Today in History for Year 2012 (Part 3)

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Historical Events

Events 201 - 300 of 633

Jun 7th - Credit rating agency Fitch downgrades Spain's credit rating to BBB in the wake of international bailout speculation
Jun 7th - A bus falls into a ravine in La Paz, Bolivia, killing 16 and injuring 32 people
Jun 8th - A bus bombing in Pakistan kills 18 and injures 35 people
Jun 9th - It is announced that up to $125 million dollars in loans will be given to aid Spain's struggling banks
Jun 9th - Burma riots kill 20 people and burn down 300 houses
Jun 10th - A Helicopter crash near Nairobi, Kenya, kills five people, including George Saitoti, a Kenyan cabinet minister
Jun 11th - Five people are killed after an ambulance hits a roadside bomb in Afghanistan
Jun 11th - 23 people are killed after two villages are attacked in northern Nigeria
Jun 11th - The Nobel Prize is reduced by 20% to prevent any future undermining of capital
Jun 11th - Two earthquakes in Afghanistan trigger landslides that kill more than 80 people
Jun 11th - Los Angeles Kings defeat New Jersey Devils 6-1 in game 6 to win the NHL's Stanley Cup
Jun 12th - The chemical compound NOTT-202, which is capable of selectively absorbing carbon dioxide, is created
Jun 12th - An Australian coroner's report rules that a dingo was responsible for the death of a baby in 1980
Jun 12th - The World Health Organization concludes that diesel exhaust causes cancer
Jun 13th - A series of bombings across Iraq kill 93 and wound 300 people
Jun 13th - San Francisco Giants' Matt Cain pitches first perfect game in the franchise's history against the Houston Astros
Jun 14th - An explosion at an Indian steel plant kills 11 people and severely injures 16
Jun 14th - The world's first stem-cell assisted vein transplant is undertaken by Swedish doctors on a 10 year old girl
Jun 15th - Apple I computer sells for a record $374,500
Jun 15th - Five Dutch banks, including ING, receive credit rating downgrades of one or two notches
Jun 16th - 32 people are killed by a car bomb in Baghdad
Jun 16th - Coca-Cola begins business in Myanmar after 60 years
Jun 16th - A collapse of a stage at a Toronto Radiohead concert kills one person
Jun 16th - 30 people are killed and 15 injured after a bus falls into a gorge in Osmanabad, India
Jun 17th - France's Socialist Party wins a majority in the legislative election
Jun 17th - Greek voters return to the polls after the failed May 6 election
Jun 17th - American golfer, Webb Simpson, wins the US Open
Jun 18th - 15 people are killed and 40 injured in a suicide attack in Baquba, Iraq
Jun 19th - A man in Saudi Arabia is beheaded for witchcraft and sorcery
Jun 19th - Antonis Samaras, the leader of the New Democracy party in Greece, forms a coalition government
Jun 20th - Western Libyan tribal clashes kill 105 people and injure 500
Jun 20th - A Syrian fighter pilot lands in Jordan and defects from the Syrian uprising
Jun 21st - Moody's downgrades 15 major banks in the UK, US, Canada and Europe
Jun 21st - A boat of 200 asylum seekers headed to Australia capsizes and 110 survivors are rescued
Jun 21st - Miami Heat win the 2012 NBA finals after defeating the Oklahoma City Thunder 4 games to one
Jun 22nd - Two Baghdad market bombings kill 14 people and injure 106
Jun 23rd - Greece proposes to slow down austerity measures by two years
Jun 23rd - A bus of Czech tourists crashes in Croatia killing 8 and injuring 44
Jun 23rd - 76 monks are hospitalized in Thailand following an attack by a swarm of bees
Jun 24th - Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood becomes President of Egypt
Jun 24th - Female athletes will be allowed to compete for Saudi Arabia at the Olympics for the first time
Jun 25th - 33 Syrian army officers defect to Turkey
Jun 28th - A series of car bombs in Iraq kills 14 and injures 50 people
Jun 29th - 16 Naxalite Maoist insurgents in India are killed by police
Jun 29th - Three bombs in Balid, Iraq, kill 6 people and injure 45
Jun 29th - 15,000 Japanese anti-nuclear protesters blockade the Japanese Prime Minister's office in Tokyo
Jun 30th - 30 people attending a funeral in Zamalka, Syria, are killed on a day that saw 83 civilian deaths
Jun 30th - Mid-Atlantic storms in the United States kill 13 and leave millions without power in Ohio, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia.
