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...
2012 Wimbledon Championships
June 25–July 8 tournament at the All England Club; Roger Federer's record seventh Wimbledon title...
Fukushima Daiichi and Japan's 2012 Nuclear Restart
Japan restarts Ohi nuclear reactors in July 2012, one year after Fukushima's meltdown, amid power...
The LIBOR Scandal and the Barclays Fine (June 2012)
On 27 June 2012, Barclays agreed to pay about £290 million (roughly $450 million) to US and UK re...
Jerry Sandusky and the Penn State Sexual Abuse Scandal
On June 22, 2012, former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was convicted on 45 o...
Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development
The June 20–22, 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro convened 192 nati...
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...
Nico Rosberg's 2012 Breakthrough — Mercedes's First Moder...
Nico Rosberg secured both his first Formula One pole position and first career victory at the Chi...
2012 Formula One Season and Sebastian Vettel's Third Cham...
Formula One's record-length 20-race season features unprecedented parity: seven different winners...
KONY 2012 Campaign
On March 5, 2012, the nonprofit organization Invisible Children Inc. launched KONY 2012, a viral ...
The Shooting of Trayvon Martin (February 2012)
On 26 February 2012, neighborhood-watch coordinator George Zimmerman fatally shot 17-year-old Tra...
Super Bowl XLVI
February 5 matchup between the New York Giants and New England Patriots; Giants' 21-17 upset vict...
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...