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| President Obama's Re-Election |
Way back in
January, a cruise ship known as The Costa Concordia hit some rocks along the coast of Italy,
causing the ship to nearly capsize, causing people to abandon ship into the
cold waters in the darkness of the night.
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| President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama |
Marvel’s The Avengers premiered in April- bringing all the superheroes from
the Marvel Universe together to protect the planet. The film had the biggest
opening weekend ever, becoming the fastest film to gross $1 billion dollars.
Twilight and Batman both finished their sagas. Les Misérables premiered on Christmas Day.
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| Jerry Sandusky |
In the NFL, the NY Giants defeated the New England
Patriots to win Super Bowl XLVI and defeat the Pats for the second time in five
years to capture the crown. NBA: the Miami Heat defeat Oklahoma City and LeBron
James earns his first NBA title and is later awarded Sportsman of the Year. The
San Francisco Giants won their second World Series in 3 years defeating the
Detroit Tigers in 4 games.
In August, the Mars Rover Curiosity lands on the planet Mars and begin its 2-year stay
exploring the Red Planet.
September, the US embassy was attacked in Libya, killing 4
Americans.
Jerry Sandusky (Penn St.) receives 30-60 years in prison
for molesting young boys, ensuring that he will die in prison.
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| Space Shuttle Endeavor |
This year, President Barack Obama
openly supported gay marriage. He also won reelection after challenger Mitt
Romney ran a hard fought campaign.
Hurricane
Sandy hits Jersey Shore, NY and New York City. Causing mass chaos and
destruction- 2nd most expensive natural disaster in history ($70
Billion) behind only Hurricane Katrina 2005 ($400 billion).
George Lucas sold the entire Star
Wars franchise to Disney for a sum of $4 billion dollars, to which George Lucas
donated it all to charity.
The people whom we lost this year
and to be missed and remembered are the following:
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Neil Armstrong, astronaut
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Andy Griffith, actor
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| James Holmes |
- Joe
Paterno
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Whitney Houston
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many many more
The Summer Olympics in London. From
the opening ceremony with the industrial revolution and the queen skydiving
with James Bond to Mo Farah and Galen Rupp upsetting with their success on the
track to Michael Phelps becoming the most winningest Olympic athlete in history.
This year marked the 100th
anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic during its maiden voyage.
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| Hurricane Sandy |
Apple unveiled the iPhone 5, as well
as the iPad mini.
Fifty Shades of Grey, The Hunger
Games, and One Direction all made their public debuts within the last 12
months. As well, popular hits such as Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” and
Korean pop sensation Psy’s “Gangnam Style”. “Gangnam Style” became the most
viewed YouTube video in history with nearly 900 million views in just 4 months.
(That equates to more than 1 view every second for the last 16 weeks.)
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| Summer Olympics 2012: London |
Felix Baumgartner made history
freefalling from nearly 24 miles high- hitting a max speed of over 830 mph. As
well, NASA retired the space shuttles from returning to space. After 30+ years
of take offs, disasters, historic feats, it is the end of an era.
Kony 2012- bringing light to the
issue of child soldiers in Uganda.
Lance Armstrong was stripped of his
7 Tour de France titles and banned from ever competing again in the alleged
blood doping scandal.
The Mayans predicted that the world would end of December 21st, 2012. Well, I am posting this early so in the off chance that they were right, I will not have written this for nothing.
The Mayans predicted that the world would end of December 21st, 2012. Well, I am posting this early so in the off chance that they were right, I will not have written this for nothing.
