WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO AUGUST 2012
Find out what all happened June to August 2012

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

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

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

Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so. (25. August 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 Shard in London is inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 metres (1,020 ft). (5. 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 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 last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise, dies. (24. June 2012)

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

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

The Marikana miners' strike begins near Rustenburg, South Africa. (10. August 2012)

The Turaymisah massacre kills 250 people during a Syrian military operation in a village within the Hama Governorate. (12. July 2012)

NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars. (6. August 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)