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  • January 1 – New laws that go into effect on January 1:[2][3]
  • January 3 – Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum wins the Republican Iowa Caucus by a record low margin of 34 votes over former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.[10]
  • January 4 – Michele Bachmann, a Republican presidential candidate, drops out of the race.[citation needed]
  • January 5 – Classified documents are leaked detailing a range of advanced non-lethal weapons proposed or in development by the U.S. Armed Forces. Among the systems described are a laser-based weapon designed to divert hostile aircraft, an underwater sonic weapon for incapacitating SCUBA divers and a heat-based weapon designed to compel crowds to disperse.[11]
  • January 9 – White House Chief of Staff William M. Daley steps down. The Office of Management and Budget Director Jack Lew takes his place.[12]
  • January 10
    • Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour pardons 200 prisoners. On January 12, a Mississippi judge blocks the release of 21 of those inmates.[13]
    • Alaska sees record snowfall.[14]
    • The U.S. Supreme Court makes an 8–1 decision in Minneci v. Pollard that abused inmates cannot sue a privately, state-hired prison company in federal court. The ruling went against prisoner Richard Lee Pollard in a dispute of damages over a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, claiming that Wackenhut/GEO, a privately run federal prison in California, had deprived him of adequate medical care.[15] Writing for the majority, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer said that "... the existence of an Eighth Amendment-based damages action ... against ... a privately operated federal prison .. state tort law authorizes adequate alternative damages actions, ... actions that provide both significant deterrence and compensation ... For these reasons, where, as here, a federal prisoner seeks damages from privately employed personnel working at a privately operated federal prison, where the conduct allegedly amounts to a violation of the Eighth Amendment, and where that conduct is of a kind that typically falls within the scope of traditional state tort law (such as the conduct involving improper medical care at issue here), the prisoner must seek a remedy under state tort law. We cannot imply a Bivens remedy in such a case. The judgment of the Ninth Circuit is reversed."
  • January 14 – Miss Wisconsin, Laura Kaeppeler, wins Miss America pageant.[16][17]
  • January 16
  • January 17 – Volunteers in Wisconsin submit more than a million signatures to start a recall election of Governor Scott Walker in protest of his public fight last year to restrict collective bargaining rights of public workers and his cuts in the social safety net.[19]
  • January 18
    • The U.S. Supreme Court makes a unanimous 9–0 decision that telephone consumers can gain standing in federal courts to sue abusive telephone marketers. The ruling went against Arrow Financial Services (Arrow), a debt-collection agency, in a dispute of standing over the federal jurisdiction of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) of 1991. The act was passed so that out-of-state telemarketers, by operating interstate, could not escape state-law prohibitions on intrusive nuisance calls. Petitioner Marcus D. Mims filed a damages action in Federal District Court, alleging that respondent Arrow, seeking to collect a debt, violated the TCPA by repeatedly using an automatic telephone dialing system or prerecorded or artificial voice to call Mims's cellular phone without his consent.[20] Writing for the unanimous court, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that "We find no convincing reason to read into the TCPA's permissive grant of jurisdiction to state courts any barrier to the U. S. district courts' exercise of the general federal-question jurisdiction ... We hold, therefore, that federal and state courts have concurrent jurisdiction over private suits arising under the TCPA ... The Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing Mims's case for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction ... The judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is reversed, and the case is remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion."
    • The U.S. Supreme Court makes a 6–2 decision that restores copyright status to some foreign works previously in the public domain. The case challenges the constitutionality of the application of Section 514 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA), a treaty seeking to equalize copyright protection on an international basis. The practical effect of the decision is that some works that were once free to use (such as Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, Metropolis (1927), The Third Man (1949), the works of Igor Stravinsky, several works of H. G. Wells, including the film Things to Come (1936), as well as innumerable others) now must be paid for. The ruling went against Lawrence Golan, and many others, in a dispute of URAA bringing some works whose copyright had lapsed back under copyright.[21] Writing for the majority, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that "... (if there is) ... copyright protection abroad ... (then there must be given) ... the same full term of protection ... (in the) ...U. S. ... Congress did so in §514 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA), which grants copyright protection to preexisting works of Berne member countries, protected in their country of origin, but lacking protection in the United States ... The judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit is therefore affirmed."
  • January 19
    • Kodak files for bankruptcy protection. Kodak is best known for its wide range of photographic film products.[22]
    • Rick Perry, a Republican presidential candidate, drops out after seeing no way to continue his campaign past South Carolina.[citation needed]
  • January 22
  • January 23
    • The U.S. Supreme Court makes a unanimous 9–0 decision that government officials must obtain a search warrant permitting them to install a Global-Positioning-System (GPS) tracking device on citizens' private property. The ruling involves a Fourth Amendment case, the requirement of obtaining a valid warrant in searches by law enforcement. The court ruled in favor of Antoine Jones in a dispute that attaching a GPS device to private property in a public space still constitutes a search and therefore falls under the Fourth Amendment.[24] The opinion of the court was written by Associate Justice Antonin Scalia who said that "We decide whether the attachment of a Global-Positioning-System (GPS) tracking device to an individual's vehicle, and subsequent use of that device to monitor the vehicle's movements on public streets, constitutes a search or seizure within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment ... The Fourth Amendment provides in relevant part that '[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.' It is beyond dispute that a vehicle is an 'effect' as that term is used in the Amendment. United States v. Chadwick, 433 U. S. 1, 12 (1977). We hold that the Government's installation of a GPS device on a target's vehicle, and its use of that device to monitor the vehicle's movements, constitutes a 'search.'"
    • An intense EF3 tornado strikes the northeastern part of the Birmingham, Alabama metropolitan area, killing one person, injuring 75 others, and caused over $18 million in damage.[25]
  • January 24
  • January 25 – The Indiana House of Representatives passes right to work legislation, becoming the first state in the Rust Belt to pass such a measure.[28]
  • January 26 – The United States Department of Transportation requires airline companies to disclose in advance all price constituents.[29]
  • January 29 – 10 people die in a suspected arson on the Interstate 75 south of Gainesville, Florida.[30]
  • January 30 – In Illinois, the Byron nuclear power plant accidentally releases radioactive steam.[31]
  • January 31 – A teacher, Mark Berndt, is charged with molesting 23 Los Angeles elementary school students.[32]

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August 8: Curiosity's first 360 degrees color panorama image.[187][188]
 
August 25: Neil Armstrong dies – Armstrong prepares to take the first step on the Moon.

