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This article covers breaking news and events in October 2012.

Daily events

Monday October 1, 2012

Budapest / Hungary : The Orbán cabinet agrees on a ban on the installation and operation of gaming machines . Parliament is due to vote on the bill on October 2nd.
Stuttgart / Germany : The Stuttgart public prosecutor closes the investigation into the SS massacre in the Tuscan mountain village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema in 1944 . She cannot prove individual guilt in connection with the executions on the accused.
Tbilisi / Georgia : parliamentary elections

Tuesday October 2, 2012

Michael Ballack (2009)

Abuja / Nigeria : 148 people are killed and 64,000 are left homeless in floods.
Karlsruhe / Germany : The Federal Constitutional Court ruled on Internet television in a fundamental ruling that Internet-enabled computers are also subject to the GEZ fee.
Cologne / Germany : 14th presentation of the German Television Prize
Kowloon / China : 36 people are killed in a collision between an excursion boat and a ferry.
Luxemburg / Luxemburg : The lawyer of the German soccer player Michael Ballack announces the end of his career.

Wednesday 3rd October 2012

Akçakale / Turkey : Five people are killed in a suicide attack by a Syrian terrorist .
Munich / Germany : Celebration of the Day of German Unity with Federal President Joachim Gauck , Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and Bundestag President Norbert Lammert .

Thursday 4th October 2012

Michael sSchumacher

Baoshan / China : A landslide in Yunnan kills nine people and injures ten others.
Kerpen / Germany : Michael Schumacher announces the end of his career at the end of the current Formula 1 season .

Friday 5th October 2012

Kissimmee / United States : Puerto Rican Orlando Cruz is the first professional boxer to come out of his homosexuality .
Yangon / Myanmar : The East Timorese national soccer team wins 5-1 against Cambodia and wins an international match for the first time.

Saturday 6th October 2012

Djerba / Tunisia : 50 people are injured in serious unrest on the holiday island.
Dusseldorf / Germany : Markus Lanz moderated for the first time by Frank Elstner miterfundene 1981 ZDF - TV show Wetten, dass ..? , it is the Saturday evening show with the highest market share in Germany.
Kos / Greece : A fireworks explosion on a tourist boat in the port of the Aegean holiday island kills one person and injures seven others.
Rome / Italy : Former valet in the Vatican City Paolo Gabriele is sentenced to 18 months in prison in the Vatileaks affair .

Sunday 7th October 2012

Hugo Chavez

Abuja / Nigeria : 30 members are killed in a military operation against the Boko Haram sect.
Caracas / Venezuela : In the presidential elections in Venezuela is Hugo Chavez re-elected as president.
Coahuila / Mexico : Los Zetas drug lord Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano was killed in a shootout with the Mexican army.
Johannesburg / South Africa : The Johannesburg public prosecutor is investigating President Jacob Zuma for the waste and misappropriation of public funds.
Kuwait City / Kuwait : Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah dissolves parliament.

Monday 8th October 2012

Ursula Krechel

Al-Arish / Egypt : 21 soldiers are killed in an accident involving the Egyptian armed forces on the Sinai Peninsula.

Colombo / Maldives : A court issues an arrest warrant against ex-President Mohamed Nasheed for illegally detaining a judge.

Frankfurt am Main / Germany : Ursula Krechel wins the German Book Prize for her novel Landgericht .

Maiduguri / Nigeria : The Nigerian army kills 30 civilians and sets 50 houses on fire.

Manado / Indonesia : Mount Lokon volcano erupts on Sulawesi island .

Saint Petersburg / Russia : Gazprom , Wintershall and E.ON put the second stream of the Baltic pipeline north between Russia and Germany into operation.

Schwangau / Germany : 8 people are injured in a carriage accident below Neuschwanstein Castle .

Stockholm / Sweden : This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to the British John Gurdon and the Japanese Shin'ya Yamanaka .

Tuesday October 9, 2012

Amritsar / India : Customs officers made the biggest heroin find in history in a freight train from Pakistan weighing 101 kg .

Faizabad / Afghanistan : The Bundeswehr left the camp in northern Afghanistan and handed it over to the Afghans after eight years of presence.

