Date: June 28, 2012
Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated. Date: November 15, 2012 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 15 📅 Events on this day in 2012 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 2012Myanmar Train Fuel Crash Kills 27,…
Twenty-six people are killed and 63 wounded when a suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station in Damascus. Date: January 6, 2012 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 6 📅 Events on this day in 2012 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 2012Burlington Train Derailment Kills 3,…
More than 115,000 websites engage in an online protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act in the US.[citation needed] The websites involved viewed the laws as infringing on the right to free speech and many of them temporarily shut down in protest. Date: January 18, 2012 Read more on Wikipedia…
Azawad declares itself independent from the Republic of Mali. Date: April 6, 2012 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 6 📅 Events on this day in 2012 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 2012Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 Crashes Near Palana Airport, 10 Killed, 4 Injured September 12, 2012Pulitzer Prize…
The Solar storm of 2012 was an unusually large coronal mass ejection that was emitted by the Sun which barely missed the Earth by nine days. If it hit, it would have caused up to US$2.6 trillion in damages to electrical equipment worldwide. Date: July 23, 2012 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events…
The trial for Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, begins in Oslo, Norway. Date: April 16, 2012 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 16 📅 Events on this day in 2012 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 2012Antonov An-72 Crashes Near Shymkent, Killing 27, December…