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September 17, 2012

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Historical Context for September 17, 2012

In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]

Notable Deaths

Melvin Charney

2012Melvin Charney, Canadian sculptor and architect (born 1935)[†]

Melvin Charney C.Q. was a Canadian artist and architect.

2012Lou Kenton, English soldier and potter (born 1908)[†]

Lou Kenton was an English proofreader who served as a medical courier and ambulance driver with the International Brigade and was its oldest surviving member at the time of his death.

Russell E. Train

2012Russell E. Train, American soldier and civil servant (born 1920)[†]

Russell Errol Train was the second administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), from September 1973 to January 1977 and the founder chairman emeritus of World Wildlife Fund (WWF). As the second head of the EPA under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, Train helped place the issue of the environment on the presidential and national agenda in the late 1960s and early 1970s, a key period in the environmental movement. He was a conservative who reached out to the business community and Republicans. He promulgated the idea that as the economy of the nation was growing quickly, public as well as private projects should consider and evaluate the environmental impacts of their actions.

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A Step Back

By Mark Kriegel

Thirty years after the Korean boxer Duk-koo Kim died following his loss to Ray (Boom Boom) Mancini in Las Vegas, their families continue to heal.

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