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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]
2012Adolfo Calero, Nicaraguan businessman and political activist (born 1931)[†]
Adolfo Calero Portocarrero was a Nicaraguan businessman and the leader of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the largest rebel group of the Contras, opposing the Sandinista government.
2012Richard Dawson, English-American soldier, actor, television personality, and game show host (born 1932)[†]
Richard Dawson was an English-American actor, comedian, game-show host, and panelist. Dawson was well known for playing Corporal Peter Newkirk in Hogan's Heroes, as a regular panelist on Match Game (1973–1978), and as the original host of Family Feud.
2012LeRoy Ellis, American basketball player (born 1940)[†]
LeRoy Ellis was an American basketball player.
2012Kathryn Joosten, American actress (born 1939)[†]
Kathryn Joosten was an American actress. Her best known roles include Delores Landingham on NBC's The West Wing from 1999 to 2002 and Karen McCluskey on ABC's Desperate Housewives from 2005 to 2012, for which she won two Primetime Emmy Awards in 2005 and 2008.
2012Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.[†]
The president of the Arab Republic of Egypt is the executive head of state of Egypt and the de facto appointer of the official head of government under the Egyptian Constitution of 2014. Under the various iterations of the Constitution of Egypt following the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, the president is also the supreme commander of the Armed Forces, and head of the executive branch of the Egyptian government.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo had made a signature initiative of building the country’s largest convention center and a casino at the Aqueduct racetrack.
Friday’s weak employment report was a potential turning point, focusing new attention on the economic implications of the partisan standoff over tax and spending policy.
Johan Santana tossed the first no-hitter in Mets history, pushing his surgically repaired left shoulder far past his pitch limit in a victory over the Cardinals.
Money-transfer companies like Western Union largely escaped the regulatory crackdown in the wake of the financial crisis, but soon they will be subject to new federal rules.
After a string of close calls in their 51-season history, Johan Santana finally finished the job in the Mets’ 8,020nd game.
An Afghan family’s official complaint about the rape of an 18-year-old girl is a test of the government’s willingness to challenge armed militias.
At wealthy New York City schools, fund-raising that taps parents’ money helps fill a vacuum left by budget cuts.
An appellate court in Albany last week ruled that the word gay was no longer derogatory. What took so long?
She is an Orthodox Jew. They are black men accused of sexual assault and forced prostitution. After that, nothing is clear.
Lawyers said former President Hosni Mubarak’s life sentence as an accessory in the killing of unarmed protesters was vulnerable to appeal, and charges of corruption were dismissed.
A number of small, private rescue funds have been lending a hand to a group that is definitely not in the too-big-to-fail camp: writers, artists and other creative types.
Exquisite sensitivities surround every detail in the creation of the National September 11 Memorial Museum, which is being built on land that many revere as hallowed ground.