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From left to right, top to bottom: the passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Iron Dome defense missiles during the 2012 Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip; Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner becomes the first 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 128,000ft ; damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; MV Rabaul Queen capsized and later sank in rough conditions, killing 88 to 223 people; people gather at a Mayan temple to commemorate the end of 13th bʼakʼtun in the Mayan calendar on December 21, when it was predicted a doomsday event would occur; the 2012 Summer Olympics are held in London, United Kingdom; Typhoon Bopha made landfall at its highest intensity and hit Mindanao, Philippines, causing 1,901 deaths; Dana Air Flight 992 accident killed 159 people; NASA's Curiosity Rover lands on the surface of Mars; the Higgs boson, an elementary particle, is discovered by CERN and revolutionizes quantum physics; Tuareg militants, seen driving near Timbuktu, Mali during the Mali war; the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting caused shock and outrage across the United States; the century's second and last solar transit of Venus occurs; a crowd of protesters at the 2012 Sydney Anti-Islamic Film Demonstration protest against the film Innocence of Muslims; K-pop artist Psy performs his hit single "Gangnam Style", which became a cultural phenomenon in 2012.
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2012 (MMXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2012th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 12th year of the 3rd millennium, the 12th year of the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2010s decade.
2012 was designated as:
Events[]
January[]
- January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins.
- January 12 – Violent protests occur in Bucharest, Romania, as two-day-old demonstrations continue against President Traian Băsescu's economic austerity measures. Clashes are reported in numerous Romanian cities between protesters and law enforcement officers.[citation needed]
- January 13 – The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off the coast of Italy, causing 32 deaths.[3][4]
- January 23 – Iran–European Union relations: the European Union adopts an embargo against Iran in protest of its continued effort to enrich uranium.[5]
February[]
- February 1 – Egypt's deadliest football incident known as the Port Said Stadium riot is sparked after local Port Said Al Masry fans attack supporters of Cairo-based team Al Ahly SC. The massacre results in 74 deaths: 72 Al Ahly fans, 1 Al Masry fan and 1 police officer. Most of the deaths are caused by stabbing, fans thrown off the stands and a stampede.
- February 6
- Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her "Diamond Jubilee," marking 60 years as Queen of the United Kingdom.
- A magnitude 6.7 earthquake strike in the central Philippines island of Negros, leaving 112 people dead.[6]
- February 19 – Iran suspends oil exports to Britain and France, following sanctions put in place by the European Union and the United States in January.[7]
- February 21 – Greek government-debt crisis: Eurozone finance ministers reach an agreement on a second, €130-billion Greek bailout.[8]
- February 27 – Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh formally transfers power to Vice President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, after a year of mass protests, ending his 33-year-long reign.
March[]
- March 1 – Sauli Niinistö is inaugurated as the 12th President of Finland.[9]
- March 4
- A series of explosions is reported at a munitions dump in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, with at least 250 people dead.[10]
- Vladimir Putin is elected President of Russia.
- March 5 – Air date of Kony 2012 (viral documentary film) on YouTube.[11][12][13]
- March 12 – A coach carrying school pupils and teachers crashes while travelling through Sierre Tunnel on the A9 motorway in western Switzerland. Of the 52 people on board, 28 are killed, among them 22 children.
