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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[â ]
2012Carol Ann Abrams, American producer, author, and academic (born 1942)[â ]
Carol Ann Abrams was an American television and film producer. She and her husband, television producer Gerald W. Abrams, are the parents of film director and producer J. J. Abrams and screenwriter Tracy Rosen. Abrams died from cancer.
2012Roy Salvadori, English racing driver and manager (born 1922)[â ]
Roy Francesco Salvadori was a British racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1952 to 1962. In endurance racing, Salvadori won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1959 with Aston Martin.
2012Brian Talboys, New Zealand journalist and politician, 7th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1921)[â ]
Sir Brian Edward Talboys was a New Zealand politician who served as the seventh deputy prime minister of New Zealand for the first two terms of Robert Muldoon's premiership. If the abortive "Colonels' Coup" against Muldoon had been successful, Talboys would have become Prime Minister himself.
2012A plane carrying 153 people crashes in a residential neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, killing everyone on board plus six people on the ground.[â ]
Dana Air Flight 0992 was a scheduled Nigerian domestic passenger flight from Abuja to Lagos, Nigeria. On 3 June 2012, the McDonnell Douglas MD-83 aircraft serving the route suffered a dual-engine failure during its approach to Lagos. It failed to reach its intended destination and crashed into apartment buildings, killing all 153 people on board and six on the ground. With 159 deaths, it remains the deadliest commercial airliner crash in Nigerian history since the Kano air disaster in 1973.
2012The pageant for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II takes place on the River Thames.[â ]
The Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant was a parade on 3 June 2012 of 670 boats on the Tideway of the River Thames in London as part of the celebrations of the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II. The Queen, Prince Philip and other members of the Royal Family were aboard vessels that took part in the parade. The parade was organised by the Thames Diamond Jubilee Foundation, and funded by private donations and sponsorship. The pageant master was Adrian Evans.
Friends and colleagues say Mitt Romney and President Obama share personality, leadership and decision-making styles.
The pedigrees of the Devilsâ coaches â Peter DeBoer and his assistants Larry Robinson and Adam Oates â give the team some confidence as it seeks to even its series against Los Angeles.
For the second game in a row, the Kings beat the Devils in overtime to win their 10th straight road game this postseason and take a 2-0 lead in the Stanley Cup finals.
The economic crisis in Europe is becoming an existential one for the monetary union, officials say, unless governments act to solidify the alliance.
âPush Girls,â on Sundance Channel, follows attractive young women in wheelchairs as they push boundaries.
Health groups are pushing a ballot initiative to impose a $1-a-pack tax, provoking a storm of advertisements to defeat the biggest threat the industry has faced in the state in a decade.
Nowhere are previews regarded as more crucial than at Off Broadway theater companies staging new plays and musicals.
Bob Bradleyâs first competitive match as Egyptâs coach, a World Cup qualifier, was played behind closed doors after a series of tragic events befell soccer after the countryâs revolution.
The Scion Rock Fest, which took place on Saturday in Tampa, Fla., offered 26 bands playing metal and beyond, with no particular allegiance to locality or subgenre.
Competitors at the 14th Annual International Classic Video Game Tournament at the American Classic Arcade Museum revisited the first generation of computer games.
In âMission to Parisâ by Alan Furst, the city becomes a crossroads for film stars and espionage.
Sales of the Sunday edition of The Sun, a brash daily tabloid, have fallen 28 percent since it first hit newsstands in February.