WHAT HAPPENED IN 2012.
Look what happened the 2012.

NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars. (6. August 2012)

Three gunmen kill 19 people in a church near Okene, Nigeria. (7. August 2012)

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

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

South African police fatally shoot 34 miners and wound 78 more during an industrial dispute near Rustenburg. (16. August 2012)

A plane crash kills 32 people in Sudan. (19. August 2012)

A prison riot in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, kills at least 20 people. (20. August 2012)

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

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

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

A firecracker factory explodes near Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, killing 40 and injuring 50 others. (5. September 2012)

An accidental explosion at a Turkish Army ammunition store in Afyon, western Turkey kills 25 soldiers and wounds 4 others. (5. September 2012)

61 people die and 48 others are injured after a fishing boat capsizes off the Izmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean islands. (6. September 2012)

A series of earthquakes in Yunnan, China, kills 89 people and injures 800 others. (7. September 2012)

Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and ordered the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over support for Syria, nuclear plans and alleged rights abuses. (7. September 2012)

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

A total of 315 people are killed in two garment factory fires in Pakistan. (11. September 2012)

The U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya is attacked, resulting in four deaths. (11. September 2012)

A mass shooting takes place at Accent Signage Systems, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, killing 6 people, including the gunman who committed suicide, and wounding 2 others. (27. September 2012)