Notable Historical Events - 2012
2012 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 7 |
Hot air balloon crashes in Carterton, New Zealand, killing 11 |
Jan 8 |
"The 3:16 Game", the Denver Broncos' Tim Tebow connected with Demaryius Thomas on an 80-yard touchdown pass on the first scrimmage play of overtime, giving the underdog Broncos a 29—23 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC Wild Card Playoff Game |
Jan 9 |
Lionel Messi wins the FIFA Ballon d'Or for the second consecutive year |
Jan 11 |
38th People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Emma Stone win (Movie Star) and Nathan Fillion & Nina Dobrev win (TV Drama) |
Jan 13 |
Cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground at Isola de Giglio, Italy, with at least 15 deaths |
Jan 14 |
Suicide bomber kills 53 and injures 130 in Basra, Iraq |
Jan 14 |
Ma Ying-jeou wins re-election as President of the Republic of China with 51% of the vote |
Jan 18 |
Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) blackout becomes the largest protest in the history of the internet |
Jan 19 |
FBI shuts down Megaupload.com for alleged copyright infringement, hacker group Anonymous responds by attacking government and entertainment industry websites |
Jan 23 |
European Union agrees to embargo Iranian oil in protest against Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program |
Jan 28 |
Death toll from coordinated bombing attacks in Kano, Nigeria, reaches 185 |
Jan 29 |
NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 59-41 |
Feb 1 |
At least 73 people are killed in the Egyptian football riots in Port Said |
Feb 2 |
Cold snap across Europe kills more than 100 people (over 400 people by 08-02) |
Feb 2 |
MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papa New Guinea with 246 people saved and 126 missing (100 of these estimated to be trapped inside) |
Feb 2 |
NHL player Sam Gagner becomes the first player to scores eight points in one game for the Edmonton Oilers against the Chicago Blackhawks since 1989 |
Feb 4 |
Tens of thousands of people are stranded by floods in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland |
Feb 5 |
Super Bowl XLVI: New York Giants beat New England Patriots, 21-17 at the Lucas Oil Stadium MVP: Eli Manning, New York, QB |
Feb 6 |
6.9 magnitude quake hits near the central Philipines with 43 confirmed deaths |
Feb 6 |
Queen Elizabeth II marks her 60th anniversary of becoming British monarch, becoming only the second to do so |
Feb 6 |
Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot is presented with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario |
Feb 11 |
Israeli Air Force conducts four air strikes in Gaza Strip |
Feb 12 |
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow is re-elected president of Turkmenistan with 97% of the vote |
Feb 12 |
Zambia defeat Ivory Coast 8-7 on penalties in the Africa Cup of Nations |
Feb 12 |
54th Grammy Awards: Rolling In The Deep, Bon Iver wins |
Feb 15 |
United Kingdom unemployment rate reaches 17 year high of 8.4% |
Feb 15 |
Fire at Comayagua prison, Honduras, kills 358 |
Feb 17 |
The President of Germany, Christian Wulff, resigns over a corruption scandal |
Feb 17 |
Approximately 70 ancient Olympic artifacts are stolen from the Archaeological Museum of Greece |
Feb 18 |
Kateri Tekakwitha canonized as the first native American saint |
Feb 19 |
44 people killed in prison brawl in Apocada, Mexico, between two rival drug cartels |
Feb 20 |
Scientists successfully regenerate Silene stenophylla from a 31,800 year old piece of fruit, greatly surpassing the previous record of 2,000 years |
Feb 20 |
South Korea angers North Korea as it proceeds with live fire drills in disputed Korean sea borders |
Feb 21 |
Yemen voters go to the polls for a presidential election where the only candidate on the ballot paper is vice-president Abd Rabbuh Mansur al-Hadi |
Feb 22 |
Train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 50 and injures hundreds |
Feb 23 |
A series of bomb attacks across 12 Iraqi cities kills 60 and injures 200 |
Feb 25 |
Syrian Army kills 100 civilians in artillery shelling of Homs and Hama |
Feb 25 |
Al Qaeda suicide bombing kills at least 26 people in Mukalla, Yemen |
Feb 25 |
World Health Organization removes India from the list of polio endemic countries |
Feb 25 |
Louisiana Red, American blues musician, dies from stroke at 79 |
Feb 26 |
The film The Artist wins five Academy Awards and becomes the first silent film to win since 1927 |
Feb 26 |
Bus plunges off a cliff in Shanxi, China causing 15 deaths |
Feb 26 |
Train derailment kills 3 and injures 45 in Burlington, Ontario |
Feb 26 |
84th Academy Awards - "The Artist," Jean Dujardin & Meryl Streep win |
Feb 27 |
Wikileaks begins disclosing 5 million emails from private intelligence company Stratfor |
Feb 28 |
Occupy London protesters evicted from St Paul's Cathedral |
Feb 28 |
Discovery of the largest prehistoric penguin, Kairuku grebneffi, at nearly 5ft tall |
Mar 1 |
Euro zone unemployment reaches historical high of 10.7% |
Mar 2 |
Tornadoes kill at least 27 people in the American states of Indiana and Kentucky |
Mar 2 |
The Red Cross is denied access to provide relief to the Baba Amr district in Homs by the Syrian army |
Mar 2 |
New fiscal compact to prevent excessive debt is signed by 25 out of 27 European Union members |
Mar 3 |
Lorry crash in east Guinea kills 50 and injures 27 |
Mar 3 |
Two trains crash in Szczekociny, Poland, with 16 people dead and up to 50 injured |
Mar 4 |
Munitions dump explosions kill at least 250 people in the Republic of Congo |
Mar 4 |
Vladimir Putin wins Russian presidential election amid allegations of voter fraud |
Mar 4 |
Over 10,000 illegal Peruvian gold miners clash with police to gain control of Puerto Maldonado |
Mar 5 |
27 members of Iraq's security force are killed by gunmen disguised as police in Haditha |
Mar 5 |
Tropical Storm Irina kills 65 in Madagascar |
Mar 6 |
9,000 residents are evacuated from Wagga Wagga, Australia, as the Murrimbidgee River threatens to overflow |
Mar 6 |
Francisco Xavier do Amaral, East Timorese President, dies at 75 |
Mar 8 |
Greece secures debt-restructuring deal with private lenders |
Mar 8 |
Toyota recalls 700,000 vehicles over safety concerns |
Mar 9 |
Senior members of hacking group Lulz Sec are arrested, including one member of the FBI, in the United States, United Kingdom and Ireland |
Mar 10 |
At least 130 rockets are fired into Israel from Gaza |
Mar 11 |
US soldier kills 16 civilians in Afghanistan |
Mar 12 |
100 people are killed in ethnic clashes and cattle raids in South Sudan |
Mar 12 |
45 people, including children, are massacred by the Syrian Army in Homs |
Mar 12 |
China records its highest trade deficit in over a decade |
Mar 13 |
19 people are shot dead in a bus attack in Ethiopia |
Mar 13 |
Encyclopaedia Britannica announces that it will no longer publish printed versions of its encyclopaedia |
Mar 13 |
110 people are killed and 63 are missing after a ferry collides with an oil tanker near Dhaka, Bangladesh |
Mar 13 |
28 people, including 22 children, are killed in a motorway bus crash near Sierre, Switzerland |
Mar 16 |
Turkish NATO helicopter crashes into a house killing ten people in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan |
Mar 16 |
Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar becomes first cricketer to score 100 international centuries |
Mar 16 |
George Clooney and other several prominent participants, including Martin Luther King III, are arrested outside the Sundanese Embassy for civil disobedience |
Mar 17 |
Bolton Wanderer footballer Fabrice Muamba collapses and is rushed to hospital during a live football match against Tottenham Hotspur |
Mar 17 |
Wales defeat France to record their eleventh Grand Slam in the Six Nations Championship |
Mar 17 |
John Demjanjuk, convicted Nazi war criminal, dies from natural causes at 91 |
Mar 18 |
