WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO JULY 2012
Find out what all happened March to July 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)

Azawad Declaration of Independence is declared. (6. April 2012)

The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize. (16. April 2012)

A US soldier kills 16 civilians in the Panjwayi District of Afghanistan near Kandahar. (11. March 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)

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)

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 known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise, dies. (24. June 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 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 derecho strikes the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power. (29. June 2012)

Ashton Eaton breaks the decathlon world record at the United States Olympic Trials. (23. June 2012)

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

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

A tornado outbreak occurred over a large section of the Southern United States and into the Ohio Valley region, resulting in 40 tornado-related fatalities. (2. March 2012)

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

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

A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hits northern Italy near Bologna, killing at least 24 people. (29. May 2012)