WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO AUGUST 2012
Find out what all happened January to August 2012

Agni Air Flight CHT crashed near Jomsom Airport in Jomsom, Nepal, after a failed go-around, killing 15 people. (14. May 2012)

The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. (13. February 2012)

A boat carrying more than 200 refugees capsized in the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian island of Java and Christmas Island, killing 17 people and leaving 70 other missing. (21. June 2012)

The Pirate Party of Greece is founded, on the model of the Swedish Pirate Party. (14. January 2012)

The Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental jumbo jet aircraft is introduced with Lufthansa. (1. June 2012)

Astronomers announce the discovery of Styx, the fifth moon of Pluto. (11. July 2012)

Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco. (22. June 2012)

The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize. (16. April 2012)

Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so. (25. August 2012)

The Damascus bombings were carried out using a pair of car bombs detonated by suicide bombers outside of a military intelligence complex in Damascus, Syria, killing 55 people and injuring 400 others (10. May 2012)

A plane crash kills 32 people in Sudan. (19. August 2012)

The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI. (19. January 2012)

Ashton Eaton breaks the decathlon world record at the United States Olympic Trials. (23. June 2012)

A pastel version of The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for $120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for a work of art at auction. (2. May 2012)

A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hits northern Italy near Bologna, killing at least 24 people. (29. May 2012)

Erden Eruç completes the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world. (21. July 2012)

President Mohamed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives resigns, after 23 days of anti-governmental protests calling for the release of Chief Judge unlawfully arrested by the military. (7. February 2012)

The last transit of Venus of the 21st century begins. (5. June 2012)

A Turkish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter plane is shot down by the Syrian Armed Forces, killing both of the plane's pilots and worsening already-strained relations between Turkey and Syria. (22. June 2012)

A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board. (7. January 2012)