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September 21 – December 28: New England Compounding Center meningitis outbreak

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October 29: Hurricane Sandy: Large portions of the Manhattan borough of New York City were without electricity

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November 6: Barack Obama reelected President

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December 14: Newtown, Connecticut, location of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting

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Etta James
 
Joe Paterno

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Whitney Houston
 
Davy Jones

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Andrew Breitbart
 
Robert B. Sherman
 
Earl Scruggs

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Mike Wallace
 
Dick Clark

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Donna Summer
 
Doc Watson

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Richard Dawson
 
Ray Bradbury

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Andy Griffith
 
Ernest Borgnine

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Neil Armstrong

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Michael Clarke Duncan

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George McGovern

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Larry Hagman

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Daniel Inouye
 
Charles Durning
 
Jack Klugman

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6 References 7 External linksIncumbents editFederal government edit President Barack Obama D Illinois Vice President Joe Biden D Delaware Chief Justice John Roberts New York 1 Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner R Ohio Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid D Nevada Congress 112th Governors and lieutenant governors Governors edit Governor of Alabama Robert J Bentley Republican Governor of Alaska Sean Parnell Republican Governor of Arizona Jan Brewer Republican Governor of Arkansas Mike Beebe Democratic Governor of California Jerry Brown Democratic Governor of Colorado John Hickenlooper Democratic Governor of Connecticut Dannel Malloy Democratic Governor of Delaware Jack Markell Democratic Governor of Florida Rick Scott Republican Governor of Georgia Nathan Deal Republican Governor of Hawaii Neil Abercrombie Democratic Governor of Idaho Butch Otter Republican Governor of Illinois Pat Quinn Democratic Governor of Indiana Mitch Daniels Republican Governor of Iowa Terry E Branstad Republican Governor of Kansas Sam Brownback Republican Governor of Kentucky Steve Beshear Democratic Governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal Republican Governor of Maine Paul LePage Republican Governor of Maryland Martin O Malley Democratic Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick Democratic Governor of Michigan Rick Snyder Republican Governor of Minnesota Mark Dayton Democratic Governor of Mississippi Haley Barbour Republican until January 10 Phil Bryant Republican starting January 10 Governor of Missouri Jay Nixon Democratic Governor of Montana Brian Schweitzer Democratic Governor of Nebraska Dave Heineman Republican Governor of Nevada Brian Sandoval Republican Governor of New Hampshire John Lynch Democratic Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie Republican Governor of New Mexico Susana Martinez Republican Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo Democratic Governor of North Carolina Bev Perdue Democratic Governor of North Dakota Jack Dalrymple Republican Governor of Ohio John Kasich Republican Governor of Oklahoma Mary Fallin Republican Governor of Oregon John Kitzhaber Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania Tom Corbett Republican Governor of Rhode Island Lincoln Chafee Independent Democratic Governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley Republican Governor of South Dakota Dennis Daugaard Republican Governor of Tennessee Bill Haslam Republican Governor of Texas Rick Perry Republican Governor of Utah Gary Herbert Republican Governor of Vermont Peter Shumlin Democratic Governor of Virginia Bob McDonnell Republican Governor of Washington Christine Gregoire Democratic Governor of West Virginia Earl Ray Tomblin Democratic Governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker Republican Governor of Wyoming Matt Mead Republican Lieutenant governors edit Lieutenant Governor of Alabama Kay Ivey Republican Lieutenant Governor of Alaska Mead Treadwell Republican Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas Mark Darr Republican Lieutenant Governor of California Gavin Newsom Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Colorado Joseph A Garcia Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut Nancy Wyman Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Delaware Matthew Denn Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Florida Jennifer Carroll Republican Lieutenant Governor of Georgia Casey Cagle Republican Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii Brian Schatz Democratic until December 27 Shan Tsutsui Democratic starting December 27 Lieutenant Governor of Idaho Brad Little Republican Lieutenant Governor of Illinois Sheila Simon Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Indiana Becky Skillman Republican Lieutenant Governor of Iowa Kim Reynolds Republican Lieutenant Governor of Kansas Jeff Colyer Republican Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky Jerry Abramson Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana Jay Dardenne Republican Lieutenant Governor of Maryland Anthony Brown Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts Tim Murray Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Michigan Brian Calley Republican Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota Yvonne Prettner Solon Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi Phil Bryant Republican until January 5 Tate Reeves Republican starting January 5 Lieutenant Governor of Missouri Peter Kinder Republican Lieutenant Governor of Montana John Bohlinger Republican Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska Rick Sheehy Republican Lieutenant Governor of Nevada Brian Krolicki Republican Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey Kim Guadagno Republican Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico John Sanchez Republican Lieutenant Governor of New York Robert Duffy Democratic Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina Walter H Dalton Democratic Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota Drew Wrigley Republican Lieutenant Governor of Ohio Mary Taylor Republican Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma Todd Lamb Republican Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania Jim Cawley Republican Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island Elizabeth H Roberts Democratic Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina Ken Ard Republican until March 9 Glenn F McConnell Republican starting March 9 Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota Matt Michels Republican Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee Ron Ramsey Republican Lieutenant Governor of Texas David Dewhurst Republican Lieutenant Governor of Utah Greg Bell Republican Lieutenant Governor of Vermont Phillip Scott Republican Lieutenant Governor of Virginia Bill Bolling Republican Lieutenant Governor of Washington Brad Owen Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin Rebecca Kleefisch Republican Events editJanuary edit January 1 New laws that go into effect on January 1 2 3 Hawaii and Delaware s civil union laws go into effect 4 Illinois allows motorcyclists the right to yield at red lights since magnetic streetlight sensors will not recognize motorcycles 5 Utah bans discounts or specials on alcoholic drinks essentially banning happy hour 6 Arizona Oregon Washington Montana Colorado Ohio Vermont and Florida raise their minimum wage 7 San Francisco raises the minimum wage within its jurisdiction to over 10 per hour making it the highest minimum wage in the country 8 California adds the historical contributions of sexual minorities and disabled people to its school curriculum 8 Kansas Texas Rhode Island and Tennessee will now require photo identification for voters as a measure to combat voter fraud 9 January 3 Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum wins the Republican Iowa Caucus by a record low margin of 34 votes over former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney 10 January 4 Michele Bachmann a Republican presidential candidate drops out of the race citation needed January 5 Classified documents are leaked detailing a range of advanced non lethal weapons proposed or in development by the U S Armed Forces Among the systems described are a laser based weapon designed to divert hostile aircraft an underwater sonic weapon for incapacitating SCUBA divers and a heat based weapon designed to compel crowds to disperse 