- March 13 – After 246 years since its first publication, the Encyclopædia Britannica discontinues its print edition.[14]
- March 15 – Communist party chief of Chongqing Bo Xilai, well known for his neo-Maoist leanings and policies, is removed from his post after a large scandal involving the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood and an incident involving the Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun.[15]
- March 22
April[]
- April 6 – The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad unilaterally declares the independence of Azawad from Mali.[17]
- April 12 – Mutinous soldiers in Guinea-Bissau stage a coup d'état and take control of the capital city, Bissau. They arrest interim President Raimundo Pereira and leading presidential candidate Carlos Gomes Júnior in the midst of a presidential election campaign.[18]
- April 13 – Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3, a North Korean Earth observation satellite, explodes shortly after launch. The United States and other countries had called the impending launch a violation of United Nations Security Council demands.[19] The launch was planned to mark the centenary of the birth of Kim Il-sung, the founder of the republic.[19]
- April 26 – Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is found guilty on 11 counts of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Sierra Leone Civil War.[20]
May[]
- May 2 – A pastel version of The Scream, by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for US$120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for an auctioned work of art.[21][22]
- May 12 – August 12 – The 2012 World Expo takes place in Yeosu, South Korea.[23]
- May 22 – Tokyo Skytree, the tallest self-supporting tower in the world at 634 metres high, is opened to the public.[24]
June[]
- June 5–6 – The century's second and last solar transit of Venus occurs. The next pair are predicted to occur in 2117 and 2125.[25]
- June 24
- Shenzhou 9, a Chinese spacecraft carrying three Chinese astronauts, including the first-ever female, docks manually with an orbiting module Tiangong 1, making them the third country, after the United States and Russia, to successfully perform the mission.[26]
- Lonesome George, the last known individual of the Pinta Island Tortoise subspecies, dies at a Galapagos National Park, thus making the subspecies extinct.[27]
July[]
- July 4 – CERN announces the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson after experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.[28][29][30][31][32]
- July 27 – August 12 – The 2012 Summer Olympics are held in London, England, United Kingdom.[33]
- July 30–31 – In the worst power outage in world history, the 2012 India blackouts leave 620 million people without power.[34][35][36]
August[]
- August 6 – Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory mission's rover, successfully lands on Mars.[37]
- August 31
- Researchers successfully perform the first implantation of an early prototype bionic eye with 24 electrodes.[38]
- 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.[39]
September[]
- September 7 – Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran, and orders the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over support for Syria, nuclear plans and human rights abuses.[40]
- September 11 – Garment factory fires in the Pakistani cities of Karachi and Lahore kill 315 and seriously injure more than 250.[41][42][43]
- September 11–27 – A series of terrorist attacks are directed against United States diplomatic missions worldwide, as well as diplomatic missions of Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. In the US, opinions are divided over whether the attacks are a reaction to a YouTube trailer for the film Innocence of Muslims. In Libya, among the dead is US ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.[44][45][46][47][48][49]
October[]
- October 14 – Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner becomes the first 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.[50][51][52]
- October 16 – Seven paintings worth $25 million are stolen from the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.[53][54][55][56]
- October 24–30 – Hurricane Sandy kills at least 209 people in the Caribbean, Bahamas, United States and Canada. Considerable storm surge damage causes major disruption to the eastern seaboard of the United States.[57][58][59]
November[]
- November 6 – 2012 United States presidential election: Barack Obama is reelected President of the United States, defeating his Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
- November 13 – A total solar eclipse occurs in parts of Australia and the South Pacific. It is the 45th of 72 solar eclipses of Solar Saros 133.
- November 14–21 – Israel launches Operation Pillar of Defense against the Palestinian-governed Gaza Strip, killing Hamas military chief Ahmed Jabari. In the following week 140 Palestinians and five Israelis are killed in an ensuing cycle of violence. A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is announced by Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after the week-long escalation in hostilities in Southern Israel and the Gaza Strip.[60][61][62][63][64]
- November 25–December 9 – Typhoon Bopha, known as "Pablo" in the Philippines, kills at least 1,067 with around 838 people missing. The typhoon causes considerable damage in the island of Mindanao.[65][66][67]
- November 29 – The UN General Assembly approves a motion granting Palestine non-member observer state status.[68]
December[]
- December 6 – The U.S. state of Washington becomes the first jurisdiction in the modern world to officially legalize the possession of cannabis for personal use.[69]
- December 6–16 – The 2012 FIFA Club World Cup is held in Japan and won by Sport Club Corinthians Paulista.
- December 8 – The UN Climate Change Conference in Qatar agrees to extend the Kyoto Protocol until 2020.[70]
- December 12
- North Korea successfully launches satellite Kwangmyongsong-3 Unit 2.[71]
- December 12 is the last time in the 21st century that the month, day and final two digits of the year are the exact same (12/12/12). The next time this will happen will be on New Year's Day in 2101 (01/01/01).