Superleague Greece football match between Olympiacos and Panathinaikos is abandoned after fans set fire to Athens' Olympic Stadium |
Mar 18 |
Joachim Gauck elected President of the Federal republic of Germany by the Federal Assembly |
Mar 19 |
Wendy's overtakes Burger King to become the second best selling hamburger chain |
Mar 20 |
50 people are killed and 240 injured in a wave of terror attacks across 10 cities in Iraq |
Mar 20 |
Disney movie John Carter records one of the largest losses in cinema history with a $200 million dollar write down |
Mar 21 |
Greek Parliament votes in favour of an international bailout deal |
Mar 21 |
Five former Guatemalan paramilitaries are sentenced to 7,710 years in jail for their role in the Plan de Sanchez massacre in 1982 |
Mar 22 |
Largest protest in Quebec's history occurs in Montreal with over 200,000 people marching against government tuition hikes and for free access to post-secondary education |
Mar 22 |
Australia's most wanted man, Malcolm Naden, is captured after seven years on the run in Gloucester, New South Wales |
Mar 22 |
Massive fire devours thousands of hectares of ancient forests and threatens wildlife on Mount Kenya |
Mar 22 |
Ireland returns to recession as GDP falls by 0.2% in the fourth quarter of 2011 following a fall of 1.1% in the third quarter |
Mar 23 |
African Union suspends Mali's membership following a coup |
Mar 24 |
African Union deploys 5,000 strong force with the aim of catching or killing warlord Joseph Kony |
Mar 25 |
Peter Cruddas, treasurer of Britain's Conservative Party, resigns after being caught on film selling access to British Prime Minister David Cameron |
Mar 26 |
Macky Sall elected as President of Senegal |
Mar 26 |
Canadian Film maker James Cameron becomes the first person to visit Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth in over 50 years |
Mar 30 |
Spanish Government cuts 27 Billion Euros from its budget in one of its toughest austerity driver in history |
Mar 30 |
Mastercard and Visa announce a massive breach in security with over ten million compromised credit card numbers |
Mar 30 |
American Mega Millions lottery hits a world record lottery amount of 640 million dollars |
Mar 31 |
Fiji Floods kill 2 people and force thousands to be evacuated |
Apr 1 |
Plane crash in Western Siberia kills at least 31 people (UTair Aviation ATR-72) |
Apr 1 |
32nd Golden Raspberry Awards: Jack and Jill wins |
Apr 2 |
Oikos University, Oakland shooting kills seven people and injures 3 |
Apr 3 |
Spanish unemployment reaches record high, youth unemployment stands at 50% |
Apr 3 |
Moscow fire kills 17 migrant workers |
Apr 3 |
US President Barack Obama officially secures Democratic presidential nomination |
Apr 4 |
German Nobel Laureat, Gunter Grass, publishes controversial poem that claims Israel is plotting to wipe out Iran |
Apr 4 |
Somalia's National Theatre is struck by a suicide bomber killing ten people including the presidents of the Somali Olympic Committee and Football Federation |
Apr 4 |
Boris Tadić, President of Serbia, resigns |
Apr 5 |
Severe storms in Argentina kill 14 people |
Apr 5 |
77-year old pensioner's suicide outside Greek parliament prompts further protests in Athens |
Apr 5 |
International internet group Anonymous hack several Chinese bureaus in opposition to censorship |
Apr 6 |
US F-18 Hornet crashes into side of apartment building in Virginia with no fatalities |
Apr 7 |
Joyce Banda becomes President of Malawi |
Apr 7 |
130 Pakistani Army soldiers are buried in an avalanche near the Siachen Glacier |
Apr 8 |
Gunter Grass labelled persona non gratta by Israeli internal affairs minister Eli Yishai |
Apr 8 |
Pope Benedict XVI calls for an end to Syrian blood shed in papal Easter message |
Apr 8 |
76th Golf Masters Championship: Bubba Watson wins, shooting a 278 |
Apr 9 |
The Lion King becomes highest grossing Broadway show after overtaking The Phantom of the Opera |
Apr 10 |
United Nations deadline for Syrian troop withdrawal passes as violence continues |
Apr 10 |
Apple Inc claims a value of $600 billion making it the largest company by market capitalization in the world |
Apr 10 |
Rick Santorum suspends his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination making Mitt Romney the overwhelming favourite |
Apr 10 |
Raymond Aubrac, French Resistance Leader, dies at 97 |
Apr 11 |
8.6 magnitude earth quack and 8.2 aftershock occurs off the coast of Indonesia |
Apr 11 |
2011 London riot looter is jailed for 11 years after starting a fire at a furniture retailer |
Apr 11 |
South Korean legislative elections result in the governing Saenuri Party retaining governance |
Apr 11 |
Prime Minister of Greece, Lucas Papademos, resigns and calls an election for May 6 |
Apr 11 |
Billionaire Warren Buffett is diagnosed with prostate cancer |
Apr 12 |
A ceasefire in the 2011-2012 Syrian uprising comes into effect |
Apr 12 |
Bodleian, Oxford University and Vatican libraries announce over 1.5 million pages of ancient texts will be made available across the internet |
Apr 12 |
Civilian rule in Mali is returned after Dioncounda Traore is sworn in as interim president |
Apr 13 |
North Korean long range rocket testing ends in failure after the rocket broke up after launch |
Apr 15 |
400 Islamist Militants escape from a Pakistan prison after an insurgent attack |
Apr 15 |
China loosens monetary policy and allows the Yuan to fluctuate up to 1% against the US dollar |
Apr 15 |
US Secret Service inappropriate conduct scandal begins with at least 11 people implicated |
Apr 16 |
At least 55 people are killed in the Syrian uprising despite UN presence to oversee ceasefire |
Apr 16 |
For the first time since 1977 no Pulitzer Prize is awarded for fiction |
Apr 17 |
The St Cuthbert Gospel, Europe's oldest intact book, purchased by the British Library for 9 million pounds |
Apr 18 |
The Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Naples begins burning artworks after cultural institution budget cuts |
Apr 19 |
Levon Helm, American rock musician, dies from throat cancer at 71 |
Apr 20 |
Plane crash near Islamabad, Pakistan, kills 127 people |
Apr 20 |
40 people are killed and 27 injured after a tractor trailer collided with a bus in Alamo, Mexico |
Apr 21 |
Two trains in Sloterdijk, Netherlands, injure 117 people in a head on collision |
Apr 21 |
Chicago White Sox pitcher, Philip Humber, pitches the 21st MLB perfect game against the Seattle Mariners |
Apr 22 |
30 year old woman collapses and dies during London Marathon |
Apr 23 |
Netherlands Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, tenders resignation, paving the way for early elections |
Apr 23 |
Rangers F.C. owner, Craig Whyte, is banned for life from any involvement in Scottish football |
Apr 23 |
38,000 London Marathon entrants have their home and email contacts published in a data protection breach |
Apr 25 |
The United Kingdom dips back into recession after the economy shrank 0.2% in the first quarter of 2012 |
Apr 26 |
70 people are killed by rocket attacks by the Syrian Army on the city of Hama |
Apr 26 |
Indonesia suspends imports of American beef after a confirmed case of mad cow disease in California |
Apr 27 |
Four explosions in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, kill 27 people |
Apr 28 |
Tent collapse in St Louis, Missouri, kills one and injures 110 people |
Apr 29 |
International Chemical Weapons Convention deadline for chemical weapon stockpiles comes into effect |
Apr 30 |
The unfinished One World Trade Center overtakes the Empire State building to become the tallest building in New York |
Apr 30 |
Spain's economy double dips after a 0.3% contraction and 25% unemployment rate |
Apr 30 |
Overloaded ferry in the Brahmaputra River, India, killing 103 people |
Apr 30 |
Manchester City defeat Manchester United 1-0 in what is claimed to be the biggest match in the English Premier League's history |
May 1 |
China and Russia sign $15 billion dollar trade deal |
May 1 |