11 January 9 White House Chief of Staff William M Daley steps down The Office of Management and Budget Director Jack Lew takes his place 12 January 10 Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour pardons 200 prisoners On January 12 a Mississippi judge blocks the release of 21 of those inmates 13 Alaska sees record snowfall 14 The U S Supreme Court makes an 8 1 decision in Minneci v Pollard that abused inmates cannot sue a privately state hired prison company in federal court The ruling went against prisoner Richard Lee Pollard in a dispute of damages over a violation of the Eighth Amendment s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment claiming that Wackenhut GEO a privately run federal prison in California had deprived him of adequate medical care 15 Writing for the majority Associate Justice Stephen Breyer said that the existence of an Eighth Amendment based damages action against a privately operated federal prison state tort law authorizes adequate alternative damages actions actions that provide both significant deterrence and compensation For these reasons where as here a federal prisoner seeks damages from privately employed personnel working at a privately operated federal prison where the conduct allegedly amounts to a violation of the Eighth Amendment and where that conduct is of a kind that typically falls within the scope of traditional state tort law such as the conduct involving improper medical care at issue here the prisoner must seek a remedy under state tort law We cannot imply a Bivens remedy in such a case The judgment of the Ninth Circuit is reversed January 14 Miss Wisconsin Laura Kaeppeler wins Miss America pageant 16 17 January 16 Zappos com computer system is hacked compromising the personal information of 24 million customers citation needed Jon Huntsman a Republican presidential candidate drops out of the race 18 January 17 Volunteers in Wisconsin submit more than a million signatures to start a recall election of Governor Scott Walker in protest of his public fight last year to restrict collective bargaining rights of public workers and his cuts in the social safety net 19 January 18 The U S Supreme Court makes a unanimous 9 0 decision that telephone consumers can gain standing in federal courts to sue abusive telephone marketers The ruling went against Arrow Financial Services Arrow a debt collection agency in a dispute of standing over the federal jurisdiction of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act TCPA of 1991 The act was passed so that out of state telemarketers by operating interstate could not escape state law prohibitions on intrusive nuisance calls Petitioner Marcus D Mims filed a damages action in Federal District Court alleging that respondent Arrow seeking to collect a debt violated the TCPA by repeatedly using an automatic telephone dialing system or prerecorded or artificial voice to call Mims s cellular phone without his consent 20 Writing for the unanimous court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that We find no convincing reason to read into the TCPA s permissive grant of jurisdiction to state courts any barrier to the U S district courts exercise of the general federal question jurisdiction We hold therefore that federal and state courts have concurrent jurisdiction over private suits arising under the TCPA The Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing Mims s case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction The judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is reversed and the case is remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion The U S Supreme Court makes a 6 2 decision that restores copyright status to some foreign works previously in the public domain The case challenges the constitutionality of the application of Section 514 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act URAA a treaty seeking to equalize copyright protection on an international basis The practical effect of the decision is that some works that were once free to use such as Prokofiev s Peter and the Wolf Metropolis 1927 The Third Man 1949 the works of Igor Stravinsky several works of H G Wells including the film Things to Come 1936 as well as innumerable others now must be paid for The ruling went against Lawrence Golan and many others in a dispute of URAA bringing some works whose copyright had lapsed back under copyright 21 Writing for the majority Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that if there is copyright protection abroad then there must be given the same full term of protection in the U S Congress did so in 514 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act URAA which grants copyright protection to preexisting works of Berne member countries protected in their country of origin but lacking protection in the United States The judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit is therefore affirmed January 19 Kodak files for bankruptcy protection Kodak is best known for its wide range of photographic film products 22 Rick Perry a Republican presidential candidate drops out after seeing no way to continue his campaign past South Carolina citation needed January 22 U S House Representative Gabby Giffords of Arizona announces her resignation from office to focus on her recovery after surviving an attempted assassination in 2011 23 Joe Paterno the all time winningest football coach in Penn State history dies at the age of 85 from lung cancer January 23 The U S Supreme Court makes a unanimous 9 0 decision that government officials must obtain a search warrant permitting them to install a Global Positioning System GPS tracking device on citizens private property The ruling involves a Fourth Amendment case the requirement of obtaining a valid warrant in searches by law enforcement The court ruled in favor of Antoine Jones in a dispute that attaching a GPS device to private property in a public space still constitutes a search and therefore falls under the Fourth Amendment 24 The opinion of the court was written by Associate Justice Antonin Scalia who said that We decide whether the attachment of a Global Positioning System GPS tracking device to an individual s vehicle and subsequent use of that device to monitor the vehicle s movements on public streets constitutes a search or seizure within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment The Fourth Amendment provides in relevant part that t he right of the people to be secure in their persons houses papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated It is beyond dispute that a vehicle is an effect as that term is used in the Amendment United States v Chadwick 433 U S 1 12 1977 We hold that the Government s installation of a GPS device on a target s vehicle and its use of that device to monitor the vehicle s movements constitutes a search An intense EF3 tornado strikes the northeastern part of the Birmingham Alabama metropolitan area killing one person injuring 75 others and caused over 18 million in damage 25 January 24 President Barack Obama delivers his 2012 State of the Union Address 84th Academy Awards Nominations are announced at 5 38 am PST 13 38 UTC 8 38 am EST at Samuel Goldwyn Theater The Best Picture nominees are The Artist The Descendants Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close The Help Hugo Midnight in Paris Moneyball The Tree of Life War Horse 26 27 January 25 The Indiana House of Representatives passes right to work legislation becoming the first state in the Rust Belt to pass such a measure 28 January 26 The United States Department of Transportation requires airline companies to disclose in advance all price constituents 29 January 29 10 people die in a suspected arson on the Interstate 75 south of Gainesville Florida 30 January 30 In Illinois the Byron nuclear power plant accidentally releases radioactive steam 31 January 31 A teacher Mark Berndt is charged with molesting 23 Los Angeles elementary school students 32 February edit February The Butterfly Clues a Young adult mystery novel is published 33 February 5 Super Bowl XLVI The National Football Conference champion New York Giants defeat the American Football Conference champion New England Patriots 21 to 17 It was officially the most watched program in the history of United States television with 111 3 million viewers in the US as per the Nielsen Co 34 Disappearance of Susan Powell Josh Powell who was widely suspected in his wife s disappearance kills himself and the couple s two children 35 February 7 A federal appeals court upholds the district court decision that struck down California s ban on same sex marriage 36 February 11 Singer Whitney Houston is found dead at the age of 48 in her suite at the Los Angeles Beverly Hilton Hotel which coincided with the 2012 Grammy Awards and triggered a worldwide outpouring of grief Her death later impaired several major websites and services citation needed February 13 Washington Governor Chris Gregoire signs a bill legalizing same sex marriage becoming the seventh state to legalize