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Revisit the news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]
2012Frank Macchiarola, American lawyer and academic (born 1941)[†]
Frank J. Macchiarola, was an American academic. His interests and expertise spanned the legal, academic, executive management and public service areas. From 2008 until his death, Macchiarola was the Chancellor of St. Francis College, after having been the college's president from 1996 to 2008.
2012Mustafa Ould Salek, Mauritanian colonel and politician, President of Mauritania (born 1936)[†]
Col. Mustafa Ould Salek was the president of Mauritania from 1978 to 1979.
2012Jim Whalen, American football player (born 1943)[†]
James Francis Whalen, Jr. was an American professional football player who was a tight end in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL).
2012Anatoliy Zayaev, Ukrainian footballer, coach, and manager (born 1931)[†]
Anatoliy Zayaev was a Soviet football player and a Ukrainian coach. Merited Coach of Ukraine.
As mortgage rules under the Dodd-Frank Act are finished, banks and policy makers want legal protections against lawsuits, while others worry that this will deny borrowers a critical safeguard.
Wal-Mart de Mexico was an aggressive and creative corrupter, offering large payoffs to get what the law otherwise prohibited, an examination by The New York Times found.
President Obama delivered to Speaker John A. Boehner a new offer that would raise revenues by $1.2 trillion over 10 years but maintain tax rates for any household earning below $400,000.
The people of Newtown buried two boys on Monday afternoon, in the first of the many funerals to follow last week’s massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. The boys were both 6 years old.
In the aftermath of the Connecticut school killings, momentum was building on Capitol Hill for tightening controls over firearms.
The private equity sector has stakes in some major gun makers, and taking the lead after the shootings in Newtown, Conn., could endanger firms’ own profits.
Whether someone owns a gun is a more powerful predictor of a person’s political party than gender, sexual orientation or many other demographic traits.
The private equity giant will sell its investment in the gun maker after a rifle from the company’s Bushmaster brand was used by the gunman in the school shootings in Connecticut.
Consensus is building around the idea that the largest Medicare savings should come from institutional providers of care.
The ritual of tamaladas, or tamale-cooking feasts, takes on a special meaning during the holiday season.
The Federal Trade Commission is looking at nine companies that collect, sell or analyze information about consumers.
Google must submit a plan in January to change its practices to avoid a fine or finding of wrongdoing, Europe’s top antitrust enforcer said.