On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
Portrait 1080 × 1920 PNG · created on your device
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.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 24, 2012, covering October 24, 2012.
Mumford & Sons
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Kiss
MGK
Coheed and Cambria
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.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]