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The heady prices of some recent transactions are emboldening owners to think this is the moment to see if some sky-high price tags will entice rather than scare off potential buyers.
For former Gov. Tim Kaine and ex-Senator George Allen, the search for people who say their vote for senator is not tied to their vote for president has become imperative.
Noise measurements at 37 restaurants, bars, stores and gyms across the city showed, according to experts, potentially dangerous conditions at one-third of them.
Lawsuits over voter identification laws could affect millions of voters, as opponents of the laws argue that they suppress minority votes and supporters say they prevent fraud.
After a movie theater shooting that left at least 12 dead and 58 wounded, witnesses described a scene of claustrophobia, panic and blood.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 18, 2012, covering July 20, 2012.
Chris Brown
Katy Perry
Justin Bieber
Maroon 5
Linkin Park
2012Alastair Burnet, English journalist (born 1928)[â ]
Sir James William Alexander Burnet, known as Alastair Burnet, was a British journalist and broadcaster, who had a career working in news and current affairs programmes, including a long career with Independent Television News (ITN) as chief presenter of the flagship News at Ten; Sir Robin Day described Burnet as "the booster rocket that put ITN into orbit".
2012Jack Davis, American hurdler (born 1930)[â ]
Jack Wells Davis was an American track and field hurdler, silver medalist in the 1952 and 1956 Olympics over 110-meter hurdles. Davis lost to Harrison Dillard in 1952 with the same time as the winner, and lost to Lee Calhoun in 1956, again with the same time as the winner. He set a new world record 13.4 in a heat at the AAU in 1956.
2012JosĂ© Hermano Saraiva, Portuguese historian, jurist, and politician, Portuguese Minister of Education (born 1919)[â ]
José Hermano Saraiva GCIH ⹠GCIP was a Portuguese professor, historian and jurist. He was most known as a television personality in Portugal, having been the author and presenter of several documentary series of historical divulgation from 1971 to 2003 on the Portuguese television.
2012James Holmes opened fire at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 and injuring 70 others.[â ]
James Eagan Holmes is an American mass murderer responsible for the 2012 Aurora theater shooting in which he killed 12 people and injured 70 others at a Century 16 movie theater on July 20, 2012. He had no known criminal background before the shooting occurred. Before the shooting, Holmes booby-trapped his apartment with explosives, which were defused one day later by a bomb squad.
2012Syrian civil war: The People's Protection Units (YPG) capture the cities of Amuda and EfrĂźn without resistance.[â ]
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 the protests with lethal force, sparking a civil war that culminated in the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024. All revolutionary factions were united into the Syrian caretaker government by 12 March 2025.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[â ]