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Date	Event
January 6, 2012	Twenty-six people are killed and 63 wounded when a suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station in Damascus.
January 7, 2012	A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.
January 10, 2012	A bombing at Jamrud in Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and injures 78 others.
January 12, 2012	Violent protests occur in Bucharest, Romania, as two-day-old demonstrations continue against President Traian Băsescu's economic austerity measures. Clashes are reported in numerous Romanian cities between protesters and law enforcement officers.
January 13, 2012	The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy due to the captain Francesco Schettino's negligence and irresponsibility. There are 32 confirmed deaths.
January 19, 2012	The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.
February 1, 2012	Seventy-four people are killed and over 500 injured as a result of clashes between fans of Egyptian football teams Al Masry and Al Ahly in the city of Port Said.
February 2, 2012	The ferry MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papua New Guinea near the Finschhafen District, with an estimated 146–165 dead.
February 6, 2012	A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits the central Philippine island of Negros, leaving 112 people dead.
February 7, 2012	President Mohamed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives resigns, after 23 days of anti-governmental protests calling for the release of the Chief Judge unlawfully arrested by the military.
February 13, 2012	The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
February 15, 2012	Three hundred and sixty people die in a fire at a Honduran prison in the city of Comayagua.
February 19, 2012	Forty-four people are killed in a prison brawl in Apodaca, Nuevo León, Mexico.
February 22, 2012	A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others.
February 23, 2012	A series of attacks across Iraq leave at least 83 killed and more than 250 injured.
February 26, 2012	A train derails in Burlington, Ontario, Canada killing at least three people and injuring 45.
February 26, 2012	Seventeen-year-old African-American student Trayvon Martin is shot to death by neighborhood watch coordinator George Zimmerman in an altercation in Sanford, Florida.
February 29, 2012	North Korea agrees to suspend uranium enrichment and nuclear and long-range missile tests in return for US food aid.
March 2, 2012	A tornado outbreak occurs over a large section of the Southern United States and into the Ohio Valley region, resulting in 40 tornado-related fatalities.
March 4, 2012	A series of explosions is reported at a munitions dump in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, killing at least 250 people.
March 5, 2012	Tropical Storm Irina kills over 75 as it passes through Madagascar.
March 11, 2012	A U.S. soldier kills 16 civilians in the Panjwayi District of Afghanistan near Kandahar.
March 13, 2012	The Sierre coach crash kills 28 people, including 22 children.
March 20, 2012	At least 52 people are killed and more than 250 injured in a wave of terror attacks across ten cities in Iraq.
April 2, 2012	A mass shooting at Oikos University in California leaves seven people dead and three injured.
April 6, 2012	Azawad declares itself independent from the Republic of Mali.
April 11, 2012	A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia. The maximum Mercalli intensity of this strike-slip doublet earthquake is VII (Very strong). Ten are killed, twelve are injured, and a non-destructive tsunami is observed on the island of Nias.
April 16, 2012	The trial for Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, begins in Oslo, Norway.
April 16, 2012	The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize.
April 20, 2012	One hundred twenty-seven people are killed when a plane crashes in a residential area near the Benazir Bhutto International Airport near Islamabad, Pakistan.
April 21, 2012	Two trains are involved in a head-on collision near Sloterdijk, Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, injuring 116 people.
April 27, 2012	At least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27 people injured.
April 30, 2012	An overloaded ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 103 people.
May 2, 2012	A pastel version of The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for $120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for a work of art at auction.
May 10, 2012	The Damascus bombings are carried out using a pair of car bombs detonated by suicide bombers outside a military intelligence complex in Damascus, Syria, killing 55 people.
May 13, 2012	Forty-nine dismembered bodies are discovered by Mexican authorities on Mexican Federal Highway 40.
May 14, 2012	Agni Air Flight CHT crashes in Nepal after a failed go-around, killing 15 people.
May 19, 2012	Three gas cylinder bombs explode in front of a vocational school in the Italian city of Brindisi, killing one person and injuring five others.
May 19, 2012	A car bomb explodes near a military complex in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, killing nine people.
May 20, 2012	At least 27 people are killed and 50 others injured when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes northern Italy.
May 21, 2012	A bus accident near Himara, Albania kills 13 people and injures 21 others.
May 21, 2012	A suicide bombing kills more than 120 people in Sana'a, Yemen.
May 22, 2012	Tokyo Skytree opens to the public. It is the tallest tower in the world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m).
