On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
Portrait 1080 × 1920 PNG · created on your device
Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and the bloodied stage for a battle now running into its sixth month, is administered by no one and slipping into disaster.
An inquiry into the attack on the American diplomatic mission in Libya criticized the State Department for a lack of seasoned security personnel and for ignoring requests for more guards.
Hurricane Sandy, last month’s Latino turnout for Democrats and now the Newtown, Conn., shootings have presented President Obama with many decisions — and openings to make new arguments.
The first concrete responses to the shootings in Newtown, Conn., began emerging Tuesday, as state leaders, corporations and the White House pointed to gun control measures.
In “The Great God Pan,” by Amy Herzog, a man’s existence is upended by the suggestion that he is a victim of childhood sexual abuse.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 19, 2012, covering December 19, 2012.
Taylor Swift
Wiz Khalifa
Rod Stewart
One Direction
Michael Buble
2012Robert Bork, American lawyer, judge, and scholar, United States Attorney General (born 1927)[†]
Robert Heron Bork was an American legal scholar who served as solicitor general of the United States from 1973 until 1977. A professor by training, he was acting United States Attorney General and a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1982 to 1988. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan nominated Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the Senate rejected his nomination after a contentious and highly publicized confirmation hearing.
2012Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Israeli general and politician, 22nd Transportation Minister of Israel (born 1944)[†]
Amnon Lipkin-Shahak was an Israeli military officer and politician. He served as Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, as a Member of the Knesset, and as Minister of Transportation and Minister of Tourism.
2012Larry Morris, American football player (born 1933)[†]
Larry Cleo Morris was an American professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Chicago Bears. The 1950 graduate of Decatur High School became an All-American playing college football for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets before his NFL career. "The Brahma Bull" was named one of the linebackers on the NFL 1960s All-Decade Team.
2012Peter Struck, German lawyer and politician, 13th German Federal Minister of Defence (born 1943)[†]
Peter Struck was the German Minister of Defence under chancellor Gerhard Schröder from 2002 to 2005. A lawyer, Struck was a member of the Social Democratic Party.
2012Park Geun-hye is elected the first female president of South Korea.[†]
Park Geun-hye is a South Korean politician who served as the 11th president of South Korea from 2013 until she was removed from office in 2017. Park was the first and to date only woman to be elected president of South Korea, and also the first woman to be popularly elected as a head of state in East Asia. She is also the first South Korean president to be born after the founding of South Korea. Her father, Park Chung Hee, was president from 1963 to 1979, serving five consecutive terms after he seized power in 1961 and whom she served as first lady under from 1974 until his assassination in 1979.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]