gay marriage 37 February 15 The Kellogg Company purchases snack maker Pringles from Procter amp Gamble for US 2 7 billion 38 February 16 Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab the so called underwear bomber is sentenced to life imprisonment for attempting to detonate a bomb on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 in Detroit Michigan 39 Researchers at Dartmouth College find that many organic food products that contain organic brown rice syrup have a much higher concentration of the toxic element arsenic Brown rice syrup used as an alternative for the much maligned high fructose corn syrup is said to contain environmental arsenic absorbed by the husk of the rice 40 February 18 Legendary singer Whitney Houston is laid to rest in a private televised funeral in her hometown of Newark New Jersey at the New Hope Baptist Church in which she was raised citation needed February 21 The Dow Jones Industrial Average goes above 13 000 points for the first time since May 2008 41 The U S Supreme Court makes a 6 3 decision that law enforcement officials do not need to issue Miranda warnings to prison inmates under questioning if these inmates are warned that they may end the interrogation at any time The ruling involves an inmate who was removed from the general prison population and questioned The court ruled against convict Randall Fields in a dispute that questioning without Miranda invocation was proper as long as the convict was advised of his freedom to leave 42 The opinion of the court was written by Associate Justice Samuel Alito who said that The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that our precedents clearly establish that a prisoner is in custody within the meaning of Miranda v Arizona 384 U S 436 1966 if the prisoner is taken aside and questioned about events that occurred outside the prison walls Our decisions however do not clearly establish such a rule and therefore the Court of Appeals erred inholding that this rule provides a permissible basis for federal habeas relief under the relevant provision of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 AEDPA 28 U S C 2254 d 1 Indeed the rule applied by the court below does not represent a correct interpretation of our Miranda case law We therefore reverse February 22 In Charlottesville Virginia former University of Virginia men s lacrosse player George Huguely is found guilty of second degree murder in the 2010 death of former UVA women s lacrosse player Yeardley Love The jury recommends a 26 year prison sentence he was sentenced to 23 years in prison 43 Seven US Marines die when two helicopters collide and crash on the border of the states of California and Arizona The Bell AH 1 SuperCobra attack helicopter and the UH 1Y Huey utility chopper accident occurs during a nighttime training exercise 44 February 23 The case against Gabe Watson in relation to the death of his newlywed wife Tina on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia is dismissed in Alabama 45 February 26 84th Academy Awards The ceremony hosted by Billy Crystal is held at the Hollywood and Highland Center Theatre formerly Kodak Theatre 46 Michel Hazanavicius The Artist wins five awards including Best Director and Best Picture the first silent film to win the latter award since Wings in 1927 and the first black and white film since Schindler s List in 1993 Martin Scorsese s Hugo ties in award wins and leads in nominations with 11 The telecast garners nearly 39 5 million viewers 47 A trial begins in Cairo of 16 Americans and 27 others linked to an Egyptian government crackdown on non government organizations which has created tension between the U S and Egypt 48 Trayvon Martin an unarmed black 17 year old is fatally shot by George Zimmerman in Sanford Florida The killing receives widespread attention focusing on aspects including the possible role of Martin s race and the initial lack of prosecution against Zimmerman 49 who is later charged with second degree murder 50 February 27 Teenager Thomas Lane kills three students at Chardon High School in Chardon Ohio 51 2012 Daytona 500 In a first ever delay the race is postponed to Monday due to heavy rain in Daytona 52 Matt Kenseth wins on Tuesday morning 53 WikiLeaks begins disclosing 5 million e mails from the private intelligence company Stratfor 54 55 February 29 2012 Leap Day tornado outbreak Tornados hit the midwestern United States with 14 people killed six in Harrisburg Illinois 56 Egypt lifts a travel ban on seven Americans employed by pro democracy U S groups including the son of U S Transportation secretary Ray LaHood who is among 16 Americans on trial in Egypt for trying to foment unrest and incite protests against the nation s military rulers 57 March edit March 1 Maryland becomes the eighth state to legalize gay marriage 58 March 2 NASA claims that it was hacked 13 times in 2011 compromising security 59 Tornado outbreak of March 2 3 2012 40 people die in the South and the Ohio Valley 60 BP and plaintiffs reach an agreement over compensation for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico 61 Dr Seuss The Lorax is released in theaters 62 March 6 Retired British businessman Christopher Tappin is denied bail in Texas as he faces arms dealing charges 63 He is accused by the U S Government of exporting thermal batteries to Iran that could be used in the manufacture of surface to air missiles 64 Law enforcement agencies in the United States United Kingdom and Ireland arrest alleged senior members of the computer hacking group Lulz Sec 65 Businessman Allen Stanford is convicted of running a US 7 billion Ponzi scheme 66 Super Tuesday of the Republican Party presidential primaries Voters in 10 US states go to the polls for Super Tuesday 67 Newt Gingrich is projected as the winner of the Georgia primary 68 Mitt Romney is projected as the winner of primaries in Virginia Massachusetts Ohio and Vermont as well as the Idaho and Alaska caucuses 69 70 71 72 73 Rick Santorum is projected as the winner of the Oklahoma and Tennessee primaries and North Dakota caucuses 74 75 76 Veteran Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich is defeated in a Democrat primary in the 9th district by incumbent Marcia C Kaptur after he was affected by redistricting Samuel Wurzelbacher popularly known as Joe the Plumber wins the Republican Party primary 77 78 March 8 Former Los Angeles Police Department detective Stephanie Lazarus is found guilty of a high profile 1986 murder 79 A study suggests that donor stem cells may prevent organ rejection in imperfectly matched transplant cases 80 In a 6 3 opinion the Mississippi Supreme Court lets stand the pardons signed by the exiting Governor Haley Barbour 81 March 11 United States Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales kills 17 civilians in the Panjwayi District of Afghanistan near Kandahar Of those murdered 4 were women and 9 were children 82 March 12 The 9th U S Circuit Court of Appeals rules that a 22 year sentence given to Ahmed Ressam for attempting to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport as part of the 2000 millennium attack plots was too light 83 The court orders that a new District judge re sentence Ressam March 13 Based in Chicago Illinois Encyclopaedia Britannica the oldest encyclopedia still in print in the English language announces that it will no longer be producing printed versions but will continue online editions 84 The United States Japan and the European Union file a case against China at the WTO regarding export restrictions on rare earth metals 85 Citigroup MetLife Ally Financial and SunTrust some of the largest financial institutions in the United States fail a Federal Reserve System stress test of 19 banks 86 March 14 A jury finds Virginia Tech guilty of negligence for delaying a campus warning about the Virginia Tech massacre of 33 students in 2007 87 March 15 Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich reports to Federal Correctional Institution Englewood in Littleton Colorado to begin serving 14 years in federal prison Under federal rules Blagojevich will serve 85 or 12 years of his sentence 88 89 March 16 Former Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi is found guilty of a hate crime and invasion of privacy for his role in the suicide of Tyler Clementi 90 Sentencing is scheduled for May 21 March 20 The U S Supreme Court unanimously rejects two patents held by Prometheus Laboratories a unit of Nestle S A continuing a trend in recent years toward a narrowing of the grounds of patentability 91 John Carter records one of the biggest losses in cinema history forcing Disney to take a 200 million writedown 92 and chairman Rich Ross to resign 93 MIT researchers Ramesh Raskar and Andreas Velten demonstrate an augmented reality apparatus which can allow observation of a non line of sight object by means of a non mirror reflective surface 94 March 21 New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton is suspended for a year without pay while former Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams