Historical Events In 2012

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

Dec 10   In the year 2012 google begins selling US$99 laptops  

Dec 11   In the year 2012 125 people are killed and 200 are injured by bombings in Aqrab, Syria  

Dec 13   On this day in history a car bombing in Qatana, outside Damascus, kills 16 people and injures 12  

Dec 14   In the year 2012 28 people, including 20 children, are shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut  

Dec 15   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.  

Dec 17   In the year 2012 17 people are killed and 70 are injured by a blast in a market in the Khyber Agency, Pakistan  

Dec 18   In the year 2012 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 in the year 2012.  

Dec 20   Apple is denied a patent for mobile pinch-to-zoom gestures by the US patent authorities in the year 2012.  

Dec 21   39 people are killed in violent clashes in Kenya on this day in history.  

Dec 22   In the year 2012 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 on this day in history.  

Dec 24   In the year 2012 11 kindergarten children are killed after a minivan plunges into a roadside pond  

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   On this day in history nASA unveils plans to capture a 500 ton asteroid in 2025  

Dec 28   Jiroemon Kimura of Japan becomes the world's oldest verified man on this day in history.  

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

Dec 30   On this day in history 19 people are killed by a suicide bomber in Balochistan, Pakistan  

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