On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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Bread is a mainstay of the Syrian diet, eaten with every meal, and in Aleppo, paralyzed by two weeks of war, the bakery lines show that basic commerce has become a battleground.
In China, where pale skin is a sign of status and solar protection something of an obsession, stretchy ski masks are catching on as beachwear.
Watching the first Saudi woman compete in the Olympics, many in Riyadh expressed doubts about whether life for women would change in the Arab world.
As a torrent of faulty trades spewed from a Knight Capital Group trading program, no one at the firm managed to stop it for more than a half-hour.
Cass R. Sunstein tested his theories of human behavior and economic efficiency in the laboratory of the federal government, with few proposed rules escaping his gaze or his editor’s pen.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 1, 2012, covering August 4, 2012.
Nas
Zac Brown Band
Kidz Bop Kids
Frank Ocean
Justin Bieber
2012Johnnie Bassett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1935)[†]
Johnnie Alexander Bassett was a Detroit-based American electric blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Working for decades primarily as a session musician, by the 1990s Bassett had his own backing band. He released seven albums in his lifetime. He cited Billy Butler, Tiny Grimes, Albert King, B.B. King and especially T-Bone Walker as major influences.
2012Brian Crozier, Australian-English journalist and historian (born 1918)[†]
Brian Rossiter Crozier was a British historian, propagandist and journalist. He was also one of the central staff members of a secret propaganda department belonging to the UK Foreign Office, known as the Information Research Department (IRD) which republished and supported much of his work.
2012Bud Riley, American football player and coach (born 1925)[†]
Edward Jones "Bud" Riley Jr. was an American college football coach who served as an assistant coach at the University of Idaho and Oregon State University.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]