Page 6: Historical Events In 2012

Jul 28   On this day in history ye Shiwen of China sets world record in the women's 400m individual medley in 4:28.43   

Jul 29   Tropical Storm Khanun kills 88 people and leaves 60,000 homeless in North Korea on this day in history.   

Jul 30   In the worst power outage in world history, the 2012 India blackouts leave 620 million people without power in the year 2012.   

Jul 30   In the year 2012 train fire kills 32 and injures 27 people in Andhra Pradesh, India   

Jul 31   In the year 2012 two car bombs kill 21 people in Baghdad, Iraq   

Aug 01   On this day in history typhoon Saola kills elven people and displaces over 150,000 in the Philippines   

Aug 02   In the year 2012 23 people are killed after two blasts in a fruit market in Lahore, Pakistan   

Aug 03   In the year 2012 united Nations General Assembly c reproaches The United Nations Security Council over its lack of action in Syria   

Aug 04   In the year 2012 45 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Abyan, Yemen   

Aug 05   Gunman opens fire on Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin killing six people and committing suicide in the year 2012.   

Aug 06   Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory mission's rover, successfully lands on Mars on this day in history.   

Aug 06   Mount Tongariro, New Zealand, erupts for the first time in a century in the year 2012.   

Aug 07   On this day in history 21 people are killed by a gun attack in a church in Okene, Nigeria   

Aug 08   In the year 2012 china announces that it plans to close 23 rare earth mines and up to 50 smelting companies   

Aug 09   The death toll from the Philippines' floods rise to 70 on this day in history.   

Aug 11   153 people are killed and 1300 injured in Tabriz and Ahar, Iran after two earthquakes of up to 6.4 magnitude in the year 2012.   

Aug 12   In the year 2012 the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony completes the games   

Aug 13   In the year 2012 nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus is stripped of her shot-put gold medal after failing a doping test   

Aug 14   46 people are killed and 80 injured after a series of suicide bombings in Afghanistan on this day in history.   

Aug 16   Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, is granted political asylum by Ecuador in the year 2012.   

Aug 17   Three members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot are jailed for two years on this day in history.   

Aug 18   Al-Qaeda militants kill 14 people in an attack in Aden, Yemen on this day in history.   

Aug 19   32 people are killed after a plane crash in Talodi, Sudan in the year 2012.   

Aug 20   20 people are killed in a riot in Caracas, Venezuela on this day in history.   

Aug 21   On this day in history 20 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo die from the Ebola virus   

Aug 22   47 people are killed in the Syrian civil war in the year 2012.   

Aug 23   Four people are killed and 28 injured in a hot air ballooning accident in Slovenia in the year 2012.   

Aug 24   In the year 2012 monsoon rains and floods kill 26 people in Pakistan   

Aug 25   330 people are killed as a result of conflict in the Syrian civil war in the year 2012.   

Aug 26   On this day in history 15 year-old New Zealand golfer, Lydia Ko, becomes the youngest LPGA Tour event winner and the first amateur winner since 1969   

Aug 27   First interplanetary human voice recording is broadcast from the Mars Rover Curiosity in the year 2012.   

Aug 28   In the year 2012 mitt Romney is officially nominated as the United States Republican Party's candidate   

Aug 29   Georgian hostage crisis results in 3 police officers and 10 militants being killed in the year 2012.   

Aug 30   Cholera outbreak kills 229 people in Sierra Leone in the year 2012.   

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