Stockholm / Sweden : This year's Nobel Prize in Physics goes to French Serge Haroche and US American David Wineland .

Stuttgart / Germany : International trade fair for swimming pools, saunas and spas with a congress for the bathing industry Inter Bad 2012

Swat / Pakistan : Blogger and child rights activist Malala Yousafzai is seriously injured in an attack.

Wednesday October 10, 2012

Leiden / Netherlands and London / United Kingdom : EADS and BAE Systems announce the failure of a planned merger to become the world's largest armaments company.
Moscow / Russia : An appeals court has overturned Yekaterina Stanislawowna Samuzewitsch's detention and given it a suspended sentence. The other two Pussy Riot singers remain in custody.
Stockholm / Sweden : The two Americans Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka will receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year .

Thursday October 11, 2012

Mo Yan (2008)

Reggio Calabria / Italy : After 22 years of escaping, the most wanted Mafia boss and Ndrangheta leader Domenico Condello is arrested.

Stockholm / Sweden : Mo Yan is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature .

Zurich / Switzerland : The Migros Zurich cooperative announces its intention to take over the German retail chain tegut ... in January 2013.

Friday October 12, 2012

Berlin / Germany : The Wildlife Protection Society of Germany awards the snipe for Bird of the Year .

Dobo / Indonesia : A 6.7 magnitude earthquake shakes the Aru island chain .

Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The Australian War drama Lore by Cate Shortland and dementia - Documentary Spotless Mind by David Sieveking be with the Hessian Film Award excellent.

Cairo / Egypt : 200 people are injured in a demonstration on Tahrir Square .

Niamey / Niger : 91 people are killed by floods and severe damage is caused.

Oslo / Norway : The European Union is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Toulouse / France : Sylvio Ferrera received his engineering degree at the ENSEEIHT University at the age of 96 .

Saturday 13th October 2012

Bilthoven / Netherlands : By using salmonella -contaminated salmon died two people and ill 550 more.

Caracas / Venezuela : President Hugo Chávez publishes six cabinet changes via the online service Twitter .

Denver / Colorado : In an attack on an election campaign office of President Barack Obama , several panes were broken and two people were easily injured by flying glass fragments.

Cape Town / South Africa : Four people are killed and 37 are rescued in an accident involving a tour boat off the coast of Hout Bay .

London / England : The plant Abstract image of Gerhard Richter achieved at the auction house Sotheby's record price of 21.3 million pounds.

New York City / United States : The UN Security Council endorses a UN mission in Mali .

Nouakchott / Mauritania : President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is accidentally shot and slightly injured.

Sunday October 14, 2012

Liao Yiwu

Antalya / Turkey : A fire in a Boeing 737-800 of Corendon Airlines 25 people suffered smoke inhalation.

Brussels / Belgium : municipal and provincial council elections

Damanhour / Egypt : 14 people are killed in a ferry accident on the Nile in the Beheira province .

Dogo Dawa / Nigeria : 20 Muslims are killed in a shooting in front of a mosque in the state of Kaduna .

Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The Chinese writer Liao Yiwu who is critical of the government is honored with the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt .

Kailua-Kona / USA : The Australian Pete Jacobs wins the Ironman Hawaii .

Tripoli / Libya : The independent MP Ali Seidan is appointed head of government by parliament .

Vilnius / Lithuania : The parliamentary elections in Lithuania win the previous opposition Social Democrats .

Podgorica / Montenegro : parliamentary election

Roswell / USA : Red Bull Stratos starts with Felix Baumgartner , who then jumps out of his capsule from a height of 39 km and sets three world records.

Monday October 15, 2012

Athens / Greece : Two people are injured and one person is killed in a shooting in a social court .

Bonn / Germany : At the age of 24, the mathematician Peter Scholze is the youngest German professor to be appointed.

Erzurum / Turkey : The TSK forces an Armenian cargo plane for humanitarian aid to land and checks it for weapons.

Los Angeles / United States : The space shuttle Endeavor is exhibited and disposed of in the California Science Center in Exposition Park in University Park, Los Angeles .

Rio de Janeiro / Brazil : Police and military occupy four favelas to make them safer for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics .

