important international events of 2012
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Important International Events of 2012
Here is a list of Important International Events of 2012
January
14Ma Ying-jeou re-elected as President of the Republic of China
January
23
European Union puts sanctions on Iran in protest against its nuclear weapons program
February
12
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow re-elected as President of Turkmenistan
February
12Zambia defeated Ivory Coast to lift Africa Cup of Nations
February
15
United Kingdom unemployment rate reached 17 year high of 8.4%
February
17
President of Germany, Christian Wulff, resigned over a corruption scandal
February17
70 ancient Olympic artifacts stolen from the Archaeological Museum of Greece
February
21
Yemen presidential elections vice-President Abd Rabbuh Mansur al-Hadi was the only candidate
February
25
WHO removed India from the list of polio endemic countries
February
26
The Artist won five Acaemy Awars; the first silent film to win since 1927
February
28
Largest prehistoric penguin, Kairuku grebneffi discovered
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March
1
Euro zone unemployment reached 10.7%
March
2
the Red Cross is denied access to provide relief by the Syrian army
March
2
European Fiscal Compact signe to prevent excessive ebt. all but two members of European Union
members sign it.
March
6
Francisco Xavier do Amaral, President of East Timorese died
March8
Greece secured debt-restructuring deal with private lenders
March
12
China recorded its highest trade deficit in over a decade
March
13
Encyclopedia Britannica announced discontinuation is printed versions of its encyclopedia
March
16
Sachin Tendulkar became first cricketer to score 100 international centuries
March
18
Joachim Gauck elected President of the Federal republic of Germany
March
21
Greek Parliament voted in favour of an international bailout deal
March
21
Five former Guatemalan paramilitaries sentenced to 7,710 years in jail for Plan de Sanchez massacre
in 1982
March
23
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African Union suspends Mali's membership following a coup
March
26
Macky Sall elected as President of Senegal
March
30
Spanish Government cut 27 Billion Euros from its budget
March
30
Mastercard and Visa announced a security breach with over ten million credit card numbers
compromised
April
3
Spanish unemployment reached a record high, youth unemployment at 50%
April
7
Joyce Banda became President of Malawi
April
7
130 Pakistani Army soldiers buried in an avalanche near the Siachen Glacier
April
118.6 magnitude earth quacke and 8.2 aftershock off the coast of Indonesia
April
13
North Korean long range rocket testing filed after the rocket broke up after launch
April
15
China loosened monetary policy, allowed the Yuan to fluctuate up to 1% against the US dollar
April
16
No Pulitzer Prize is awarded for fiction. It has not happened since 1977.
May
5
Japan shuts down its nuclear reactors
May
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Francois Hollande elected President of France
May
6
Greece parliamentary election 60% support for parties opposed to austerity measures
May
7
Vladimir Putin sworn in for third six year term as President of Russia
May
9
United States President, Barack Obama, officially supported sex marriage
May
10
The Red Cross suspended all humanitarian work in Pakistan after one of its workers was kidnappedand killed
May
11
Chinese scientists transferred photons over 97 kilometers using quantum teleportation, a world
record
May
14
Stanford University scientists developed prototype bionic eye
May
15
Greece's fifth attempt to a form a coalition government failed. New elections scheduled for June.
May
20
Tomislav Nikolid electe presient of Serbia
May
25
SpaceX Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to dock at the International Space Station
May
30
Vishwanathan Anand won his fifth World Chess Championship
May
31
Egypt formally ended 31 year state of emergency
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June
4
Japan's stock market reached its lowest level since 1983
June
6
Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun)
June
11
Nobel Prize reduced by 20%
June
12
World Health Organization concluded that diesel exhaust causes cancer
June14
The world's first stem-cell assisted vein transplant undertaken by Swedish doctors
June
17
Greek Elections. Previous elections in May had failed to create a Government
June
19
Antonis Samaras formed a coalition Government in Greece
June
24
Soudi Ariabian female athletes allowed to compete at the Olympics for the first time
June
30
Mohamed Morsi became President of Egypt
July
5
Enrique Pena Nieto elected President of Mexico
July
11
S/2012 P 1, the fifth moon of Pluto discovered
July
18
Kim Jong-un officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea; given the rank of Marshal in the
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Korean People's Army
July
22
Pranab Mukherjee elected President of India
July
24
John Dramani became President of Ghana
July
25
Ivica Daid became Prime Minister of Serbia
July
27
Opening of the London 2012 Olympics
July
28
Ye Shiwen of China set world record in the women's 400m individual medley
July
30
Indian power grid failure left over 300 million without power
July
31
A second power grid failure in India left 670 million people without power
August
1
8 Women's badminton doubles players disqualified from the 21012 summer Olympics for "not using
one's best efforts to win a match"
August
4
South African Oscar Pistorius became first amputee to compete at the Olympics
August
9
Usain Bolt became the first athlete to win 100m and 200m sprint in consecutive Olympics
August
12
2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony
August
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Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus stripped of Olympic shot-put gold medal after failing a doping test
August
16
Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder granted political asylum by Ecuador
August
20
South Africa reached Rank-1 in test cricket after defeating England
August
22
Russia and Vanuatu became members of the World Trade Organization
August
27
First interplanetary human voice recording is broadcast from the Mars Rover Curiosity
August
29
Lance Armstrong stripped of his seven Tour de France titles by USADA
September
9
Armenia won the 40th FIDE Chess Olympiad
September
13Dr Mustafa Abushagur elected Prime Minister of Libya
September
18
World's first mother-to-daughter uterus transplant undertaken at the University of Gothenburg
September
23
Four genetically distinct types of breast cancer discovered
September
25
Anouchka van Miltenburg elected President of the Netherlands
September
27
Mars Curiosity rover discovered evidence of a fast-moving streambed-in Mars
September
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Japanese discovery of the 133th element confirmed. The discovery was made in 2004
October
4
Jorans King Abullah issolve Parliament in preparation for new elections
October
4
Michael Schumacher, former Formula-1 champion retired
October
7
Sbastien Loeb won the World Rally Championship for the ninth consecutive year
October
8
Hugo Chvez re-elected as President of Venezuela for a fourth term
October
8
Mustafa A.G. Abushagur, first elected Prime Minister of Libya, voted out of office by Parliament
October
8
John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work on
reprogramming end stage cells to become pluripotent
October9
Serge Haroche and David Wineland won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on quantum optics
October
10
Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on G protein-
coupled receptors
October
11
Mo Yan won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature
October
12
The European Union won the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize
October
15
China sent warships close to Japan
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October
15
Hilary Mantel won the 2012 Man Booker Prize for her novel Bring up the Boies
October
17
An exoplanet Alpha Centauri Bb discovered orbiting Alpha Centauri
October
28
Sebastian Vettel won the 2012 Formula One Indian Grand Prix
October
29
Publishing companies Penguin and Random House merged. The merged company is now the world's
largest publisher
November
6
US territory Puerto Rico voted to become a US State
November
10
Barack Obama re-elected as President of USA
November
14
CFBDSIR 2149-0403 the closest rogue planet to earth (100 light-years away) is discovered
November
27
Eurozone announced loans of 43.7 billion Euros to Greece
November
29
The UN vote to approve Palestines status change from an observer to an observer state
December
1
Enrique Pea Nieto became President of Mexico
December
1
Ukranian Anna Ushenina won the Women's World Chess Championship 2012
December
3
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Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, reached the end of solar system and entered interstellar
space
December
8
UN climate conference agreed to extend the Kyoto Protocol to 2020
December
10
Magnus Carlsen of Norway broke Garry Kasparovs recor Elo rating
December
11
Stephen Hawking, won the $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize