* 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 )

As of April 2012, Gruber charges $ 7, 500 per week for RSS feed sponsorship which includes a " promotional item during the week " and a " linked list item " to the sponsor at the end of the week.

* 1930 – György Enyedi, Hungarian economist and geographer ( d. 2012 )

From November 2011 to January 2012 all three major credit rating agencies downgraded Hungarian debt to a non-investment speculative grade, commonly called " junk status ".

Malév Hungarian Airlines ceased operations in 2012.

* 1930 – Ferenc Polikárp Zakar, Hungarian monk ( d. 2012 )

* 2012 – Ferenc Bartha, Hungarian economist ( b. 1943 )

Referring to Wikipedia, as source, on March 21, 2012, a reporter of the Hungarian Broadcast HirTV asked if Jagland had been an agent of the KGB.

For the 2012 Queen concert film Hungarian Rhapsody: Queen Live in Budapest ’ 86.

On 19 March 2012 Endre Spaller, a member of the Hungarian Parliament interpellated Secretary of the State X about this practice who replied that carpooling should be endorsed instead of punished, however care must be taken for some people trying to turn it into a way to gain untaxed profit.

Chapter 41 " Hungarian Music " ( pp. 299 – 306 ) at Corvinus Library – Hungarian History ( Accessed 17 September 2012 ).

After he left the Hungary post, Matthäus was vocally critical of the Hungarian Football Federation, accusing it in November 2007 of " not contributing, but exploiting Hungarian football " and citing that " it's not coincidental that the Hungarian bid to host Euro 2012 didn't receive any votes ".

Sargsyan suggested the possibility that Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev and Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán had entered into a secret agreement during the latter's visit to Baku on June 30, 2012.

On September 4, 2012, a demonstration took place in front of the Hungarian Parliament Building in Kossuth Square.

In 2012, Szemerédi was awarded the Abel prize “ for his fundamental contributions to discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science, and in recognition of the profound and lasting impact of these contributions on additive number theory and ergodic theory ” The Abel prize citation also credited Szemerédi with bringing combinatorics to the centre-stage of mathematics and noted his place in the tradition of Hungarian mathematicians such as George Pólya who emphasized a problem-solving approach to mathematics.

In the penultimate round of the Euro 2012 qualifiers Sweden beat Finland away ( 2-1 ), as a consequence the last match was without any stake for the Hungarian national side which left its mark on it.

In the last two matches of the year 2011 Hungary played with Liechtenstein at home ( the match was aimed as a commemoration of the recently deceased football legend Flórián Albert who was the only Hungarian football player who won the prize Ballon d ' Or ) and the Euro 2012 hosts Poland away.

Since the bankruptcy of Malev Hungarian Airlines on the 3rd of February 2012, Wizz Air can be considered as being the flag carrier of Hungary.

Although Honved finished fourth in the 2011-12 season of the Hungarian League, they could participate in the UEFA Europa League 2012 – 13 season because Győr were banned from any European competitions.

On 22 August 2012, the president of the football club, Gábor Kubatov announced to the Hungarian newspaper Magyar Nemzet, that the construction of the new Albert Flórián Stadium is going to be started in January 2013.

The story inspired two films: the 1961 Hungarian film drama Két félidő a pokolban and the 1981 American film Escape to Victory also 2012 Match originally in Russian: Матч ( 2012 ).

* The Door ( film ), a 2012 Hungarian film based on the 1987 novel