Jun 30th - Mohamed Morsi is sworn in as President of Egypt
Jul 1st - 17 people are killed and 45 injured in an attack on two churches in Garissa, Kenya
Jul 1st - Spain's football team crush Italy 4-0 to win the 2012 UEFA Euro Cup
Jul 2nd - GlaxoSmithKline settle the largest healthcare fraud case in history for US$3 Billion
Jul 2nd - Monsoon rain in East India kills at least 79 people and leaves 2.2 million homeless
Jul 3rd - Truck bombing kills 25 people and wounds 40 in Diwaniyah, Iraq
Jul 3rd - Antonio Esfandiari wins a record $18.3 million in poker after winning the 2012 World Series of Poker $1,000,000 Buy-In
Jul 5th - The Shard, the tallest building in Europe, is opened and stands at 309.6 metres (1,016 ft)
Jul 5th - South Korea announce plans to begin "scientific' whaling of minke whales
Jul 5th - Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party is elected President of Mexico after a recount following irregularities
Jul 6th - Gunmen kill 18 people in Turbat, Pakistan
Jul 7th - Floods in the Krasnodar region, Russia, kill 140 people
Jul 8th - Roadside car bomb kills 14 civilians in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province
Jul 8th - Tens of thousands protest over election corruption in Mexico City after Enrique Pe
Jul 10th - The American Episcopal Church becomes the first to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages
Jul 11th - POliciy academy suicide bombing kills 20 in Sana'a, Yemen
Jul 11th - S/2012 P 1, the fifth moon of Pluto is discovered
Jul 12th - 200 people are killed by the Syrian army in Tremseh
Jul 12th - 90-155 people are killed after an oil tanker crashes and explodes in Okogbe, Rivers State, Nigeria
Jul 13th - China's economic growth drops to 7.6%, its lowest level for three years
Jul 13th - 19-30 people are killed after a train collides with a truck in Malelane, South Africa
Jul 13th - Financially troubled Scottish football club, Rangers, is voted into the third division
Jul 14th - Suicide bomber attacks a wedding reception and kills 22 people and inures 22 in northern Afghanistan
Jul 14th - Floods on the Japanese island of Kyushu kill 20 and displace 250,000
Jul 15th - 39 pilgrims are killed in a bus crash in Parasi, Nepal
Jul 15th - A Russian Soyuz rocket with an international team launches for a mission to the International Space Station
Jul 17th - 17 people are wounded in a bar shooting in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Jul 18th - 6 Israeli tourists are killed and 30 injured after a bomb explodes on a tourist bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria
Jul 18th - 14 people are killed after a bomb explosion at Pakistan's Orakzai Agency
Jul 18th - Violence across Syria results in 97 deaths
Jul 18th - Syrian suicide bombing kills three high profile government officials, including Syria's Minister of Defence
Jul 18th - 24 people are killed after a ferry sinks off the coast of Zanzibar
Jul 18th - Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army
Jul 20th - 12 people are killed and 59 injured after a gunman opens fire at a Dark Knight movie premier in Aurora, Colorado,
Jul 20th - 21 people are killed and 29 injured in a bus accident in Nayarit, Mexico
Jul 22nd - Car bombs kills 20 people and injures 80 in Madaen and Najaf, Iraq
Jul 22nd - Pranab Mukherjee is elected President of India
Jul 22nd - At least 77 people are killed by torrential rain in Beijing, China
Jul 23rd - A series of attacks across Iraq kill 103 people
Jul 24th - John Dramani becomes President of Ghana after the death of President John Atta Mills
Jul 24th - Four barrels containing 248 human fetuses are found in Sverdlovsk, Russia
Jul 25th - The 2012 Summer Olympics begin
Jul 25th - Ivica Dačić is sworn in as Prime Minister of Serbia
Jul 25th - Italy's credit rating is downgraded to CCC+ by Egan-Jones
Jul 26th - At least 200 people are killed in a day of violence in Syria
Jul 26th - Insurgent attack kills 19 people and destroys a helicopter at Baqubah, Iraq
Jul 26th - North Korea is hit by Tropical Storm Khanun, killing 88 people and leaving 60,000 people homeless