May 22, 2012	SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 launches a Dragon capsule on a Falcon 9 rocket in the first commercial flight to the International Space Station.
May 25, 2012	The SpaceX Dragon 1 becomes the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous and berth with the International Space Station.
May 29, 2012	A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hits northern Italy near Bologna, killing at least 24 people.
May 30, 2012	Former Liberian president Charles Taylor is sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.
June 2, 2012	Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
June 3, 2012	A plane carrying 153 people on board crashes in a residential neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, killing everyone on board and six people on the ground.
June 3, 2012	The pageant for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II takes place on the River Thames.
June 11, 2012	More than 80 people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried.
June 13, 2012	A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.
June 15, 2012	Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk directly over Niagara Falls.
June 16, 2012	China successfully launches its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts, including the first female Chinese astronaut Liu Yang, to the Tiangong-1 orbital module.
June 16, 2012	The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission.
June 19, 2012	WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requested asylum in London's Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents including footage of civilian killings by the US army.
June 21, 2012	A boat carrying more than 200 migrants capsizes in the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian island of Java and Christmas Island, killing 17 people and leaving 70 others missing.
June 22, 2012	Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco.
June 22, 2012	A Turkish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter plane is shot down by the Syrian Armed Forces, killing both of the plane's pilots and worsening already-strained relations between Turkey and Syria.
June 23, 2012	Ashton Eaton breaks the decathlon world record at the United States Olympic Trials.
June 24, 2012	Death of Lonesome George, the last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise.
June 26, 2012	The Waldo Canyon fire descends into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing two people.
June 29, 2012	A derecho sweeps across the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.
July 4, 2012	The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN.
July 5, 2012	The Shard in London is inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 metres (1,020 ft).
July 7, 2012	At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.
July 10, 2012	The Episcopal Church USA allows same-sex marriage.
July 12, 2012	Syrian Civil War: Government forces target the homes of rebels and activists in Tremseh and kill anywhere between 68 and 150 people.
July 12, 2012	A tank truck explosion kills more than 100 people in Okobie, Nigeria.
July 15, 2012	South Korean rapper Psy releases his hit single Gangnam Style.
July 18, 2012	At least seven people are killed and 32 others are injured after a bomb explodes on an Israeli tour bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria.
July 19, 2012	Syrian civil war: The People's Protection Units (YPG) capture the city of Kobanî without resistance, starting the Rojava conflict in Northeast Syria.
July 20, 2012	James Holmes opened fire at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 and injuring 70 others.
July 20, 2012	Syrian civil war: The People's Protection Units (YPG) capture the cities of Amuda and Efrîn without resistance.
July 21, 2012	Erden Eruç completes the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
July 22, 2012	Syrian civil war: The People's Protection Units (YPG) captured the cities of Serê Kaniyê and Dirbêsiyê, during clashes with pro-government forces in Al-Hasakah.
July 23, 2012	The Solar storm of 2012 was an unusually large coronal mass ejection that was emitted by the Sun which barely missed the Earth by nine days. If it hit, it would have caused up to US$2.6 trillion in damages to electrical equipment worldwide.
July 24, 2012	Syrian civil war: The People's Protection Units (YPG) capture the city of Girkê Legê.
July 30, 2012	A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India.
July 30, 2012	A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India.
July 31, 2012	Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the most medals won at the Olympics.
August 5, 2012	The Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting took place in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six victims; the perpetrator committed suicide after being wounded by police.
August 6, 2012	NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.
August 9, 2012	Shannon Eastin becomes the first woman to officiate a NFL game.
August 10, 2012	The Marikana massacre begins near Rustenburg, South Africa, resulting in the deaths of 47 people.
August 11, 2012	At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
August 16, 2012	South African police fatally shoot 34 miners and wound 78 more during an industrial dispute at Marikana near Rustenburg.
August 20, 2012	A prison riot in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, kills at least 20 people.
August 22, 2012	Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths.
August 23, 2012	A hot-air balloon crashes near the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, killing six people and injuring 28 others.
August 24, 2012	Anders Behring Breivik, perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, is sentenced to 21 years of preventive detention.
August 25, 2012	Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so.
August 29, 2012	At least 26 Chinese miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua, Sichuan Province.
August 29, 2012	The XIV Paralympic Games open in London, England, United Kingdom.
