The August 21, 2012 was a Tuesday under the star sign of ♌. It was the 233 day of the year. President of the United States was Barack Obama.
If you were born on this day, you are 13 years old. Your last birthday was on the Thursday, August 21, 2025, 303 days ago. Your next birthday is on Friday, August 21, 2026, in 61 days. You have lived for 5,051 days, or about 121,229 hours, or about 7,273,756 minutes, or about 436,425,360 seconds.
Date: 21 August 2012
By Brooks Barnes
Brooks Barnes
Late Monday, ABC backed off an earlier report saying that Tony Scott, the movie director who committed suicide on Sunday, had inoperable brain cancer.
Date: 21 August 2012
By Amy Chozick
Amy Chozick
Jon Banner, who as executive producer helped ABC’s “This Week” rise in the ratings, is leaving the network to become PepsiCo’s senior vice president of global strategy and planning.
Date: 21 August 2012
By The Editors
Moving Jimmy Kimmel up means moving “Nightline” back a full hour, past midnight — a fate ABC’s news division has long been trying to avoid.
Date: 22 August 2012
By Amy Chozick
Amy Chozick
According to a report by the Center for Responsive Politics, companies like Time Warner, Comcast and, yes, News Corporation have donated more to the president than to his opponent, Mitt Romney.
Date: 22 August 2012
By Robert Mackey
Robert Mackey
Two days after a Japanese journalist, Mika Yamamoto, was shot and killed in the Syrian city of Aleppo, her news agency released some of the footage she recorded in her final hours.
Date: 21 August 2012
By Amy Chozick
Amy Chozick
IAC has joined Answers.com in bidding for About.com, an online resources site.
Date: 21 August 2012
By David Sassoon
David Sassoon
The nation’s pipeline network is governed by laws and regulations that were written long before the unique risks and hazards associated with dilbit began to emerge.
Date: 21 August 2012
By The New York Times
Through a smoke cloud caused by faulty pyrotechnics, a 1928 Mercedes-Benz emerged at Pebble Beach with the award for Best of Show.
Date: 22 August 2012
By William Alden
William Alden
Highlights from the DealBook newsletter.
Date: 22 August 2012
By Jeremy W. Peters
Jeremy Peters
Believing that viewers are tired of politics, the networks will broadcast three hours of convention coverage, less than they showed in 2008.