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| Date |
Headline |
| January 23, 2012 |
Costa Concordia disaster: Italian cruise ship capsizes off the coast of Tuscany, killing 32 people |
| February 6, 2012 |
Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her Diamond Jubilee, marking 60 years on the throne |
| May 9, 2012 |
Barack Obama becomes the first sitting US president to publicly support same-sex marriage |
| May 20, 2012 |
Facebook goes public in one of the largest IPOs in history |
| June 18, 2012 |
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange seeks asylum at the Embassy of Ecuador in London |
| July 20, 2012 |
James Holmes opens fire at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 people and injuring 70 others |
| August 5, 2012 |
London hosts the 2012 Summer Olympics, with the United States winning the most medals |
| August 6, 2012 |
Curiosity rover lands on Mars, beginning a mission to explore the planet's surface |
| September 11, 2012 |
US Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other Americans are killed in an attack on the US consulate in Benghazi |
| November 6, 2012 |
Barack Obama is re-elected as President of the United States, defeating Mitt Romney |
| November 14, 2012 |
Israel launches Operation Pillar of Defense against Hamas in the Gaza Strip |
| December 14, 2012 |
Adam Lanza opens fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, killing 26 people, including 20 children |
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