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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 ...
Elections. 6 November - Democrat Barack Obama is re-elected president of the United States. Local electoral calendar 2012. National electoral calendar 2012. Supranational electoral calendar 2012.
25 May 2012: SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft (pictured) becomes the first commercial spacecraft to rendezvous with the International Space Station. The year 2012 involved many significant scientific events and discoveries, including the first orbital rendezvous by a commercial spacecraft, the discovery of a particle highly similar to the long-sought Higgs boson, and the near-eradication of guinea ...
Disasters and accidents A severe cold spell kills at least 83 people in Ukraine. Across Russia, the deep freeze killed at least 45 people over the last week. (BBC) (NBC News) Five people are killed and one injured in Zeebrugge, Belgium, when a bus rolled off into the water. (Deredactie.be) International relations A British court rejects an attempt by the son of a man killed in U.S. drone ...
Officials said the measures could cost as much as $1.2 million. [200][201][202] Over the whole of the United States for the year, there were 243 deaths out of 5387 total cases. August 24. 2012 Empire State Building shooting: A gunman shoots and kills a former coworker near the Empire State Building in New York City.
Spanish football club Valencia fires Mauricio Pellegrino as coach after the 2–5 home loss to Real Sociedad in the 2012–13 La Liga. (Reuters via Eurosport) The Los Angeles Galaxy defeat the Houston Dynamo 3–1 to win the 2012 Major League Soccer Cup. It is David Beckham 's final game.
Sport. May 19, 2012 (Saturday) Armed conflicts and attacks. A car bomb explodes near a military complex in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, killing 9 people. (Al Jazeera) A bomb, made of three gas cylinders, explodes in front of a vocational school in the Italian city of Brindisi, killing a 16-year-old female student.
Business and economics World stock markets [which?] hit their lowest level in 2012. (The Guardian) Health Gonorrhoea soars in England. (BBC) International relations China arrests a security ministry official on suspicion of spying for the United States; the official is reported to have been blackmailed by the CIA. (BBC) The Japanese yen and the Chinese yuan begin direct trading. (Yomiuri ...