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Events on the year of 2012 in history

Events
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01 Jan 2012 A Moldovan civilian is fatally wounded by a Russian peacekeeper in the Transnistrian security zone, leading to demonstrations against Russia.
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06 Jan 2012 26 people are killed and 63 wounded when a suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station in Damascus.
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07 Jan 2012 A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.
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10 Jan 2012 A bombing in Khyber Agency, Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and 78 others injured.
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12 Jan 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.
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13 Jan 2012 The opening ceremony of the Winter Youth Olympics takes place in Innsbruck, Austria.
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13 Jan 2012 The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy. There are 32 confirmed deaths amongst the 4232 passengers and crew.
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18 Jan 2012 A series of coordinated actions take place in protest against Stop Online Piracy Act and PROTECT IP Act.
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19 Jan 2012 The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.
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01 Feb 2012 At least 72 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.
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02 Feb 2012 The ferry MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papua New Guinea near the Finschhafen District, with an estimated 300 people missing.
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06 Feb 2012 A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hits near the central Philippines off the coast of Negros Island causing at least 51 deaths and injuring 112 others.
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07 Feb 2012 President Mohamed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives resigns, after 23 days of anti-governmental protests calling for the release of Chief Judge unlawfully arrested by the military.
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13 Feb 2012 The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
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19 Feb 2012 Forty-four people are killed in a prison brawl in Apodaca, Nuevo León.
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22 Feb 2012 A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others.
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23 Feb 2012 A series of attacks across Iraq leave at least 83 killed and more than 250 injured.
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26 Feb 2012 A train derails in Burlington, Ontario, Canada killing at least three people and injuring 45.
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27 Feb 2012 A section of a nine-story apartment building in the city of Astrakhan, Russia, collapses in a natural gas explosion, killing ten people and injuring at least 12 others.
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29 Feb 2012 Tokyo Skytree construction completed. Now it is the tallest tower in the world, 634 meters high, and second tallest (man-made) structure on Earth, next to Burj Khalifa.
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02 Mar 2012 A tornado outbreak occurred over a large section of the Southern United States and into the Ohio Valley region, resulting in 40 tornado-related fatalities.
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03 Mar 2012 Two trains crash in the small Polish town of Szczekociny near Zawiercie, with 16 people killed and up to 58 people injured.
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05 Mar 2012 At least two people are killed and six injured after a shooting in a hair salon in Bucharest, Romania.
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05 Mar 2012 Invisible Children launches the Stop Kony campaign with the release of Kony 2012.
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11 Mar 2012 A U.S. soldier kills 16 civilians in the Panjwayi District of Afghanistan near Kandahar.
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13 Mar 2012 At least 28 people are killed in a bus crash in a motorway tunnel near the town of Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais.
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20 Mar 2012 At least 52 people are killed and more than 250 injured in a wave of terror attacks across ten cities in Iraq.
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02 Apr 2012 A mass shooting at Oikos University at Oakland, California leaves seven people dead and three injured.
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06 Apr 2012 Azawad declares itself independent from the Republic of Mali.
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11 Apr 2012 An 8.2 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia, off northern Sumatra at a depth of 16.4 km. A tsunami hits the island of Nias at Indonesia.
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16 Apr 2012 The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize.
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16 Apr 2012 The trial for Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, begins in Oslo, Norway.
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20 Apr 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.
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21 Apr 2012 Two trains are involved in a head-on collision near Sloterdijk, Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, injuring 116 people.
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27 Apr 2012 At least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27 people injured.
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30 Apr 2012 An overloaded ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 103 people.
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02 May 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.
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09 May 2012 A Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft crashes into Mount Salak in West Java, Indonesia, killing 45 people.
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10 May 2012 The Damascus bombings are carried out using a pair of car bombs detonated by suicide bombers outside of a military intelligence complex in Damascus, Syria, killing 55 people and injuring 400 others
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13 May 2012 49 dismembered bodies are discovered by Mexican authorities on Mexican Federal Highway 40.
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14 May 2012 Agni Air Flight CHT crashes near Jomsom Airport in Jomsom, Nepal, after a failed go-around, killing 15 people.
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19 May 2012 A explodes in front of a vocational school in the Italian city of Brindisi, killing 1 and injuring 5 others.
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19 May 2012 A car bomb explodes near a military complex in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, killing 9 people.
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20 May 2012 At least 27 people are killed and 50 others injured when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes northern Italy.
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21 May 2012 A bus accident near Himara, Albania kills 13 people and injures 21 others.
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21 May 2012 A suicide bombing kills more than 120 people in Sana'a, Yemen.
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22 May 2012 Tokyo Skytree is opened to public. It is the tallest tower in world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth, after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m).
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23 May 2012 Adam Lambert became the first openly gay artist to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 Album Charts, with his album Trespassing.
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25 May 2012 The Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous with the International Space Station.
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29 May 2012 A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hits northern Italy near Bologna, killing at least 24 people.
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30 May 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.
