2012

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Events

January 16 - Beginning of the Mali Civil War.
January 23 - Al-Nusra Front is founded as Al-Qaeda's branch in Syria.
February 25 - Ali Abdullah Saleh resigns as President of Yemen.
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
March 11 - Staff Sergeant Robert Bales goes on a killing spree while stationed in Afghanistan, killing sixteen civilians and wounding six others in the Panjwayi District of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.
March 11 to 22 - Toulouse and Montauban shootings
April 2 - Oikos University shooting
April 26 - The Special Court for Sierra Leone finds Charles Taylor guilty of 11 counts of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentences him to 50 years in prison.
May 7 - Vladimir Putin is elected President of Russia for the second time.
May 12 to 13 - Los Zetas massacres 49 members of the Gulf Cartel on Mexican Federal Highway 40 in Nuevo León, Mexico.
May 15 - Nicolas Sarkozy's term as President of France comes to an end.
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 2 - Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life in prison for ordering the murder of peaceful protesters in February 2011.
June 4 - Luka Magnotta is captured by Berlin Police at an Internet café in the Neukölln district while reading news stories about himself.
July 9-Muhammad Shabbir's Murderer kills Muhammad Shabbir.
July 19 - Beginning of the Battle of Aleppo.
July 20 - James Holmes kills 12 people and injures 70 others in a mass shooting at the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.
June 30 - Mohammed Morsi is elected President of Egypt, becoming the first Muslim Brotherhood member to lead the country.
August 5 - Wade Michael Page kills 7 people and injures 3 others before committing suicide as part of the Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting.
August 15 - Floyd Lee Corkins enters the headquarters of the Family Research Council in Washington D.C. and opens fire, injuring one person before being attacked and subdued by security guards.
September 5 - Samuel Little is arrested in connection with three murders committed in the 1980's.
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.
November 15 - Xi Jinping is named General Secretary of the Communist Party of China.
December 10 - Beginning of the Central African Republic Civil War.
December 14 – Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

Births

Victim births

March 5 - Lincoln and Parrish Auzenne
August 6 - Bella Bond
December 31 - Tylea Moore

Deaths

Villain deaths

January 8 - Edward Muscare
January 11 - Katherine Dufresne
February 1 - Gerlando Alberti
February 5 - Josh Powell
March 22 - Mohammed Merah
May 2 - J. T. Ready
May 26 - Rudy Eugene
June 12 - Henry Hill
June 30 - Yitzhak Shamir
July 9-Muhammad Shabbir
August 5 - Wade Michael Page
August 20 - Meles Zanawi
September 25 - Trevor Hardy
October 7 - Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano
November 17 - Bal Thackeray
November 21 - Ajmal Kasab
December 1 - Jovan Belcher
December 2 - Israel Keyes
December 14 - Adam Lanza

Victim deaths

February 5 - Charles & Braden Powell
February 26 - Trayvon Martin
March 19 - Mark, Lawton and Rhonda Sesler
May 25 - Jun Lin
July 6 - Skylar Neese
August 10 - Melanie Davis
September 11 - J. Christopher Stevens and Sean Smith
September 12 - Tyrone S. Woods and Glen Doherty
October 10 - Amanda Todd
December 14 - Nancy Lanza