Society & Economics
Hurricane Sandy and the Sandy Hook shooting shook the United States while the eurozone debt crisis, Facebook's IPO, Occupy Wall Street, and the KONY 2012 campaign dominated headlines.
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Mayan Apocalypse Phenomenon (December 2012)
December 21, 2012 marked the completion of the 13th b'ak'tun in the Maya Long Count calendar — a ...
Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting (December 14, 2012)
On December 14, 2012, at approximately 9:35 AM, Adam Lanza fatally shot his mother, Nancy Lanza (...
Occupy Sandy: Mutual-Aid Disaster Response
Post-Hurricane Sandy mutual-aid network organized by Occupy Wall Street activists to provide dire...
Hurricane Sandy — 2012 Atlantic Disaster
Hurricane Sandy formed in the central Caribbean Sea on **22 October 2012** and struck the northea...
Lance Armstrong Doping Investigation and USADA Report 2012
On October 10, 2012, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) released its **"Reasoned Decision"**—a r...
Clint Eastwood's 2012 RNC Speech and Empty Chair Moment
On August 30, 2012, at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Tampa, Florida, 82-year-old ac...
Aurora, Colorado Theater Shooting (July 20, 2012)
On July 20, 2012, at approximately 12:38 AM, James Eagan Holmes opened fire during a midnight sho...
Spain's 2012 Banking and Property Crisis
Spain's property-market collapse and banking crisis deepened in 2012; unemployment reached 25%, c...
European Debt Crisis — 2012 Escalation
The European sovereign debt crisis emerged from a combination of factors following the 2008 globa...
2012 Amazon Basin Record Flood
The **2012 Amazon Basin flood** was the most severe flood on record in the central and western Am...
Facebook Initial Public Offering 2012
When Facebook filed its S-1 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissi...
Occupy Wall Street — 2012 Momentum
The Occupy Wall Street movement, which began on September 17, 2011 with an encampment in Zuccotti...
KONY 2012 Campaign
On March 5, 2012, the nonprofit organization Invisible Children Inc. launched KONY 2012, a viral ...
Susan G. Komen–Planned Parenthood Controversy
Susan G. Komen for the Cure halts Planned Parenthood funding on January 31; a four-day firestorm ...
Kodak Bankruptcy (January 2012)
On January 19, 2012, the Eastman Kodak Company and its U.S. subsidiaries filed voluntary petition...
Costa Concordia Disaster
On 13 January 2012 the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia struck rocks off the island of Giglio ...
Tebowing Cultural Phenomenon
"Tebowing" is a photo meme and internet phenomenon that emerged from the on-field behavior of NFL...