Stockholm / Sweden : The Americans Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley will be awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Economics .

Yogbo / Nigeria : 30 people are killed in an attack by Hausa Fulani shepherds on the Tiv Christian ethnic group .

Tuesday October 16, 2012

Kunsthal Rotterdam (2008)

Brussels / Belgium : Following investigations by the European Anti-Fraud Office , John Dalli , European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection , resigns from his post.
Jerusalem / Israel : Benjamin Netanyahu dissolves parliament and calls for new elections for January 22, 2013 .
New York / United States : Vikram Pandit steps down as CEO of the financial services company Citigroup .
Rotterdam / Netherlands : In an art theft in the Kunsthal Rotterdam , u. a. Stolen pictures by the painters Matisse , Gauguin , Monet and Picasso .
Vladivostok / Russia : APEC / Russia Summit

Wednesday 17th October 2012

El Porvenir / Peru : 17 people are buried after a landslide, including four children.
Nuthetal / Germany : 10 people are injured in a bus accident on Autobahn 115 between Berlin and Potsdam, including two seriously.
Space : The discovery of the exoplanet Alpha Centauri Bb is announced to the public.

Thursday October 18, 2012

Bani Walid / Libya : Eleven people are killed and 75 others injured in fighting.
Casselberry / United States : Four people are killed and another person injured in a rampage in a hairdressing salon in Florida .
Ghunday Kalay / Afghanistan : Taliban leader and shadow governor of Kunduz province Mullah Abdul Rahman was arrested by the special forces command .
New York / United States : The Newsweek Daily Beast Company announces that it will discontinue the print edition of its news magazine Newsweek at the end of the year.

Friday 19th October 2012

Beirut / Lebanon : Six people are killed and 78 injured in an attack on a predominantly Christian neighborhood.
Cardiff / Wales : One person is killed and twelve people injured in a rampage through the city center of the Welsh metropolis.
Dehdez / Iran : In a school bus accident between Izeh and Lordegan , 21 students die and 23 others are injured.
Glasgow / Scotland : 17 passengers are injured in a fire in a Boeing 737 of the British low-cost airline Jet2 at Glasgow Airport .
Karaköse / Turkey : 28 soldiers are injured by a remote-controlled explosive device from the banned Kurdish Workers' Party PKK on a natural gas pipeline in the province of Ağrı .
Shuqra / Yemen : A car bomb in front of the barracks of the 115th Brigade in Abyan kills nine soldiers.

Saturday 20th October 2012

Guillaume of Luxembourg

Bani Walid / Libya : The brigade commander of the regime troops Khamis Ghadhafi and five other soldiers are killed in a battle between militiamen .

Berlin / Germany : 53 people are slightly injured by toxic fumes at Tegel Airport .

Kassel / Germany : Peter Härtling wins the highly endowed Jacob Grimm German Language Prize as part of the German Language Culture Prize .

Lourdes / France : 450 pilgrims have to be evacuated from the Grotto of Massabielle after crossing the river Gave de Pau .

Luxemburg / Luxemburg : Church wedding ceremony of the Duke of Nassau Guillaume of Luxemburg and the Countess Stéphanie de Lannoy .

Reykjavík / Iceland : A constitutional referendum is being held in Iceland . Particularly controversial is the abolition of the state church , the reform of the electoral law at the expense of the party executive and the previously preferred electoral districts in rural areas, the curtailment of the president's veto rights, the transfer of energy sources into inalienable public property and the reorganization of the quota system in the fisheries .

Sunday October 21, 2012

Bruno Spengler (2009)

Brookfield / United States : Three people are killed and four others injured in a rampage at the Azana Spa wellness center in Wisconsin .

Dębno / Poland : The former teacher and oldest survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp Antoni Dobrowolski died at the age of 108.

Hockenheim / Germany : The Canadian racing driver Bruno Spengler ( BMW ) wins the DTM title for the first time in the last race at the Hockenheimring .

Rome / Vatican City : Pope Benedict XVI. speaks at a formal ceremony at St. Peter's Square among others, the German Anna Schaffer , the German-born nun Marianne Cope and the North American Kateri Tekakwitha holy .