is banned indefinitely from the National Football League for their role in the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal 95 March 23 Disney Junior Disney Channel s daytime children s programming block becomes a standalone 24 hour cable channel The channel replaces Soapnet which remains available in a limited automated form for some cable and satellite providers who have not yet finalized carriage deals for Disney Junior as well for Cablevision and Verizon FiOS both of them have kept Soapnet on the air and added Disney Junior to their lineups as an additional channel 96 March 24 Seven children and two adults are killed in a house fire in Charleston West Virginia It is considered the worst fire in six decades in the city 97 In Falls Church Virginia 71 year old former United States Vice President Dick Cheney receives a heart transplant from an unidentified donor 98 March 26 28 National Federation of Independent Business v Sebelius In a historic three days of arguments the U S Supreme Court hears from 26 states arguing against the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 99 March 27 Guggenheim Partners LLC agrees to purchase the Los Angeles Dodgers for US 2 1 billion the most ever for a professional sports franchise 100 March 30 April 2 Visa and Mastercard warn banks across the United States about a massive breach of security with more than 1 5 million North American credit card numbers potentially compromised The security issue occurred at Atlanta based Global Payments Inc Subsequently Visa announces that it is dropping Global Payments over the hacking data breach 101 102 March 31 The two largest acting unions in the U S the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists agree to merge forming SAG AFTRA 103 April edit April 2 A mass shooting at the private Korean Christian Oikos University in Oakland California leaves seven people dead and three injured It was perpetrated by 43 year old One L Goh a former student at the school He died on March 20 2019 while in custody at California State Prison Sacramento 104 105 The data from the 1940 United States Census is released including information on 132 million people 106 107 In college basketball the University of Kentucky defeats the University of Kansas to win the 2012 NCAA Division I men s basketball tournament 108 The U S Supreme Court makes a controversial 5 4 decision that law enforcement officials can strip search newly admitted jail inmates even if the holding charge is minor 109 April 5 In New York City Russian businessman Victor Bout is sentenced to 25 years in prison for smuggling weapons to the Colombian FARC guerilla movement citation needed Connecticut repeals the death penalty those already on death row remain there 110 April 5 8 American golfer Bubba Watson wins the US Masters defeating Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa in a playoff 111 Although Oosthuizen was runner up in the final round he hit a rare albatross on the second hole occurring last in 1994 it was only the fourth ever albatross in Masters history and the first to be televised as well as the first ever on that hole 112 April 12 U S Secret Service agents in Cartagena Colombia for President Barack Obama s attendance at the 6th Summit of the Americas become embroiled in a scandal over the hiring of prostitutes The investigation also implicates military personnel and results in 9 agents being forced out of the Service 113 April 13 In Miami Dade County a drunk driver illegally driving the South Dade TransitWay then known as the Busway southbound at more than 100 miles per hour t bones a minivan traveling eastbound on Eureka Drive approximately 17 miles southwest of Downtown Miami One person is killed three others including the drunk driver were injured and the drunk driver arrested 114 No bus drivers or passengers were injured or killed as no buses were passing through or stopping at an adjacent station at the time of the crash April 20 Marcus Robinson due to have been executed in 2007 is ordered off death row after North Carolina Superior Court Judge Gregory Weeks rules his trial was tainted by racial bias grounds for cancellation of a death sentence under the state s Racial Justice Act The judge uses controversial statistical evidence of bias to grant the change of sentence 115 April 22 May 2 Chen Guangcheng a civil rights activist in China flees house arrest and seeks shelter at the U S Embassy in Beijing causing a diplomatic incident 116 April 24 The USDA announces that bovine spongiform encephalopathy mad cow disease was found in a dairy cow in California 117 April 29 Seven people are killed including three children when the vehicle they were in flipped over on the Bronx River Parkway in The Bronx New York City 118 May edit May 1 The sale for Guggenheim Partners to purchase the Los Angeles Dodgers is finalized for US 2 1 billion the most ever for a professional sports franchise 119 May 2 J T Ready a border militia leader apparently kills four people and himself at the home of his girlfriend in Phoenix Arizona 120 May 4 The Avengers directed by Joss Whedon is released by Marvel Studios as the sixth film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe MCU and the final film in its Phase One slate The first in the franchise distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures it becomes the third highest grossing film of all time at that point currently the eighth and helps to boost the MCU and superhero films in general to a wider audience May 5 In US horse racing I ll Have Another wins the 2012 Kentucky Derby 121 May 7 The CIA announces it had foiled a plot by Fahd al Quso a Yemeni affiliate of al Qaida to have a suicide bomber using an improved version of the underwear bomb used by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in 2009 to blow up an American bound airliner no lives were ever at risk 122 The first licenses for autonomous cars in the U S are granted in Nevada to Google 123 May 8 In a voter referendum North Carolina amends the state constitution to include a ban on gay marriage and all other forms of same sex unions citation needed U S Senator Richard Lugar loses a Republican primary in Indiana to a Tea Party backed challenger becoming the first six term Senator to lose a primary election since 1952 citation needed Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett wins a Democratic primary and will face Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker on June 5 in the nation s third gubernatorial recall election 124 May 9 Barack Obama becomes the first sitting U S president to announce support for gay marriage 125 May 11 William Balfour is found guilty of murdering the mother brother and nephew of American entertainer Jennifer Hudson 126 A panel of American health experts recommends formal approval of the Truvada anti HIV drug for prescription to non infected men who have sex with multiple male partners a decision opposed by some health workers and groups active among those with HIV 127 May 20 21 At the Chicago Summit NATO leaders discuss the Middle East nuclear weapons Russia and the Afghanistan War citation needed May 21 Dharun Ravi the U S student who secretly filmed the sexual activities of his gay roommate Tyler Clementi who later committed suicide when the film was exposed is sentenced to 30 days in prison by a New Jersey judge Ravi avoids the maximum sentence of 10 years imprisonment 128 129 A rare annular solar eclipse occurs visible from East Asia the North Pacific and the Western United States 130 131 132 May 22 NASA and SpaceX launch Dragon COTS Demo Flight 2 toward the International Space Station It becomes the first commercial spacecraft to rendezvous and berth with another spacecraft 133 May 23 Shakeel Afridi a Pakistani physician who helped the CIA to track down Osama bin Laden by collecting DNA samples from residents of bin Laden s compound is sentenced to 33 years imprisonment for treason 134 May 27 Scottish driver Dario Franchitti wins the 96th Indianapolis 500 It is his third win there 135 May 31 A jury clears former Democratic Party vice presidential candidate for John Edwards on one count of corruption with the judge ordering a mistrial on the other five counts 136 June edit June 5 Incumbent Governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker wins a recall election against Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett becoming the first Governor in United States history to survive a recall 137 June 7 LinkedIn says that some of its members passwords have been compromised following reports that more than six million passwords were leaked on the Internet 138 June 11 In ice hockey the NHL s Los Angeles Kings defeat the New Jersey Devils 6 1 in game 6 of the 2012 Stanley Cup Finals to win the Los Angeles Kings first Stanley Cup Los Angeles goalie Jonathan Quick is awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoffs MVP 139 140 John Bryson crashes Police in the San Gabriel Valley in southern California cite United States Secretary of Commerce John Bryson for felony hit and run for