* Markus Weimer, The Peace Dividend: Analysis of a Decade of Angolan Indicators, 2002 – 2012

* 2012 – The Independent State of Azawad is declared.

* 1919 – István Anhalt, Hungarian-Canadian composer ( d. 2012 )

* 1983 – Anthony Sedlak, Canadian chef ( d. 2012 )

* 2012 – NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.

* 1916 – Dom Mintoff, Maltese politician and journalist, 8th Prime Minister of Malta ( d. 2012 )

* 1935 – Fortunato Baldelli, Italian cardinal ( d. 2012 )

* 1942 – Byard Lancaster, American saxophonist ( d. 2012 )

* 1945 – Aleksandr Gorelik, Russian figure skater ( d. 2012 )

* 1963 – Whitney Houston, American singer-songwriter, actress, and producer ( d. 2012 )

* 1914 – Big Walter Price, American singer-songwriter and pianist ( d. 2012 )

* 2012 – Ekrem Bora, Turkish actor ( b. 1934 )

* 2012 – Lionel Bowen, Australian politician ( b. 1922 )

* 2012 – Giorgio Chinaglia, Italian footballer ( b. 1947 )

* 2012 – Miguel de la Madrid, Mexican politician, President of Mexico ( b. 1934 )

* 2012 – Leila Denmark, American pediatrician ( b. 1898 )

* 2012 – Jamaa Fanaka, American director, producer, and screenwriter ( b. 1942 )

* 2012 – Jerry Lynch, American baseball player ( b. 1930 )

* 2012 – N. K. P. Salve, Indian politician ( b. 1921 )

* 1933 – Pierluigi Vigna, Italian magistrate ( d. 2012 )

* 1921 – Richard Adler, American songwriter and composer ( d. 2012 )

* 1923 – Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria ( d. 2012 )

* 1928 – Henning Moritzen, Danish actor ( d. 2012 )

* 2012 – John Berry, English motorcycle racing promoter and manager ( b. 1944 )

* 2012 – Martin Fleischmann, Czech-English chemist ( b. 1927 )

The Oxford English Dictionary records the first use of the phrase " conspiracy theory " to a 1909 article in The American Historical Review .< ref >" conspiracy ", Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989 ; online version March 2012.

" The UK Council for Psychotherapy issued a press release in 2012 saying that the IAPT's policies were undermining traditional psychotherapy and criticized proposals that would limit some approved therapies to CBT, claiming that they restricted patients to " a watered down version of cognitive behavioural therapy ( CBT ), often delivered by very lightly trained staff ".

In March 2012, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. announced it would no longer continue to publish its printed editions, instead focusing on its online version, Encyclopædia Britannica Online.

In March 2012, the company announced that the 2010 edition would be the last printed version.

A new version of the RuneQuest rules, now titled " RuneQuest Sixth Edition " has been produced in August 2012, but Gloranthan material has not yet been updated specifically for this edition.

In May 2012 the development of an Android version was announced.

The Criterion Collection released a special edition version of the film on Blu-ray and DVD on June 12, 2012.

* Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 ( NT version 6. 2 )

The musical version of The Nutty Professor was scheduled for a pre-Broadway tryout to open in Nashville on July 24, 2012 and played for seven weeks.

The release of an open source version as well as ports to GNU / Linux and Mac OS X was announced in May 2010, but the release date of December 2011 was postponed to 30th October 2012 ( Alpha release ).

As of June 2012, EditShare has not released an open source version and the GNU / Linux and Mac OS platform releases have been delayed.

The NASA model, referred to as the Design Reference Mission, on version 5. 0 as of September 1, 2012, calls for a significant upgrade in hardware ( at least 3 launches per mission, rather than two ), and sends the ERV to Mars fully fueled, parking it in orbit above the planet for subsequent rendezvous with the MAV.

An HD version is planned for release in October 2012 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade.

A high definition version of Nights into Dreams has been announced for Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and Steam, and will be released for PlayStation Network on October 2, 2012, and for Xbox Live Arcade on October 5, 2012.

As of version 8. 0, released on the 9th of February 2012, it implements the 3. 0 standard, and provides some of its own extensions for some platforms.

Although the Panamera will be a 4-door model, Road and Track magazine published a speculative piece in their April 2006 issue regarding the possibility of a new, 928-esque coupe that may debut on a shortened version of the Panamera's platform sometime around 2011 or 2012 model year.

On 9 May, it was announced on the Qt Labs website that the groundwork was being laid for the next major version of Qt, with the expectation that Qt 5 would be released in August 2012.

The most recent version was released in July 2012 by The Design Mechanism under the title RuneQuest 6.

* June 2012 —. 8 version of the Tin Can API is released.

* August 2012 —. 9 version of the Tin Can API is released.

A new version of Sam's Enchanted Evening was subsequently performed in March 2012 at Henry Street Settlement in New York City in a production directed by Travis Chamberlain, co-starring Joshua Raoul Brody and Jibz Cameron ( aka, Dynasty Handbag ).

As of September 2012, the most recent version is Unicode 6. 2.

The Xiph. Org Foundation maintains a reference implementation, libvorbis, the latest official version of which is 1. 3. 3, released on February 3, 2012.