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Artist wins academy
-The film also took the awards for best actor and best director
- Until Sunday no silent film had won the top Oscar since “Wings,” at the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929
- After a dry spell in the early evening, “The Artist” gained momentum as the major awards were presented, beginning with a prize for Mr. Hazanavicius. -
Queen Elizabeth diamond jubilee
- citizens of the United Kingdom have been throwing a royal party -The Queen, who is 86 years old, became the monarch, or ruler, of the U.K. in 1952
- Queen Elizabeth’s great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, celebrated the first Diamond Jubilee in 1897
- A jubilee is a celebration that marks a special anniversary, such as a 25th anniversary (silver jubilee) or 50th anniversary (golden jubilee
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London Olympics
swimmer Bradley Snyder has won a gold medal in the men's 100m freestyle at the 2012 Paralympics
-The London 2012 Olympics are officially over, but people are still buzzing about Sunday's closing ceremony august13,2012
-Michael Phelps leaves London with 18 gold medals and a record 22 total medals.
-The London 2012 Olympics were billed as the Social Games, with fans following along on Twitter, Face book and other services. But it might be remembered as "The Crying Games," for the swelling of emoti -
Neil Armstrong
-American astronaut Neil Armstrong died at age 82
-He was the first man to set foot on the moon.
-That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” he said as he stepped down from the the lunar landing craft
-Armstrong is still one of only 12 people to have ever stepped onto the moon
- Armstrong and fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin became icons in the history of science and space exploration -
Ambassador Chris Stevens killed
Chris Stevens, was killed in an attack on a diplomatic facility in Benghazi
- He was liked and respected there, and he returned in 2012 as the formal ambassador to the new Libyan government -he was one of four Americans killed. -
Free Fall
*He began his fall from 24 miles above—for times higher then more passenger jets fly
*For terror inducing 4 minutes and 20 seconds baumgartner freefalls, his body plummeting toward the earth at 833 miles an hour
*Broke two other records,including the highest exit from a platfrom at 128,00 feet,and the highest free-fall without a drogue parachute, which was measured at 119,846 feet -
Lance Armstrong
*Band for life for his involvement in what U.S. sports authorities describe as a massive doping program that tainted all of his greatest triumphs
*USADA said Armstrong should be banned and stripped of his Tour titles for "the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen" within his U.S. Postal Service and Discovery Channel teams. He will lose all his race results since August 1998.
*The USADA report said Armstrong and his teams used steroids -
Hurricane Sandy
*Hurricane Sandy made landfall as a Category 1 storm
*At a construction site at 57th Street in midtown, a crane at the top of a skyscraper more than 80 stories high collapsed and is dangling from the top of the building.
* The National Hurricane Center said that the hurricane-force winds extend up to 175 miles from the storm's center, with tropical storm-force winds extended outward up to 500 miles. -
Obama Wins Re-election
*A cheer of jubilation sounded at the Obama campaign headquarters in Chicago they began projecting him as the winner at 11:20 p.m., even as the ballots were still being counted in many states
*Mr. Obama’s re-election extended his place in history, carrying the tenure of the nation’s first black president into a second term.
*Hispanics made up in important part after Mr. Obama’s winning coalition.Before the night was through, there were already recriminations from Republican moderates. -
Gangnam Style
*The official viedo Gangnam Style surged 1 billion views,making it the first clip on the site to ever hit the mark
*"Gangnam Style" has also earned a Guinness World Records title as the most-liked video in YouTube history with over two million digital thumbs up.
*Last month, marketing blog Wordstream reported that the video was being viewed 4,000 times each minute, leading it to predict that it would hit 1 billion views by December 11. It missed that mark by 10 days.
