Historical Events In 2012

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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