Historical Events In 2012

Jul 30   On this day in history in the worst power outage in world history, the 2012 India blackouts leave 620 million people without power.  

Jul 30   On this day in history 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   Typhoon Saola kills elven people and displaces over 150,000 in the Philippines in the year 2012.  

Aug 02   On this day in history 23 people are killed after two blasts in a fruit market in Lahore, Pakistan  

Aug 03   United Nations General Assembly c reproaches The United Nations Security Council over its lack of action in Syria on this day in history.  

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   In the year 2012 curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory mission's rover, successfully lands on Mars.  

Aug 06   Mount Tongariro, New Zealand, erupts for the first time in a century on this day in history.  

Aug 07   21 people are killed by a gun attack in a church in Okene, Nigeria in the year 2012.  

Aug 08   China announces that it plans to close 23 rare earth mines and up to 50 smelting companies on this day in history.  

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

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   The 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony completes the games in the year 2012.  

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

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

Aug 16   In the year 2012 julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, is granted political asylum by Ecuador  

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 in the year 2012.  

Aug 19   On this day in history 32 people are killed after a plane crash in Talodi, Sudan  

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

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 on this day in history.  

Aug 23   On this day in history four people are killed and 28 injured in a hot air ballooning accident in Slovenia  

Aug 24   On this day in history monsoon rains and floods kill 26 people in Pakistan  

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

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

Aug 27   On this day in history first interplanetary human voice recording is broadcast from the Mars Rover Curiosity  

Aug 28   Mitt Romney is officially nominated as the United States Republican Party's candidate on this day in history.  

Aug 29   Georgian hostage crisis results in 3 police officers and 10 militants being killed on this day in history.  

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

Aug 31   Armenia severs diplomatic relations with Hungary, following the extradition to Azerbaijan and subsequent pardoning of Ramil Safarov, who was convicted of killing an Armenian soldier in Hungary in 2004. The move is also met with fierce criticism from other countries on this day in history.  

Aug 31   Researchers successfully perform the first implantation of an early prototype bionic eye with 24 electrodes in the year 2012.  

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