Barack Obama won a historic election to get a second term as US President, overcoming a stiff challenge from Republican Mitt Romney defying concerns over his handling of economy and anxiety over the future, November 2012.
The 2012 Summer Olympics made London the first city to have hosted the modern Games of three Olympiads. London is the only city in the United Kingdom to have ever hosted the Olympics. Team GB finished 3rd with 29 Gold medals, and 65 total medals, representing their best medal haul since London first hosted the Olympics in 1908, July-August 2012.
PSY reached stardom with his sixth album PSY's Best 6th Part 1 and his overnight hit sensation "Gangnam Style." On August 14, "Gangnam Style" was ranked no. 1 on YouTube's "Most Viewed Videos". Later that month, the hit single reached #1 on the iTunes Music Video Charts. The music video became a YouTube phenomenon, with fans around the world and even celebrities, parodying the video and PSY's distinctive dance moves, July 2012.
He did it! That crazy awesome Felix Baumgartner jumped off the edge of the space, from 127,000 feet of altitude all the way back down to Earth, breaking some world records and getting vital information for NASA in the process. Felix is now the first man on the planet to break the speed of sound with no mechanical propulsion—just him and Earth's gravity, October 2012.
The Pakistani teen blogger Malala Yusufzai (15) simply sought to get an education. But she became a symbol of defiance against militants, empowering young women worldwide. She has openly defied the group's teachings on educating girls and encouraged her peers to do the same. In an attempt to silence her, militants stormed her school van, barked out her name and put a bullet in her head, October 2012.
The young woman whose rape and torture by six hoodlums on a Delhi bus shook a nation’s conscience died after 13 days battle, triggering a wave of grief and declarations of resolve not to let her loss go in vain. The 23-year-old student of physiotherapy died in Singapore, where she had been airlifted by the Indian government in a last-ditch move to save her and maintain order in a capital city that threatened to erupt in fury over the attack on its streets, December 2012.
He retires from the One Day Internationals....But his conduct in life and in the game will inspire the generations to come...
Sachin Tendulkar has been the most complete batsman of his time, the most prolific runmaker of all time, and arguably the biggest cricket icon the game has ever known. His batting is based on the purest principles: perfect balance, economy of movement, precision in stroke-making, and that intangible quality of anticipation, December 2012.
Sachin Tendulkar has been the most complete batsman of his time, the most prolific runmaker of all time, and arguably the biggest cricket icon the game has ever known. His batting is based on the purest principles: perfect balance, economy of movement, precision in stroke-making, and that intangible quality of anticipation, December 2012.
A 20-year-old Boston University sophomore and a self-described "cellist-nerd", Olivia Culpo brought the Miss Universe crown back to the United States for the first time in more than a decade when she won the televised contest in Las Vegas, December 2012.
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