Şemdinli / Turkey : The Turkish army kills 15 Kurdish rebels in skirmishes with the PKK in Hakkâri .

Stuttgart / Germany : The Green politician Fritz Kuhn is elected Lord Mayor.

Monday October 22, 2012

Lance Armstrong

Aigle / Switzerland : The World Cycling Federation UCI knows all seven Tour de France titles from the former cyclist Lance Armstrong, who is suspected of doping .

Itaperuna / Brazil : In a bus accident from Rio to Teresópolis in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro , eleven people are killed and eight injured.

Randburg / South Africa : In an explosion in a prisoner transport, five prisoners were killed and 19 others injured.

Turku / Finland : Security forces prevent an attack on Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen . The perpetrator, armed with a knife, is arrested.

London / United Kingdom : With the premiere of James Bond 007: Skyfall , the James Bond franchise is celebrating its 50th birthday, making it the longest running film franchise.

Tuesday October 23, 2012

Passau / Germany : The Russian opera singer Anna Netrebko receives the “ People in Europe Art Award ”.
Hojancha / Costa Rica : An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 damages several buildings.
Tainan / Taiwan : A fire in the Sinying hospital killed twelve people and injured 72 others.

Wednesday October 24, 2012

Memorial for the Sinti and Roma of Europe who were murdered under National Socialism

Berlin / Germany : In the presence of Chancellor Angela Merkel and other government representatives, the monument designed by Dani Karavan for the Sinti and Roma of Europe murdered under National Socialism is inaugurated.

Downey / United States : Three people are killed and two others injured in a shooting.

Tunis / Tunisia : After the fatal attack on the US consulate and the murder of J. Christopher Stevens in Benghazi , Libya , an alleged mastermind is arrested.

Thursday October 25, 2012

Berlin / Germany : Due to the high number of gambling addicts, gambling on machines is only allowed with player cards. A corresponding law is passed by the Bundestag .

Cherbourg / France : At the Flamanville nuclear power plant , radioactive steam escapes from the main coolant circuit when a reactor is restarted.

Kathmandu / Nepal : In the Himalayas , three foreign climbers die on the ascent to the summit of Dhaulagiri and Ghara in the Surkhang district .

Manila / Philippines : The tropical storm " Son-Tinh " kills 24 people.

Maymana / Afghanistan : High-ranking Taliban commander Mullah Jaar Mohammed and 24 of his mercenaries are killed in a skirmish with security forces in Faryab province .

Miami / United States : 21 people died in Haiti , Cuba and Jamaica as a result of tropical storm Sandy .

Mormanno / Italy : A person dies in a magnitude 5.3 earthquake in the regions of Calabria and Basilicata .

Munich / Germany : In the course of an affair about allegedly attempted influence on the media coverage of the ZDF - today editor Hans Michael Strepp , press spokesman and head of the press office in the country management of the CSU resigns .

Friday October 26th 2012

Silvio Berlusconi

Aigle / Switzerland : After Lance Armstrong's seven Tour de France victories were withdrawn, the UCI World Cycling Association decided not to award the titles again.

Brasília / Brazil : Due to a blackout at the Operador Nacional do Sistema Elétrico (ONS), nine federal states and thus around 53 million people are temporarily without electricity.

Bratislava / Slovakia : When two Železnice Slovenskej republiky regional trains collide in the capital, 20 people are injured, two of them seriously.

Damascus / Syria : Beginning of the ceasefire in view of the Islamic festival of sacrifices between the Syrian army and the rebels.

Hamburg / Germany : Matthias Schrade and Julia Schramm step down from their offices in the Pirate Party Germany .

Milan / Italy : Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is sentenced to four years in prison for tax fraud in the first instance. By amnesty scheme, the judgment is on a one-year prison sentence reduced .

Strasbourg / France : Lawyer Nasrin Sotudeh and film director Jafar Panahi from Iran are awarded the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

Saturday October 27, 2012

Felicitas Hoppe

Bremerhaven / Germany : The research vessel Polarstern sets off on a 18 planned month-long South Pole - expedition on.
Darmstadt / Germany : The German writer Felicitas Hoppe is awarded the Georg Büchner Prize .
Sölden / Austria : Start of the Alpine Ski World Cup 2012/2013
Cologne / Germany : The newly founded Academy of the Arts of the World is officially opened with a day festival on the topic of cutting edge.
Rakhine State / Myanmar : More than 60 people die in clashes between Buddhists and Muslims .

