Events in History in 2012 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 400 of 587

• Jun 16 30 people are killed and 15 injured after a bus falls into a gorge in Osmanabad, India
• Jun 16 32 people are killed by a car bomb in Baghdad

• Jun 16 Coca-Cola begins business in Myanmar after 60 years
• 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 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 A Syrian fighter pilot lands in Jordan and defects from the Syrian uprising
• Jun 20 Western Libyan tribal clashes kill 105 people and injure 500
• Jun 21 A boat of 200 asylum seekers headed to Australia capsizes and 110 survivors are rescued
• Jun 21 Moody's downgrades 15 major banks in the UK, US, Canada and Europe
• Jun 22 Two Baghdad market bombings kill 14 people and injure 106
• Jun 23 76 monks are hospitalized in Thailand following an attack by a swarm of bees
• Jun 23 A coach crashes in Croatia killing 8 Czech tourists and injuring 44
• Jun 23 Greece proposes to slow down austerity measures by two years

• Jun 24 Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood becomes President of Egypt
• 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 15,000 Japanese anti-nuclear protesters blockade the Japanese Prime Minister's office in Tokyo
• 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 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 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 Antonio Esfandiari wins a record $18.3 million after winning the 2012 World Series of Poker $1,000,000 Buy-In
• Jul 3 Truck bombing kills 25 people and wounds 40 in Diwaniyah, Iraq
• Jul 4 12th century manuscript Codex Calixtinus from Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, Spain, rediscovered, after been stolen, in the garage of an employee of the cathedral [1]
• Jul 4 Scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider announce the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson, the so-called 'God particle'

• Jul 5 South Korea announce plans to begin "scientific' whaling of minke whales
• Jul 5 The Shard, the tallest building in Europe, is opened in London, at 309.6 metres (1,016 ft)
• 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 Peña Nieto's win in the country's presidential election
• Jul 10 The American Episcopal Church becomes the first to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages
• Jul 11 Police academy suicide bombing kills 20 in Sana'a, Yemen
• Jul 11 S/2012 P 1, the fifth moon of Pluto is discovered
• 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 19-30 people are killed after a train collides with a truck in Malelane, South Africa
• Jul 13 China's economic growth drops to 7.6%, its lowest level for three years
• Jul 14 Floods on the Japanese island of Kyushu kill 20 and displace 250,000
• Jul 14 Suicide bomber attacks a wedding reception and kills 22 people and inures 22 in northern Afghanistan
• 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 14 people are killed after a bomb explosion at Pakistan's Orakzai Agency
• Jul 18 24 people are killed after a ferry sinks off the coast of Zanzibar
• Jul 18 6 Israeli tourists are killed and 30 injured after a bomb explodes on a tourist bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria

• Jul 18 Syrian suicide bombing kills three high profile government officials, including Syria's Minister of Defence
• Jul 18 Violence across Syria results in 97 deaths
• Jul 20 21 people are killed and 29 injured in a bus accident in Nayarit, Mexico
• Jul 22 At least 77 people are killed by torrential rain in Beijing, China
• Jul 22 Car bombs kills 20 people and injures 80 in Madaen and Najaf, Iraq
• Jul 22 Pranab Mukherjee is elected 13th President of India
• Jul 23 A series of attacks across Iraq kill 103 people