Guggenheim Partners make the largest ever purchase of a sports franchise after buying the Los Angeles Dodgers for $2.1 billion |
May 2 |
Edvard Munch's famous painting 'The Scream' sells at auction for $119,922,500 |
May 2 |
Barcelona football player Lionel Messi breaks the European goal-scoring record with 68 goals |
May 4 |
14 decapitated bodies and 9 hung from a bridge are found in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico |
May 5 |
17 people are killed and 47 missing after a flash flood in Nepal |
May 5 |
Japan shuts down its nuclear reactors leaving the country without nuclear power for the first time since 1970 |
May 5 |
138th Kentucky Derby: Mario Gutierrez aboard Ill Have Another wins in 2:01.83 |
May 6 |
Francois Hollande elected President of France |
May 6 |
Greeck parliamentary election results in 60% support for parties opposed to austerity measures |
May 7 |
NATO air strike kills 14 and woulds 6 civilians in Afghanistan's Badghis Province |
May 7 |
Vladimir Putin sworn in for third six year term as President of Russia |
May 7 |
Paeleoclimatological research claims dinosaur flatulence may have warmed the earth |
May 9 |
Mark Rothko's "Orange, Red, Yellow" becomes the most expensive contemporary art piece to be sold at auction for $86.9 million dollars |
May 9 |
A Russian passenger jet disappears with 45 people on board |
May 9 |
United States President Barack Obama officially states his support for same sex marriage |
May 10 |
The Red Cross suspends all humanitarian work in Pakistan after a worker was kidnapped and killed |
May 10 |
Two bombings in Damascus, Syria, kill 55 people and injure 370 |
May 11 |
Chinese scientists break world record by transferring photons over 97 kilometers using quantum teleportation |
May 12 |
The discovery of a missing Mayan calender piece disproves 2012 Armageddon |
May 13 |
49 dismembered bodies are found on a Mexican highway as part of the Mexican drug war |
May 13 |
Torrential rain in Hunan Province, China, destroys a bridge, 3,500 homes and displaces 28,000 people |
May 13 |
Manchester City win the English Premier League for the first time |
May 14 |
1,500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons agree to end mass hunger strike |
May 14 |
Stanford University scientists develop prototype bionic eye |
May 15 |
Eurozone economy narrowly avoids recession |
May 15 |
Greece's fifth attempt to a form a coalition government fails and new June elections are scheduled |
May 19 |
Chelsea defeat Bayern Munich in penalty shootout to win the UEFA Champion's League |
May 19 |
138th Preakness: Mario Gutierrez aboard Ill Have Another wins in 1:55.94 |
May 20 |
Tomislav Nikolić elected president of Serbia |
May 20 |
6.0 magnitude earthquake kills 6 and injures dozens in northern Italy |
May 20 |
20th Billboard Music Awards: Adele, 21 win |
May 21 |
120 people are killed and 350 injured by a suicide bomb in Sana'a, Yemen |
May 21 |
13 people are killed and 22 people injured after a bus falls 80 metres off a cliff in Albania |
May 22 |
14 people die and 30 are injured in train collision in India |
May 22 |
Philip Philips is crowned the eleventh American Idol |
May 25 |
Up to 116 people are massacred, including women and children, by the Syrian army in Houla, in the Homs province |
May 25 |
A SpaceX Dragon becomes the first commercial spacecraft to dock at the International Space Station |
May 26 |
A gunman in the Finnish town of Hyvinkaa kills 2, wounds 7 |
May 26 |
Pope Benedict XVI's butler is arrested for allegedly leaking confidential documents |
May 27 |
A NATO airstrike kills a family of eight, including six children, in Afghanistan |
May 27 |
Indianapolis 500: Dario Franchitti wins in 2:58.51.2532 (269.934 km/h) |
May 29 |
Thousands march in protest in Johannesburg against Brett Murray's controversial painting The Spear |
May 29 |
Facebook's problematic public listing could cost those involved $115 million from technical glitches |
May 29 |
A 5.9 magnitude earthquake kills 24 people near Bologna, northern Italy |
May 29 |
Indonesian police make the biggest drug bust in ten years after seizing over a million ecstasy pills valued at $45 million |
May 30 |
A number of nations including Germany, Turkey and Canada, expel Syrian diplomats following the Houla massacre |
May 30 |
Vishwanathan Anand wins his fifth World Chess Championship |
May 31 |
Egypt formally ends its 31 year state of emergency |
Jun 1 |
New York Mets pitcher Johan Santana pitches a no-hitter against the St. Louis Cardinals |
Jun 3 |
Suicide car bombing kills 15 and inures 42 people in Bauchi, Nigeria |
Jun 3 |
Plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, kills all 152 passengers and 40 people on the ground |
Jun 3 |
Tiger Woods' 73rd PGA tour victory equals Jack Nicklaus's record |
Jun 4 |
US drone attack kills 15 militants in Pakistan, including high ranking al-Qaeda official, Abu Yahya al-Libi |
Jun 4 |
Car bomb kills 26 and injures 190 people in central Baghdad, Iraq |
Jun 4 |
Japan's stock market plummets to record lows with the S&P/TOPIX 150 reaching its lowest level since 1983 |
Jun 4 |
Wedding party bus crashes killing 23 and injuring 60 people in Islamabad, Pakistan |
Jun 6 |
Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs |
Jun 6 |
The Solar Impulse completes the world's first intercontinental flight powered by the sun |
Jun 6 |
46th CMT Music Awards: Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert & Luke Bryan wins |
Jun 7 |
16th century archaeology remains of the Curtain Theatre, where some of Shakespeare's plays were first performed, were found under a pub in London |
Jun 7 |
Credit rating agency Fitch downgrades Spain's credit rating to BBB in the wake of international bailout speculation |
Jun 7 |
A bus falls into a ravine in La Paz, Bolivia, killing 16 and injuring 32 people |
Jun 8 |
A bus bombing in Pakistan kills 18 and injures 35 people |
Jun 9 |
It is announced that up to $125 million dollars in loans will be given to aid Spain's struggling banks |
Jun 9 |
Burma (Myanmar) riots kill 20 people and burn down 300 houses |
Jun 10 |
66th Tony Awards: Once & Clybourne Park win |
Jun 10 |
A Helicopter crash near Nairobi, Kenya, kills five people, including George Saitoti, a Kenyan cabinet minister |
Jun 10 |
58th LPGA Championship won by Shanshan Feng |
Jun 11 |
Five people are killed after an ambulance hits a roadside bomb in Afghanistan |
Jun 11 |
23 people are killed after two villages are attacked in northern Nigeria |
Jun 11 |
The Nobel Prize is reduced by 20% to prevent any future undermining of capital |
Jun 11 |
Two earthquakes in Afghanistan trigger landslides that kill more than 80 people |
Jun 11 |
Los Angeles Kings defeat New Jersey Devils 6-1 in game 6 to win the NHL's Stanley Cup |
Jun 12 |
The chemical compound NOTT-202, which is capable of selectively absorbing carbon dioxide, is created |
Jun 12 |
An Australian coroner's report rules that a dingo was responsible for the death of a baby in 1980 |
Jun 12 |
The World Health Organization concludes that diesel exhaust causes cancer |
Jun 13 |
A series of bombings across Iraq kill 93 and wound 300 people |
Jun 13 |
San Francisco Giants' Matt Cain pitches first perfect game in the franchise's history against the Houston Astros |
Jun 14 |
An explosion at an Indian steel plant kills 11 people and severely injures 16 |
Jun 14 |
The world's first stem-cell assisted vein transplant is undertaken by Swedish doctors on a 10 year old girl |
Jun 15 |
Apple I computer sells for a record $374,500 |
Jun 15 |
Five Dutch banks, including ING, receive credit rating downgrades of one or two notches |
Jun 16 |
32 people are killed by a car bomb in Baghdad |
Jun 16 |
Coca-Cola begins business in Myanmar after 60 years |
Jun 16 |
A collapse of a stage at a Toronto Radiohead concert kills one person |
Jun 16 |
30 people are killed and 15 injured after a bus falls into a gorge in Osmanabad, India |
Jun 17 |
France's Socialist Party wins a majority in the legislative election |
Jun 17 |
