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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]
2012Verghese Kurien, Indian engineer and businessman, founded Amul (born 1921)[†]
Verghese Kurien was an Indian dairy engineer and social entrepreneur. He led initiatives that contributed to the extensive increase in milk production in India termed as the White Revolution.
2012John McCarthy, Australian footballer (born 1989)[†]
John Shane McCarthy was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
2012Mike Scarry, American football player and coach (born 1920)[†]
Michael Joseph "Mo" Scarry was an American football player and coach. He grew up in Pennsylvania, and played football in college at Waynesburg College in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania and went on to join the Cleveland Rams in the National Football League (NFL) as a center following a stint in the United States Army during World War II. The Rams moved to Los Angeles after winning the 1945 NFL championship, and Scarry elected to stay in Cleveland and play for the Cleveland Browns under coach Paul Brown in the new All-America Football Conference (AAFC). The Browns won the AAFC championship in 1946 and 1947 while Scarry was on the team.
2012Ron Tindall, English footballer and manager (born 1935)[†]
Ronald Albert Ernest Tindall was an English footballer who played as a striker. He was also an accomplished cricketer, playing for Surrey.
2012The Indian space agency puts into orbit its heaviest foreign satellite yet, in a streak of 21 consecutive successful PSLV launches.[†]
The Indian Space Research Organisation is India's national space agency, headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka. It serves as the principal research and development arm of the Department of Space (DoS), overseen by the Prime Minister of India, with the Chairman of ISRO also serving as the chief executive of the DoS. It is primarily responsible for space-based operations, space exploration, international space cooperation and the development of related technologies. The agency maintains a constellation of imaging, communications and remote sensing satellites. It operates the GAGAN and IRNSS satellite navigation systems. It has sent three missions to the Moon and one mission to Mars.
2012A wave of attacks kills more than 100 people and injure 350 others across Iraq.[†]
The 9 September 2012 Iraq attacks were a series of coordinated bombings and shootings across the capital Baghdad and several major cities in the north and south of the country. At least 108 people were killed and 371 injured in the first major insurgent action since a similar wave of violence almost a month earlier.
As one member of the team that operates the remote rover Curiosity at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory put it, “Last night I drove on Mars, today I mowed the lawn — it’s completely surreal.”
Andy Murray defeated Tomas Berdych in four sets, but severe weather conditions caused the day’s other two big matches — the second men’s semifinal and the women’s final — to be postponed.
Two players in the National Football League, Brendon Ayanbadejo and Chris Kluwe, have lent their support for gay marriage, helping alter the league’s stigma of having a homophobic culture.
A ninth-inning rally came up short on a close double play ball by Mark Teixeira that ended the game and dropped the Yankees back into a tie for first place in the A.L. East with the Orioles.
Investment in new buildings and other fixed assets, once a mainstay of the nation’s economy, grew at the second-lowest pace since 2002.
On Wednesday, the work of the European Central Bank could be undone in a stroke by judges in Germany, who have the power to block the country from contributing to the European rescue fund.
Tariq al-Hashimi, the Iraqi vice president accused of commanding sectarian death squads, was sentenced hours after a wave of attacks that claimed at least 100 lives.
After numerous fatal accidents when outdoor concert stages collapsed, an effort to establish industrywide safety standards is gaining traction.
“A Wanted Man” is Lee Child’s 17th Jack Reacher novel and the last to be published before Reacher goes Hollywood with a big Christmas movie.
The Jets’ demolition of the Bills was not as close as the score indicated, amounting to an emphatic I-told-you-so from Coach Rex Ryan.
Despite receiving positive press attention, Homicide Watch, the Web site that tracked every murder in Washington D.C., is on hiatus and seeking funds to continue.
The Treasury Department said on Sunday that it planned to sell an additional $18 billion worth of shares in the American International Group, drastically reducing the government’s stake in the bailed-out insurer.