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This article covers breaking news and events in December 2012.
Daily events
Saturday 1st December 2012
- Valletta / Malta : The feature film Love by Michael Haneke is with the European Film Prize awarded.
Sunday 2nd December 2012
- Borno / Nigeria : Members of the Boko Haram carry out a massacre of Christians with more than ten dead in the city of Gamboru in Nigeria's easternmost state.
- Jalalabad / Afghanistan : 13 people are killed in a Taliban attack on a base of the United States' armed forces .
- Ljubljana / Slovenia : Borut Pahor wins the second round of the presidential election against incumbent Danilo Türk .
Monday 3rd December 2012
- Kiev / Ukraine : Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and his cabinet resign as one.
- New Bataan / Philippines : At least 546 people died in the Mindanao region as a result of typhoon Bopha , and another 500 were still missing five days after the cyclone passed through.
Tuesday 4th December 2012
- Babbila / Syria : 29 students die when a mortar shell hits a school.
- Boston / United States : The financial investor Advent International takes over the majority in the German company Douglas Holding , which includes the Douglas perfumery and the Thalia bookstore .
- Hanover / Germany : Chancellor Angela Merkel is re-elected as party leader at the CDU party conference .
- Schliengen / Germany : The Katzenberg Tunnel , at 9,385 m the longest two-tube railway tunnel in the country, is opened.
Wednesday 5th December 2012
- Bern / Switzerland : Ueli Maurer ( SVP ) is elected Federal President for 2013.
Thursday 6th December 2012
- Graz / Austria : The Research Center for Austrian German selects “ Rettungsgasse ” as word of the year .
- Ladysmith / South Africa : Eleven soldiers are killed when a South African National Defense Force plane crashes .
- Nyon / Switzerland : UEFA announces that the 2021 European Football Championship will be held in various European cities. The EM was initially planned for summer 2020, but was postponed by one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
- Zurich / Switzerland : A jury chooses “ Shitstorm ” as word of the year .
Friday 7th December 2012
- Accra / Ghana : Incumbent John Dramani Mahama wins the second round of the presidential election against his challenger Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo .
- Multan / Pakistan : More than ten people die in a drone attack by the US military on the Taliban .
- Siem Reap / Cambodia : More than ten people die in a fire in a night market.
- Stockholm / Sweden : This year's winners of the Right Livelihood Award , also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”, will be honored.
Saturday 8th December 2012
- Madrid / Spain : In "Operation Sword", Interpol units liberate 19 boys from a child pornography ring .
Sunday 9th December 2012
- Bucharest / Romania : The social-liberal coalition of Prime Minister Victor Ponta wins the parliamentary election with over 55% of the vote.
- Hanover / Germany : At the SPD party congress , Peer Steinbrück is elected candidate for chancellor for the 2013 federal election.
Monday 10th December 2012
- Bonn / Germany : A sharp explosive device is found and defused at the main train station .
- Mpumalanga / South Africa : 14 people die when a bridge collapses in KwaZulu-Natal .
- Rüsselsheim / Germany : Parent company General Motors announces the closure of Opel plants I , II and III at the Bochum location for the end of 2016.
Tuesday December 11, 2012
- Bamako / Mali : The acting Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra is arrested by members of the military under coup leader Amadou Sanogo and then declares the resignation of the entire government.
Wednesday December 12, 2012
- Berlin / Germany : The Germany – Switzerland tax agreement finally fails in the mediation committee.
- Istanbul / Turkey : Beginning of the short course world championships in swimming
Thursday December 13, 2012
- Washington, DC / United States : NASA announces that the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have discovered six new galaxies , one of which is further away than any known celestial body.
Friday December 14th 2012
- Eresos / Greece : 27 refugees die in a ferry crash off the island of Lesbos .
- Jerusalem / Israel : Foreign Minister Awigdor Lieberman declares his resignation at the end of the year on charges of abuse of office .
- Newtown / United States : 27 people are killed in a rampage at a primary school.
- Wiesbaden / Germany : The Society for the German Language chooses “rescue routine” as word of the year .
Sunday December 16, 2012
- Baden-Baden / Germany : Magdalena Neuner , Robert Harting and the Germany eight are selected as the athletes of the year .
- Belgrade / Serbia : In the final of the European Women's Handball Championship , Montenegro wins 34:31 after extra time against Norway .
- Tokyo / Japan : In the general election , the Liberal Democratic Party under the former Prime Minister Shinzō Abe becomes the strongest force with 273 out of 408 seats. The ruling Democratic Party of incumbent Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has suffered heavy losses and only achieved 46 seats. As a result, Abe was re- elected Prime Minister on December 26th .