Greek voters return to the polls after the failed May 6 election |
Jun 17 |
American golfer, Webb Simpson, wins the US Open |
Jun 17 |
112th US Golf Open: Webb Simpson shoots a 281 at Olympic Club CA |
Jun 18 |
15 people are killed and 40 injured in a suicide attack in Baquba, Iraq |
Jun 19 |
A man is beheaded for witchcraft and sorcery in Saudi Arabia |
Jun 19 |
Antonis Samaras, the leader of the New Democracy party in Greece, forms a coalition government |
Jun 20 |
Western Libyan tribal clashes kill 105 people and injure 500 |
Jun 20 |
A Syrian fighter pilot lands in Jordan and defects from the Syrian uprising |
Jun 21 |
Moody's downgrades 15 major banks in the UK, US, Canada and Europe |
Jun 21 |
A boat of 200 asylum seekers headed to Australia capsizes and 110 survivors are rescued |
Jun 21 |
Miami Heat win the 2012 NBA finals after defeating the Oklahoma City Thunder 4 games to one |
Jun 21 |
66th NBA Championship: Miami Heat beat Oklahoma City Thunder, 4 games to 1 |
Jun 22 |
Two Baghdad market bombings kill 14 people and injure 106 |
Jun 23 |
Greece proposes to slow down austerity measures by two years |
Jun 23 |
A bus carrying Czech tourists crashes in Croatia killing 8 and injuring 44 |
Jun 23 |
76 monks are hospitalized in Thailand following an attack by a swarm of bees |
Jun 24 |
Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood becomes President of Egypt |
Jun 24 |
Female athletes will be allowed to compete for Saudi Arabia at the Olympics for the first time |
Jun 25 |
33 Syrian army officers defect to Turkey |
Jun 28 |
A series of car bombs in Iraq kills 14 and injures 50 people |
Jun 29 |
16 Naxalite Maoist insurgents in India are killed by police |
Jun 29 |
Three bombs in Balid, Iraq, kill 6 people and injure 45 |
Jun 29 |
15,000 Japanese anti-nuclear protesters blockade the Japanese Prime Minister's office in Tokyo |
Jun 30 |
30 people attending a funeral in Zamalka, Syria, are killed on a day that saw 83 civilian deaths |
Jun 30 |
Mid-Atlantic storms in the United States kill 13 and leave millions without power in Ohio, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. |
Jun 30 |
Mohamed Morsi is sworn in as President of Egypt |
Jul 1 |
17 people are killed and 45 injured in an attack on two churches in Garissa, Kenya |
Jul 1 |
Spain's football team crushes Italy 4-0 to win the 2012 UEFA Euro Cup |
Jul 2 |
GlaxoSmithKline settles the largest healthcare fraud case in history for US$3 Billion |
Jul 2 |
Monsoon rain in East India kills at least 79 people and leaves 2.2 million homeless |
Jul 3 |
Truck bombing kills 25 people and wounds 40 in Diwaniyah, Iraq |
Jul 3 |
Antonio Esfandiari wins a record $18.3 million in poker after winning the 2012 World Series of Poker $1,000,000 Buy-In |
Jul 5 |
The Shard, the tallest building in Europe, is opened in London, at 309.6 metres (1,016 ft) |
Jul 5 |
South Korea announce plans to begin "scientific' whaling of minke whales |
Jul 5 |
Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party is elected President of Mexico after a recount following irregularities |
Jul 6 |
Gunmen kill 18 people in Turbat, Pakistan |
Jul 7 |
Floods in the Krasnodar region, Russia, kill 140 people |
Jul 8 |
Roadside car bomb kills 14 civilians in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province |
Jul 8 |
Tens of thousands protest over election corruption in Mexico City after Enrique Pe |
Jul 8 |
119th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Serena Williams beats A Radwańska (6-1 5-7 6-2) |
Jul 8 |
126th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Roger Federer beats Andy Murray (4-6 7-5 6-3 6-4) |
Jul 10 |
The American Episcopal Church becomes the first to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages |
Jul 10 |
83rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 8-0 at Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City |
Jul 11 |
POliciy academy suicide bombing kills 20 in Sana'a, Yemen |
Jul 11 |
S/2012 P 1, the fifth moon of Pluto is discovered |
Jul 11 |
20th ESPY Awards: LeBron James, Brittney Griner win |
Jul 11 |
Steve Nash is traded by the Phoenix Suns to the Los Angeles Lakers |
Jul 12 |
200 people are killed by the Syrian army in Tremseh |
Jul 12 |
90-155 people are killed after an oil tanker crashes and explodes in Okogbe, Rivers State, Nigeria |
Jul 13 |
China's economic growth drops to 7.6%, its lowest level for three years |
Jul 13 |
19-30 people are killed after a train collides with a truck in Malelane, South Africa |
Jul 13 |
Financially troubled Scottish football club, Rangers, is voted into the third division |
Jul 14 |
Suicide bomber attacks a wedding reception and kills 22 people and inures 22 in northern Afghanistan |
Jul 14 |
Floods on the Japanese island of Kyushu kill 20 and displace 250,000 |
Jul 15 |
39 pilgrims are killed in a bus crash in Parasi, Nepal |
Jul 15 |
A Russian Soyuz rocket with an international team launches for a mission to the International Space Station |
Jul 17 |
17 people are wounded in a bar shooting in Tuscaloosa, Alabama |
Jul 18 |
6 Israeli tourists are killed and 30 injured after a bomb explodes on a tourist bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria |
Jul 18 |
14 people are killed after a bomb explosion at Pakistan's Orakzai Agency |
Jul 18 |
Violence across Syria results in 97 deaths |
Jul 18 |
Syrian suicide bombing kills three high profile government officials, including Syria's Minister of Defence |
Jul 18 |
24 people are killed after a ferry sinks off the coast of Zanzibar |
Jul 18 |
Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army |
Jul 20 |
12 people are killed and 59 injured after a gunman opens fire at a Dark Knight movie premier in Aurora, Colorado, |
Jul 20 |
21 people are killed and 29 injured in a bus accident in Nayarit, Mexico |
Jul 22 |
Car bombs kills 20 people and injures 80 in Madaen and Najaf, Iraq |
Jul 22 |
Pranab Mukherjee is elected President of India |
Jul 22 |
At least 77 people are killed by torrential rain in Beijing, China |
Jul 22 |
141st British Golf Open: Ernie Els shoots a 273 at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club |
Jul 23 |
A series of attacks across Iraq kill 103 people |
Jul 24 |
John Dramani becomes President of Ghana after the death of President John Atta Mills |
Jul 24 |
Four barrels containing 248 human fetuses are found in Sverdlovsk, Russia |
Jul 25 |
The 2012 Summer Olympics begin (Opening ceremony 27th) |
Jul 25 |
Ivica Dačić is sworn in as Prime Minister of Serbia |
Jul 25 |
Italy's credit rating is downgraded to CCC+ by Egan-Jones |
Jul 25 |
The UK economy returns to recession with a fall of 0.2% in GDP in the first quarter of 2012 following a fall of 0.3% in the last quarter of 2011 |
Jul 25 |
The double dip recession in the UK economy continues with a fall of 0.7% in GDP in the second quarter of 2012 |
Jul 26 |
At least 200 people are killed in a day of violence in Syria |
Jul 26 |
Insurgent attack kills 19 people and destroys a helicopter at Baqubah, Iraq |
Jul 26 |
North Korea is hit by Tropical Storm Khanun, killing 88 people and leaving 60,000 people homeless |
Jul 27 |
Queen Elizabeth II announces the opening of the London 2012 Olympics at the opening ceremony |
Jul 27 |
2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony occurs |
Jul 28 |
Ye Shiwen of China sets world record in the women's 400m individual medley in 4:28.43 |
Jul 28 |
18 people are killed and 11 injured in ethnic clashes in Ethiopia |
Jul 29 |
Tropical Storm Khanun kills 88 people and leaves 60,000 homeless in North Korea |
Jul 30 |
Train fire kills 32 and injures 27 people in Andhra Pradesh, India |
Jul 30 |
Indian power grid failure leaves over 300 million without electricity |
Jul 31 |
Two car bombs kill 21 people in Baghdad, Iraq |
Jul 31 |
A second power grid failure in two days leaves 670 million people in India without power |
Aug 1 |
Typhoon Saola kills elven people and displaces over 150,000 in the Philippines |
Aug 1 |
