Page 10: Historical Events In 2012

Dec 09   13 people are killed and 10 are injured after a bus rolls of a cliff and falls 100 meters in Taiwan.   

Dec 10   Google begins selling US$99 laptops   

Dec 11   125 people are killed and 200 are injured by bombings in Aqrab, Syria   

Dec 13   A car bombing in Qatana, outside Damascus, results in the deaths of 16 people and injures 12   

Dec 14   28 people, including 20 children, are shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.   

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 17   17 people are killed and 70 are injured by a blast in a market in the Khyber Agency, Pakistan.   

Dec 18   4 people are killed and 11 are injured after an apartment block collapses in Palermo, Italy   

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 21   39 people are killed in violent clashes in Kenya.   

Dec 22   6 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus   

Dec 23   200 civilians are killed by the Syrian government’s warplanes in Helfaya, Syria.   

Dec 24   11 kindergarten children are killed after a minivan plunges into a roadside pond   

Dec 25   27 people are killed after an Antonov An-72 plane crashes near Shymkent, Kazakhstan.   

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   Jiroemon Kimura of Japan is recorded as becoming the world's oldest verified man.   

Dec 29   200 people are executed by the Syrian army in Homs.   

Dec 30   19 people are killed by a suicide bomber in Balochistan, Pakistan.   

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