- Yokohama / Japan : The Brazilian SC Corinthians Paulista from São Paulo wins the Club World Cup in football after beating Chelsea FC from London 1-0 in the final .
- Zurich / Switzerland : Nicola Spirig , Roger Federer and FC Basel are voted athletes of the year .
Monday 17th December 2012
Tuesday December 18, 2012
- Boosaaso / Somalia : 55 people are killed in a ferry accident in the Gulf of Aden .
Wednesday December 19, 2012
- Seoul / South Korea : In the presidential election , the candidate of the conservative Saenuri Party (Sae-nuri-dang, German New World Party ) Park Geun-hye wins against her competitor Moon Jae-in from the Minju-tonghap Party ( German United Democratic Party ).
Thursday December 20, 2012
- Arusha / Tanzania : The International Criminal Court for Rwanda sentenced the former Rwandan Planning Minister Augustin Ngirabatware to 35 years in prison for his involvement in the genocide of the Tutsi .
- Mombasa / Kenya : 28 people are killed in fighting between members of the Pokomo and Orma ethnic groups in the Tana River District .
Friday December 21, 2012
- Rome / Italy : Prime Minister Mario Monti resigns due to lack of support from parliament .
Saturday 22nd December 2012
- Cairo / Egypt : In a referendum , 63.8% of voters are in favor of Sharia law as the main source of legislation.
- Cairo / Egypt : Vice President Mahmud Makki and the director of the Central Bank Faruk El-Okdah resign from their offices.
Monday December 24, 2012
- Munich / Germany : With officially confirmed 20.7 ° C , the Bavarian capital has the highest temperatures on a Christmas Eve since there are weather records in Germany .
- New York / United States : The last edition of the news magazine Newsweek appears.
Tuesday December 25, 2012
- Moscow / Russia : As a result of a cold spell, over 123 people have died across the country since the middle of the month.
- Schymkent / Kazakhstan : 27 people are killed when a military plane crashes.
Wednesday December 26, 2012
- Guangzhou / China : The penultimate section of the railway - high-speed Beijing – Hong Kong line between Guangzhou and Shenzhen is put into operation.
- Warsaw / Poland : Formula 1 world champion Sebastian Vettel is voted Europe's athlete of the year in a vote carried out by the PAP news agency .
- Washington, DC / United States : Twelve people are killed in severe weather in the midwest of the country.
Thursday December 27, 2012
- Berlin / Germany : The Naturschutzbund Deutschland awards Federal Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner the negative Dinosaur of the Year award .
- Peshawar / Pakistan : Members of the Tehrik-i-Taliban kidnap and murder 23 soldiers.
Friday December 28, 2012
- Mumbai / India : Ratan Tata hands over management of the Tata Group to Cyrus Mistry .
Saturday 29th December 2012
- Oberhof / Germany : The Norwegian Petter Northug wins the Tour de Ski prologue .
Sunday December 30th 2012
- Oberstdorf / Germany : The Norwegian Anders Jacobsen wins the first competition of the Four Hills Tournament .
Monday December 31, 2012
- Abidjan / Ivory Coast : In a mass panic during the central New Year's Eve celebration, 61 people are killed and more than 200 are injured.
See also
- December 2012 for deaths that month
- List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in December
- Category for commemorative days, holidays or days of action in December
Web links
Commons : December 2012 - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ fr-online.de: "Liebe" beats "Pretty Best Friends" , accessed on December 4, 2012.
- ↑ At least ten Christians brutally murdered in northern Nigeria , accessed December 2, 2012.
- ^ Taliban attack on US base in Afghanistan , accessed December 2, 2012.
- ↑ faz.net: Pahor wins presidential election , accessed on December 3, 2012.
- ↑ AFP: Change of power Ukrainian government resigns , accessed on December 3, 2012.
- ↑ More deaths, looting and risk of epidemics ( Memento of December 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 9, 2012.
- ↑ Mortar attack on school outside Damascus 'kills 29' , accessed December 4, 2012.
- ↑ faz.net: 1 billion purchase in Advent, investor takes over Douglas , accessed on December 5, 2012.
- ↑ spiegel.de: Merkel re-elected as CDU leader with record results , accessed on December 4, 2012.
- ↑ stuttgarter-zeitung.de: Longest two-tube tunnel in Germany opens , accessed on December 4, 2012.
- ↑ spiegel.de: Right-wing populist Maurer elected Federal President , accessed on December 5, 2012.