8 Women's badminton doubles players are disqualified from the 2012 summer Olympics for "not using one's best efforts to win a match" |
Aug 2 |
23 people are killed after two blasts in a fruit market in Lahore, Pakistan |
Aug 3 |
United Nations General Assembly reproaches The United Nations Security Council over its lack of action in Syria |
Aug 4 |
45 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Abyan, Yemen |
Aug 4 |
South African Oscar Pistorius becomes first amputee to compete at the Olympics |
Aug 5 |
Gunman opens fire on Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin killing six people and committing suicide |
Aug 5 |
19 people are killed by Kurdish rebels in Hakk |
Aug 5 |
General Motors signs a record breaking $559 million marketing deal with Manchester United |
Aug 6 |
Mount Tongariro, New Zealand, erupts for the first time in a century |
Aug 7 |
21 people are killed by a gun attack in a church in Okene, Nigeria |
Aug 7 |
Heavy rain forces 20,000 people to flee their homes in Manila, Phillipines |
Aug 7 |
200,000 people are evacuated from Shanghai in anticipation of Typhoon Haikui |
Aug 8 |
China announces that it plans to close 23 rare earth mines and up to 50 smelting companies |
Aug 8 |
16 people are killed from flooding from heavy rain in Manilla, Philippines |
Aug 9 |
The death toll from the Philippines' floods rise to 70 |
Aug 9 |
Usain Bolt becomes the first person to win the 100m and 200m sprint in back to back Olympics |
Aug 11 |
153 people are killed and 1300 injured in Tabriz and Ahar, Iran after two earthquakes of up to 6.4 magnitude |
Aug 11 |
13 people are killed and 15 injured by a lightning strike at a Mosque in Bangladesh |
Aug 12 |
The 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony completes the games |
Aug 12 |
94th PGA Championship: Rory McIlroy shoots a 275 at Kiawah Island Golf Resort |
Aug 13 |
Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus is stripped of her shot-put gold medal after failing a drugs test |
Aug 14 |
46 people are killed and 80 injured after a series of suicide bombings in Afghanistan |
Aug 14 |
Hungary falls back into recession as GDP falls by 0.2% in the second quarter of 2012 following a fall of 1.0% in the first quarter |
Aug 16 |
Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, is granted political asylum by Ecuador |
Aug 16 |
113 people are killed and over 200 wounded in a series of attacks across Iraq |
Aug 16 |
South African police open fire on striking mine workers and kill at least 34 people |
Aug 17 |
Three members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot are jailed for two years |
Aug 17 |
Gay pride events are banned for a century in Moscow |
Aug 18 |
Al-Qaeda militants kill 14 people in an attack in Aden, Yemen |
Aug 18 |
NATO air strikes kill at least 13 militants in Afghanistan |
Aug 19 |
32 people are killed after a plane crash in Talodi, Sudan |
Aug 20 |
20 people are killed in a riot in Caracas, Venezuela |
Aug 20 |
South Africa become the top-ranked test cricket nation after defeating England |
Aug 21 |
20 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo die from the Ebola virus |
Aug 22 |
47 people are killed in the Syrian civil war |
Aug 22 |
48 people are killed in Kenyan tribal wars between the Pokomo and Orma |
Aug 22 |
Russia and Vanuatu become members of the World Trade Organization |
Aug 23 |
Four people are killed and 28 injured in a hot air ballooning accident in Slovenia |
Aug 23 |
At least 30 are killed as a result of monsoon rain in Rajasthan, India |
Aug 24 |
Monsoon rains and floods kill 26 people in Pakistan |
Aug 24 |
Yangmingtan Bridge collapses in China killing three people |
Aug 24 |
Both Apple and Samsung are found guilty of patent infringement in a South Korean court |
Aug 24 |
A US jury in California finds that Samsung is guilty of patent infringement and awards over US$1 billion in damages to Apple |
Aug 25 |
330 people are killed as a result of conflict in the Syrian civil war |
Aug 25 |
39 people are killed and 80 are injured after a gas leak in North Venezuelan refinery |
Aug 25 |
85,000 people are displaced by severe floods in Myanmar |
Aug 25 |
Voyager 1 spacecraft, enters interstellar space (launched in 1977), - first spacecraft to do so |
Aug 26 |
15 year-old New Zealand golfer, Lydia Ko, becomes the youngest LPGA Tour event winner and the first amateur winner since 1969 |
Aug 26 |
36 people are killed in a bus crash in Yan'an, China |
Aug 26 |
17 villagers in Afghanistan's Kajaki district are beheaded by an unknown organization |
Aug 26 |
A Legionella outbreak in Quebec City, Canada, kills 8 and infects 104 |
Aug 27 |
First interplanetary human voice recording is broadcast from the Mars Rover Curiosity |
Aug 28 |
Mitt Romney is officially nominated as the United States Republican Party's candidate |
Aug 29 |
Georgian hostage crisis results in 3 police officers and 10 militants being killed |
Aug 29 |
Operation Eagle, undertaken by the Egyptian Army, results in the deaths of 11 suspected terrorists and the arrest of another 23 |
Aug 29 |
Banana Spider venom is found to be effective in relieving erectile dysfunction |
Aug 29 |
The USADA claims to have stripped Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles |
Aug 30 |
Cholera outbreak kills 229 people in Sierra Leone |
Aug 30 |
A blast in the in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, China, kills 26 miners with 21 missing |
Aug 30 |
Andy Roddick announces he will retire following the U.S. Open |
Aug 31 |
Apple loses its patent dispute with Samsung in Tokyo, Japan |
Sep 1 |
Islamist rebels seize Douentza, Mali |
Sep 1 |
Grenade injures 41 festival celebrants in Paquibato, Philippines |
Sep 1 |
Two suicide bombings kill 12 people and wound 50 in a NATO base in Afghanistan's Sayed Abad district |
Sep 1 |
US drone strike kills 5 people in North Waristan, Pakistan |
Sep 2 |
A decades-long ban on veiled female news presenters is lifted from State television in Egypt |
Sep 2 |
15 people are killed by a car bomb attack at a refugee camp in Sbeineh, Palestine |
Sep 3 |
3 people are killed and 19 wounded by a car bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan |
Sep 3 |
Typhoon Bolaven kills 48 people in North Korea |
Sep 3 |
New Zealand announces withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan |
Sep 4 |
42 people are killed and 25 injured as a passenger bus falls down a ravine in Morocco |
Sep 4 |
25 people are killed at a funeral suicide bombing in Nangarhar, Pakistan |
Sep 4 |
Pauline Marois becomes the first female premier of Quebec |
Sep 4 |
Carpet that can help prevent falls in elderly by warning them after detecting unusual footsteps is developed |
Sep 5 |
54 people are killed and 50 injured after a firecracker factory explodes in Nadu |
Sep 5 |
Austerity measure requires Greece to increase its maximum working days to six per week |
Sep 5 |
25 are killed and 4 wounded after an ammunition store exploded in Afyon, Turkey |
Sep 6 |
61 illegal immigrants die after a fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Turkey |
Sep 6 |
Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for US President |
Sep 6 |
29th MTV Awards: Rihanna f/ Calvin Harris, Nicki Minaj & Chris Brown wins |
Sep 7 |
US drone attack kills 8 people in Kismayo, south Somalia |
Sep 7 |
64 people are killed and 715 injured after a series of earthquakes in south-west China |
Sep 7 |
Canada closes its Iranian embassy and expels Iranian diplomatic staff out of Canada |
Sep 8 |
6 people are killed by a Taliban suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan |
Sep 8 |
8 people are killed after a tractor is hit by a train in Romania |
Sep 9 |
17 people are killed and at least 40 injured after two car bombs explode in Aleppo, Syria |
Sep 9 |
100 people are killed and 350 injured after a wave of attacks across Iraq |
Sep 9 |
Armenia wins the 40th FIDE Chess Olympiad |
Sep 9 |
Serena Williams wins her fourth women's tennis singles at the US Open |
Sep 10 |
