On this day
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A dizzying production celebrated the country’s present by including a flock of sheep, the Sex Pistols, Lord Voldemort and dancing nurses.
Palermo’s Pizza fired scores of employees at its Milwaukee factory, citing immigration violations, shortly after workers said they wanted to organize.
There is much that is not known about James Robert Williams, who has somehow become a major political benefactor despite living in a rather humble section of Queens.
An obscure branch of the Bureau of Land Management wields great influence on local land-use decisions in the state, usually to the benefit of the energy industry.
Apple, which has stumbled in its efforts to get into social media, has talked with Twitter in recent months about making a strategic investment in it, according to people briefed on the matter.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 25, 2012, covering July 28, 2012.
Zac Brown Band
Frank Ocean
Justin Bieber
Chris Brown
Maroon 5
2012Colin Horsley, New Zealand-English pianist and educator (born 1920)[†]
Colin Robert Horsley was a New Zealand classical pianist and teacher who was based in the United Kingdom all his working life. He had a significant artistic association with the composer Sir Lennox Berkeley.
2012Sepp Mayerl, Austrian mountaineer (born 1937)[†]
Sepp Mayerl, also known as Blasl-Sepp was an Austrian mountaineer.
2012William F. Milliken Jr., American race car driver and engineer (born 1911)[†]
William F. Milliken, Jr. was an aerospace engineer, automotive engineer and racecar driver. He was born in Old Town, Maine.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]