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02 Jun 2012 The former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
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04 Jun 2012 The Diamond Jubilee Concert is held outside Buckingham Palace on The Mall, London.
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13 Jun 2012 A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.
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15 Jun 2012 Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk over Niagara Falls.
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16 Jun 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.
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16 Jun 2012 The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission.
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19 Jun 2012 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requested asylum in London's Ecuatorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents including footage of civilian killings by the US army.
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22 Jun 2012 Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco.
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23 Jun 2012 Ashton Eaton breaks the decathlon world record at the United States Olympic Trials.
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24 Jun 2012 Lonesome George, the last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise, dies.
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26 Jun 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.
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04 Jul 2012 The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN.
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05 Jul 2012 The Shard in London is inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 metres (1,020 ft).
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11 Jul 2012 Astronomers announce the discovery of Styx, the fifth moon of Pluto.
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12 Jul 2012 The Turaymisah massacre kills 250 people during a Syrian military operation in a village within the Hama Governorate.
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18 Jul 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.
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21 Jul 2012 Erden Eruç completes the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
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25 Jul 2012 Pranab Mukherjee became the 13th president of India.
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31 Jul 2012 Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the most medals won at the Olympics.
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06 Aug 2012 NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.
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10 Aug 2012 The Marikana miners' strike begins near Rustenburg, South Africa.
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11 Aug 2012 At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
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16 Aug 2012 South African police fatally shoot 34 miners and wound 78 more during an industrial dispute near Rustenburg.
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29 Aug 2012 At least 26 miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua in Sichuan Province, China.
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05 Sep 2012 A firecracker factory explodes near Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, killing 40 and injuring 50 others.
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05 Sep 2012 An accidental explosion at a Turkish Army ammunition store in Afyon, western Turkey kills 25 soldiers and wounds four others.
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06 Sep 2012 Sixty-one people die and 48 others are injured after a fishing boat capsizes off the İzmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean islands.
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07 Sep 2012 A series of earthquakes in Yunnan, China, kills 89 people and injures 800 others.
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07 Sep 2012 Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and ordered the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over support for Syria, nuclear plans and alleged rights abuses.
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09 Sep 2012 The Indian space agency puts into orbit its heaviest foreign satellite yet, in a streak of 21 consecutive successful PLSV launches.
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09 Sep 2012 A wave of attacks kill more than 100 people and injure 350 others across Iraq.
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11 Sep 2012 A total of 315 people are killed in two garment factory fires in Pakistan.
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11 Sep 2012 The U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya is attacked, resulting in four deaths.
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27 Sep 2012 A mass shooting takes place at Accent Signage Systems, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, killing 6 people, including the gunman who committed suicide, and wounding 2 others.
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28 Sep 2012 Somali and African Union forces launch a coordinated assault on the Somali port city of Kismayo to take back the city from al-Shabaab militants.
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28 Sep 2012 A Dornier Do 228 light aircraft crashes on the outskirts of the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu, killing 19 people.
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01 Oct 2012 A ferry collision off the coast of Hong Kong kills 38 people and injures 102 others.
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01 Oct 2012 Domestic and International flights of Thai AirAsia transferred all operations from Suvarnabhumi Airport to Don Mueang International Airport .
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09 Oct 2012 Members of the Pakistani Taliban make a failed attempt to assassinate Malala Yousafzai on her way home from school.
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16 Oct 2012 The extrasolar planet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered.
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19 Oct 2012 Big Tex, a 52-foot statue and cultural icon in Dallas is destroyed by fire during the final weekend of the 2012 State Fair of Texas.
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21 Oct 2012 A shooting at a spa in Brookfield, Wisconsin, leaves four people dead, including the shooter.
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23 Oct 2012 After 38 years, the world's first teletext service (BBC's Ceefax) ceases broadcast due to Northern Ireland completing the digital switchover.
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29 Oct 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.
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01 Nov 2012 A fuel tank truck crashes and explodes in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh killing 26 people and injuring 135.
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26 Nov 2012 Aam Aadmi Party Indian political party formally started.
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30 Nov 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.
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03 Dec 2012 At least 475 people are killed after Typhoon Bopha makes landfall in the Philippines.
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03 Dec 2012 In Northern Ireland, 15 police officers are injured during rioting at Belfast City Hall following a vote to change Belfast City Council's policy on flying the union flag.
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05 Dec 2012 At least 8 people are killed and 12 others injured after a 5.6 earthquake strikes Iran's South Khorasan Province.
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11 Dec 2012 At least 125 people are killed and up to 200 injured in bombings in the Alawite village of Aqrab, Syria.
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12 Dec 2012 North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2, using an Unha-3 carrier rocket.
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12 Dec 2012 12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief took place at Madison Square Garden and was broadcast on 20 international television networks to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Sandy.
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14 Dec 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
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19 Dec 2012 Park Geun-hye is elected the first female president of South Korea.
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25 Dec 2012 An Antonov An-72 plane crashes close to the city of Shymkent, killing 27 people.
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29 Dec 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.
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