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Mitt Romney’s restraint over the last two weeks has opened a round of second-guessing about his insistent focus on the economy as Democrats have turned attention to other topics.
Ethanol makers want to offer a blend of fuel that is 15 percent ethanol rather than 10 percent. At a Phillips 66 station in Lawrence, Kan., E15 is catching on.
Economists say uncertainty over tax increases and spending cuts set to take effect at the end of 2012 could be cutting into economic growth already.
A planned expansion of the San Diego Convention Center is leaving limited space for exhibitors. So companies have started to think outside the box. Or outside the convention center.
Representative Jesse L. Jackson Jr. has suffered blows to his image, including an absence his office explained by saying he was in treatment for “a mood disorder.”
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 11, 2012, covering July 12, 2012.
Linkin Park
Maroon 5
Justin Bieber
Various Artists
R. Kelly
2012Alimuddin, Pakistani cricketer (born 1930)[†]
Alimuddin was a Pakistani cricketer who played 25 Tests for Pakistan between 1954 and 1962. His name is sometimes rendered Alim-ud-Din. A fast-scoring, right-handed opening batsman and occasional right-arm leg break bowler, he was the youngest player ever to appear in first-class cricket, aged 12 years and 73 days. In international cricket, he scored 1,091 runs at the average of 25.37, including two centuries and seven fifties. In 1954, he was a member of the Pakistani squad which toured England and recorded Pakistan's first Test match win. Former Pakistani captain Mushtaq Mohammad said about him that he was "a thorough gentleman as well as a great cricketer for Pakistan".
2012Dara Singh, Indian wrestler, actor, and politician (born 1928)[†]
Dara Singh Randhawa was an Indian professional wrestler, actor, director and politician. He started acting in 1952 and was the first sportsman to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha of India. He worked as Hindi and Punjabi film producer, director and writer, and he acted in films and television. His role of Hanuman in the film Bajrangbali (1976) and in Ramanand Sagar's Ramayan made him popular. Singh was inducted into the Legacy wing of the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2018.
2012Eddy Brown, English footballer and manager (born 1926)[†]
Edwin Brown was an English footballer who played as a centre forward. He played professionally for a number of clubs, but the peak of his career was spent with Birmingham City during their most successful period in the 1950s. Over a professional career of nearly 400 appearances in the Football League, he scored at a rate of very nearly one goal every two games. He was a pioneer of the goal celebration.
2012Else Holmelund Minarik, Danish-American author and illustrator (born 1920)[†]
Else Holmelund Minarik was a Danish-born American author of more than 40 children's books. She was most commonly associated with her Little Bear series of children's books, which were adapted for television. Minarik was also the author of another well-known book, No Fighting, No Biting!
2012Roger Payne, English mountaineer (born 1956)[†]
Roger Payne was a British mountaineer. He was formerly general secretary of the British Mountaineering Council (BMC) and a qualified mountain guide from 1983, taking part in over 20 expeditions to the Karakoram and Himalayan ranges, including K2 and the north face of Changabang. He was an avalanche instructor and climbed in the Alps every year from 1977.
2012Hamid Samandarian, Iranian director and playwright (born 1931)[†]
Hamid Samandarian was an Iranian film and theater director and translator. He staged numerous dramas including No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre, Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams and Marriage of Mr. Mississippi by Friedrich Durrenmatt.
2012George C. Stoney, American director and producer (born 1916)[†]
George Cashel Stoney was an American documentary filmmaker, educator, and the "father of public-access television." Among his films were Palmour Street, A Study of Family Life (1949), All My Babies (1953), How the Myth Was Made (1979) and The Uprising of '34 (1995). All My Babies was entered into the National Film Registry in 2002. Stoney's life and work were the subject of a Festschrift volume of the journal Wide Angle in 1999.
2012Syrian Civil War: Government forces target the homes of rebels and activists in Tremseh and kill anywhere between 68 and 150 people.[†]
The Syrian civil war is an ongoing conflict in Syria that began with the Syrian revolution in March 2011 when popular discontent with the Ba'athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad triggered large-scale protests and pro-democracy rallies across Syria, as part of the wider Arab Spring protests in the region. The Assad regime responded to protests with lethal force, sparking a civil war that culminated in the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024. All revolutionary factions united into the Syrian caretaker government by 12 March 2025.
2012A tank truck explosion kills more than 100 people in Okobie, Nigeria.[†]
This is a list of notable tank truck fires and explosions.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]