On this day
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Mitt Romney criticized the weaker-than-expected employment numbers, while President Obama focused on taking action against raising the borrowing rates for student loans.
New guidance is intended to rein in practices like firms underwriting a state’s bonds while simultaneously helping other customers trade against the bonds.
Mr. Yauch, whose nom de rap was MCA, helped make the first hip-hop album to top the Billboard chart, and later became involved in championing freedom in Tibet.
Until now Dave Robertson was a rising Yankees reliever. Now — and almost surely for the rest of the season — Mariano Rivera’s replacement.
A granddaughter of the couple that founded the Trinity Broadcasting Network has gone public with accusations of financial impropriety and excess, which TBN denies.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 2, 2012, covering May 5, 2012.
Lionel Richie
Jason Mraz
Adele
Train
One Direction
2012Surendranath, Indian cricketer (born 1937)[†]
Surendra Nath was an Indian cricketer who played in eleven Test matches between 1958 and 1961. He was primarily a medium-pace swing bowler, who enjoyed a particularly successful tour of England in 1959.
2012Carl Johan Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (born 1916)[†]
Carl Johan Arthur, Prince Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg, was the fourth son and fifth and youngest child of King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden and his first wife, Princess Margaret of Connaught.
2012Aatos Erkko, Finnish journalist and publisher (born 1932)[†]
Aatos Juho Michel Erkko was a Finnish newspaper editor, newspaper publisher, and the main owner of the Sanoma Corporation and the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, of which he was also the editor in chief.
2012George Knobel, Dutch footballer, coach, and manager (born 1922)[†]
George Knobel was a Dutch football manager.
2012Roy Padayachie, South African lawyer and politician, South African Minister of Communications (born 1950)[†]
Radhakrishna Lutchmana "Roy" Padayachie was a South African politician and activist. He was a cabinet minister between November 2010 and his death in May 2012. At the same time he represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly between April 2004 and May 2012.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]