Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip, as hostilities with Hamas escalate.
Tag: 2012
13 May 2012
Forty-nine dismembered bodies are discovered by Mexican authorities on Mexican Federal Highway 40. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadereyta_Jim%C3%A9nez_massacre’]
17 November 2012
At least 50 schoolchildren are killed in an accident at a railway crossing near Manfalut, Egypt. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfalut_railway_accident’]
14 November 2012
Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip, as hostilities with Hamas escalate.
11 September 2012
A total of 315 people are killed in two garment factory fires in Pakistan. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Pakistan_factory_fires’]
6 August 2012
NASA’s Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_(rover)’]
15 June 2012
Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk directly over Niagara Falls.
2 June 2012
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution. On 24…
7 January 2012
A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand. All 11 people on board are killed. On 7 January 2012, a scenic hot air balloon…
16 August 2012
Police in South Africa fatally shoot 34 miners and wound 78 more during an industrial dispute at Marikana near Rustenburg. MARIKANA will for ever be…