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Educational => You need to know => Topic started by: Farhana Israt Jahan on January 14, 2013, 04:14:02 PM
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Historical Events for Year 2012
Jul 1st - 17 people are killed and 45 injured in an attack on two churches in Garissa, Kenya
- Spain's football team crush Italy 4-0 to win UEFA Euro 2012
Jul 2nd - GlaxoSmithKline settle the largest healthcare fraud case in history for US$3 Billion
- Monsoon rain in East India kills at least 79 people and leaves 2.2 million homeless
Jul 3rd - Truck bombing kills 25 people and wounds 40 in Diwaniyah, Iraq
- Antonio Esfandiari wins a record $18.3 million in poker after winning the 2012 World Series of Poker $1,000,000 Buy-In
Jul 5th - The Shard, the tallest building in Europe, is opened and stands at 309.6 metres (1,016 ft)
- Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party is elected President of Mexico after a recount following irregularities
Jul 7th - Floods in the Krasnodar region, Russia, kill 140 people
Jul 8th - Roadside car bomb kills 14 civilians in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province
Jul 10th - The American Episcopal Church becomes the first to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages
Jul 11th - Policy academy suicide bombing kills 20 in Sana'a, Yemen
- S/2012 P 1, the fifth moon of Pluto is discovered
Jul 12th - 200 people are killed by the Syrian army in Tremseh
- 90-155 people are killed after an oil tanker crashes and explodes in Okogbe, Rivers State, Nigeria
Jul 13th - China's economic growth drops to 7.6%, its lowest level for three years
- 19-30 people are killed after a train collides with a truck in Malelane, South Africa
Jul 14th - Suicide bomber attacks a wedding reception and kills 22 people and inures 22 in northern Afghanistan
- Floods on the Japanese island of Kyushu kill 20 and displace 250,000
Jul 15th - A Russian Soyuz rocket with an international team launches for a mission to the International Space Station
Jul 17th - 17 people are wounded in a bar shooting in Jasper, Alabama
Jul 18th - Violence across Syria results in 97 deaths
- Syrian suicide bombing kills three high profile government officials, including Syria's Minister of Defense
- 24 people are killed after a ferry sinks off the coast of Zanzibar
- Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army
Jul 20th - 12 people are killed and 59 injured after a gunman opens fire at a Dark Knight movie premier in Aurora, Colorado,
Jul 22nd - Car bombs kills 20 people and injures 80 in Madaen and Najaf, Iraq
- Pranab Mukherjee is elected President of India
- At least 77 people are killed by torrential rain in Beijing, China
Jul 23rd - A series of attacks across Iraq kill 103 people
Jul 24th - John Dramani becomes President of Ghana after the death of President John Atta Mills
- Four barrels containing 248 human fetuses are found in Sverdlovsk, Russia
Jul 25th - The 2012 Summer Olympics begin
- Ivica Dačić is sworn in as Prime Minister of Serbia
- Italy's credit rating is downgraded to CCC+ by Egan-Jones
Jul 26th - At least 200 people are killed in a day of violence in Syria
- North Korea is hit by Tropical Storm Khanun, killing 88 people and leaving 60,000 people homeless
Jul 27th - Queen Elizabeth II announces the opening of the London 2012 Olympics at the opening ceremony
Jul 28th - Ye Shiwen of China sets world record in the women's 400m individual medley in 4:28.43
Jul 29th - Tropical Storm Khanun kills 88 people and leaves 60,000 homeless in North Korea
Jul 30th - Train fire kills 32 and injures 27 people in Andhra Pradesh, India
Jul 30th - Indian power grid failure leaves over 300 million without power
Jul 31st - A second power grid failure in two days leaves 670 million people in India without power
Aug 1st - Typhoon Saola kills elven people and displaces over 150,000 in the Philippines
- 8 Women's badminton doubles players are disqualified from the 21012 summer Olympics for "not using one's best efforts to win a match"
Aug 2nd - 23 people are killed after two blasts in a fruit market in Lahore, Pakistan
Aug 3rd - United Nations General Assembly c reproaches The United Nations Security Council over its lack of action in Syria
Aug 4th - 45 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Abyan, Yemen
- South African Oscar Pistorius becomes first amputee to compete at the Olympics
Aug 5th - Gunman opens fire on Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin killing six people and committing suicide
Aug 7th - Heavy rain forces 20,000 people to flee their homes in Manila, Phillipines
- 200,000 people are evacuated from Shanghai in anticipation of Typhoon Haikui
Aug 8th - China announces that it plans to close 23 rare earth mines and up to 50 smelting companies
- 16 people are killed from flooding from heavy rain in Manilla, Philippines
Aug 9th - The death toll from the Philippines' floods rise to 70
- Usain Bolt becomes the first person to win the 100m and 200m sprint in back to back Olympics
Aug 11th - 153 people are killed and 1300 injured in Tabriz and Ahar, Iran after two earthquakes of up to 6.4 magnitude
- 13 people are killed and 15 injured by a lightning strike at a Mosque in Bangladesh
Aug 12th - The 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony completes the games
Aug 13th - Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus is stripped of her shot-put gold medal after failing a doping test
Aug 14th - 46 people are killed and 80 injured after a series of suicide bombings in Afghanistan
Aug 16th - Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, is granted political asylum by Ecuador
- 113 people are killed and over 200 wounded in a series of attacks across Iraq
Aug 17th - Three members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot are jailed for two years
- Gay pride events are banned for a century in Moscow
Aug 18th - Al-Qaeda militants kill 14 people in an attack in Aden, Yemen
- NATO air strikes kill at least 13 militants in Afghanistan
Aug 19th - 32 people are killed after a plane crash in Talodi, Sudan
Aug 20th - South Africa become the top-ranked test cricket nation after defeating England
Aug 21st - 20 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo die from the Ebola virus
Aug 22nd - 47 people are killed in the Syrian civil war
- 48 people are killed in Kenyan tribal wars between the Pokomo and Orma
- Russia and Vanuatu become members of the World Trade Organization
Aug 23rd - Four people are killed and 28 injured in a hot air ballooning accident in Slovenia
Aug 24th - Yangmingtan Bridge collapses in China killing three people
- Both Apple and Samsung are found guilty of patent infringement in a South Korean court
- A US jury in California finds that Samsung is guilty of patent infringement and awards over US$1 billion in damages to Apple
Aug 25th - 330 people are killed as a result of conflict in the Syrian civil war
- 85,000 people are displaced by severe floods in Myanmar
Aug 26th - 15 year-old New Zealand golfer, Lydia Ko, becomes the youngest LPGA Tour event winner and the first amateur winner since 1969
Aug 27th - First interplanetary human voice recording is broadcast from the Mars Rover Curiosity
Aug 28th - Mitt Romney is officially nominated as the United States Republican Party's candidate
Aug 29th - Georgian hostage crisis results in 3 police officers and 10 militants being killed
- Operation Eagle, undertaken by the Egyptian Army, results in the deaths of 11 suspected terrorists and the arrest of another 23
- Banana Spider venom is found to be effective in relieving erectile dysfunction
Aug 30th - Cholera outbreak kills 229 people in Sierra Leone
- A blast in the in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, China, kills 26 miners with 21 missing
Aug 31st - Apple loses its patent dispute with Samsung in Tokyo, Japan