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The jazz pianist Cecil Taylor played a solo concert at the Harlem Stage Gateheouse on Thursday night, part of a larger series celebrating his influence and legacy.
As American negotiators prepare for nuclear talks next week in Baghdad, they say recent statements from Iran and pressure from sanctions have raised the chances of compromise.
Blackpool and West Ham, who both reside in the modest second tier of English soccer, will play Saturday in a winner-take-all match for promotion to the Premier League.
Over the last five years, Facebook employees have met with members of Congress and walked them through ways to best to use the Web site.
At a time of fiscal austerity, critics are pointing to the cost of a helicopter part made by a company whose owners are donors to Representative Harold Rogers, a Kentucky Republican.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 16, 2012, covering May 19, 2012.
Carrie Underwood
Norah Jones
Various Artists
Adele
B.o.B
2012Bob Boozer, American basketball player (born 1937)[†]
Robert Louis Boozer was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Boozer won a gold medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics and won an NBA Championship as a member of the Milwaukee Bucks in 1971. Boozer was a member of the 1960 U.S. Olympic team, which was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame as a unit in 2010.
2012Tamara Brooks, American conductor and educator (born 1941)[†]
Tamara Brooks was an American choral conductor.
2012Ian Burgess, English race car driver (born 1930)[†]
Ian John Burgess was a British racing driver. He participated in 20 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 19 July 1958, and numerous non-Championship Formula One races. He scored no championship points.
2012Gerhard Hetz, German-Mexican swimmer (born 1942)[†]
Gerhard Hetz was a German Olympic swimmer. He competed in the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay and a bronze medal in the 400 m individual medley in 1964.
2012Phil Lamason, New Zealand soldier and pilot (born 1918)[†]
Phillip John Lamason, was a pilot in the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) during the Second World War, who rose to prominence as the senior officer in charge of 168 Allied airmen taken to Buchenwald concentration camp, Germany, in August 1944. Raised in Napier, he joined the RNZAF in September 1940, and by April 1942 was a pilot officer serving with the Royal Air Force in Europe. On 8 June 1944, Lamason was in command of a Lancaster heavy bomber that was shot down during a raid on railway marshalling yards near Paris. Bailing out, he was picked up by members of the French Resistance and hidden at various locations for seven weeks. While attempting to reach Spain along the Comet line, Lamason was betrayed by a double agent within the Resistance and seized by the Gestapo.
2012Three gas cylinder bombs explode in front of a vocational school in the Italian city of Brindisi, killing one person and injuring five others.[†]
The Brindisi school bombing occurred on 19 May 2012, when three gas cylinder bombs hidden in a large rubbish bin exploded in front of the Morvillo Falcone high school in Brindisi, Italy, killing a 16-year-old female student and injuring five others, one seriously.
2012A car bomb explodes near a military complex in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, killing nine people.[†]
The 2012 Deir ez-Zor bombing involved a car bomb blast in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor killing 9 people on 19 May 2012 during the Syrian Civil War. The blast that reportedly struck a parking lot for a military intelligence complex also injured 100 people.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]