Historical Events In 2012
Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Oct 01 California becomes the first US state to ban conversion therapy for minors on this day in history.
Oct 02 20 students are gunned down in Mubi, Nigeria in the year 2012.
Oct 03 34 people are killed by a series of bombings in Aleppo, Syria on this day in history.
Oct 04 Turkey’s parliament approves cross-border military operations in Syria on this day in history.
Oct 05 Anglo Platinum Limited fires 12,000 striking workers in South Africa in the year 2012.
Oct 06 In the year 2012 paolo Gabriele, Pope Benedict XVI's butler, is found guilty of leaking confidential documents and is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment
Oct 07 In the year 2012 13 people are killed after a Sudanese military aeroplane crashes near Khartoum
Oct 08 On this day in history 35 people are killed by a Nigerian military bomb struck a convoy in Maiduguri
Oct 09 25,000 people in Athens protest German Chancellor Angela Merkel on this day in history.
Oct 10 Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on G protein-coupled receptors in the year 2012.
Oct 11 On this day in history 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 in the year 2012.
Oct 13 15 people are killed by a market suicide bombing in Darra Adam Khel, Pakistan in the year 2012.
Oct 14 20 people are gunned down in a mosque in Dogo Dawa, Nigeria on this day in history.
Oct 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 in the year 2012.
Oct 15 In the year 2012 hilary Mantel wins 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 in the year 2012.
Oct 17 On this day in history the exoplanet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered orbiting Alpha Centauri
Oct 18 In the year 2012 syrian military airstrikes kill 40 people in Maaret al-Numan
Oct 19 In the year 2012 8 people are killed and 78 injured by a car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon
Oct 22 In the year 2012 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 on this day in history.
Oct 24 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 on this day in history.
Oct 24 Libyan militias capture Bani Walid resulting in 130 civilian deaths on this day in history.
Oct 25 Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Cuba and Haiti killing 65 people and causing over $80 million in damage in the year 2012.
Oct 26 64 people are killed in West Burma after continued sectarian clashes in the year 2012.
Oct 27 46 people are killed and 123 injured in Iraq after a series of attacks and bombs in the year 2012.
Oct 28 In the year 2012 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 in the year 2012.
Oct 30 Walt Disney purchases Lucasfilm Ltd and its rights for Star Wars and Indiana Jones for $4.05 billion on this day in history.
Nov 01 Google's Gmail becomes the world's most popular email service in the year 2012.
Nov 03 Syrian rebels launch a major assault on Taftanaz airbase in the year 2012.
Nov 04 Bishop Tawadros appointed as the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the year 2012.
Nov 05 On this day in history 50 Syrian military personnel are killed by a suicide car bomb in Hama
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