Sunday 28th October 2012

Helsinki / Finland : local elections
Kaduna / Nigeria : A bomb attack on a separatist church during Sunday mass resulted in three deaths.
Kiev / Ukraine : parliamentary elections
Mâcon / France : The leader of the Basque terrorist organization Euskadi Ta Askatasuna Izaskun Lesaca Argüelles was arrested in a hotel together with the terrorist Joseba Iturbe Ochoteca .
Miami / United States : Hurricane Sandy paralyzes large parts of New York and the capital Washington, DC .

Monday 29th October 2012

Hanoi / Vietnam : The tropical storm " Son-Tinh " kills 2 people and destroys several buildings.
Elizabeth City / United States : The film ship HMS Bounty , severely damaged by Hurricane Sandy , sank in the Atlantic Ocean .

London / United Kingdom : The British publisher Penguin Books is taken over by Random House , which belongs to the German company Bertelsmann .

New York / United States : Hurricane Sandy paralyzes the east coast of the United States with floods and power outages .

Şırnak / Turkey : Eight people were killed in skirmishes between the army and the Kurdish Workers' Party PKK in the province of Uzungeçit .

Cauca / Colombia : Six people were killed in clashes between police officers and rebels on the Panamericana between Puerto Tejada and Villa Rica .

Tuesday October 30, 2012

Moonachie / United States : Hurricane Sandy caused a dam break at the Oradell Reservoir Dam in the north of the state of New Jersey .

Prince Rupert / Canada : The Pacific coast in the province of British Columbia was hit by a severe earthquake measuring 6.3.

Tripoli / Libya : Angry demonstrators stormed the building of the National Congress and stopped the cabinet formation.

Wednesday October 31, 2012

Chennai / India : The tropical storm NILAM damaged several buildings by a tidal wave 1.50 m high.
Kurunegala / Sri Lanka : Cyclone NILAM cost two lives on its way through Ceylon .
Los Angeles / United States : Four students were injured in a shooting at a Halloween party at the University of Southern California .
Lübeck / Germany : In four federal states, the customs have smashed an international drug ring operating on the Iberian Peninsula .
Madrid / Spain : Three women die in a mass panic in the Madrid Arena in the Casa de Campo .

Web links

Commons : October 2012 - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikinews: Article Published October 2012 - News

Individual evidence

^ Amendment to the Gambling Act: Hungary bans slot machines , accessed on October 1, 2012

^ Sueddeutsche.de: No indictment against former SS members , accessed on October 3, 2012

^ Parliamentary elections in Georgia 2012. In: georgia-insight.eu, Georgia Insight GmbH. October 3, 2012, archived from the original on June 19, 2017 ; accessed on June 23, 2017 .

↑ At least 148 dead in floods in Nigeria , accessed October 2, 2012

↑ welt.de: Karlsruhe - "Internet-capable PCs" are subject to the GEZ

↑ bundesverfassungsgericht.de: Unsuccessful constitutional complaint against the levying of broadcasting fees for Internet-enabled PCs , accessed on October 2, 2012

↑ Accident in Hong Kong - Ferry rams excursion boat: At least 36 dead , accessed on October 2, 2012

↑ focus.de: End of a roller coaster career: Ballack breaks up with a lawyer (accessed on October 27, 2012).

^ Syria shells kill five inside Turkey - The Daily Star , accessed October 3, 2012

^ History: Ceremony for the Day of German Unity in Munich , accessed on October 3, 2012

^ Mudslide landslide spills school children in China , accessed October 4, 2012

↑ Motorsport Michael Schumacher ends Formula 1 career , accessed on October 4, 2012

↑ Homosexuality in Professional Sports Boxer Orlando Cruz Comes Out , Retrieved October 5, 2012

↑ Cambodia 1 - Timor Leste 5 ( memento of October 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 5, 2012

^ After the riots on Djerba - dozens injured , accessed on October 6, 2012