Historical Events In 2012

Dec 13   In the year 2012 a car bombing in Qatana, outside Damascus, kills 16 people and injures 12  

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

Dec 15   18 Asylum seekers drown in the Aegean Sea on the way to Greece from Turkey on this day in history.  

Dec 16   4 people are killed after Cyclone Evan strikes Fiji on this day in history.  

Dec 17   17 people are killed and 70 are injured by a blast in a market in the Khyber Agency, Pakistan on this day in history.  

Dec 18   4 people are killed and 11 are injured after an apartment block collapses in Palermo, Italy on this day in history.  

Dec 19   UBS bank is fined $1.5 billion for its role in manipulating the Libor rate on this day in history.  

Dec 20   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.  

Dec 22   On this day in history 6 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus  

Dec 23   In the year 2012 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 on this day in history.  

Dec 25   In the year 2012 27 people are killed after an Antonov An-72 plane crashes near Shymkent, Kazakhstan  

Dec 26   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.  

Dec 28   In the year 2012 jiroemon Kimura of Japan becomes the world's oldest verified man  

Dec 29   200 people are executed by the Syrian army in Homs in the year 2012.  

Dec 30   19 people are killed by a suicide bomber in Balochistan, Pakistan in the year 2012.  

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