On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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After allowing a leadoff home run to Coco Crisp, the Tigers’ Justin Verlander shut down Oakland through seven innings of a 3-1 win in Game 1 of an American League division series.
Nationwide, mailed ballots now account for nearly 20 percent of votes, yet such ballots are more likely to be compromised, and contested, than those cast in person, statistics show.
It might sound like science fiction, but 3-D printers are quickly becoming a consumer product, and people are already planning how to print a firearm.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is paying a trading firm for software that will give the agency its first real-time window on an increasingly sophisticated stock market.
While President Obama is widely seen as a friend of the tech industry, and has gotten far more donations, the excitement of his 2008 campaign has ebbed among investors and executives.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 3, 2012, covering October 7, 2012.
P!nk
Various Artists
The Killers
Dave Matthews Band
Little Big Town
2012Mervyn M. Dymally, Trinidadian-American politician, 41st Lieutenant Governor of California (born 1926)[†]
Mervyn Malcolm Dymally was an American politician from California. A Democrat, he served in the California State Assembly (1963–1966) and the California State Senate (1967–1975), as the 41st lieutenant governor of California (1975–1979), and in the U.S. House of Representatives (1981–1993). Dymally returned to politics a decade later to again serve in the California State Assembly (2003–2008).
2012Ivo Michiels, Belgian-French author and poet (born 1923)[†]
Henri Paul René Ceuppens, who wrote under the pseudonym Ivo Michiels, was a Belgian writer.
2012Wiley Reed, American-Australian singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1944)[†]
Wiley Dean Reed was an Australian-based African-American blues musician and songwriter, who sang and accompanied himself on the piano.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]