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

The Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental jumbo jet aircraft is introduced with Lufthansa. (1. June 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)

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

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

Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud is appointed Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. (18. June 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 trial for Anders Behring Breivik begins in Oslo, Norway. (16. April 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 discovery of Flame, a complex malware program targeting computers in Middle Eastern countries, is announced. (28. May 2012)

A US soldier kills 16 civilians in the Panjwayi District of Afghanistan near Kandahar. (11. March 2012)

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

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

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)

Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk over Niagara Falls. (15. June 2012)

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

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

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