* 1913 – Kan Yuet-keung, Hong Kong banker, lawyer, and politician ( d. 2012 )

Yoshihiko Noda was formally appointed as Prime Minister on 2 September 2011 .. On August 1, 2012, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Kan would be one of the members of Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs ).

In 2012, Kan was interviewed about the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and has said that at one point Japan faced a situation where there was a chance that people might not be able to live in the capital zone including Tokyo and would have to evacuate.

In the April 2012 issue of Playboy, long time Batman writer Grant Morrison said that " Gayness is built into Batman.

Executive producer Doug Berman said in 2012, " The guys are culturally right up there with Mark Twain and the Marx Brothers.

Addis Ababa said the assault was in retaliation for the training and support given by Asmara to subversives while Eritrea said the U. S knew of the attacks, an accusation denied by US officials .< Ref >" Eritrean President Discusses Path to Development ", May 18, 2012.

A two-minute fight scene in the pub shown in August 2012 received just one complaint to Ofcom from a viewer who felt it was too violent ; Ofcom said they would investigate.

In a BBC interview broadcast in April 2012, he said he lived in an all-white neighbourhood.

Premavision owns the distribution rights to the Gumby cartoons ( having been reverted from previous distributor Warner Bros. Television ), and has licensed the rights to Classic Media of which said licensing ends in September 2012.

He referred to a survey which said more than half of the citizens of Hong Kong wanted direct elections by 2012.

Microsoft has said that Windows Server 2012 was available on 4 September 2012 and Windows 8 will be available on October 26, 2012.

In April 2012, a scientist from the National Oceanography Centre said that this image is a bloom of algae and zooplankton.

Reagan was said to be considering a challenge to Sen. Dianne Feinstein in 2012 but announced on Townhall. com on 15 March 2012 that chairing the Citizen Legislature Act " is better for me and the state ".

In 2012 El Pais quoted unnamed Spanish military sources who said " The really expensive thing is maintaining Melilla, which also lacks any strategic interest, unlike Ceuta.

Although plans to lift investment restrictions were announced in May 2012, the change awaited what administration officials said were detailed reporting requirements on U. S. companies doing business in Burma, along with creating mechanisms to prevent U. S. economic ties to the powerful Burmese military and individuals and companies involved in human rights abuses.

When asked about the result by WEEI radio in January 2012, Martínez said, “ I ’ m not afraid to say that the way that George King and Mr. LaVelle Neal III went about it was unprofessional .”

In February 2012 IBM scientists said that they have made several breakthroughs in quantum computing that put them " on the cusp of building systems that will take computing to a whole new level.

When talking about the album for an Australian interview in August 2012 Parkes said " It might well be my favorite album to date.

Also in 2000, he wrote a digital novella, Riding the Bullet, and has said he sees e-books becoming 50 % of the market " probably by 2013 and maybe by 2012.

Official sources said in 2012:

The Minister for Employment and Social Security, Fátima Báñez, said in June 19, 2012, that labor reform promoted by the Government has allowed reached in a short time, 32, 500 contracts for entrepreneurs, of which over 50 % has gone to young people.

In late June 2012, in an interview given by the rebels ' chief to Ashark Al-Awsat, Riad al-Asaad said that in recent time about 20-30 Syrian officers defect to Turkey each day.

In a television interview with Piers Morgan on May 3, 2012, Turner said he had four girlfriends, which he acknowledged was complicated but nonetheless easier than being married.

In early July 2012, during IWC discussions in Panama, South Korea said it would undertake scientific whaling as allowed despite the global moratorium on whaling.

As of 2012, an important part of this series is in the collections of Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art.

Dr. Caldicott spoke to a standing room only crowd at the Faulkner Gallery in Santa Barbara on Friday 23 March 2012 on " The Medical Implications of Fukushima, Nuclear Power and Nuclear Proliferation ".

It is inside the 20km exclusion zone of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant ; and as of early 2012 remains evacuated.