alleged involvement in a series of accidents on the weekend 141 Bryson takes medical leave while he undergoes test related to a seizure that occurred during the crashes citation needed June 12 The children s illustrated storybook Topsy Turvy Tales is published 142 June 13 Scientists decode the bonobo genome making it last great ape to have its DNA sequence laid bare following the chimpanzee orangutan and gorilla 143 U S federal prosecutors drop corruption charges against former Senator John Edwards following a mistrial 144 Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array NuSTAR launches The satellite is a space based X ray telescope that will use a Wolter telescope to focus high energy X rays at 5 to 80 keV from astrophysical sources especially for nuclear spectroscopy 145 It is the eleventh mission of the NASA Small Explorer satellite program SMEX 11 and the first space based direct imaging X ray telescope at energies beyond those of the Chandra X ray Observatory and XMM Newton June 14 Financier and cricket mogul Allen Stanford is sentenced to 110 years in prison after siphoning billions from investors 146 147 June 15 U S president Barack Obama announces that the U S will stop deporting some illegal immigrants 148 Former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta is convicted of three counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy related to insider trading in 2011 149 June 17 In golf American Webb Simpson wins the U S Open 150 June 18 Former American Major League Baseball player Roger Clemens is acquitted on all charges in a perjury trial 151 June 20 The United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform votes 23 17 in favor of holding United States Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress after he failed to release documents relating to Operation Fast and Furious It is the first time a US Attorney General is held in contempt 152 President Barack Obama invokes executive privilege on documents associated with Fast and Furious following a request by the House Oversight Committee 153 June 21 The Miami Heat wins the 2012 NBA Finals defeating the Oklahoma City Thunder four games to one LeBron James wins the NBA Finals MVP award 154 155 Moody s downgrades the credit rating of 15 major world banks UK Royal Bank of Scotland Barclays and HSBC US Bank of America Citigroup Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Rest of world Credit Suisse UBS BNP Paribas Credit Agricole Societe Generale Deutsche Bank Royal Bank of Canada and Morgan Stanley 156 157 John Bryson resigns as United States Secretary of Commerce following a seizure that led to two car accidents 158 June 22 Jerry Sandusky former American football coach at Pennsylvania State University is convicted on 45 charges of child sex abuse He is on suicide watch 159 160 Pixar Animation Studios 13th feature film Brave is released in theaters June 25 Arizona defeats South Carolina to win its first College World Series title since 1986 and fourth overall Arizona outfielder Robert Refsnyder is named the Most Outstanding Player citation needed Arizona v United States In a 5 3 decision the US Supreme Court strikes down most of the Arizona Immigration Law passed in 2010 but unanimously upholds the most controversial provision which allows police officers to ask the immigration status of any person suspected of a crime 161 June 28 National Federation of Independent Business v Sebelius In a 5 4 decision the US Supreme Court upholds the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as constitutional under the taxing and spending clause 162 US Attorney General Eric Holder is held in contempt of Congress by a vote of 255 67 Holder is the first Attorney General held in contempt of Congress in US history 163 United States and United Kingdom regulators hit Barclays bank with a record fine US 453 million for distorting key interest rates to rig international markets 164 Anthony Davis is chosen first in the 2012 NBA draft at Newark New Jersey 165 Dealing a blow to the FBI s high profile global copyright theft case a New Zealand court rules that search warrants used to raid the home of Kim Dotcom founder of MegaUpload in connection to alleged copyright infringement were invalid 166 July edit July 2 NASA and Lockheed Martin unveil the first space bound Orion spacecraft in Cape Canaveral 167 At least 2 million throughout the Eastern United States are still without power due to strong storms and a heat wave that killed 19 people 168 GlaxoSmithKline settles the largest healthcare fraud case in US history for 3 billion 169 July 9 FBI has stopped assisting in DNS Changer Malware redirects after this date Americans were told to visit the designated website to determine if their computers are infected 170 July 12 Former FBI Director Louis Freeh s report into the Penn State sex abuse scandal is released alleging that late head football coach Joe Paterno and other school officials covered up child sexual abuse by former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky 171 172 Wells Fargo decides to pay a 175 million settlement in a subprime mortgage compensation case 173 July 16 NBCUniversal buys full control of the US news website MSNBC com and rebrands it as NBCNews com 174 The U S Food and Drug Administration approves Truvada as the first drug shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection 175 176 July 17 After President Barack Obama s long form birth certificate was released by the White House on April 27 2011 177 Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio contends that the document is a computer generated forgery Additionally his six month long review included an examination of President Obama s Selective Service card and contended that it also is a forgery Their claims were presented at that press conference and at a second press conference held on March 31 2012 178 179 The allegations regarding the birth certificate were repeated at a July 17 2012 news conference where Arpaio stated that his investigators are certain that Obama s long form birth certificate is fraudulent 180 In response to Arpaio s claims Joshua A Wisch a special assistant to Hawaii s attorney general said President Obama was born in Honolulu and his birth certificate is valid Regarding the latest allegations from a sheriff in Arizona they are untrue misinformed and misconstrue Hawaii law 181 July 20 2012 Aurora Colorado shooting Twelve people die and 70 are injured in a mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora Colorado The shooter James Holmes opens fire on a crowd during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises He is found behind the theater claiming to be The Joker 182 July 22 Thirteen are killed and another 10 are injured when a pickup truck crashes in Texas 183 July 23 The NCAA announces severe penalties against Penn State s football program as a result of the school s child sex abuse scandal as a result of the scandal coach Joe Paterno has his wins from 1998 to 2011 vacated dropping him from 1st to 12 on the list of NCAA winningest football coaches however his wins are restored three years later as part of a settlement 184 July 25 Dawn spacecraft begins its departure from 4 Vesta The spacecraft is using its ion propulsion system to gradually raise its orbit 185 July 27 August 12 The United States compete at the Summer Olympics in London England and win 46 gold 29 silver and 29 bronze medals citation needed July 31 2012 Summer Olympics In swimming Michael Phelps of the United States wins a record 19th Olympic medal with gold in the 4 200 meters freestyle relay 186 August edit nbsp August 8 Curiosity s first 360 degrees color panorama image 187 188 nbsp August 25 Neil Armstrong dies Armstrong prepares to take the first step on the Moon August 5 White Supremacist Wade Michael Page opens fire at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek Wisconsin killing six and wounding four before committing suicide after police arrived 189 190 August 6 A fire at the Chevron Richmond Refinery in Richmond California spreads thick black smoke over Contra Costa County prompting warnings from officials to shelter in place 191 NASA s Mars Science Laboratory lands with the Curiosity rover 192 193 194 195 August 8 Marvin Lee Wilson is executed by the state of Texas despite the low IQ results that could have invalidated his punishment 196 Jared Lee Loughner the shooter in the 2011 Tucson shooting pleads guilty to all charges and is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole 197 August 12 Kissing Shakespeare a debut novel is published 198 Golfer Rory McIlroy wins the 2012 US PGA Championship at Kiawah Island 199 August 16 After an outbreak of the mosquito borne West Nile virus kills at least 17 people the mayor of Dallas Mike Rawlings declares a state of emergency in the city This paves the way for aerial spraying of synthetic pyrethroid insecticides from tonight on Many residents express their concerns over safety and effectiveness they suggest other preventive methods of mosquito control Officials said the