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Revisit the news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]
2012Shukri Ghanem, Libyan politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Libya (born 1942)[†]
Shukri Mohammed Ghanem was a Libyan politician who was the General Secretary of the General People's Committee of Libya from June 2003 until March 2006 when, in the first major government reshuffle in over a decade, he was replaced by his deputy, Baghdadi Mahmudi. Ghanem subsequently served as the Minister of Oil until 2011. On 29 April 2012, his body was found floating on the New Danube, Vienna.
2012Joel Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (born 1957)[†]
Joel King Goldsmith was an American composer of film, television, and video game music.
2012Roland Moreno. French engineer, invented the smart card (born 1945)[†]
Roland Moreno was a French inventor, engineer, humorist and author who was the inventor of the smart card. Moreno's smart card, or la carte à puce in French, was little known internationally. However, he became a national hero in France and was awarded the Légion d'Honneur in 2009.
2012Kenny Roberts, American singer-songwriter (born 1926)[†]
George S. Kingsbury Jr., better known as Kenny Roberts, was an American country music singer. He is best known for his recordings of "I Never See Maggie Alone" and "Choc'late Ice Cream Cone", and was a member of The Down Homers with Bill Haley.
John Edwards, the former Democratic senator who is facing 30 years in prison, leaned forward and watched as Andrew Young, the man who had held his deepest secret, sat on the witness stand.
The vote on recalling Wisconsin’s governor has become a rallying point for unions and business interests that oppose them, but it is only a warm-up.
A biography of Joe Paterno, the Penn State football coach whose winning career abruptly ended in the scandal surrounding Jerry Sandusky, must account for his actions. But how?
A stroll through the Museum of Sex in New York with Faramerz Dabhoiwala, author of “The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution.”
Days before scheduled talks between the United States and China, the Obama administration sought to contain the matter of an escaped activist who is said to be in American hands.
“The Passage of Power,” the fourth installment in Robert A. Caro’s monumental biography of Lyndon B. Johnson, addresses Johnson’s assumption of the Oval Office following John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
Orhan Pamuk, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006, opened his “Museum of Innocence” in Istanbul on Saturday.
Unesco is preparing to celebrate the first International Jazz Day with a concert Monday at the United Nations General Assembly.
A hundred of America’s elite Special Operations troops are helping African forces find a wig-wearing, gibberish-speaking rebel commander named Joseph Kony.
Danny Briere scored 4 minutes 36 seconds into overtime to give the Flyers the victory, just over two minutes after he had an apparent winning goal disallowed.
A scandal involving Wal-Mart’s Mexican subsidiary is giving critics of the company new reasons to push to block its expansion into big American cities.
Buzz Bissinger’s postscript to “Friday Night Lights” was doing well as an e-book. Then a giveaway involving Apple and Starbucks became a pricing dispute with Amazon.