WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO AUGUST 2012
Find out what all happened July to August 2012

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

Three gunmen kill 19 people in a church near Okene, Nigeria. (7. August 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran. (11. August 2012)