measures could cost as much as 1 2 million 200 201 202 Over the whole of the United States for the year there were 243 deaths out of 5387 total cases August 24 2012 Empire State Building shooting A gunman shoots and kills a former coworker near the Empire State Building in New York City Following the initial shooting police kill the gunman and nine other people are wounded 203 A jury in the U S state of California rules that Samsung Electronics owes Apple Inc over US 1 billion for patent infringement 204 The U S District Court for the District of Massachusetts in the case Sony BMG v Tenenbaum awards Sony BMG US 675 000 in statutory damages against Joel Tenenbaum who shared 30 MP3 files through the defunct Kazaa network 205 The United States Anti Doping Agency says it will ban former professional road racing cyclist Lance Armstrong for life and recommend he be stripped of his record seven Tour de France titles 206 August 25 Neil Armstrong an American astronaut and the first person to walk upon the Moon dies at age 82 207 August 30 Lucimarian Tolliver mother of GMA host Robin Roberts dies at the age of 88 September edit nbsp September 21 December 28 New England Compounding Center meningitis outbreak September 3 Daniel Tiger s Neighborhood a spinoff of Mister Rogers Neighborhood debuts on PBS Kids 208 September 4 The NASA space probe Dawn escapes from 4 Vesta to begin its flight to Ceres arriving in February 2015 209 September 9 American tennis player Serena Williams wins her fourth Women s Singles at the US Open 210 September 10 An agreement is reached allowing the completion of the US National September 11 Memorial amp Museum on the World Trade Center site in New York City 211 In lawn tennis Andy Murray of the United Kingdom wins the Men s Singles of the 2012 US Open defeating Novak Djokovic of Serbia to become the first British player to win a Grand Slam singles title since Virginia Wade and the first British man to do so since Fred Perry 212 213 September 11 United States Embassy in Cairo Egypt and Consulate in Benghazi Libya are attacked by protesters claiming because of film produced by the Coptic Christian diaspora in Washington mocking the Muslim prophet Although no link has been made to the planned terrorist attack in Benghazi it was claimed by the insurgent group Ansar al Sharia The attackers are responsible for killing a consulate staff J Christopher Stevens two former U S Navy SEALs and GRS Agents Glen Bub Doherty and Tyrone Rone Woods and Information Officer Sean Smith in Benghazi citation needed Stevens was the first sitting U S ambassador to be killed in office since Adolph Dubs in Afghanistan in 1979 214 215 September 14 S amp P Dow Jones Indices announces that UnitedHealth Group will replace Kraft Foods among the stock issuers that constitute the Dow Jones Industrial Average 216 Jack Daniel McCullough formerly known as John Tessier is convicted of the 1957 Sycamore IL kidnapping and murder of 7 year old Maria Ridulph 217 218 219 He is later sentenced to life imprisonment 220 September 16 The National Hockey League locks out its players after the expiry of the collective bargaining agreement 221 RazorThreat software company of Ponticac Michigan expands the reseller program partnering with Ficus Consulting Group 222 September 21 December 28 There are 39 deaths out of 656 cases of people in 19 states infected with fungal meningitis from contaminated steroid medicine produced at an unsanitary compounding pharmacy in Massachusetts 223 224 September 23 Researchers find that there are four genetically distinct types of breast cancer 225 September 27 The NFL and the NFL Referees Association reach an agreement ending the referee lockout that has been ongoing since June of this year 226 A mass shooting takes place at Accent Signage Systems a sign company in Minneapolis Minnesota United States five people are killed including the gunman who committed suicide and four others are wounded 227 September 28 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles debuts on Nickelodeon 228 October edit nbsp October 29 Hurricane Sandy Large portions of the Manhattan borough of New York City were without electricity October 3 The first U S presidential debate of 2012 is held at the University of Denver in Denver Colorado citation needed October 5 The Los Angeles Police Department fails to obtain a search warrant when a federal judge in Texas blocks their attempt to obtain 1970s tapes of conversations between a Manson family member and his attorney LA Police believe this evidence could help solve more than a dozen murders 229 October 7 SpaceX CRS 1 launches as the third flight for Space Exploration Technologies Corporation s also known as SpaceX uncrewed Dragon cargo spacecraft the fourth overall flight for the company s two stage Falcon 9 launch vehicle and the first SpaceX operational mission under their Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA 230 October 9 Frenchman Serge Haroche and American David Wineland win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on quantum optics 231 An audio recording of Jerry Sandusky is released in which he wonders what they ve won A court sentences Sandusky to 30 60 years in prison for sexual abuse of boys while a coach at Penn State His lawyer vows to appeal and says he did not have enough time to prepare for the trial 232 233 October 10 Two American scientists Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on discovering the inner workings of G protein coupled receptors 234 Chicago Fire debuts on NBC 235 Arrow debuts on The CW 236 October 11 Martha Raddatz hosts the vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan at Centre College October 12 American attorney Ryan Poston is shot to death by his girlfriend Shayna Hubers in Highland Heights Kentucky Hubers falsely claimed the shooting was in self defense and was later convicted of Poston s murder with the perpetrator compared to Jodi Arias convicted of the murder of Travis Alexander 237 October 14 Felix Baumgartner breaks the world human ascent by balloon record before space diving out of the Red Bull Stratos helium filled balloon over Roswell New Mexico 238 October 16 The second U S presidential debate of 2012 is held at Hofstra University in Hempstead New York citation needed The CEO of Citigroup Vikram Pandit announces his resignation from that post and is immediately succeeded by Michael Corbat 239 The British computer hacker Gary McKinnon wins his ten year legal battle to avoid extradition to the United States after Home Secretary Theresa May tells the House of Commons she has blocked the order 240 241 October 18 American weekly news magazine Newsweek announces it will cease print publication on December 31 and will move to an online only format 242 The Boy Scouts of America release documents containing over 15 000 pages relating to allegations of sexual abuse by over 1200 scout leaders between 1965 and 1985 243 October 19 At the Dallas State Fair Big Tex burns down because of a fire in his right boot October 22 The third U S presidential debate of 2012 was held at Lynn University in Boca Raton Florida 244 October 25 A New York Police Department officer Gilberto Valle III along with an unnamed co conspirator is charged with allegedly conspiring to cross state lines and kidnap torture cook and eat women at least 100 names and pictures some with physical descriptions were found on his computer 245 October 26 Microsoft releases Windows 8 246 October 28 The San Francisco Giants sweep The Detroit Tigers in 4 games during the 2012 World Series to win their 2nd championship in the last 3 years 247 October 29 Hurricane Sandy s storm surge slams into the Eastern seaboard and causes destruction especially in the states of New Jersey and New York In addition to record flooding damage along the Jersey Shore in Atlantic City and Seaside Heights the superstorm causes almost 50 deaths in the states and leaves more than 8 million customers all of Lower Manhattan 65 of New Jersey and many more without electricity In New York City alone 18 deaths are reported subways and tunnels are flooded for days 80 homes are destroyed by an electrical fire in Breezy Point Queens and waters reach record highs in Battery Park With the storm being late in the hurricane season there are also blizzards in West Virginia 248 The New York Stock Exchange closes for trading for two days the first weather closure of the exchange since 1985 249 It is also the first two day weather closure since the Great Blizzard of 1888 250 Penguin and Random House agree to merge to form Penguin Random House the world s largest publisher 251 252 October 30 The Walt Disney Company purchases Lucasfilm Ltd from George Lucas for US 4 05 billion Included in the deal are the rights to the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises 253 November edit nbsp November 6 Barack Obama reelected President November 2 Walt Disney Animation Studios 52nd feature film Wreck It Ralph is released in theaters and is a critical and commercial success November 6 2012 elections Barack Obama is reelected