- December 14 – Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
- December 17 – Spanish bank Grupo Santander announces the acquisition of the remaining 10% of Banesto it did not yet own, effectively absorbing it into Banco Santander.[72]
- December 18 – At least 55 people drown after an overcrowded boat capsizes off the coast of Somalia.[73]
- December 21 – 2012 phenomenon: End of 13th b'ak'tun in the Mayan calendar, supposed end of the world according to new age beliefs. Festivities took place to commemorate the event in the countries that were part of the Maya civilization (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador), with main events at Chichén Itzá in Mexico and Tikal in Guatemala.[74][75][76]
Births[]
- January 24 – Princess Athena of Denmark
- February 23 – Princess Estelle of Sweden, Duchess of Östergötland
Deaths[]
January[]
- January 1 – Kiro Gligorov, 1st President of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1917)
- January 3 – Josef Škvorecký, Czech writer (b. 1924)
- January 9 – Malam Bacai Sanhá, 6th and 12th President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1947)
- January 13
- Rauf Denktaş, Cypriot-born politician (b. 1924)
- Miljan Miljanić, Yugoslavian-born footballer (b. 1930)
- January 15 – Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Spanish politician (b. 1922)
- January 20
- Etta James, American singer (b. 1938)
- Jiří Raška, Czech ski jumper (b. 1941)
- January 24 – Theodoros Angelopoulos, Greek filmmaker (b. 1935)
- January 29
- François Migault, French racing driver (b. 1944)
- Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, 9th President of Italy (b. 1918)
February[]
Renato Dulbecco
- February 1 – Wisława Szymborska, Polish Nobel poet (b. 1923)
- February 3
- Ben Gazzara, American actor (b. 1930)
- Samuel Youd, British author (b. 1922)
- February 6 – Antoni Tàpies, Spanish artist (b. 1923)
- February 11 – Whitney Houston, American singer and actress (b. 1963)
- February 19 – Renato Dulbecco, Italian-born American Nobel virologist (b. 1914)
- February 25 – Maurice André, French trumpeter (b. 1933)
- February 29 – Davy Jones, British singer and actor (b. 1945)
March[]
Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria
- March 6 – Francisco Xavier do Amaral, 1st President of East Timor (b. 1937)
- March 7 – Włodzimierz Smolarek, Polish footballer (b. 1957)
- March 10
- Jean Giraud, French comics artist (b. 1938)
- Frank Sherwood Rowland, American Nobel chemist (b. 1927)
- March 14 – Ċensu Tabone, 4th President of Malta (b. 1913)
- March 16 – Estanislau Basora, Spanish footballer (b. 1926)
- March 17
- John Demjanjuk, Ukrainian-American Nazi war crimes defendant (b. 1920)
- Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, (b. 1923)
- March 18 – George Tupou V, King of Tonga (b. 1948)
- March 21 – Tonino Guerra, Italian screenwriter (b. 1920)
- March 23
- Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, President of Somalia (2004–2008) (b. 1934)
- Naji Talib, 52nd Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1917)
- March 25 – Antonio Tabucchi, Italian writer (b. 1943)
- March 27 – Adrienne Rich, American writer and feminist (b. 1929)
- March 28
- Alexander Arutiunian, Armenian composer (b. 1920)
- Earl Scruggs, American bluegrass musician (b. 1924)
April[]
Mike Wallace
- April 1
- Miguel de la Madrid, 52nd President of Mexico (b. 1934)
- Giorgio Chinaglia, Italian footballer (b. 1947)
- April 5 – Bingu wa Mutharika, 3rd President of Malawi (b. 1934)
- April 7 – Mike Wallace, American journalist (b. 1918)
- April 11 – Ahmed Ben Bella, 1st President of Algeria (b. 1918)
- April 15 – Murray Rose, Australian swimmer (b. 1939)
- April 16 – Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish shipping magnate (b. 1913)
- April 18 – Dick Clark, American television host and producer (b. 1929)
- April 19 – Levon Helm, American musician (b. 1940)
- April 20 – Valeri Vasiliev, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1949)
- April 21 – Charles Colson, American evangelist (b. 1931)
- April 29
- Shukri Ghanem, Prime Minister of Libya (2003–2006) (b. 1942)
- Joel Goldsmith, American composer (b. 1957)
- April 30 – Alexander Dale Oen, Norwegian swimmer (b. 1985)
May[]
Carlos Fuentes
- May 4 – Rashidi Yekini, Nigerian footballer (b. 1963)
- May 8 – Maurice Sendak, American author (b. 1928)
