Page 10: Historical Events In 2012

Dec 09   13 people are killed and 10 are injured after a bus rolls of a cliff and falls 100 meters in Taiwan on this day in history.   

Dec 10   Google begins selling US$99 laptops in the year 2012.   

Dec 11   125 people are killed and 200 are injured by bombings in Aqrab, Syria in the year 2012.   

Dec 13   On this day in history a car bombing in Qatana, outside Damascus, kills 16 people and injures 12   

Dec 14   28 people, including 20 children, are shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut on this day in history.   

Dec 15   On this day in history 18 Asylum seekers drown in the Aegean Sea on the way to Greece from Turkey   

Dec 16   On this day in history 4 people are killed after Cyclone Evan strikes Fiji   

Dec 17   17 people are killed and 70 are injured by a blast in a market in the Khyber Agency, Pakistan on this day in history.   

Dec 18   4 people are killed and 11 are injured after an apartment block collapses in Palermo, Italy in the year 2012.   

Dec 19   On this day in history uBS bank is fined $1.5 billion for its role in manipulating the Libor rate   

Dec 20   Apple is denied a patent for mobile pinch-to-zoom gestures by the US patent authorities in the year 2012.   

Dec 21   39 people are killed in violent clashes in Kenya on this day in history.   

Dec 22   6 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus on this day in history.   

Dec 23   On this day in history 200 civilians are killed by the Syrian government’s warplanes in Helfaya, Syria   

Dec 24   11 kindergarten children are killed after a minivan plunges into a roadside pond in the year 2012.   

Dec 25   On this day in history 27 people are killed after an Antonov An-72 plane crashes near Shymkent, Kazakhstan   

Dec 26   China opens the world’s longest high speed rail route from Beijing to Guangzhou on this day in history.   

Dec 27   In the year 2012 nASA unveils plans to capture a 500 ton asteroid in 2025   

Dec 28   Jiroemon Kimura of Japan becomes the world's oldest verified man on this day in history.   

Dec 29   200 people are executed by the Syrian army in Homs in the year 2012.   

Dec 30   19 people are killed by a suicide bomber in Balochistan, Pakistan on this day in history.   

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