President of the United States defeating Republican nominee Mitt Romney 254 Democrats maintain a majority in the Senate 255 Republicans maintain a majority in the House 256 Maine becomes the first state to legalize gay marriage via voter referendum Maryland and Washington do the same Minnesota also rejects a constitutional amendment which would have banned same sex marriage 257 258 259 Washington becomes the first state to legalize marijuana Colorado does the same 260 Puerto Rico votes to become a state Congressional approval is still needed 261 November 8 Jared Lee Loughner the perpetrator in the 2011 Tucson shooting is given 7 consecutive life sentences 262 November 15 Deepwater Horizon oil spill BP announces it will plead guilty to charges of manslaughter and obstruction of Congress and will pay a total of US 4 5 billion to the US Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission 263 264 Separately the two highest ranking BP supervisors on board the Deepwater Horizon on the day of the explosion have been indicted on 23 criminal counts 265 November 16 Hostess Brands which includes such brands as cakes Twinkies announces it will file for bankruptcy and liquidate its assets stating that a bakery union s worker strike stemming from contract disputes crippled its operations 18 500 workers are expected to be laid off 266 November 20 Puerto Rican professional boxer Hector Camacho is shot multiple times in Bayamon Puerto Rico The driver of Camacho s car is killed in the attack Shot in the neck and face Camacho is taken to St Paul s Hospital in Rio Piedras where he is pronounced brain dead 267 November 30 A New Hampshire federal grand jury indicts David Kwiatkowski 33 a former employee of Exeter Hospital in Exeter New Hampshire on fraud and product tampering charges in connection with an outbreak of hepatitis C that sickened more than 30 people and caused concern in 7 states 268 269 December edit nbsp December 14 Newtown Connecticut location of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting December 5 American businessman John McAfee is arrested in Guatemala following an alleged illegal entry after leaving Belize where he is wanted for questioning over the death of fellow American Gregory Faull 270 December 6 Washington Initiative 502 comes into effect making Washington the 1st state to legalize recreational cannabis 271 December 8 American football player Josh Brent of the Dallas Cowboys is arrested for driving while intoxicated and vehicular manslaughter in relation to the death of teammate Jerry Brown 272 Texas A amp M University quarterback Johnny Manziel becomes the first freshman ever to win the Heisman Trophy as the most outstanding player in U S college football 273 December 9 The wreckage of a plane carrying American singer Jenni Rivera with two pilots and four other passengers is found in northern Mexico with no apparent survivors 274 275 276 December 10 Colorado Amendment 64 comes into effect making Colorado the 2nd state to legalize recreational cannabis 277 The trial of Jodi Arias begins in Arizona She is accused of the 2008 murder of her ex boyfriend Travis Alexander and the case receives widespread media attention 278 December 11 The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit strikes down Illinois s ban on concealed weapons Illinois is the last state in the United States not to enact a concealed carry law 279 Syrian civil war President Barack Obama recognizes Syria s rebel opposition as the legitimate representatives of the Syrian people 280 British based bank HSBC will pay U S authorities 1 9 billion in a settlement over money laundering for drug cartels and countries under sanctions the largest ever such penalty 281 282 Michigan s state government passes right to work legislation making Michigan the 23rd state and the most highly unionized state in the US to have such laws 283 284 December 14 Twenty six people including 20 children ages 6 and 7 are killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown Connecticut 285 Prior to the school shooting Adam Lanza age 20 shot and killed his mother Nancy Lanza age 52 at the home they shared in Newtown as the 27th victim The suspect killed himself during the incident It is the second deadliest school shooting in U S history after the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre December 15 30 United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sustained a concussion after fainting from dehydration at her home 286 287 Subsequently she is hospitalized after doctors discover a blood clot related to the concussion that she had had earlier in the month 288 December 19 Miss USA Olivia Culpo of Rhode Island wins Miss Universe citation needed December 20 The New York Stock Exchange the largest stock exchange in the United States and the world is sold to Atlanta based IntercontinentalExchange 289 December 27 Toyota Motor Corporation moving to put years of legal problems behind it has agreed to pay more than 1 billion to settle dozens of lawsuits relating to sudden acceleration 290 291 December 30 A tour bus crashes off Interstate 84 in northeastern Oregon leaving 9 of its passengers dead and 26 injured 292 Ongoing edit War in Afghanistan 2001 2021 Undated edit Elohi Gadugi Journal an American magazine is first published 293 Births editThis section needs expansion You can help by adding to it March 2013 January 7 Blue Ivy Carter singer and daughter of Beyonce and Jay Z February 6 Kai Zen actress April 23 Alan Kim actor May 25 J J Vallow notable murder victim d 2019 August 6 Bella Bond notable murder victim d 2015 Deaths editThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed October 2022 Learn how and when to remove this message January edit nbsp Etta James nbsp Joe Paterno January 1 Fred Milano singer b 1939 January 2 William P Carey businessman and philanthropist b 1930 Gordon Hirabayashi sociologist and litigant died in Edmonton Alberta Canada b 1918 Jim Huber sports commentator b 1944 Larry Reinhardt guitarist b 1948 January 3 Gene Bartow college basketball coach b 1930 Robert L Carter civil rights activist and judge b 1917 January 4 Gatewood Galbraith lawyer author and politician b 1947 David Wheeler theatre director and producer b 1925 January 5 Don Carter professional bowler b 1926 January 6 Roger Boisjoly aerodynamicist and engineer b 1938 John Celardo illustrator b 1918 January 10 Vince Gibson American college football coach b 1933 January 12 Natalee Holloway missing person declared dead in absentia b 1986 Bill Janklow 27th and 30th Governor of South Dakota from 1979 until 1987 and from 1995 until 2003 b 1939 Jim Stanley American college football coach b 1935 January 13 Richard Threlkeld American journalist and author b 1937 January 17 Johnny Otis musician composer and record producer b 1921 January 19 Sarah Burke Canadian skier b 1982 Gene Methvin American pilot and journalist b 1934 January 20 John F Baker Jr soldier b 1945 Etta James singer b 1938 January 21 Roy John Britten biologist and geneticist b 1919 Cliff Chambers baseball player b 1922 January 22 Joe Paterno American football coach b 1926 January 24 J Joseph Garrahy soldier and politician 69th Governor of Rhode Island b 1930 James Farentino actor b 1938 Patricia Neway soprano and actress b 1919 January 26 Ian Abercrombie English actor b 1934 Bud Byerly baseball player b 1920 Robert Hegyes actor b 1951 January 29 Damien Bona historian and journalist b 1955 John Rich director and producer b 1925 January 31 Leslie Carter American singer b 1986 Ayelet Galena notable child with rare congenital disease b 2009 February edit nbsp Whitney Houston nbsp Davy Jones February 1 Angelo Dundee boxing trainer b 1921 Don Cornelius television host b 1936 February 3 Ben Gazzara actor b 1930 Zalman King actor director and producer b 1942 February 6 Peter Breck actor b 1929 February 7 Patricia Stephens Due activist b 1939 February 11 Whitney Houston singer and wife of Bobby Brown b 1963 294 February 12 Howard Zimmerman chemist b 1926 February 15 John J Yeosock general b 1937 Charles Anthony tenor b 1929 February 16 Gary Carter American baseball player b 1954 Anthony Shadid journalist died in Syria b 1968 February 19 Renato Dulbecco Italian born American Nobel virologist b 1914 February 23 Bruce Surtees cinematographer b 1937 February 25 Dick Davies American basketball player b 1936 February 26 Don Joyce American football player b 1929 Trayvon Martin African American teenager killed in shooting b 1995 Zollie Volchok American basketball administrator b 1916 February 28 Jim Green American Canadian educator and politician b 1943 295 February 29 Davy Jones British singer and actor died in Indiantown Florida b 1945 Sheldon Moldoff comic book artist b 1920 March edit nbsp Andrew Breitbart nbsp Robert B Sherman nbsp Earl Scruggs March 1 Andrew Breitbart writer and publisher b 1969 Jerome Courtland actor director and producer b 1926 March 2 Van T Barfoot army Colonel b 1919 James Q Wilson political scientist b 1931 March 3 Steve Bridges impressionist b 1963 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