WHAT HAPPENED IN 2012.
Look what happened the 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)

Agni Air Flight CHT crashed near Jomsom Airport in Jomsom, Nepal, after a failed go-around, killing 15 people. (14. May 2012)

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

A suicide bombing kills more than 120 people in Sana'a, Yemen. (21. May 2012)

Tokyo Skytree is opened to public. It is the tallest tower in world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth, after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m). (22. May 2012)

The Dragon spacecraft became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous with the International Space Station. (25. May 2012)

The discovery of Flame, a complex malware program targeting computers in Middle Eastern countries, is announced. (28. May 2012)

A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hits northern Italy near Bologna, killing at least 24 people. (29. May 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)

The Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental jumbo jet aircraft is introduced with Lufthansa. (1. June 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 Dana Air McDonnell Douglas MD-83 crashes into a residential neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, killing 163 people. (3. June 2012)

The Diamond Jubilee Concert is held outside Buckingham Palace on The Mall, London. Organised by Gary Barlow, the concert is part of Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. (4. June 2012)

The last transit of Venus of the 21st century begins. (5. 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 series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others. (13. June 2012)

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

The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission. (16. June 2012)

Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud is appointed Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. (18. June 2012)

   
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