Page 8: Historical Events In 2012

Oct 01   California is recorded as becoming the inaugural US state to ban conversion therapy for minors   

Oct 02   20 students are gunned down in Mubi, Nigeria   

Oct 03   34 people are killed by a series of bombings in Aleppo, Syria.   

Oct 04   Turkey’s parliament approves cross-border military operations in Syria   

Oct 05   Anglo Platinum Limited fires 12000 striking workers in South Africa.   

Oct 06   Paolo Gabriele, Pope Benedict XVI's butler, is are discovered guilty of leaking confidential documents and is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment.   

Oct 07   13 people are killed after a Sudanese military aeroplane crashes near Khartoum.   

Oct 08   35 people are killed by a Nigerian military bomb struck a convoy in Maiduguri.   

Oct 09   25000 people in Athens protest German Chancellor Angela Merkel.   

Oct 10   Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on G protein-coupled receptors.   

Oct 11   A further 83 people are killed throughout Syria by the Syrian army   

Oct 12   The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves of an African-led force to oust Islamist militants in northern Mali   

Oct 13   15 people are killed by a market suicide bombing in Darra Adam Khel, Pakistan   

Oct 14   20 people are gunned down in a mosque in Dogo Dawa, Nigeria   

Oct 14   Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner is recorded as becoming the inaugural person to break the sound barrier without any machine assistance during a record space dive out of the Red Bull Stratos helium-filled balloon from 24 miles (39 kilometers) over Roswell, New Mexico in the United States   

Oct 15   In this year, Hilary Mantel claims the 2012 Man Booker Prize for her novel Bring Up the Bodies.   

Oct 16   Conflict in Maiduguri, Nigeria, leads to 24 militant deaths and several structures set ablaze   

Oct 17   The exoplanet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered orbiting Alpha Centauri.   

Oct 18   Syrian military airstrikes kill 40 people in Maaret al-Numan.   

Oct 19   8 people are killed and 78 injured by a car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon.   

Oct 22   6 Italian scientists are convicted of manslaughter for their failure to predict the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake   

Oct 23   12 people are killed and 40 are injured in a hospital fire in Tainan, Taiwan.   

Oct 24   Hurricane Sandy results in the deaths of at least 209 people in the Caribbean, Bahamas, United States and Canada. Considerable storm surge damage leads to major disruption to the eastern seaboard of the United States.   

Oct 24   Libyan militias capture Bani Walid resulting in 130 civilian deaths.   

Oct 25   Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Cuba and Haiti killing 65 people and causing over $80 million in damage.   

Oct 26   64 people are killed in West Burma after continued sectarian clashes.   

Oct 27   46 people are killed and 123 injured in Iraq after a series of attacks and bombs   

Oct 28   Syrian ceasefire collapses and 128 people are killed in ongoing civil war violence   

Oct 29   Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in New Jersey resulting in 110 deaths and $50 billion in damage and forces the New York stock exchange to close   

Oct 30   Walt Disney purchases Lucasfilm Ltd and its rights for Star Wars and Indiana Jones for $4.05 billion   

Nov 01   Google's Gmail is recorded as becoming the world's most popular email service.   

Nov 03   Syrian rebels launch a major assault on Taftanaz airbase   

Nov 04   Bishop Tawadros appointed as the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church.   

Nov 05   50 Syrian military personnel are killed by a suicide car bomb in Hama   

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