On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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While most solar panel systems are tied to the electrical grid and susceptible to widespread power failures, there are ways to tap solar energy when the grid goes down.
Some toy and game makers have held off product introductions, experienced logistics problems and reduced inventory because of recent events.
Rescheduling dividend payments and selling stocks are among the strategies being employed to avoid higher tax rates set to take effect in 2013.
The changes being discussed by the president and Congressional Republicans would take the biggest bite from the highest earners and a smaller share from those earning less than $500,000.
While few tears should be shed for the private equity firm Ripplewood, the owner of Hostess brands, no one should conclude that Ripplewood was trying to make a quick profit and then leave.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 14, 2012, covering November 20, 2012.
Taylor Swift
Meek Mill
Rod Stewart
Jason Aldean
Kendrick Lamar
2012Kaspars Astašenko, Latvian ice hockey player (born 1975)[†]
Kaspars Astašenko was a Latvian professional ice hockey player. Astašenko was born in Riga, Latvia. Astašenko was drafted by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft, 127th overall. Astašenko played parts of two seasons in the National Hockey League with the Lightning.
2012William Grut, Swedish pentathlete (born 1914)[†]
William Oscar Guernsey Grut was a Swedish modern pentathlete. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, where he won the gold medal in modern pentathlon. Grut was a multiple Swedish swimming champion and received the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in 1948.
2012Pete La Roca, American jazz drummer (born 1938)[†]
Pete "La Roca" Sims was an American jazz drummer and attorney. Born and raised in Harlem by a pianist mother and a stepfather who played trumpet, he was introduced to jazz by his uncle Kenneth Bright, a major shareholder in Circle Records and the manager of rehearsal spaces above the Lafayette Theater. Sims studied percussion at the High School of Music and Art and at the City College of New York, where he played tympani in the CCNY Orchestra. He adopted the name La Roca early in his musical career, when he played timbales for six years in Latin bands. In the 1970s, during a hiatus from jazz performance, he resumed using his original surname. When he returned to jazz in the late 1970s, he usually inserted "La Roca" into his name in quotation marks to help audiences familiar with his early work identify him. He told The New York Times in 1982 that he did so only out of necessity:I can't deny that I once played under the name La Roca, but I have to insist that my name is Peter Sims with La Roca in brackets or in quotes. For 16 or 17 years, when I have not been playing the music, people have known me as Sims....When I was 14 or 15, I thought ["La Roca"] was clever; right now, it's an embarrassment. I thought that it would be something that people would probably remember - boy, was I ever right on that one! I can't make my conversion.
2012Ivan Kušan, Croatian writer (born 1933)[†]
Ivan Kušan was a Croatian writer.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]