Page 10: Historical Events In 2012

Dec 09   In the year 2012 13 people are killed and 10 are injured after a bus rolls of a cliff and falls 100 meters in Taiwan   

Dec 10   Google begins selling US$99 laptops on this day in history.   

Dec 11   In the year 2012 125 people are killed and 200 are injured by bombings in Aqrab, Syria   

Dec 13   In the year 2012 a car bombing in Qatana, outside Damascus, kills 16 people and injures 12   

Dec 14   In the year 2012 28 people, including 20 children, are shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut   

Dec 15   18 Asylum seekers drown in the Aegean Sea on the way to Greece from Turkey in the year 2012.   

Dec 16   In the year 2012 4 people are killed after Cyclone Evan strikes Fiji   

Dec 17   On this day in history 17 people are killed and 70 are injured by a blast in a market in the Khyber Agency, Pakistan   

Dec 18   In the year 2012 4 people are killed and 11 are injured after an apartment block collapses in Palermo, Italy   

Dec 19   UBS bank is fined $1.5 billion for its role in manipulating the Libor rate in the year 2012.   

Dec 20   Apple is denied a patent for mobile pinch-to-zoom gestures by the US patent authorities in the year 2012.   

Dec 21   In the year 2012 39 people are killed in violent clashes in Kenya   

Dec 22   6 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus in the year 2012.   

Dec 23   In the year 2012 200 civilians are killed by the Syrian government’s warplanes in Helfaya, Syria   

Dec 24   In the year 2012 11 kindergarten children are killed after a minivan plunges into a roadside pond   

Dec 25   In the year 2012 27 people are killed after an Antonov An-72 plane crashes near Shymkent, Kazakhstan   

Dec 26   In the year 2012 china opens the world’s longest high speed rail route from Beijing to Guangzhou   

Dec 27   NASA unveils plans to capture a 500 ton asteroid in 2025 on this day in history.   

Dec 28   Jiroemon Kimura of Japan becomes the world's oldest verified man in the year 2012.   

Dec 29   200 people are executed by the Syrian army in Homs on this day in history.   

Dec 30   On this day in history 19 people are killed by a suicide bomber in Balochistan, Pakistan   

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