Queen Elizabeth II Jul 27th - Queen Elizabeth II announces the opening of the London 2012 Olympics at the opening ceremony
Jul 28th - Ye Shiwen of China sets world record in the women's 400m individual medley in 4:28.43
Jul 28th - 18 people are killed and 11 injured in ethnic clashes in Ethiopia
Jul 29th - Tropical Storm Khanun kills 88 people and leaves 60,000 homeless in North Korea
Jul 30th - Train fire kills 32 and injures 27 people in Andhra Pradesh, India

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 201 - 300 of 425

Apr 19th - Valeri Vasiliev, Society ice hockey defenceman, dies at 62
Apr 21st - Charles Colson, Nixon adviser (Watergate), dies from a brain hemorrhage at 80
Apr 27th - Bill Skowron, American MLB player, dies from lung cancer at 81
Apr 28th - Patricia Medina, English actress, dies from natural causes at 92
Apr 29th - Shukri Ghanem, Libyan Prime Minister, dies at 69
Apr 29th - Amarillo Slim, American professional poker player, dies at 83
May 1st - Charles "skip" Pitts, American soul and blues guitarist, dies from lung cancer at 65
May 2nd - Junior Seau, NFL inside linebacker, commits suicide at 43
May 4th - MCA [Adam Yauch], beastie boys vocalist, dies from cancer at 47
May 6th - George Lindsey, American actor, dies at 83
May 8th - Nicholas Katzenbach, American Attorney General, dies at 90
May 8th - Maurice Sendak, American author/illustrator, dies at 83
May 9th - Vidal Sassoon, British hairdresser and businessman, dies from leukemia at 84
May 10th - Evelyn Johnson, American pilot, dies at 102
May 10th - Carroll Shelby, American automobile designer, dies at 89
May 13th - Donald "Duck" Dunn, American bassist, dies at 70
May 15th - Carlos Fuentes, Mexican author, dies from a haemorrhage at 83
May 16th - James Abdnor, American senator, dies at 89
May 17th - Donna Summer, American singer, dies from lung cancer at 63
May 18th - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone, dies at 86
May 19th - Robert Boozer, American basketball player, dies at 75
May 20th - Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi, convicted bomber (Pan Am 103), dies from prostate cancer at 60
May 20th - Robin Gibb, British singer song-writer, dies from colon and liver cancer at 62
May 22nd - Wesley Brown, 1st African American US Naval Academy graduate, dies at 85
May 23rd - Joseph Lesniewski, soldier (Easy Company, 101st Airborne), dies at 91
May 23rd - Paul Fussell, American historian, dies from natural causes at 88
May 25th - Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italian fencer, dies at 93
May 29th - Doc Watson, American bluegrass musician, dies from complications following surgery at 89
May 30th - Andrew Huxley, British physiologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 94
May 30th - Jack Twyman, American Hall of Fame basketball player, dies from complications from blood cancer at 78
Jun 2nd - Kathryn Joosten, american actress, dies from lung cancer at 72
Jun 2nd - Richard Dawson, English-American actor, dies from esophageal cancer at 79
Jun 5th - Ray Bradbury, American author, dies at 91
Jun 5th - Barry Unsworth, British novelist, dies from lung cancer at 81
Jun 7th - Phillip Tobias, South African palaeoanthropologist, dies at 86
Jun 7th - Bob Welch, American musician, commits suicide by gunshot at 66
Jun 8th - Frank Cady, American actor, dies at 96
Jun 11th - Norman F Lent, American republican Congressman, dies from cancer at 81
Jun 11th - Ann Rutherford, Canadian actress, dies from heart disease at 94
Jun 11th - Teofilo Stevenson, Cuban Heavyweight boxer, dies from a heart attack at 60
Jun 12th - Henry Hill Jr., American mobster and FBI informant, dies from a heart condition at 69
Jun 13th - William S. Knowles, American chemist and Nobel laureate, dies from complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 95
Jun 17th - Rodney King, African American motorist beaten by LA cop, dies at 47
Jun 18th - Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and coach, dies at 78
Jun 18th - Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor, dies from prostate cancer at 82
