World Event Highlights 2012

World Event Highlights 2012

2012. The end of the world. I think I feel pretty alive for a dead person. :D Anyways, the point here...well, title says it all. I collected a few events that shook the world last year, but I'm convinced there were at least a hundred more. I can't really name them all so let's get going to the ones I've actually found. Hope you'll enjoy them.[Well, the enjoyable ones.]

The Colorado Massacre 

This is one of the not so pretty breaking news. The 25-year-old James Holmes born in San Diego, California, committed mass-homicide in Aurora, Colorado. He walked into the local movie theatre during the showing of the new Batman movie called "Batman: The Dark Night Rises" and opened fire on the audience. According to official sources, more than 50 people were injured, 10 died immediately and 4 died in the hospital. He also used teargas to make escaping harder for the innocents whilst shouting that he was The Joker. He's trial is not over yet, several appearances of his in the court were postponed due to his mental state. His lawyers claim he is mentally ill.

 

The tragedy left so much pain and sorrow, but to top  all that, a new frenzy spread across the United States among the teenagers. They basically worship Holmes because they feel sorry for him due to his illness and sad childhood, and they manifest their views in various ways. 

The Sandy Hurricane

Another disaster stroke but this time not in the form of a psychiatric case, but in the form of a natural disaster. As we already got used to it, this hurricane is named after a woman, too, a certain Sandy. She caused the death of 40 people, left over 8 million households without electricity and swamped several metrostations and tunels. 1500 flights were cancelled and the center of Manhattan went underwater. The waves were 4,5 metres high, breaking the earlier record of hurricane Donna (3 metres). The damage was around 30-40 milliard dollars.

Celebrity Deaths

It may be a bit morbid to call this a highlight, but I think it's an essential part of last year. The whole world lost a few true legends. They made our lives brighter, our days happier. Their abrupt departial left us speechless. Though I'm pretty sure that a huge percent of nowadays generation don't even know who they were, what they did. But hopefully a part of them, including me, smiles when they think of the one and only Jockey Ewing from Dallas (Larry Hagman), the pretty singer from The Bodyguard (Whitney Houston) or the amazing singer of the hit song 'Hot Stuff' (Donna Summer).

  

                                                         

The Olympic Games

And we arrived. This is the event that nobody can leave out! The XXX Game of the Olympiad, the 2012 Summer Games. After China, London earned the honor to be the host of this high-quality event. Over 204 National Olympic Committies took part in the Games, in 26 sports. The absolute winners were China, The USA and Great Britain: they owned the first three places on the rank of earned medals. Many records were broken, numerous by the mentioned countries above. The next games will be held in Rio de Janeiro.

The Royal Family

The British Royal Family had more reasons to celebrate last year than an average family. Prince William and Kate Middleton got married in 2011 and now the new royal baby is on its way. Though this wonderful occasion had its ups and downs apart from the morning sicknesses. A gossip magazine called up the nurse who dealed with Kate and told her she was the Queen to get some information on the state of the Princess. The nurse of course told them everything and when it turned out that she had been ditched, she killed herself. Sad story, but we should move on to the next thing. Queen II. Elizabeth celebrated her diamondjubilee, the 60th anniversary of her domination. In all history only Queen Victoria could celebrate this before her.