16 people are killed by a suicide bombing n Kunduz, Afghanistan |
Sep 10 |
Teachers in Chicago strike effecting 350,000 students |
Sep 10 |
10,000 miners demonstrate at Lonmin mines in Marikana, South Africa |
Sep 10 |
29 people are killed by floods and heavy rain in Vietnam |
Sep 10 |
A left over bazooka grenade in Cambodia explodes and kills three children |
Sep 11 |
50 Al-Shabaab fighters are killed in conflict with the Somali National Army |
Sep 11 |
The US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is stormed, looted and burned down, killing five people, including the US ambassador |
Sep 11 |
The US is warned by Moody's that its AAA credit rating is at risk if lawmakers fail to produce a long-term debt reduction plan |
Sep 11 |
29 people are killed and 11 injured after a bus runs off a mountain highway in Nepal |
Sep 11 |
Japan nationalizes three of the disputed Senkaku Islands |
Sep 12 |
18 soldiers are killed by a rebel car bomb in Syria |
Sep 12 |
314 people are killed in factory fire in Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan |
Sep 12 |
Apple unveils its iPhone 5 and iOS 6 |
Sep 13 |
19 people are killed after a freight elevator crashes from 100 meters in Wuhan, China |
Sep 13 |
33,000 people are evacuated after Guatemala's Volcano of Fire erupts |
Sep 13 |
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev calls for Russian punk band Pussy Riot to be freed |
Sep 13 |
Dr Mustafa Abushagur is elected as Prime Minister of Libya |
Sep 14 |
21 people are killed after a ferry sank in Indonesia |
Sep 15 |
Japan announces that it will phase out nuclear energy by the 2030s |
Sep 16 |
8 female civilians are killed by a NATO airstrike in Laghman, Afghanistan |
Sep 16 |
8 police officers are killed by a roadside bombing by Kurdistan Workers' Party militants in Turkey |
Sep 16 |
14 people are killed and 7 wounded by a roadside bomb Jandol, Turkey |
Sep 16 |
Anti-Japanese protesters set fire to Panasonic plant in Qingdao, China |
Sep 16 |
Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, seeks a court order to resolve a week long teachers strike |
Sep 16 |
NHL locks out its players after the expiry of the collective bargaining agreement |
Sep 17 |
Panasonic suspends operations at its three factories in China |
Sep 17 |
China dispatches 1,000 fishing boats to Senkaku Islands |
Sep 17 |
13 people are killed in a bus accident in Jubail, Saudi Arabia |
Sep 17 |
Swedish forensic scientists find no conclusive evidence of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's DNA in a torn condom |
Sep 17 |
United States and Japanese government officials agree to put a second missile defence system in Japan |
Sep 18 |
10 soliders are killed and 70 injured by a missile attack by Kurdish militants in Bingol, Turkey |
Sep 18 |
26 people are killed in a fire in a Pemex gas facility in Reynosa, Mexico |
Sep 18 |
The Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools reach a deal that ends an 8-day strike. |
Sep 18 |
World's first mother-to-daughter uterus transplant undertaken at the University of Gothenburg |
Sep 19 |
9 people are killed and 20 wounded by a car bombing in Peshawar, Afghanistan |
Sep 20 |
50 people are killed and dozens injured after a gas station is bombed by the Syrian Army in Ain Issa |
Sep 20 |
14 people are killed in a cafe suicide bominbg in Somalia |
Sep 20 |
AU Optronics fined $500 million for a LCD screen price-fixing |
Sep 21 |
Japanese Prime Minister, Yoshihiko Noda, wins a leadership ballot |
Sep 22 |
7 pedestrians are killed by a drunk driver who hit a bus stop at 200km an hour in Moscow |
Sep 23 |
Iran blocks the use of Google as a search engine |
Sep 23 |
20 Iranian US Visas are denied, including diplomats and two ministers, ahead of the UN general assembly meeting in New York |
Sep 23 |
Scientists discover four genetically distinct types of breast cancer |
Sep 23 |
64th Emmy Awards: Homeland, Modern Family, Damian Lewis & Claire Danes win |
Sep 24 |
Books by Japanese authors or about Japan are suspended by Chinese bookstores |
Sep 25 |
50 Taiwanese ships clash with the Japan Coast Guard in waters off the Senkaku Islands |
Sep 25 |
Anouchka van Miltenburg is elected President of the House of Representatives in the Netherlands |
Sep 26 |
Syrian army massacres 40 civilians in Thiabieh, Damascus |
Sep 26 |
Greek trade unions call a general strike to protest austerity measures |
Sep 26 |
Japanese automakers suspend operations in China |
Sep 27 |
UN publicly releases documents from China and Japan detailing their contesting claims for the Senkoku Islands |
Sep 27 |
The Mars Curiosity rover discovers what evidence of a fast-moving streambed-in Mars |
Sep 27 |
The 2004 Japanese discovery of the 133th element has been confirmed |
Sep 28 |
Aircraft crash kills 16 people in Kathmandu, Nepal |
Sep 28 |
Nigeria suspends flights to Saudi Arabia after hundreds of Nigerian women travelled without a male escort |
Sep 30 |
Two opposition Venezuelan politicians are shot dead a week before the presidential election |
Sep 30 |
Car bomb blasts kill at least 32 people across Iraq |
Sep 30 |
Melbourne Storm defeat the Canterbury Bulldogs in the 2012 NRL Grand Final |
Sep 30 |
Europe defeats the US 14.5-13.5 in the 39th Ryder Cup |
Oct 1 |
California becomes the first US state to ban conversion therapy for minors |
Oct 1 |
36 people are killed in a ferry collision in Hong Kong |
Oct 1 |
3 NATO soldiers and 16 Afghan police are killed by a suicide bombing in Khost, Afghanistan |
Oct 2 |
20 students are gunned down in Mubi, Nigeria |
Oct 2 |
10 people are killed after a minibus and truck collide in Ilocos Norte, Philippines |
Oct 3 |
34 people are killed by a series of bombings in Aleppo, Syria |
Oct 4 |
Turkey's parliament approves cross-border military operations in Syria |
Oct 4 |
19 people are killed after being buried by a landslide in Yunnan, China |
Oct 4 |
Jordan's King Abdullah dissolves parliament in preparation for new elections |
Oct 4 |
Formula One legend, Michael Schumacher, retires |
Oct 5 |
Anglo Platinum Limited fires 12,000 striking workers in South Africa |
Oct 6 |
Paolo Gabriele, Pope Benedict XVI's butler, is found guilty of leaking confidential documents and is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment |
Oct 6 |
The Leeds Rhinos defeat the Warrington Wolves 26-18 to win the 2012 Super League grand final |
Oct 7 |
13 people are killed after a Sudanese military aeroplane crashes near Khartoum |
Oct 7 |
Sébastien Loeb wins the World Rally Championship for the ninth consecutive year |
Oct 8 |
35 people are killed by a Nigerian military bomb struck a convoy in Maiduguri |
Oct 8 |
Hugo Chávez is re-elected as president of Venezuela for a fourth term |
Oct 8 |
Mustafa A.G. Abushagur, the first elected Libyan Prime Minister, is voted out of office by the Libyan parliament |
Oct 8 |
John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka win the 2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work on reprogramming end stage cells to become pluripotent |
Oct 9 |
25,000 people in Athens protest German Chancellor Angela Merkel |
Oct 9 |
Serge Haroche and David Wineland win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on quantum optics |
Oct 10 |
Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on G protein-coupled receptors |
Oct 11 |
A further 83 people are killed throughout Syria by the Syrian army |
Oct 11 |
A US appeal court overturns a district court ruling banning the sale of Samsung |
Oct 11 |
Mo Yan, a hallucinatory realist writer, wins the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature |
Oct 12 |
The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves of an African-led force to oust Islamist militants in northern Mali |
Oct 12 |
The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, sparking a series of critical commentary |
Oct 13 |
15 people are killed by a market suicide bombing in Darra Adam Khel, Pakistan |
Oct 13 |
Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes Bild sells for $34 million, the highest sold artwork by a living artist |
Oct 14 |
20 people are gunned down in a mosque in Dogo Dawa, Nigeria |
Oct 15 |
Hilary Mantel wins the 2012 Man Booker Prize for her novel Bring Up the Bodies |
Oct 16 |
Conflict in Maiduguri, Nigeria, leads to 24 militant deaths and several structures set ablaze |
Oct 17 |
The exoplanet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered orbiting Alpha Centauri |
Oct 17 |
Lance Armstrong loses a host of endorsements in the wake of his doping scandal |
Oct 17 |
Tens of thousands protest austerity measures in Greece |
Oct 18 |
Syrian military airstrikes kill 40 people in Maaret al-Numan |
Oct 18 |
Google stock trading is suspended after a premature release of a quarterly report indicating a 20% drop in profits and a 9% fall in share price |
Oct 19 |
8 people are killed and 78 injured by a car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon |
Oct 22 |
6 Italian scientists are convicted of manslaughter for their failure to predict the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake |
Oct 22 |
Hurricane Sandy forms in the Western Caribbean Sea |
Oct 23 |
12 people are killed and 40 are injured in a hospital fire in Tainan, Taiwan |
Oct 24 |
Libyan militias capture Bani Walid resulting in 130 civilian deaths |
Oct 24 |
3 people are shot dead and two critically wounded after being shot by an unknown gunman in Downey, California |
Oct 24 |
Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Jamaica killing 1 person and causing over $50 million in damage |
Oct 25 |
Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Cuba and Haiti killing 65 people and causing over $80 million in damage |
Oct 25 |
The double dip recession in the UK economy ends with growth of 1.0% in GDP in the third quarter of 2012, with help from the London Olympic Games |
Oct 26 |
64 people are killed in West Burma after continued sectarian clashes |
Oct 26 |
41 people are killed and 50 injured by a suicide bombing of a mosque in Maymana, Afghanistan |
Oct 26 |
China blocks the New York Times from searches and social media in response to an investigation into Premier Wen Jiabao |
Oct 26 |
Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in the Bahamas killing 2 people and causing over $300 million in damage |
Oct 27 |
46 people are killed and 123 injured in Iraq after a series of attacks and bombs |
Oct 27 |
Thousands demonstrate in Madrid against proposed budget cuts |
Oct 28 |
Syrian ceasefire collapses and 128 people are killed in ongoing civil war violence |
Oct 28 |
15 people are killed and 33 injured by a series of Baghdad car bombings |
Oct 28 |
Sebastian Vettel wins the 2012 Formula One Indian Grand Prix |
Oct 28 |
San Francisco Giants defeat the Detroit Tigers in game four to take the 2012 MLB World Series |
Oct 28 |
Pablo Sandoval is named MLB 2012 World Series MVP. |
Oct 29 |
Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in New Jersey resulting in 110 deaths and $50 billion in damage and forces the New York stock exchange to close |
Oct 29 |
Publishing companies Penguin and Random House merge to form the world's largest publisher |
Oct 30 |
Walt Disney purchases Lucasfilm Ltd and its rights for Star Wars and Indiana Jones for $4.05 billion |
Oct 31 |
The New York stock exchange opens after being closed for two days after Hurricane Sandy |
Nov 1 |
Google's Gmail becomes the world's most popular email service |
Nov 1 |
22 people are killed and 111 injured after a fuel tanker explodes in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
Nov 1 |
Yellow fever kills 32 people and sickens 50 more in Darfur, Sudan |
Nov 1 |
Acid is poured over a 15 year old girl by her parents after being seen talking to a young man in an "honour killing" in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan |
Nov 1 |
Scientists detect evidence of light from the universe's first stars, predicted to have formed 500 million years after the big bang |
Nov 1 |
2 Iranian fighter jets fire on a US General Atomics MQ-1 Predator drone in international air space |
Nov 1 |
46th Country Music Association Award: Blake Shelton & Miranda Lambert wins |
Nov 3 |
Syrian rebels launch a major assault on Taftanaz airbase |
Nov 4 |
Bishop Tawadros appointed as the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church |
Nov 4 |
Kimi Raikkonen wins Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2012 |
Nov 4 |
Syrian rebels capture a major oil field in Deir ez-Zor Governorate |
Nov 5 |
50 Syrian military personnel are killed by a suicide car bomb in Hama |
Nov 5 |
Widespread flooding in Nigeria kills 363 people and displaces 2.1 million |
Nov 6 |
5 people are shot at a poultry processing plant in Fresno, California |
Nov 6 |
Barack Obama re-elected as US President |
Nov 6 |
US territory Puerto Rico votes to become a US State |
Nov 6 |
Green Moon wins the Melbourne Cup race at Flemington |
Nov 7 |
48 people are killed by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake in Guatemala |
Nov 7 |
Voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington approve measures for same-sex marriage |
Nov 9 |
25 people are killed and 62 injured after a train carrying liquid fuel bursts into flames in Burma |
Nov 9 |
An Algerian C-295 military transport plane crashes near Avignon, France, killing 6 people |
Nov 10 |
20 Syrian troops are killed by suicide bombings in Daara |
Nov 10 |
27 people are killed and dozens injured in a prison conflict in Colombo, Sri Lanka |
Nov 10 |
Israeli counter strike on Palestinian militants in Gaza kills 5 and injure 30 |
Nov 10 |
17 people are killed in a helicopter crash as a result of bad weather in Turkey |
Nov 10 |
The final US presidential election results are declared after Barack Obama wins Florida to defeate Mitt Romney 332-206 in Electoral College votes |
Nov 11 |
12 people are killed by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Burma |
Nov 12 |
Into the Silence by Wade Davis wins the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize |
Nov 12 |
Joe Sakic, Mats Sundin, Pavel Bure and Adam Oates are inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame |
Nov 13 |
3 Syrian tanks enter the demilitarized zone of Golan Heights |
Nov 14 |
A series of protests against austerity measures occur across Europe including Spain, Portugal, and Greece |
Nov 14 |
CFBDSIR 2149-0403 is discovered, the closest rogue planet to earth (100 light-years away) |
Nov 15 |
At least 95 people are killed in Syrian conflicts |
Nov 15 |
Deep Horizon Oil Spill: BP settles for $4.5 Billion |
Nov 15 |
The Eurozone economy returns to recession with a fall of 0.1% in GDP in the third quarter of 2012 following a fall of 0.2% in the previous quarter |
Nov 16 |
'Call of Duty: Black Ops 2' grosses $500 million in 24 hours to become the biggest entertainment launch of all time |
Nov 17 |
50 schoolchildren and a bus driver are killed after a train collides with a school bus in Manfalut, Egypt |
Nov 18 |
Lewis Hamilton wins the 2012 US Formula One Grand Prix |
Nov 18 |
Israeli Gaza rocket strikes kill 80 alleged terrorist targets |
Nov 18 |
Brad Keselowski wins the 2012 Nascar Sprint Cup |
Nov 18 |
39th American Music Award: Katy Perry & Justin Bieber win |
Nov 18 |
101st Davis Cup: Czech Republic beats Spain in Prague (3-2) |
Nov 20 |
Toshiba unveils a robot designed to help in nuclear disasters |
Nov 21 |
An Israel and Hamas ceasefire is negotiated |
Nov 21 |
Chelsea Manager Roberto Di Matteo is sacked and replaced by Rafael Ben |
Nov 22 |
2 people are killed and 120 injured after a 100-vehicle pile-up in dense fog in Texas |
Nov 22 |
6 attacks across Pakistan kill 37 people and injure 92 |
Nov 23 |
JR Tokai unveil a maglev LO train prototype capable of travelling up to 500km per hour |
Nov 24 |
Gangnam Style becomes the most viewed youtube video surpassing 808 million views |
Nov 24 |
Ernest Bai Koroma is re-elected President of Sierra Leone |
Nov 24 |