September 5, 2012	An accidental explosion at a Turkish Army ammunition store in Afyon, western Turkey kills 25 soldiers and wounds four others.
September 6, 2012	Sixty-one people die after a fishing boat capsizes off the İzmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean islands.
September 7, 2012	Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and orders the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over nuclear plans and purported human rights abuses.
September 9, 2012	The Indian space agency puts into orbit its heaviest foreign satellite yet, in a streak of 21 consecutive successful PSLV launches.
September 9, 2012	A wave of attacks kills more than 100 people and injure 350 others across Iraq.
September 11, 2012	A total of 315 people are killed in two garment factory fires in Pakistan.
September 11, 2012	The U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya is attacked, resulting in four deaths.
September 18, 2012	Greater Manchester Police officers PC Nicola Hughes and PC Fiona Bone are murdered in a gun and grenade ambush attack in Greater Manchester, England.
September 21, 2012	Three Egyptian militants open fire on a group of Israeli soldiers in a southern Israel cross-border attack.
September 27, 2012	In Minneapolis, a gunman shoots seven citizens, killing five and then himself.
September 28, 2012	Somali and African Union forces launch a coordinated assault on the Somali port of Kismayo to take back the city from al-Shabaab militants.
October 1, 2012	A ferry collision off the coast of Hong Kong kills 38 people and injures 102 others.
October 9, 2012	Pakistani Taliban attempt to assassinate outspoken schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai.
October 12, 2012	The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.
October 14, 2012	Felix Baumgartner successfully jumps to Earth from a balloon in the stratosphere.
October 19, 2012	A bomb explosion kills eight people and injures 110 more in Lebanon.
October 22, 2012	Cyclist Lance Armstrong is formally stripped of his seven Tour de France titles after being charged for doping.
October 26, 2012	Microsoft made a public release of Windows 8 and made available it on new PCs.
October 29, 2012	Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast of the United States, killing 148 directly and 138 indirectly, while leaving nearly $70 billion in damages and causing major power outages.
November 1, 2012	A fuel tank truck crashes and explodes in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh, killing 26 people and injuring 135.
November 6, 2012	Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.
November 7, 2012	An earthquake off the Pacific coast of Guatemala kills at least 52 people.
November 9, 2012	A train carrying liquid fuel crashes and bursts into flames in northern Myanmar, killing 27 people and injuring 80 others.
November 9, 2012	At least 27 people are killed and dozens are wounded in conflicts between inmates and guards at Welikada prison in Colombo.
November 11, 2012	A strong earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 hits northern Burma, killing at least 26 people.
November 13, 2012	A total solar eclipse occurs in parts of Australia and the South Pacific.
November 14, 2012	Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip in response to an escalation of rocket attacks by Hamas.
November 15, 2012	Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
November 17, 2012	At least 50 schoolchildren are killed in an accident at a railway crossing near Manfalut, Egypt.
November 18, 2012	Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria becomes the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.
November 21, 2012	At least 28 are wounded after a bomb is thrown onto a bus in Tel Aviv.
November 22, 2012	Ceasefire begins between Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Israel after eight days of violence and 150 deaths.
November 24, 2012	A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people.
November 30, 2012	An Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane belonging to Aéro-Service, crashes into houses near Maya-Maya Airport during a thunderstorm, killing at least 32 people.
December 3, 2012	At least 475 people are killed after Typhoon Bopha makes landfall in the Philippines.
December 9, 2012	A plane crash in Mexico kills seven people.
December 11, 2012	At least 125 people are killed and up to 200 injured in bombings in the Alawite village of Aqrab, Syria.
December 12, 2012	North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2.
December 14, 2012	Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
December 19, 2012	Park Geun-hye is elected the first female president of South Korea.
December 22, 2012	Bashir Ahmad Bilour of Awami National Party and eight others are killed in a Pakistan Taliban bomber suicide attack in Dhaki Nalbandi area near Qissa Khwani Bazaar.
December 25, 2012	An Antonov An-72 plane crashes close to the city of Shymkent, killing 27 people.[47]
December 25, 2012	Air Bagan Flight 011, a Fokker 100, crashes on approach to Heho Airport in Heho, Myanmar, killing two people.
December 26, 2012	China opens the world's longest high-speed rail route, which links Beijing and Guangzhou.
December 29, 2012	A Tupolev Tu-204 airliner crashes in a ditch between the airport fence and the M3 highway after overshooting a runway at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing five people and leaving three others critically injured.