- ↑ nachrichten.at: "Rettungsgasse" is the word of the year , accessed on December 6, 2012.
- ↑ BBC News - Military plane crashes in South Africa , accessed December 6, 2012.
- ↑ kicker.de: EM 2020 in "several major cities in Europe" , accessed on December 6, 2012.
- ↑ tageswoche.ch: “Shitstorm” is the Swiss word of the year , accessed on December 14, 2012.
- ↑ spiegel.de: President of Ghana confirmed in office , accessed on December 10, 2012.
- ↑ US military kills al-Qaeda leaders in Pakistan , accessed December 8, 2012
- ↑ A man tries to put out fire at a night market in Siem Reap province , accessed December 8, 2012
- ↑ rightlivelihood.org: Upcoming: Award Ceremony ( Memento of November 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed September 30, 2012).
- ↑ German boys freed from child pornography - Die Welt , accessed on December 9, 2012
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Ponta wins Romanian parliamentary election by a huge margin , accessed on December 10, 2012.
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Mister 93 percent , accessed on December 10, 2012.
- ^ After the Bonn bomb alarm: "An extremely dangerous explosive device" , accessed on December 11, 2012.
- ↑ thestar.com : South Africa bridge collapse kills 14 people ( Memento from February 21, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ manager-magazin.de: Opel closes car production in Bochum , accessed on December 11, 2012.
- ↑ spiegel.de: First arrested, then resigned , accessed on December 11, 2012.
- ↑ spiegel.de: Mediation Committee, tax agreement with Switzerland failed , accessed on December 12, 2012.
- ↑ zeit.de: A galaxy as far away as never before , accessed on December 14, 2012
- ↑ Tragedy in the Aegean Sea: 27 refugees drown off Lesvos , accessed on December 16, 2012
- ^ Corruption scandal: Israel's Foreign Minister Awigdor Lieberman resigns , accessed on December 14, 2012.
- ↑ spiegel.de: 27 people die in shooting at US elementary school , accessed on December 14, 2012
- ↑ gfds.de: “Rettungsroutine” selected as Word of the Year 2012 ( memento from December 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 14, 2012.
- ↑ spiegel.de: Harting, Neuner and Ruder-Achter athlete of the year honored , accessed on December 17, 2012.
- ↑ https://www.welt.de/newsticker/dpa_nt/infoline_nt/brennpunkte_nt/article112044281/Japans-Liberaldemokrats-enken-an-die-Macht-zurueck.html
- ^ Club World Championships, competitions 1999-2015. In: ifosta.de. Retrieved November 3, 2016 .
- ↑ schweizer-illustrierte.ch: Federer & Spirig are the sports heroes , accessed on December 18, 2012.
- ↑ donaukurier.at: 19 deaths from cold in Ukraine within 24 hours ( memento of December 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 18, 2012
- ↑ Somalia Boat Capsize: 55 Feared Dead in Gulf of Aden , accessed December 20, 2012
- ↑ spiegel.de: Dictator's daughter beats human rights activists , accessed on December 19, 2012.
- ^ Nzz.ch: Tribunal sentenced ex-minister to 35 years , accessed on December 20, 2012.
- ↑ kurier.at: 28 deaths after ethnic conflicts , accessed on December 21, 2012
- ↑ spiegel.de: Premier Mario Monti resigns , accessed on December 21, 2012.
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Egyptians give themselves an Islamic constitution , accessed on December 29, 2012.
- ↑ tagesanzeiger.ch: Vice President and Central Bank Chief Resign , accessed on December 22, 2012
- ↑ Temperature record on Christmas Eve. In: zeit.de . December 17, 2015, accessed February 8, 2020 .
- ↑ handelsblatt.com: Cold wave in Russia kills 123 people , accessed on December 25, 2012.
- ^ Austrianwings.info: Antonov crash in Kazakhstan: all 27 inmates dead , accessed on December 25, 2012.
- ↑ zeit.de: China opens the world's longest high-speed train line , accessed on December 26, 2012.
- ↑ abendzeitung-muenchen.de: Awards: select journalists Vettel Europe's Sportsman of the Year ( Memento of 2 January 2013, Internet Archive ).
- ↑ rtl.de: US tornados: Nine people die , accessed on December 27, 2012.
- ^ Abendblatt.de: Aigner receives NABU negative price , accessed on December 27, 2012.
- ↑ spiegel.de: Taliban execute 21 soldiers , accessed on December 30, 2012.
- ^ Accident in Ivory Coast: Many dead in mass panic on New Year's Eve ( Memento from January 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 1, 2013)