- May 9 – Vidal Sassoon, British hairdresser (b. 1928)
- May 10 – Carroll Shelby, American automotive designer, racing driver and entrepreneur (b. 1923)
- May 15 – Carlos Fuentes, Panamanian-born Mexican writer (b. 1928)
- May 17 – Donna Summer, American singer (b. 1948)
- May 18 – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German lyric baritone and conductor (b. 1925)
- May 20 – Robin Gibb, British-Australian musician (b. 1949)
- May 29 – Kaneto Shindo, Japanese film director (b. 1912)
- May 30 – Andrew Huxley, British Nobel physiologist (b. 1917)
June[]
Yitzhak Shamir
- June 2 – Kathryn Joosten, American actress (b. 1939)
- June 3 – Roy Salvadori, British racing driver (b. 1922)
- June 4 – Eduard Khil, Russian baritone (b. 1934)
- June 5 – Ray Bradbury, American author (b. 1920)
- June 11
- Ann Rutherford, Canadian-born American actress (b. 1917)
- Teófilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer (b. 1952)
- June 12 – Elinor Ostrom, American Nobel economist (b. 1933)
- June 13 – William Standish Knowles, American Nobel chemist (b. 1917)
- June 16 – Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (b. 1933)
- June 17 – Rodney King, American criminal (b. 1965)
- June 26 – Nora Ephron, American film director and screenwriter (b. 1941)
- June 30 – Yitzhak Shamir, 7th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1915)
July[]
Ernest Borgnine
Maeve Binchy
- July 1 – Alan G. Poindexter, American astronaut (b. 1961)
- July 3
- Andy Griffith, American actor (b. 1926)
- Sergio Pininfarina, Italian automobile designer (b. 1926)
- July 8 – Ernest Borgnine, American actor (b. 1917)
- July 13 – Richard D. Zanuck, American film producer (b. 1934)
- July 14 – Sixten Jernberg, Swedish cross-country skier (b. 1929)
- July 15 – Celeste Holm, American actress (b. 1917)
- July 16
- Stephen Covey, American author (b. 1932)
- Jon Lord, British musician and composer (b. 1941)
- July 19 – Omar Suleiman, Egyptian general, diplomat and intelligence officer (b. 1936)
- July 23 – Sally Ride, American astronaut and physicist (b. 1951)
- July 24 – John Atta Mills, President of Ghana (b. 1944)
- July 27 – Jack Taylor, English football referee (b. 1930)
- July 30
- Maeve Binchy, Irish author (b. 1940)
- Chris Marker, French writer and documentary filmmaker (b. 1921)
- July 31 – Gore Vidal, American author, playwright, screenwriter, and political activist (b. 1925)
August[]
Neil Armstrong
- August 5 – Chavela Vargas, Costa Rican-born Mexican singer (b. 1919)
- August 6
- Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and conductor (b. 1944)
- Bernard Lovell, English physicist and astronomer (b. 1913)
- August 14 – Svetozar Gligorić, Serbian chess grandmaster (b. 1923)
- August 15 – Harry Harrison, American author (b. 1925)
- August 18
- Scott McKenzie, American singer and songwriter (b. 1939)
- William Windom, American actor (b. 1923)
- August 19 – Tony Scott, British film director (b. 1944)
- August 20
- Phyllis Diller, American comedian (b. 1917)
- Dom Mintoff, 8th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1916)
- Meles Zenawi, 3rd President and 10th Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1955)
- August 21 – William Thurston, American mathematician (b. 1946)
- August 24 – Félix Miélli Venerando, Brazilian footballer (b. 1937)
- August 25 – Neil Armstrong, American astronaut (b. 1930)
- August 31
- Carlo Maria Martini, Cardinal Archbishop of Milan (b. 1927)
- Sergey Leonidovich Sokolov, Soviet military commander (b. 1911)
September[]
Sun Myung Moon with his wife Hak Ja Han
- September 1 – Hal David, American lyricist (b. 1921)
- September 3
- Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (b. 1957)
- Sun Myung Moon, Korean religious leader (b. 1920)
- September 8 – Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American psychiatrist (b. 1920)
- September 12 – Sid Watkins, English neurosurgeon (b. 1928)
- September 16 – Ragnhild Alexandra Lorentzen, Princess of Norway, (b. 1930)
- September 18 – Santiago Carrillo, Spanish politician (b. 1915)
- September 23
- Pavel Grachev, Russian military commander (b. 1948)
- Corrie Sanders, South African boxer (b. 1966)
- September 25 – Andy Williams, American singer (b. 1927)
- September 27 – Herbert Lom, Czech-born actor (b. 1917)
- September 28 – Michael O'Hare, American actor (b. 1952)
