Page 6: Historical Events In 2012

Jul 28   Ye Shiwen of China sets world record in the women's 400m individual medley in 4:28.43   

Jul 29   Tropical Storm Khanun results in the deaths of 88 people and leaves 60000 homeless in North Korea   

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

Jul 30   Train fire results in the deaths of 32 and injures 27 people in Andhra Pradesh, India   

Jul 31   Two car bombs kill 21 people in Baghdad, Iraq.   

Aug 01   Typhoon Saola results in the deaths of elven people and displaces over 150000 in the Philippines.   

Aug 02   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.   

Aug 04   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.   

Aug 06   Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory mission's rover, successfully lands on Mars   

Aug 06   Mount Tongariro, New Zealand, erupts for the inaugural time in a century.   

Aug 07   21 people are killed by a gun attack in a church in Okene, Nigeria   

Aug 08   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   

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

Aug 12   The 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony completes the games   

Aug 13   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.   

Aug 16   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   

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

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

Aug 20   20 people are killed in a riot in Caracas, Venezuela   

Aug 21   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   

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

Aug 24   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.   

Aug 26   15 year-old New Zealand golfer, Lydia Ko, is recorded as becoming the youngest LPGA Tour event winner and the inaugural amateur winner since 1969.   

Aug 27   inaugural 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.   

Aug 29   Georgian hostage crisis results in 3 police officers and 10 militants being killed   

Aug 30   Cholera outbreak results in the deaths of 229 people in Sierra Leone.   

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