Jun 19th - Richard Lynch, American actor, dies at 76 (body found on this date)
Jun 20th - LeRoy Neiman, American painter, dies at 91
Jun 22nd - Fernie Flaman [Ferdinand], Canadian Hall of Fame NHL player, dies at 85
Jun 23rd - Alan McDonald, Northern Irish footballer, dies from an apparent heart attack at 48
Jun 24th - Lonesome George, Pinta giant tortoise and rarest creature in the world, dies at c. 100
Jun 26th - Ann Curtis, American Olympic swimmer, dies at 86
Jun 26th - Nora Ephron, American author/screenwriter, dies from pneumonia at 71
Jun 27th - Don Grady [Agrati], American actor, dies from cancer at 68
Jun 30th - Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli Prime Minister, dies from Alzheimer's disease at 96
Jul 1st - Evelyn Lear, American operatic soprano, dies at 86
Jul 2nd - Ben Davidson, American professional footballer and actor, dies from prostate cancer at 72
Jul 3rd - Andy Griffith,American actor, dies from a heart attack at 86
Jul 4th - Jimmy Bivins [James], American Hall of Fame boxer, dies from pneumonia at 92
Jul 6th - Charles David Ganao, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo, dies at 85
Jul 8th - Ernest Borgnine, American actor, dies from renal failure at 95
Jul 9th - Terepai Maoate, Prime Minister of the Cook Islands, dies from prostate cancer at 78
Jul 13th - Richard Darryl Zanuck, American Academy Award winning film producer, dies from a heart attack at 77
Jul 13th - Jerzy Kulej, Polish light welterweight boxer and politician, dies from a heart attack at 71
Jul 14th - Sixten Jernberg, Swedish skier, dies at 83
Jul 15th - Celeste Holm, American actress, dies at 95
Jul 16th - Jon Lord, English musician, dies from a pulmonary embolism at 71
Jul 16th - Kitty Wells, American country singer, dies from complications after a stroke at 92
Jul 17th - William Raspberry, American journalist, dies at 76
Jul 18th - Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor, dies from kidney problems at 69
Jul 19th - Omar Suleiman, Egyptian general and intelligence officer, dies from a heart attack at 76
Jul 20th - Simon Ward, English actor, dies at 70
Jul 21st - Alexander Cockburn, Scottish-born American journalist, dies from cancer at 72
Jul 22nd - George A. Miller, American psychologist, dies at 92
Jul 23rd - Sally Kristen Ride, American astronaut, dies from pancreatic cancer at 61
Jul 24th - Chad Everett, American actor, dies from lung cancer at 75
Jul 24th - Sherman Hemsley, American Actor, dies from natural causes at 74
Jul 24th - John Atta Mills, Ghanaian President, dies at 68
Jul 24th - Robert Ledley, American physiologist, biophysicist, and radiologist, dies at 86
Jul 26th - Franz West, Austrian artist, dies at 65
Jul 27th - Norman Alden, American actor, dies from natural causes at 87
Jul 27th - R G Armstrong, American actor and playwright, dies at 95
Jul 27th - Geoffrey Hughes, British actor, dies from prostate cancer at 68
Jul 27th - Tony Martin, American singer, dies from natural causes at 98
Jul 30th - Maeve Binchy, Irish novelist, dies at 72
Jul 31st - Gore Vidal, American author, dies from pneumonia at 86
Aug 2nd - Marguerite Piazza, American operatic soprano, dies at 86
Aug 6th - Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and conductor, diest at 68
Aug 6th - Sir Bernard Lovell, English radio astronomer, dies at 98
Aug 6th - Ruggiero Ricci, American composer/violinist, dies from heart failure at 94
Aug 6th - Robert Hughes, Australian art critic, dies at 74
Aug 10th - Carlo Rambaldi, Italian Special effects artist, dies at 86
Aug 10th - Al Freeman Jr, American actor, dies at 78
Aug 13th - Helen Gurley Brown, American author/publisher, dies at 90
Aug 13th - Johnny Pesky, American baseball player and manager, dies at 92
Aug 14th - Ron Palillo, American actor, dies from a heart attack at 63
Aug 14th - Phyllis Thaxter, American actress, dies from Alzheimer's disease at 92
Aug 15th - Harry [Maxwell] Harrison, American author, dies at 87
Aug 16th - William Windom, American actor, dies from heart failure at 88
Aug 18th - Scott McKenzie, American singer, dies at 73
Aug 19th - Tony Scott, American director, commits suicide at 68