- September 30 – Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian Olympic figure skater (b. 1928)
October[]
Helmut Haller
- October 1 – Eric Hobsbawm, British Marxist historian (b. 1917)
- October 6 – Chadli Bendjedid, 3rd President of Algeria (b. 1929)
- October 11 – Helmut Haller, German footballer (b. 1939)
- October 14 – Arlen Specter, American politician (b. 1930)
- October 15 – King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia, (b. 1922)
- October 17 – Sylvia Kristel, Dutch actress (b. 1952)
- October 20 – E. Donnall Thomas, American Nobel physician (b. 1920)
- October 21
- Yash Chopra, Indian film director and producer (b.1932)
- George McGovern, American politician, historian and author (b. 1922)
- October 22 – Russell Means, American Sioux actor and activist (b. 1939)
- October 24 – Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player (b. 1918)
- October 27 – Hans Werner Henze, German composer (b. 1926)
November[]
Lars Hörmander
- November 5 – Elliott Carter, American composer (b. 1908)
- November 19 – Boris Strugatsky, Soviet-Russian science fiction writer (b. 1933)
- November 23 – Larry Hagman, American actor (b. 1931)
- November 25
- Lars Hörmander, Swedish mathematician (b. 1931)
- Dave Sexton, English footballer and coach (b. 1930)
- November 26 – Joseph Murray, American Nobel surgeon (b. 1919)
- November 30 – I. K. Gujral, 12th Prime Minister of India (b. 1919)
December[]
Oscar Niemeyer
- December 4 – Miguel Calero, Colombian footballer (b. 1971)
- December 5
- Dave Brubeck, American pianist (b. 1920)
- Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect (b. 1907)
- December 9 – Patrick Moore, English astronomer and broadcaster (b. 1923)
- December 10 – Iajuddin Ahmed, 13th President of Bangladesh (b. 1931)
- December 11
- Ravi Shankar, Indian sitarist (b. 1920)
- Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano (b. 1926)
- December 17 – Daniel Inouye, American politician (b. 1924)
- December 24
- Charles Durning, American actor (b. 1923)
- Jack Klugman, American actor (b. 1922)
- December 27 – Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., American general (b. 1934)
- December 30 – Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian Nobel neurologist (b. 1909)
Nobel Prizes[]
- Chemistry – Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka
- Economics – Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd Shapley
- Literature – Mo Yan
- Peace – European Union
- Physics – Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland
- Physiology or Medicine – John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka
Major religious holidays[]
- January 6 – Christmas Day (Celebrated by the Armenian Church)
- January 7 – Christmas Day (December 25 in the Julian Calendar, celebrated by Eastern Orthodoxy)
- February 1 – Imbolc, a Cross-quarter day (Celebrated on February 2 in some places)
- February 22 – Ash Wednesday – Western Christianity
- March 8
- March 20 – Spring Equinox, Persian New Year, also known as Ostara
- April 1 – Ramanavami – Hinduism
- April 6
- Good Friday – Western Christianity
- Hanuman Jayanti – Hinduism
- April 7 – Passover – Judaism
- April 8 – Easter – Western Christianity
- April 13 – Vaisakhi – Sikhism
- April 15 – Easter – Eastern Christianity
- May 1 – Beltane, a Cross-quarter day
- May 27 – Shavuot – Judaism
- June 4 – Vesak – Buddhism[77]
- June 20 – Summer solstice, also known as Midsummer
- July 20 – Ramadan begins – Islam
- August 1 – Lammas, a Cross-quarter day
- August 2 – Raksha Bandhan – Hinduism
- August 10 – Janmashtami – Hinduism
- August 19 – Eid al Fitr – Islam
- September 17 – Rosh Hashanah – Judaism
- September 21 – Autumn Equinox, also known as Mabon
- September 26 – Yom Kippur – Judaism
- October 1 – Sukkot – Judaism
- October 2 – Mehregan – Zoroastrianism and Persian Culture
- October 24 – Vijaya Dashami/Dusshera – Hinduism
- October 26 – Eid al-Adha, a religious festival in Islam
- November 1 – Samhain, a Cross-quarter day, Neopagan new year and Christian All Saints' Day
- November 13 – Diwali – Sikhism - Hinduism
- November 15 – Islamic New Year
- December 9 – Hanukkah – Judaism
- December 21 – Winter solstice, also known as Yule
- December 25 – Christmas – Western Christianity
In fiction[]
See also[]
References[]
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