On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 25, 2012, covering April 28, 2012.
Lionel Richie
Adele
Nicki Minaj
Monica
One Direction
Bonnie Raitt
Gotye
Alabama Shakes
Rascal Flatts
Hoodie Allen
2012Fred Allen, New Zealand rugby player and coach (born 1920)[†]
Sir Frederick Richard Allen was a captain and coach of the All Blacks, New Zealand's national rugby union team. The All Blacks won all 14 of the test matches they played under his coaching.
2012Matilde Camus, Spanish poet and author (born 1919)[†]
Aurora Matilde Gómez Camus was a Spanish poet from Cantabria who also wrote non-fiction.
2012Al Ecuyer, American football player (born 1937)[†]
Allen Joseph Ecuyer was an American football player.
2012Patricia Medina, English actress (born 1919)[†]
Patricia Paz Maria Medina was a British actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the films Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954) and Mr. Arkadin (1955).
2012Milan N. Popović, Serbian psychiatrist and author (born 1924)[†]
Milan Popović (1924–2012) was a renowned Serbian psychiatrist-psychoanalyst, a full professor of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy.
2012Aberdeen Shikoyi, Kenyan rugby player (born 1985)[†]
Aberdeen Shikoyi was a Kenyan rugby union player. She was the captain of the women's rugby union team.
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George Allen, a Republican, and Tim Kaine, a Democrat, are in a tight race for a seat both sides see as potentially decisive when it comes to party control of the Senate.
The technology industry is working on viewing options that could include apps, a move that has the potential to transform cable television’s interface and business model.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has boasted of historic accomplishments almost every week since he became governor, even though some of the achievements are short of earthshaking.
A potential case by the Federal Trade Commission, which hired a former prosecutor to lead its effort, could embolden European Union officials in their own antitrust investigation.
The N.F.L. draft affirmed teams’ interest in defensive linemen and quarterback-chasing linebackers like Courtney Upshaw who can disrupt the passing game.
Negotiations between the United States and Pakistan failed over Pakistani demands for an apology for American airstrikes last November that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers on the Afghan border.
At age 37, Derek Jeter remains at the top of the Yankees batting order, as he continues a hot start a year after he struggled for much of the first half of the season.
A group of Brooklyn gardeners had an idea: identify all the vacant lots in the borough, then help neighborhood residents take them over.
A street of the Upper East Side, in Yorkville, seems to have a pulling power for residents, who sometimes spend most of their lives there.
An inquest has brought forth details of the death in August 2010 of Gareth Williams, who was found locked in a duffel bag in a bathtub.
Dorothy Day’s vision of social justice lives on as the 79th anniversary of the Catholic Worker Movement, which she founded, approaches.
At a company known for a hard-driving culture, a seven-week course in mindfulness techniques is giving employees a better way to cope.