The continued NHL lockout results in all games to December 14 being cancelled |
Nov 25 |
11 people are killed and 30 are wounded by twin car bombs hitting a Protestant church in Nigeria |
Nov 25 |
16 people are killed and 44 injured after a wedding party bus plunges 300 ft down a gorge in India |
Nov 25 |
Sebastian Vettel wins the 2012 Formula One championship for the third consecutive year |
Nov 25 |
100th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Calgary Stampeders, 35-22 |
Nov 25 |
26th Soul Train Music Awards: Miguel, Beyoncé win |
Nov 26 |
10 children are killed and 15 people are injured after a Syrian government Jet drops a cluster bomb on a playground |
Nov 26 |
The cost of Hurricane Sandy to New York is announced to be $32 Billion |
Nov 27 |
29 people are killed and 126 are wounded by 8 car bombings across Iraq |
Nov 27 |
The Eurozone announces that it will make loans of 43.7 billion euros to Greece |
Nov 28 |
54 people are killed and 120 are injured by two car bombs in Damascus, Syria |
Nov 29 |
30 people are killed and 100 are wounded by bombs in Hillah and Karbala, Iraq |
Nov 29 |
The UN votes to approve Palestine's status change from an observer to an observer state |
Nov 29 |
Luiz Felipe Scolari takes over as Brazilian Football coach |
Nov 30 |
At least 32 people are killed in a Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane crash in the Congo |
Dec 1 |
8 people are killed and 36 injured after a bus overturns in Bolivia |
Dec 1 |
Enrique Peña Nieto sworn in as President of Mexico |
Dec 1 |
Ukranian Anna Ushenina wins the Women's World Chess Championship 2012 |
Dec 2 |
9 people are killed after 30 cars are trapped in Sasago Tunnel, Japan |
Dec 2 |
Borut Pahor is elected President of Slovenia |
Dec 2 |
Pier Luigi Bersani is elected Italian Prime Minister |
Dec 4 |
29 people are killed by a mortar attack in Bteeha, Syria |
Dec 4 |
Typhoon Bopha makes landfall in the Philippines killing at least 81 people |
Dec 5 |
8 people are killed and 12 injured by a magnitude 5.6 earthquake in South Korea |
Dec 5 |
In his Autumn Statement, Chancellor George Osborne cuts the UK growth forecast for 2013 to 1.2% from the 2% forecast in the budget |
Dec 6 |
7 people are killed and 770 injured during Egyptian protests |
Dec 6 |
Typhoon Bopha's death toll rise to 418 with 318 missing and 179,000 displaced |
Dec 6 |
A 243 million year old Nyasasaurus fossil is discovered in Tanzania |
Dec 8 |
UN climate conference agrees to extend the Kyoto Protocol to 2020 |
Dec 9 |
13 people are killed and 10 are injured after a bus rolls of a cliff and falls 100 meters in Taiwan |
Dec 9 |
6 people are killed and 41 are injured after a bus plunges 30 metres down a gorge in Guatemala |
Dec 9 |
Incumbent Ghanaian president John Mahama wins the general election amidst allegations of fraud |
Dec 9 |
The Social Liberal Union Party and Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta win by a landslide in the parliamentary elections |
Dec 9 |
Juan Manuel Márquez knocks out Manny Pacquiao in round six for the WBO light welterweight title |
Dec 10 |
Google begins selling US$99 laptops |
Dec 10 |
11 people are killed and 23 are injured after a bus falls into a roadside pond in Minquan County, China |
Dec 10 |
9 people are killed and 32 are wounded after a bus falls of a 300 meter cliff in Columbia |
Dec 10 |
Norwegian Magnus Carlsen breaks Garry Kasparov's 13-year Elo rating record |
Dec 10 |
Japan is again in recession as the GDP figures for the second quarter of 2012 are revised to show a contraction of 0.03% and the third quarter figures fall by a further 0.9% |
Dec 11 |
125 people are killed and 200 are injured by bombings in Aqrab, Syria |
Dec 11 |
HSBC bank settles with US authorities to pay $1.9 billion for drug cartel money laundering |
Dec 11 |
British physicist, Stephen Hawking, wins the $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize, the most lucrative academic prize in the world |
Dec 13 |
A car bombing in Qatana, outside Damascus, kills 16 people and injures 12 |
Dec 13 |
Japan scrambles fighter jets in response to a Chinese plane in the Senkaku Islands dispute |
Dec 14 |
28 people, including 20 children, are shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut |
Dec 14 |
Australian Joel Parkinson wins the 2012 ASP World Tour |
Dec 14 |
Gene Wolfe wins the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award |
Dec 15 |
18 Asylum seekers drown in the Aegean Sea on the way to Greece from Turkey |
Dec 16 |
4 people are killed after Cyclone Evan strikes Fiji |
Dec 16 |
Corinthians defeat Chelsea 1-0 to win the 2012 FIFA Club World Cup |
Dec 16 |
A gang rape of a woman on a bus in India that resulted in her death leads to national and international outrage |
Dec 17 |
Jiroemon Kimura of Japan becomes the world's oldest verified man at 116 years old |
Dec 17 |
17 people are killed and 70 are injured by a blast in a market in the Khyber Agency, Pakistan |
Dec 17 |
10 girls collecting firewood are killed by a mine blast in east Afghanistan |
Dec 17 |
18 people drown after an overloaded boat sinks in Cotonou, Benin |
Dec 17 |
NASA completes a successful mission to map the Moon's gravity field |
Dec 18 |
4 people are killed and 11 are injured after an apartment block collapses in Palermo, Italy |
Dec 18 |
6 health workers dispensing polio vaccinations are gunned down in Pakistan |
Dec 18 |
The Seleka rebel coalition kills 15 people during its capture of Bria, the Central African Republic |
Dec 19 |
UBS bank is fined $1.5 billion for its role in manipulating the Libor rate |
Dec 19 |
Park Geun-hye wins the South Korean presidential election to become the nation's first female president |
Dec 20 |
Apple is denied a patent for mobile pinch-to-zoom gestures by the US patent authorities |
Dec 20 |
Intercontinental Exchange purchases the New York Stock Exchange, the largest in the world, for $8 billion |
Dec 21 |
39 people are killed in violent clashes in Kenya |
Dec 21 |
The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar reaches the date 13.0.0.0.0 |
Dec 21 |
"Gangnam Style" becomes the first video to reach one billion views on YouTube |
Dec 21 |
The NHL announces a further cancellation of games until January 14 brining the total number of cancelled games to 625 |
Dec 22 |
6 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus |
Dec 22 |
8 people are killed by a suicide bomber in Peshawar, Pakistan |
Dec 22 |
Tomasz Adamek outpoints Steve Cunningham in a split decision in the IBF heavyweight title eliminator at the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem, Pennsylvania |
Dec 23 |
200 civilians are killed by Syrian government warplanes in Helfaya, Syria |
Dec 23 |
The Seleka rebel coalition takes over Bambari, the third largest town in the Central African Republic |
Dec 24 |
11 kindergarten children are killed after a minivan plunges into a roadside pond in Jiangxi, China |
Dec 25 |
27 people are killed after an Antonov An-72 plane crashes near Shymkent, Kazakhstan |
Dec 25 |
8 people are killed and thousands left homeless after two fires strike Manila, Philippines |
Dec 26 |
China opens the world's longest high speed rail route from Beijing to Guangzhou |
Dec 27 |
NASA unveils plans to capture a 500 ton asteroid in 2025 |
Dec 28 |
13 people are killed and 19 are injured after a bus plunges into a river in western Nepal |
Dec 28 |
Vladimir Putin signs into law a ban on US adoption of Russian children |
Dec 29 |
200 people are executed by the Syrian army in Homs |
Dec 29 |
21 security personnel are killed by Pakistani Taliban near Peshawar |
Dec 29 |
5 people are killed in a Tupolev Tu-204 plane crash in Moscow |
Dec 30 |
19 people are killed by a suicide bomber in Balochistan, Pakistan |
Dec 30 |
9 people are killed and 26 are injured in a tour bus crash off interstate 84, Oregon, US |
Dec 30 |
The opening of Line 6 of the Beijing subway makes it the longest metro network in the world at 442km |
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