WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO NOVEMBER 2012
Find out what all happened June to November 2012

Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths. (22. August 2012)

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

At least 7 people are killed and 32 others are injured after a bomb explodes on an Israeli tour bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria. (18. July 2012)

The Shard in London is inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 metres (1,020 ft). (5. July 2012)

A wave of attacks kill more than 108 people and injure 351 others in Iraq. (9. September 2012)

Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated. (15. November 2012)

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

A train carrying liquid fuel crashes and bursts into flames in northern Burma, killing 27 people and injuring 80 others. (9. November 2012)

Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip, as hostilities with Hamas escalate. (14. November 2012)

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

The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN. (4. July 2012)

Tammy Baldwin, becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate. (6. November 2012)

British Prime Minister David Cameron and Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond agree on a deal setting out the terms of a referendum on Scottish independence at a meeting in Edinburgh. (15. October 2012)

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

The Oak Creek shooting took place at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six people; the perpetrator was shot dead by police. (5. August 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)

A shooting at a spa in Brookfield, Wisconsin, leaves four people dead, including the shooter. (21. October 2012)

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

An Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane belonging to Aéro-Service, crashes into houses near Maya-Maya Airport during a thunderstorm, killing at least 32 people. (30. November 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)