People
Leaders took office or won re-election across the US, Russia, China, Egypt, and North Korea as Malala Yousafzai's shooting turned a Pakistani schoolgirl into a global icon for education.
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Peter Jackson — Filmmaker and The Hobbit Trilogy Creator
Jackson's filmmaking began in the 1980s with low-budget horror comedies shot in New Zealand, incl...
Juan Manuel Santos — Colombian Peace Process
Juan Manuel Santos launched formal peace negotiations with the FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionar...
Xi Jinping's 2012 elevation to General Secretary
Xi Jinping's ascent to the pinnacle of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership was the product o...
Barack Obama — 2012 Re-election Victory
Barack Obama won re-election on November 6, 2012, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney by ...
Malala Yousafzai October 2012 Shooting
Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, Swat District, in what is now Khyber Pakh...
Nobel Prize Announcements 2012
The **2012 Nobel Prizes** recognized foundational advances in biomedicine, quantum physics, struc...
Marissa Mayer Becomes Yahoo CEO
On July 16, 2012, Marissa Mayer—a 37-year-old Google veteran who had served as Vice President of ...
Mohamed Morsi — 2012 Egyptian Presidency and Muslim Broth...
Mohamed Morsi (Arabic: محمد مرسي; born August 20, 1951, Al Sharqiyya governorate, Egypt) was elec...
Vladimir Putin — 2012 Return to Presidency
Vladimir Putin was inaugurated as president of Russia on May 7, 2012, beginning his third preside...
Kim Jong-un's 2012 Leadership Consolidation in North Korea
Kim Jong-un entered 2012 as the formally installed Supreme Leader of North Korea following his fa...