32 events found for 2012
Radio Network House (pictured), damaged in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, becomes the first building to be…
An American white supremacist carried out a mass shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six people…
At least 306 people were killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
A series of ethnic clashes between the Orma and the Pokomo in Kenya's Tana River District resulted in at least 52…
The NASA space probe Voyager 1 became the first man-made object to enter interstellar space.
The skeleton of King Richard III of England was discovered under a car park in Leicester.
The American consulate and CIA annex in Libya were attacked by a heavily armed group, resulting in the deaths of U.S.…
War in Somalia: Somali National Army forces and their AMISOM and Raskamboni allies launched an offensive against…
A ferry collision off Lamma Island, Hong Kong, killed 39 people and injured 92 others.
Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai (pictured) was severely injured by a Taliban gunman in a failed assassination…
Felix Baumgartner jumped from a helium balloon in the stratosphere to become the first person to break the sound…
Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, made landfall in New Jersey and caused nearly $75 billion…