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July 20: 2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting. September 11 – 12: 2012 Benghazi attack leads to the death of US ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. October 14: Skydiver Felix Baumgartner becomes the first person to break the sound barrier without a vehicle. October 22 – November 22: Hurricane Sandy causes $70 billion in damage and kills 233 people.
2007 — A South Korean student shoots and kills 32 other students and professors in the Virginia Tech massacre before killing himself. It stands as the worst mass shooting in U.S. history until 2016 and spurs a series of debates on gun control and journalism ethics. 2007 — The first IPhone is released for sale in the U.S.
He lies in the state at the U.S. Capitol building before being interred. 2019 – All the works published in 1923 except for sound recordings (2022 scheduled events) enter the public domain in the United States. January 1, 2019 – Washington bans all persons under 21 years of age from purchasing a semi-automatic rifle. [15]
Concerns about public event safety and hotel security also became a focus of public dialogue in the wake of this event. In addition, the investigation was the focus of intense scrutiny, particularly as the official reports and timelines changed several times throughout the investigation. This also led to a number of conspiracy theories.
The Pleiades, a star cluster with supposed influence sometimes tied to the 2012 event. Author Graham Hancock, in his book Fingerprints of the Gods, interpreted Coe's remarks in Breaking the Maya Code [132] as evidence for the prophecy of a global cataclysm. [133] Filmmaker Roland Emmerich later credited the book with inspiring his 2009 disaster ...
August 15, 2012 Shooting 0 1 Washington, D.C. On August 15, 2012, Floyd Lee Corkins II, wielding a 9mm pistol along with two magazines and 50 rounds of ammunition, entered the lobby of Family Research Council's Washington, D.C. headquarters. [109] Corkins shot an employee, 46-year-old Leonardo Johnson, in the left arm.
October 14 – Felix Baumgartner breaks the world human ascent by balloon record before space diving out of the Red Bull Stratos helium-filled balloon over Roswell, New Mexico. [239] October 16 The second U.S. presidential debate of 2012 is held at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. [citation needed]
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