WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO NOVEMBER 2012
Find out what all happened May to November 2012

South African police fatally shoot 34 miners and wound 78 more during an industrial dispute near Rustenburg. (16. August 2012)

A derecho strikes the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power. (29. June 2012)

Members of the Pakistani Taliban made a failed attempt to assassinate Malala Yousafzai on her way home from school. (9. October 2012)

Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and ordered the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over support for Syria, nuclear plans and alleged rights abuses. (7. September 2012)

The former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution. (2. June 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)

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

A tank truck explosion kills more than 100 people in Okobie, Nigeria. (12. July 2012)

A power grid failure leaves seven states in northern India without power, affecting 360 million people. (30. July 2012)

At least 26 miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua in Sichuan Province, China. (29. August 2012)

A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people. (24. November 2012)

A Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft crashes into Mount Salak in West Java, Indonesia, killing 45 people. (9. May 2012)

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

Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast of the United States, killing 148 directly and 138 indirectly, while leaving nearly $70 billion in damages and causing major power outages. (29. October 2012)

Armenia ruptures diplomatic relations with Hungary. (31. August 2012)

Big Tex, a 52-foot statue and cultural icon in Dallas, Texas, is destroyed by fire during the final weekend of the 2012 State Fair of Texas. (19. October 2012)

The Waldo Canyon Fire descends into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing two people. (26. June 2012)

A series of earthquakes in Yunnan, China, kills 89 people and injures 800 others. (7. September 2012)

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

A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others. (13. June 2012)