritual to dropping out.
“Leap of Faith” is this season’s black hole of musical comedy, sucking the energy out of anyone who gets near it.
China’s changing positions on Iran, Syria and North Korea, among others, are hailed as steps toward unity among the world’s major powers, but its motives are a mystery.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 25, 2012, covering April 27, 2012.
Lionel Richie
Adele
Nicki Minaj
Monica
One Direction
2012Daniel E. Boatwright, American soldier and politician (born 1930)[†]
Daniel Eugene Boatwright was a Democratic politician from the state of California. Boatwright was a longtime state legislator from Concord, California, a suburb in the San Francisco Bay Area.
2012Bill Skowron, American baseball player (born 1930)[†]
William Joseph Skowron, nicknamed "Moose", was an American professional baseball first baseman. He played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1954 to 1967 for the New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers, Washington Senators, Chicago White Sox, and California Angels. He was an eight-time All-Star and a five-time World Series champion.
2012At least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27 people injured.[†]
The 2012 Dnipropetrovsk explosions were a series of co-ordinated explosions in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine on 27 April 2012. The bombs went off between 11:50 and 13:00 near four tram stations. The attackers' motivations are not publicly known.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]