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November 15, 2012

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 14, 2012, covering November 15, 2012.

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    Album cover for Red by Taylor Swift

    Red

    Taylor Swift

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    Album cover for Dreams And Nightmares by Meek Mill

    Dreams And Nightmares

    Meek Mill

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    Album cover for Merry Christmas; Baby by Rod Stewart

    Merry Christmas; Baby

    Rod Stewart

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    Album cover for Night Train by Jason Aldean

    Night Train

    Jason Aldean

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    Album cover for good kid; m.A.A.d city by Kendrick Lamar

    good kid; m.A.A.d city

    Kendrick Lamar

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Notable Deaths

2012ThĂ©ophile Abega, Cameroonian footballer and politician (born 1954)[†]

Théophile Abega Mbida, nicknamed Doctor, was a Cameroonian football player and politician. Playing as a midfielder he was part of the Cameroon national team, playing all three matches at the 1982 FIFA World Cup and captaining the side to their first African Nations Cup victory in 1984, where he scored a goal in the final. He was nicknamed "The Doctor" in tribute to his footballing intelligence.

2012Luís Carreira, Portuguese motorcycle racer (born 1976)[†]

Luis Filipe de Sousa Carreira was a Portuguese motorcycle road racer. He died on 15 November 2012 after an accident during qualifying in the 2012 Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix.

Maleli Kunavore

2012Maleli Kunavore, Fijian rugby player (born 1983)[†]

Maleli Kunavore was a Fijian rugby union footballer.

K. C. Pant

2012K. C. Pant, Indian politician, 18th Indian Minister of Defence (born 1931)[†]

Krishna Chandra Pant was a Member of Parliament for 26 years and was the prime minister's interlocutor on Kashmir. He was a cabinet minister in the Government of India and held several constitutional positions over a period of 37 years. Pant had held the positions of Minister for Defence, Minister of state for Home Affairs, Minister of Steel and Heavy Engineering, Finance, Atomic Energy and Science and Technology. He was the first chairman of the Advisory Board on Energy, chairman of the 10th Finance Commission and the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission of India, the economic planning body of India; his Vision 2020 document was published as India's Development Scenario, Next Decade and Beyond.

2012Frode Thingnés, Norwegian trombonist, composer, and conductor (born 1940)[†]

Frode ThingnĂŠs was a Norwegian jazz composer, arranger, conductor and trombone player who formed the Frode ThingnĂŠs Quintet in 1960.

Historical Events

Xi Jinping

2012Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.[†]

Xi Jinping is a Chinese politician who has been the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and thus the paramount leader of China, since 2012. Since 2013, Xi has also served as the seventh president of China. As a member of the fifth generation of Chinese leadership, Xi is the first CCP general secretary born after the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

Historical Context for November 15, 2012

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