WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO JULY 2012
Find out what all happened May to July 2012

Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk over Niagara Falls. (15. 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)

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

China successfully launches its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts – including the first female Chinese astronaut, Liu Yang – to the Tiangong-1 orbital module. (16. June 2012)

Two earthquakes struck northern Afghanistan, causing a large landslide, which buried the town of Sayi Hazara, trapping 71 people. After four days of digging, only five bodies were recovered and the search was called off. (11. June 2012)

A bus accident near Himara, Albania kills 13 people and injures 21 others. (21. May 2012)

At least 107 people are killed and more than 250 others wounded in a string of bombings and attacks in Iraq. (23. July 2012)

The last transit of Venus of the 21st century begins. (5. June 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 tank truck explosion kills more than 100 people in Okobie, Nigeria. (12. July 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 United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission. (16. June 2012)

The last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise, dies. (24. June 2012)

At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia. (7. July 2012)

The former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, is sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War. (30. May 2012)

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

Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the greatest number of medals won at the Olympics. (31. July 2012)