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| 2012 June 24 |
| | | The death of Lonesome George, a giant tortoise in the Galapagos Islands, means that his subspecies becomes extinct | |
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| 2012 June 24 |
| | | Mohamed Morsi, a leading figure in the Muslim Brotherhood, becomes Egypt's first democratically elected president | |
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| 2012 July 4 |
| | | CERN announces the discovery of a new particle, possibly the much anticipated Higgs boson, in the Large Hadron Collider | |
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| 2012 July 7 |
| | | In Libya's first democratic election the National Forces Alliance, led by Mahmoud Jibril, wins the largest number of seats | |
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| 2012 July 10 |
| | | Russia and China again veto a UN Security Council attempt to apply economic sanctions on Syria | |
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| 2012 August 1 |
| | | The US swimmer Michael Phelps wins his 19th Olympic medal to become the most successful competitor in the history of the games | |
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| 2012 August 6 |
| | | Curiosity, NASA's roving science laboratory, lands successfully on Mars after a 354 million-mile journey through space | |
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| 2012 August 11 |
| | | Mitt Romney selects Paul Ryan, a more hardline Republican, as his vice-presidential candidate | |
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| 2012 August 28 |
| | | Mitt Romney is formally nominated, at the Republican convention in Tampa, as the party's presidential candidate politics democracy | |
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| 20121 November 22 |
| | | Mohamed Morsi issues a declaration giving himself virtually unlimited powers, leading to violent protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square | |
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