On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
Portrait 1080 × 1920 PNG · created on your device
The clergy of Newtown, Conn., are preparing to bury 20 children, a wrenching task that includes helping secure tiny coffins and eulogizing lives that had just begun.
The decision to trade the Cy Young Award winner R. A. Dickey shows a lack of gratitude and tells Mets fans that they will have to keep waiting.
Officials and parents spent the weekend anxious about how to talk to students about Friday’s shooting and how best to discourage something like it from happening again.
Groups that spent millions on the national election have little to show for it, but efforts at the state level — including a drive to set back labor in Michigan — were strikingly successful.
Football at Steubenville High School is an everyday topic. But rape charges against two players have some residents questioning the culture of football in the Ohio community.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 12, 2012, covering December 17, 2012.
Alicia Keys
Taylor Swift
Rod Stewart
One Direction
Phillip Phillips
2012Richard Adams, Filipino-American activist (born 1947)[†]
Richard Frank Adams was a Filipino-American gay rights activist. After his 1975 same-sex marriage was declared invalid for the purposes of granting his husband permanent residency, Adams filed the federal lawsuit Adams v. Howerton. This was the first lawsuit in America to seek recognition of a same-sex marriage by the federal government.
2012James Gower, American priest and activist, co-founded the College of the Atlantic (born 1922)[†]
Rev. James Gower was an American Roman Catholic priest and peace activist. Gower and his former high school classmate, businessman Les Brewer, co-founded the College of the Atlantic, a private, liberal arts college in Mount Desert Island, Maine, in 1969.
2012Daniel Inouye, American captain and politician (born 1924)[†]
Daniel Ken Inouye was an American attorney, soldier, and statesman who served as a United States senator from Hawaii from 1963 until his death in 2012. A Medal of Honor recipient, Inouye began his political career in territorial government. In 1959 he was elected as the first U.S. Representative for the State of Hawaii. A member of the Democratic Party, he also served as the president pro tempore of the United States Senate from 2010 until his death. Inouye chaired various Senate committees, including those on Intelligence, Indian Affairs, Commerce, and Appropriations.
2012Laurier LaPierre, Canadian historian, journalist, and politician (born 1929)[†]
Laurier L. LaPierre was a Canadian Senator, professor, broadcaster, journalist and author. He was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.
2012Frank Pastore, American baseball player and radio host (born 1957)[†]
Frank Enrico Pastore was an American Major League Baseball player and radio host. He pitched for the Cincinnati Reds from 1979 until 1985 and for the Minnesota Twins in 1986, and was in the Texas Rangers organization in 1987.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]