Page 5: Historical Events In 2012

Jun 23   Greece proposes to slow down austerity measures by two years   

Jun 24   Lonesome George, the last known individual of the Pinta Island Tortoise subspecies, dies at a Galapagos National Park, thus making the subspecies extinct.   

Jun 24   Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood is recorded as becoming President of Egypt   

Jun 24   Shenzhou 9, a Chinese spacecraft carrying three Chinese astronauts, including the inaugural-ever female one, docked manually with an orbiting module Tiangong 1, inaugural time as the country, making them as the third country, after the United States and Russia, to successfully perform the mission.   

Jun 25   33 Syrian army officers defect to Turkey.   

Jun 28   A series of car bombs in Iraq results in the deaths of 14 and injures 50 people.   

Jun 29   16 Naxalite Maoist insurgents in India are killed by police   

Jun 30   30 people attending a funeral in Zamalka, Syria, are killed on a day that saw 83 civilian deaths   

Jul 01   17 people are killed and 45 injured in an attack on two churches in Garissa, Kenya   

Jul 01   Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak in Worldwide killing 862 (as of 13 January 2020) people   

Jul 01   yellow fever outbreak in Darfur, Sudan in Darfur Sudan killing 171 (as of 10 January 2013) people   

Jul 02   GlaxoSmithKline settle the largest healthcare fraud case in history for US$3 Billion   

Jul 03   Truck bombing results in the deaths of 25 people and wounds 40 in Diwaniyah, Iraq.   

Jul 04   CERN announces the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson after experiments at the Large Hadron Collider   

Jul 05   The Shard, the tallest building in Europe, is opened and stands at 309.6 metres (1016 ft)   

Jul 06   Gunmen kill 18 people in Turbat, Pakistan.   

Jul 07   Floods in the Krasnodar region, Russia, kill 140 people.   

Jul 08   Roadside car bomb results in the deaths of 14 civilians in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province   

Jul 10   The American Episcopal Church is recorded as becoming the inaugural to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages.   

Jul 11   POliciy academy suicide bombing results in the deaths of 20 in Sana'a, Yemen.   

Jul 12   200 people are killed by the Syrian army in Tremseh.   

Jul 13   China's economic growth drops to 7.6%, its lowest level for three years.   

Jul 14   Suicide bomber attacks a wedding reception and results in the deaths of 22 people and inures 22 in northern Afghanistan   

Jul 15   39 pilgrims are killed in a bus crash in Parasi, Nepal.   

Jul 17   17 people are wounded in a bar shooting in Jasper, Alabama.   

Jul 18   6 Israeli tourists are killed and 30 injured after a bomb explodes on a tourist bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria.   

Jul 20   12 people are killed and 59 injured after a gunman opens fire at a Dark Knight movie premier in Aurora, Colorado,   

Jul 22   Car bombs results in the deaths of 20 people and injures 80 in Madaen and Najaf, Iraq   

Jul 23   A series of attacks across Iraq kill 103 people   

Jul 24   John Dramani is recorded as becoming President of Ghana after the death of President John Atta Mills   

Jul 25   The 2012 Summer Olympics begin.   

Jul 26   At least 200 people are killed in a day of violence in Syria.   

Jul 27   Queen Elizabeth II announces the opening of the London 2012 Olympics at the opening ceremony   

Jul 27   The 2012 Summer Olympics are held in London, England, United Kingdom.   

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