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Educational => You need to know => Topic started by: Farhana Israt Jahan on January 07, 2013, 05:14:23 PM
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Historical Events for Year 2012..
May 1st - China and Russia sign $15 billion dollar trade deal
- Guggenheim Partners make the largest ever purchase of a sports franchise after buying the Los Angeles Dodgers for $2.1 billion
May 2nd - Edvard Munch's famous painting 'The Scream' sells at auction for $119,922,500
- Barcelona football player Lionel Messi breaks the European goal-scoring record with 68 goals
May 4th - 14 decapitated bodies and 9 hung from a bridge are found in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico
May 5th - 17 people are killed and 47 missing after a flash flood in Nepal
May 5th - Japan shuts down its nuclear reactors leaving the country without nuclear power for the first time since 1970
May 6th - Francois Hollande elected President of France
- Greece parliamentary election results in 60% support for parties opposed to austerity measures
May 7th - NATO air strike kills 14 and wounds 6 civilians in Afghanistan's Badghis Province
- Vladimir Putin sworn in for third six year term as President of Russia
May 9th - A Russian passenger jet disappears with 45 people on board
- United States President, Barack Obama, officially states his support for same sex marriage
May 10th - The Red Cross suspends all humanitarian work in Pakistan after a worker was kidnapped and killed
- Two bombings in Damascus, Syria, kill 55 people and injure 370
May 11th - Chinese scientists break world record by transferring photons over 97 kilometers using quantum teleportation
May 12th - The discovery of a missing Mayan calender piece disproves 2012 Armageddon
May 13th - 49 dismembered bodies are found on a Mexican highway as part of the Mexican drug war
- Torrential rain in Hunan Province, China, destroys a bridge, 3,500 homes and displaces 28,000 people
- Manchester City win the English Premier League for the first time
May 14th - 1,500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons agree to end mass hunger strike
- Stanford University scientists develop prototype bionic eye
May 15th - Greece's fifth attempt to a form a coalition government fails and new June elections are scheduled
May 19th - Chelsea defeat Bayern Munich in penalty shootout to win the UEFA Champion's League
May 20th - Tomislav Nikolić elected president of Serbia
- 6.0 magnitude earthquake kills 6 and injures dozens in northern Italy
May 21st - 120 people are killed and 350 injured by a suicide bomb in Sana'a, Yemen
- 13 people are killed and 22 people injured after a bus falls 80 metres off a cliff in Albania
May 22nd - 14 people die and 30 are injured in train collision in India
- Philip Philips is crowned the eleventh American Idol
May 25th - Up to 116 people are massacred, including women and children, by the Syrian army in Houla, in the Homs province
- A SpaceX Dragon becomes the first commercial spacecraft to dock at the International Space Station
May 26th - Pope Benedict XVI's butler is arrested for allegedly leaking confidential documents
May 27th - A NATO airstrike kills a family of eight, including six children, in Afghanistan
May 29th - Thousands march in protest in Johannesburg against Brett Murray's controversial painting The Spear
- A 5.9 magnitude earthquake kills 24 people near Bologna, northern Italy
- Indonesian police make the biggest drug bust in ten years after seizing over a million ecstasy pills valued at $45 million
May 30th - A number of nations including Germany, Turkey and Canada, expel Syrian diplomats following the Houla massacre
- Vishwanathan Anand wins his fifth World Chess Championship
May 31st - Egypt formally ends its 31 year state of emergency
Jun 1st - New York Mets pitcher Johan Santana pitches a no-hitter against the St. Louis Cardinals
Jun 3rd - Suicide car bombing kills 15 and inures 42 people in Bauchi, Nigeria
- Plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, kills all 152 passengers and 40 people on the ground
Jun 4th - US drone attack kills 15 militants in Pakistan, including high ranking al-Qaeda official, Abu Yahya al-Libi
- Car bomb kills 26 and injures 190 people in central Baghdad, Iraq
- Wedding party bus crashes killing 23 and injuring 60 people in Islamabad, Pakistan
Jun 6th - Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs
- The Solar Impulse completes the world's first intercontinental flight powered by the sun
Jun 7th - 16th century archaeology remains of the Curtain Theatre, where some of Shakespeare's plays were first performed, were found under a pub in London
- A bus falls into a ravine in La Paz, Bolivia, killing 16 and injuring 32 people
Jun 8th - A bus bombing in Pakistan kills 18 and injures 35 people
Jun 9th - It is announced that up to $125 million dollars in loans will be given to aid Spain's struggling banks
- Burma riots kill 20 people and burn down 300 houses
Jun 10th - A Helicopter crash near Nairobi, Kenya, kills five people, including George Saitoti, a Kenyan cabinet minister
Jun 11th - Five people are killed after an ambulance hits a roadside bomb in Afghanistan
- The Nobel Prize is reduced by 20% to prevent any future undermining of capital
- Two earthquakes in Afghanistan trigger landslides that kill more than 80 people
Jun 12th - The chemical compound NOTT-202, which is capable of selectively absorbing carbon dioxide, is created
- The World Health Organization concludes that diesel exhaust causes cancer
Jun 13th - A series of bombings across Iraq kill 93 and wound 300 people
Jun 14th - An explosion at an Indian steel plant kills 11 people and severely injures 16
- The world's first stem-cell assisted vein transplant is undertaken by Swedish doctors on a 10 year old girl
Jun 15th - Apple I computer sells for a record $374,500
Jun 16th - 32 people are killed by a car bomb in Baghdad
- Coca-Cola begins business in Myanmar after 60 years
- 30 people are killed and 15 injured after a bus falls into a gorge in Osmanabad, India
Jun 17th - France's Socialist Party wins a majority in the legislative election
- Greek voters return to the polls after the failed May 6 election
Jun 18th - 15 people are killed and 40 injured in a suicide attack in Baquba, Iraq
Jun 19th - A man in Saudi Arabia is beheaded for witchcraft and sorcery
- Antonis Samaras, the leader of the New Democracy party in Greece, forms a coalition government
Jun 20th - Western Libyan tribal clashes kill 105 people and injure 500
Jun 21st - Moody's downgrades 15 major banks in the UK, US, Canada and Europe
- A boat of 200 asylum seekers headed to Australia capsizes and 110 survivors are rescued
Jun 22nd - Two Baghdad market bombings kill 14 people and injure 106
Jun 23rd - Greece proposes to slow down austerity measures by two years
- 76 monks are hospitalized in Thailand following an attack by a swarm of bees
Jun 24th - Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood becomes President of Egypt
- Female athletes will be allowed to compete for Saudi Arabia at the Olympics for the first time
Jun 25th - 33 Syrian army officers defect to Turkey
Jun 28th - A series of car bombs in Iraq kills 14 and injures 50 people
Jun 29th - 16 Naxalite Maoist insurgents in India are killed by police
- 15,000 Japanese anti-nuclear protesters blockade the Japanese Prime Minister's office in Tokyo
Jun 30th - 30 people attending a funeral in Zamalka, Syria, are killed on a day that saw 83 civilian deaths
- Mid-Atlantic storms in the United States kill 13 and leave millions without power in Ohio, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia.
- Mohamed Morsi is sworn in as President of Egypt