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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[â ]
2012Ponty Chadha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (born 1957)[â ]
Gurdeep Singh Chadha, also known as Ponty Chadha, was an Indian industrialist and philanthropist who owned the Wave Group. Chadha was noted for his success in the alcohol industry, particularly for having alcohol distribution monopolies in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, and for his political influence.
2012Armand Desmet, Belgian cyclist (born 1931)[â ]
Armand Desmet was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer.
2012Lea Gottlieb, Hungarian-Israeli fashion designer, founded the Gottex Company (born 1918)[â ]
Lea Gottlieb was an Israeli fashion designer and businesswoman. She immigrated to Israel from Hungary after World War II, and founded the Gottex company.
2012Freddy Schmidt, American baseball player (born 1916)[â ]
Frederick Albert Schmidt was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for three different National League teams between 1944 and 1947. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut. Listed at 6Â ft 1Â in (1.85Â m), 185Â lb (84Â kg), he batted and threw right-handed.
2012Billy Scott, American singer-songwriter (born 1942)[â ]
Billy Scott was an American R&B singer, who was lead vocalist for the group The Prophets, later known as "The Georgia Prophets", and eventually "Billy Scott & The Party Prophets". He was known for Beach music hits such as "I Got the Fever" and "California".
2012Bal Thackeray, Indian cartoonist and politician (born 1926)[â ]
Bal Thackeray, also known as Balasaheb Thackeray, was an Indian cartoonist and politician who founded the original Shiv Sena, a far-right, a pro-Marathi and a Hindu nationalist party active mainly in the state of Maharashtra.
2012Margaret Yorke, English author (born 1924)[â ]
Margaret Beda Nicholson, known professionally as Margaret Yorke, was an English crime fiction writer.
2012At least 50 schoolchildren are killed in an accident at a railway crossing near Manfalut, Egypt.[â ]
The Manfalut Train-bus collision occurred on 17 November 2012 when a school bus, which was carrying about 70 school children between four and six years old, was hit by a train on a rail crossing near Manfalut, Egypt, 350Â km south of the Egyptian capital Cairo. At least 50 children and the bus driver died in the crash, and about 17 people were injured. Witnesses reported that barriers at the crossing were not closed when the crash occurred.
As the gothic romance vampire series âTwilightâ ends with the release of the final film, fans on Thursday night in New York were not as fervent as those in other parts of the country.
Ken Burns lays out an ecological disaster story in his documentary âThe Dust Bowl,â being shown in two parts on PBS.
Privacy experts say people grossly underestimate how transparent their e-mail accounts are. No matter what you hide there, someone may find out.
The German hedge fund manager Florian Homm, who disappeared five years ago, resurfaced, vowing to disprove stock-fixing accusations and unveiling a book about his years underground.
The artist Martha Rosler is mounting a garage sale in the Museum of Modern Artâs atrium; all are welcome to browse and buy.
Los Angeles Countyâs first toll went into effect last weekend, a jarring experience for motorists used to the âfreeâ in freeways.
After a year of controversies and the firing of its coach, Yale nears the end of another season of adversity, only this time with a banged-up team.
Israel acknowledges that its dangerous world is growing more dangerous. For the country and most of its people, that means not concessions but toughness in pursuit of deterrence.
Gulf Coast politicians may seek $20 billion or more in civil pollution penalties for the 2010 spill, but negotiations over those penalties could be contentious.
A drug crisis caused largely by an array of manufacturing problems is leading health care workers to treat patients with less-effective alternative medicines and expired drugs.
Relief efforts after Hurricane Sandy occasionally provoked moments of friction and misunderstanding in a city long fractured by class, race, ethnicity, geography and culture.
Consumers already knew that not everything is good for you, and this was never truer than with a Twinkie, a Sno Ball or a Ring Ding â the Ding Dong equivalent in the Northeast.