• Jul 24 Four barrels containing 248 human fetuses are found in Sverdlovsk, Russia
• Jul 24 John Dramani becomes President of Ghana after the death of President John Atta Mills
• Jul 25 Italy's credit rating is downgraded to CCC+ by Egan-Jones
• Jul 25 Ivica Dačić is sworn in as Prime Minister of Serbia
• 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 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 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 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 Indian power grid failure leaves over 300 million without electricity
• Jul 30 Train fire kills 32 and injures 27 people in Andhra Pradesh, India
• Jul 31 A second power grid failure in India in two days leaves 670 million people without power
• Jul 31 Two car bombs kill 21 people in Baghdad, Iraq
• Aug 1 Typhoon Saola kills 82 people and displaces over 150,000 in the Philippines, Taiwan and China
• 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 5 19 people are killed by Kurdish rebels in Hakk
• Aug 5 Gunman opens fire on Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin killing six people and committing suicide
• Aug 6 A large fire erupts at the Chevron oil refinery in Richmond, Ohio, injuring six employees
• Aug 6 Mount Tongariro, New Zealand, erupts for the first time in a century
• Aug 7 200,000 people are evacuated from Shanghai in anticipation of Typhoon Haikui
• 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, Philippines
• Aug 8 16 people are killed from flooding from heavy rain in Manilla, Philippines
• Aug 8 China announces that it plans to close 23 rare earth mines and up to 50 smelting companies
• Aug 9 The death toll from the Philippines' floods rise to 70
• Aug 11 13 people are killed and 15 injured by a lightning strike at a Mosque in Bangladesh
• Aug 11 153 people are killed and 1300 injured in Tabriz and Ahar, Iran after two earthquakes of up to 6.4 magnitude
• 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 16 113 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 Gay pride events are banned for a century in Moscow
• Aug 17 Three members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot are jailed for two years
• 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 Plane crash in mountainous region of Talodi, Sudan kills 32, including several government officials and staff, enroute to Eid al-Fitr festival marking end Muslim holy month of Ramadan; crash blamed on bad weather conditions
• Aug 20 20 people are killed in a riot in Caracas, Venezuela
• 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 At least 30 are killed as a result of monsoon rain in Rajasthan, India
• Aug 23 Four people are killed and 28 injured in a hot air ballooning accident in Slovenia
• 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 meanwhile in a South Korea court both are found guilty of patent infringement
• Aug 24 Monsoon rains and floods kill 26 people in Pakistan
• Aug 24 Yangmingtan Bridge collapses in China killing three people
• 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, becomes the 1st spacecraft to enter interstellar space (launched in 1977)
• Aug 26 17 villagers in Afghanistan's Kajaki district are beheaded by an unknown organization
• Aug 26 36 people are killed in a bus crash in Yan'an, China
• Aug 26 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 29 Banana Spider venom is found to be effective in relieving erectile dysfunction
• 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 30 A blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, China, kills 26 miners with 21 missing
• Aug 30 Cholera outbreak kills 229 people in Sierra Leone
• Aug 31 Apple loses its patent dispute with Samsung in Tokyo, Japan
• Sep 1 Grenade injures 41 festival celebrants in Paquibato, Philippines
• Sep 1 Islamist rebels seize Douentza, Mali
• 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 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 New Zealand announces withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan
• Sep 3 Typhoon Bolaven kills 48 people in North Korea
• Sep 4 25 people are killed at a funeral suicide bombing in Nangarhar, Pakistan
• Sep 4 42 people are killed and 25 injured as a passenger bus falls down a ravine in Morocco
• Sep 4 Carpet that can help prevent falls among the elderly by warning them of unusual footsteps is developed
• Sep 4 Pauline Marois becomes the first female premier of Quebec
• Sep 5 25 are killed and 4 wounded after an ammunition store exploded in Afyon, Turkey
• 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 6 61 illegal immigrants die after a fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Turkey

• 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 7 US drone attack kills 8 people in Kismayo, south Somalia
• 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 9 100 people are killed and 350 injured after a wave of attacks across Iraq
• Sep 9 17 people are killed and at least 40 injured after two car bombs explode in Aleppo, Syria
• Sep 10 10,000 miners demonstrate at Lonmin mines in Marikana, South Africa
• Sep 10 16 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Kunduz, Afghanistan
• 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 10 Teachers in Chicago strike effecting 350,000 students
• Sep 11 29 people are killed and 11 injured after a bus runs off a mountain highway in Nepal
• Sep 11 50 Al-Shabaab fighters are killed in conflict with the Somali National Army
• Sep 11 Japan nationalizes three of the disputed Senkaku Islands
• 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 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 Dr Mustafa Abushagur is elected as Prime Minister of Libya

• Sep 14 Ferry sinks amid 10 foot waves off Indonesia's Sumatra Island, killing 21 people
• Sep 15 Japan announces that it will phase out nuclear energy by the 2030s
• Sep 16 14 people are killed and 7 wounded by a roadside bomb Jandol, Turkey
• 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 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 17 13 people are killed in a bus accident in Jubail, Saudi Arabia
• Sep 17 China dispatches 1,000 fishing boats to Senkaku Islands
• Sep 17 Panasonic suspends operations at its three factories in China
• 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 defense system in Japan
• Sep 18 10 Turkish soldiers are killed and 70 injured in 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 14 people are killed in a cafe suicide bombing in Somalia
• Sep 20 50 people are killed and dozens injured after a gas station is bombed by the Syrian Army in Ain Issa
• 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 20 Iranian US Visas are denied, including diplomats and two ministers, ahead of the UN general assembly meeting in New York
• Sep 23 Iran blocks the use of Google as a search engine
• Sep 23 Scientists discover four genetically distinct types of breast cancer
• 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

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