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Valiant Entertainment, a comics company that was a force in the 1990s but later fell victim to bankruptcy, is hoping to cash in on Hollywoodâs interest in superheroes, as Marvel did before it.
Andrew M. Cuomo has said he wants to concentrate on being âthe best governor I can be,â but Mario M. Cuomo has higher ambitions for him.
A drug that in theory should have killed a cancer patient instead seemed to have halted or even reversed her disease.
President Obama will call for a one-year break only for people making less than $250,000, a limit opposed by Republicans and at odds with a higher cap favored by some Democrats.
Egyptâs highest court and its most senior generals dismissed President Mohamed Morsiâs order to restore the dissolved Parliament, reflecting dueling claims to the countryâs emerging politics.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 4, 2012, covering July 9, 2012.
Justin Bieber
Kenny Chesney
Fiona Apple
The Smashing Pumpkins
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2012Shin Jae-chul, South Korean-American martial artist (born 1936)[â ]
Jae-chul Shin was a Korean martial artist and founder of the World Tang Soo Do Association.
2012Chick King, American baseball player (born 1930)[â ]
Charles Gilbert King was a Major League Baseball outfielder who played for the Detroit Tigers (1954â1956), Chicago Cubs (1958â1959), and St. Louis Cardinals (1959).
2012Terepai Maoate, Cook Islander physician and politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (born 1934)[â ]
Sir Terepai Tuamure Maoate was Prime Minister of the Cook Islands from 18 November 1999 to 11 February 2002. He was a member of the Cook Islands Democratic Party.
2012EugĂȘnio Sales, Brazilian cardinal (born 1920)[â ]
EugĂȘnio de AraĂșjo Sales was a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church, having been elevated by Pope Paul VI on 28 April 1969. He served as archbishop of SĂŁo SebastiĂŁo do Rio de Janeiro for thirty years until his resignation was accepted in 2001, when he had already passed the maximum age for voting in a papal conclave. He was the Cardinal Protopriest of the Holy Roman Church and also the longest-serving living Cardinal of the Catholic Church from 16 February 2009 until his death.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[â ]