Events in History in 2012 (Part 3)

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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 Turkey’s parliament approves cross-border military operations in Syria
Oct 5 Anglo Platinum Limited fires 12,000 striking workers in South Africa

Event of Interest

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

Election of Interest

Oct 8 Hugo Chávez is re-elected as president of Venezuela for a fourth term

Nobel Prize

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 8 Mustafa A.G. Abushagur, the first elected Libyan Prime Minister, is voted out of office by the Libyan parliament

Event of Interest

Oct 9 25,000 people in Athens protest against German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Oct 9 Serge Haroche and David Wineland win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on quantum optics

Event of Interest

Oct 9 Women's rights and education activist Malala Yousafzai is shot three times by a Taliban gunman as she tried to board her school bus in Swat district of northwest Pakistan

Nobel Prize

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

Nobel Prize

Oct 11 Mo Yan, a Chinese hallucinatory realist writer, wins the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature

Oct 12 The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, sparking a series of critical commentary
Oct 12 The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves of an African-led force to oust Islamist militants in northern Mali
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 Exoplanet Alpha Centauri Bb discovered orbiting Alpha Centauri announced (later thought to be a false finding)
Oct 17 Tens of thousands protest against austerity measures in Greece
Oct 18 Google stock trading suspended after premature release of a quarterly report indicating a 20% drop in profits and a 9% fall in share price
Oct 18 Syrian military airstrikes kill 40 people in Maaret al-Numan
Oct 19 8 people are killed and 78 injured by a car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon
Oct 21 Kateri Tekakwitha canonized as the 1st Native American saint by Pope Benedict XVI
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 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 24 Libyan militias capture Bani Walid resulting in 130 civilian deaths
Oct 25 Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Cuba and Haiti killing 65 people and causing over $80 million in damage
Oct 26 41 people are killed and 50 injured by a suicide bombing of a mosque in Maymana, Afghanistan
Oct 26 64 people are killed in West Burma after continued sectarian clashes
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 15 people are killed and 33 injured by a series of Baghdad car bombings
Oct 28 Syrian ceasefire collapses and 128 people are killed in ongoing civil war violence
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 31 The New York stock exchange opens after being closed for two days after Hurricane Sandy
Nov 1 2 Iranian fighter jets fire on a US General Atomics MQ-1 Predator drone in international air space
Nov 1 22 people are killed and 111 injured after a fuel tanker explodes in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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 Google's Gmail becomes the world's most popular email service
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 Yellow fever kills 32 people and sickens 50 more in Darfur, Sudan
Nov 2 New York City Marathon: cancelled because of the effects of Hurricane Sandy in NYC the week before
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 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

Election of Interest

Nov 6 Barack Obama is re-elected as US President, defeating Republican candidate Mitt Romney

Event of Interest

Nov 6 Elizabeth Warren becomes the first female Senator from Massachusetts

Nov 6 Green Moon wins the Melbourne Cup race at Flemington

Election of Interest

Nov 6 Tammy Duckworth becomes the first disabled woman and first person born in Thailand to be elected to US Congress, representing Illinois

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 17 people are killed in a helicopter crash as a result of bad weather in Turkey
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 Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum opens at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, designed by Zaha Hadid [1]
Nov 10 Israeli counter strike on Palestinian militants in Gaza kills 5 and injure 30
Nov 10 The final US presidential election results are declared after Barack Obama wins Florida to defeat 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 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 Israeli Gaza rocket strikes kill 80 alleged terrorist targets
Nov 20 Toshiba unveils a robot designed to help in nuclear disasters
Nov 21 An Israel and Hamas ceasefire is negotiated
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 Ernest Bai Koroma is re-elected President of Sierra Leone
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 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 Luiz Felipe Scolari takes over as Brazilian Football coach
Nov 29 The UN votes to approve Palestine’s status change from an observer to an observer state
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

Event of Interest

Dec 1 Enrique Peña Nieto sworn in as President of Mexico

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 of the Exchequer 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 A 243 million year old Nyasasaurus fossil is discovered in Tanzania
Dec 6 Typhoon Bopha’s death toll rise to 418 with 318 missing and 179,000 displaced
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 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 Google begins selling US$99 laptops
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

Event of Interest

Dec 11 British physicist, Stephen Hawking, wins the $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize, the most lucrative academic prize in the world

Dec 11 HSBC bank settles with US authorities to pay $1.9 billion for drug cartel money laundering
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 13 Mosconi Cup nine-ball pool, London, England: Team Europe win for 3rd consecutive year beating US, 11-9; MVP: Chris Melling (England)
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 A gang rape of a woman on a bus in India that resulted in her death leads to national and international outrage
Dec 17 10 girls collecting firewood are killed by a mine blast in east Afghanistan
Dec 17 17 people are killed and 70 are injured by a blast in a market in the Khyber Agency, Pakistan
Dec 17 18 people drown after an overloaded boat sinks in Cotonou, Benin
Dec 17 Jiroemon Kimura of Japan becomes the world's oldest verified man at 116 years old
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

Polio

Dec 18 6 health workers dispensing polio vaccinations are gunned down in Pakistan

Dec 18 Canadian police begin arresting 17 people for 'the Great Maple Syrup Heist', for stealing 3,000 tonnes from a storage facility in Quebec
Dec 18 The Seleka rebel coalition kills 15 people during its capture of Bria, the Central African Republic

Election of Interest

Dec 19 Park Geun-hye wins the South Korean presidential election to become the nation’s first female president

Dec 19 UBS bank is fined $1.5 billion for its role in manipulating the Libor rate
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 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 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

Event of Interest

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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