2012 A Year in Review

  • Cruise Ship Capsizes off Italian Coast

    Cruise Ship Capsizes off Italian Coast
    New York Times Cruise ship crashes into the coast of italy. this inccident coused the death of 32 people.the captain was mostly to blame for the casualties becouse the crew was not properly trained
  • Whitney Houston dies at age 48

    Whitney Houston dies at age 48
    Abc News Whitney Huoston was found dead on february 11th.The couse of her death was thought to be bocause of drug use. she was foud in her bath tub drouned.
  • U.S Soldier 17 afhgan civilians

    U.S Soldier 17 afhgan civilians
    Guardian
    <p> A U.S. soldier killed 17 afghan civilians. This started causing some problems whithin the U.S. and Afhganistan. the people that made up the victims where mostly women and children.
  • 7 Die in College Shooting

    7 Die in College Shooting
    Wall Street journal
    A former 43 year old student at Oikos University killed seven people. The suspect surrendered at a local supermarket. The school went on lockdown for quite a while.
  • Syria attack kills dozens of children

    Syria attack kills dozens of children
    USA Today
    rows of dead Syrian children lying in a mosque in bloody shorts and T-shirts with gaping head wounds, haunting images of what activists called one of the deadliest regime attacks yet in Syria's 14-month-old uprising.
  • Plane Crashes killing 163 People

    Plane Crashes killing 163 People
    Cnn.com
    Pilot signaled trouble moments before crash that killed 163 in Nigeria. 153 people were on board of the plane. on the crash the plane itself killed 10 people that were on the ground.
  • Lemurs

    Lemurs
    CNN.Com
    Lemurs like the ones found in the movie "Madagascar". Were found to be the most threatened mamals on earth.
  • Rover Lands on Mars

    Rover Lands on Mars
    National Geographic
    Rover the NASA's most recent project has landed on mars. According to them this was no easy task.
  • Chicago Teacher go on Strike

    Chicago Teacher go on Strike
    CNN.com
    Many children are being harmed becouse of the teachers being on strike. becouse of this they are missing a lot of necessary days of school. The reason for which the teachers were on strike was becouse of their health benefits being cut down.
  • Hurricane Sandy

    Hurricane Sandy
    Live Science.com
    This hurricane has been one of the most destructine and costliest hurrinane ever. After the hurricane Katrina which was also destructive. This huricane was also known as the Frankenstorm.
  • Obama Wins Reelection

    Obama Wins Reelection
    CNN.com
    Obama wins the 2012 reelection. He had 303 electoral votes to 206 for Romney. He congratulated his opponent Mitt Romney and said, "In the weeks ahead I am looking forward to sitting down with Gov. Romney to discuss how we can move this country forward."
  • Conneticut School Shooting

    Conneticut School Shooting
    Wall Street Journal
    A young man enters an elementary school and with no reason begins a shooting spree. Because of this 27 people end up dead. 20 of these fatalities were children under the age 10.