* 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 )

Dictionary. com September 2, 2012, from link or coprophagy is the consumption of feces, from the Greek κόπρος copros, " feces " and φαγεῖν phagein, " to eat ".

Following the May 2012 legislative election where the New Democracy party became the largest party in the Hellenic Parliament, Samaras, leader of ND, was asked by Greek President Karolos Papoulias to try to form a government.

However, in the wake of the economic crisis of 2008, Greek government debt crisis, 2008 – 2012 Spanish financial crisis and European sovereign debt crisis, thinkers such as Terry Eagleton, David Harvey, and David McNally have given renewed impetus to the debate on whether Marx was right that capitalism inherently tends towards crisis ( which Marx discussed as the " contradictions of capital ").

* 1939 – Ioannis Banias, Greek politician ( d. 2012 )

* Giannis Stamatellos, Introduction to Presocratics: A Thematic Approach to Early Greek Philosophy with Key Readings, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

In the elections of 6 May 2012, Golden Dawn received 6. 97 % of the votes, entering the Greek parliament for the first time with 21 representatives.

Theodoros " Theo " Angelopoulos () ( 27 April 1935 – 24 January 2012 ), was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer.

21 September 2012 < http :// www. paulyonline. brill. nl / entries / brill-s-new-pauly / philochorus-e920850 > of Athens, Greek historian during the 3rd century BC, was a member of a priestly family.

Pagan energies in Maximus the Confessor: the influence of Proclus on the Ad Thomam 5 in Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies 52. 2 ( 2012 )

In May 2012, two brothers of the Phi Sigma chapter of DKE, Kevin Dunn and Steve Scannell, became the first team to win the Greek Life Beirut ( or Beer Pong ) competition two times in a college career.

* On 18 April 2012, the silver cup given to the marathon winner, Greek athlete Spyridon Louis, at the first modern Olympic Games staged in Athens in 1896 sold for UK £ 541, 250 ( US $ 860, 000 ), breaking the auction record for Olympic memorabilia.

Since 2011, John Stamos has appeared in a series of commercials for Dannon's Greek yogurt brand Oikos ; including his first Superbowl commercial which was aired during Superbowl 2012.

On 27 April 2012, Special Advisor of the Secretary-General Alexander Downer said " If the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot Leaders cannot agree with each other on a model for a united Cyprus, then United Nations cannot make them ".

On 16 May 2012, Noonan caused controversy with his Greek " holidays " and " feta cheese " comment at a breakfast briefing with Bloomberg news agency.

In April 2012 the Greek Ministry of Health and Social Solidarity launched an investigation into the disability benefits for the blind.

Commentator Felix Salmon, however, has questioned in advance ISDA's ability to structure an auction, as defined to date, to set compensation associated with a 2012 bond swap in Greek government debt.

* Ellada Exeis Talento ( Greece's Got Talent ) Greek reality program, talent competition entering its fourth season in 2012.

* Dancing with the Stars Greek version of reality program ; dance competition entering its third season in 2012.

pending From January 1 until February 10, 2012, employees protruding into the show which speaking unemployed and laid-off from their jobs citizens, unpaid workers, workers of the Greek steel industry, unpaid employees Eleftherotypia economist Dimitris Kazakis ( who referred to the imposition of new measures by the government Papademos ), the chairman of PPC GENOP Nikos Fotopoulos and Former broadcast journalist John Kanelakis.

On 26 October 2011, the European Summit agreed to hand to the Greek government the Sixth Tranche of € 8 billion bailout early in the 2012, while the private-sector banks, the holders of Greek debt, have agreed to a 50 % haircut on their outstanding Greek government bonds.

Until his resignation on 9 January 2012, he was the manager of Greek side Larissa.

Category: Greek MPs 2009 – 2012