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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]
2012Peggy Ahern, American actress (born 1917)[†]
Peggy Lenore Ahearn Blaylock, known professionally as Peggy Ahern, was an American actress best known for her appearance in eight of the Our Gang series of films released between 1924 and 1927. The Our Gang series, which was also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of comedic, short silent films created by director and producer Hal Roach. Ahern was one of the last surviving cast members from a Hal Roach film.
2012Anita Björk, Swedish actress (born 1923)[†]
Anita Björk was a Swedish actress.
2012Jeff Blatnick, American wrestler and sportscaster (born 1957)[†]
Jeffrey Carl "Jeff" Blatnick was an American super heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler and sports commentator. He won NCAA Division II heavyweight wrestling championships in 1978 and 1979 and won the Olympic gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling in 1984 after battling back from cancer. During his wrestling days, he and Dan Severn were on the same U.S. National Wrestling Team.
2012Bill Dees, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1939)[†]
William Marvin Dees was an American musician known for his songwriting collaborations with singer Roy Orbison.
2012Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player (born 1918)[†]
Margaret Osborne duPont was a world No. 1 American female tennis player.
As consumption of energy drinks soars in the United States, critics say the Food and Drug Administration has allowed the drinks to languish in a regulatory gray area.
In its Surface tablet, Microsoft wanted to build a device just as good at creating work as it is at organizing it. The hardware is brilliant, but the software is another story.
American officials believe a virus unleashed on an oil giant was a return volley in a conflict begun by the United States and Israel with software that targeted Iran’s centrifuges.
Resort World Casino New York City, at the Aqueduct racetrack, generated nearly $630 million in its first year, drawing customers from casinos in Connecticut and Atlantic City.
Many bellwether businesses have reported disappointing results and cut their outlook for future growth, but consumers remain buoyant.
“Neutral Hero,” the playwright-director Richard Maxwell’s new play, is set in a small Midwestern town and depicts the coming-of-age journey of an anonymous, commonplace character.
A decade-long stagnation in family incomes, a bedrock issue for the nation, has been caused by automation and globalization, among other factors not easily remedied in Washington.
Collection agencies, whose sometimes aggressive tactics have earned them scrutiny, will come under supervision of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau beginning Jan. 2.
On her new album, “Red,” Ms. Swift, now 22, finally begins to sound like an adult.
The Robert Lepage production of Thomas Adès’s “Tempest” made its Metropolitan Opera debut.
Beneath Picasso’s landmark painting “Women Ironing,” curators and conservators at the Guggenheim Museum are now able to examine tantalizing traces of another portrait.
City leaders heralded the announced move of the hockey franchise as an unexpectedly rapid vindication of the Atlantic Yards project.