2012

Events

January 23 - Al-Nusra Front is founded as Al-Qaeda's branch in Syria.
February 26 - 17-year old Trayvon Martin is killed by George Zimmerman in a highly controversial shooting in Sanford, Florida.
February 27 - Chardon High School shooting
April 2 - Oikos University shooting
May 7 - Vladimir Putin is elected President of Russia for the second time.
May 25 - Luka Magnotta uploads his homemade snuff film 1 Lunactic, 1 Ice Pick to www.bestgore.com. The video depicts Magnotta horrificly and gruesomely mutilating, torturing, and cannibalizing the man, including performing acts of necrophilia. The victim in the video is identified as 33-year-old Jun Lin. This begins an international manhunt for Magnotta.
June 4 - Luka Magnotta is captured by Berlin Police at an Internet café in the Neukölln district while reading news stories about himself.
July 20 - James Holmes kills 12 people and injures 70 others in a mass shooting at the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.
August 5 - Wade Michael Page kills 7 people and injures 3 others before committing suicide as part of the Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting.
September 11 to 12 - 2012 Benghazi attack: militants from Ansar-Al Sharia attack the US diplomatic compound and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya, killing four and injuring eleven.
December 14 – Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.