In May 2012, credit for the shooting of Roberto Adinolfi, an Ansaldo Nucleare executive, was claimed by an anarchist group who targeted him for stating that none of the deaths following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami were caused by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster itself: " Adinolfi knows well that it is only a matter of time before a European Fukushima kills on our continent [...] Science in centuries past promised us a golden age, but it is pushing us towards self destruction and slavery [...] With our action we give back to you a small part of the suffering that you scientists are bringing to the world.

As a result of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster radioactive cesium concentrations of 110 becquerels per kilogram were found in silver crucian carp fish caught in the Tone River in April 2012.

On March 11, 2012, activists protested the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station to mark the one-year anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

Though local leaders and industry officials say that a disaster like Fukushima is unlikely at San Onofre, the activists point to the plant ’ s safety record, earthquake risk, location on the coast quite similar to that in Japan, and the fact that as of March 2012, San Onofre ’ s reactors were " off-line due to leaks and wear and tear to the generator tubes.

The Dutch bio-farming company Waterland International and a Japanese federation of farmers made an agreement in March 2012 to plant and grow camelina on 2000 to 3000 hectare in Fukushima prefecture.

This led to the formation of the Hillsborough Independent Panel, which, in September 2012, concluded that no Liverpool fans were responsible for the deaths, and that attempts had been made by the authorities to conceal what had happened, including the amendment of 164 statements relating to the disaster by the police.

Hapgood's ideas also figure prominently in the 2009 sci-fi / disaster movie, " 2012.

Additionally, downtown Pontiac in August 2012 was the filming site for the forthcoming tornado-themed disaster movie Black Sky.

The first episode was broadcast on 12 July 2012 ( in which Satan attempts to show Edith that the ancient Greeks and the original Games were not as altruistic as she originally thought and Thomas ' participation in the Infernal Games ends up a crushing and painful disaster ) and the second on 19 July 2012 ( in which Satan is blackmailed by Edith into taking her to the London Olympics to see her competing grand-niece and discovers that the grand-niece isn't quite as Edith described her and Thomas tries to get himself certified insane to escape further eternal punishment

Knowing features Nicolas Cage as a teacher who discovers a set of numbers that are actually the dates, death tolls and locations of disaster events both in the past and the future, while 2012, based on the supposed doomsday prediction by the Mayans, sees various disasters bring the world to an end.

The disaster prompted worldwide calls for the reactors to be completely decommissioned, although there is still considerable reliance on RBMK facilities for power in Russia and the post-Soviet republics ; the last RBMK at Chernobyl was not shut down until 2000, and as of 2012 there were still at least 11 RBMK reactors operating in Russia.

" Accepting King's narrow concentration on price stability had resulted in disaster, the 2012 Financial Services Bill, in transferring the majority of macroprudential regulatory powers from the FSA to the Bank, will grant the Financial Policy Committee ( chaired by King ) the power to curb lending in booms, including placing limits on the public's access to mortgages.

Glover played President Wilson, the President of the United States in 2012, a disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich and released in theaters November 13, 2009.

Newton next portrayed the United States President's First Daughter Laura Wilson in 2012, a disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich and released 13 November 2009.

In the disaster film 2012, the entire College of Cardinals are seen praying silently under the ceiling.

Platt starred as the White House Chief of Staff Carl Anheuser in Roland Emmerich's 2012, a disaster film released November 13, 2009.

Emmerich has directed many successful films, mostly disaster films such as Independence Day ( 1996 ), The Day After Tomorrow ( 2004 ) and 2012 ( 2009 ); also Stargate ( 1994 ) and The Patriot ( 2000 ).

In 2009 he directed 2012, an apocalyptic disaster film inspired by the theory that the ancient Mayans prophesied the world's ending on December 21, 2012.

As of 2012, many residents are experiencing growing frustration and instability due to the nuclear crisis and an inability to return to the lives they were living before the disaster.

She has appeared in a variety of films, including the 2001 comedy Saving Silverman, the 2003 romantic comedy Something's Gotta Give, the 2003 psychological thriller film Identity, the 2005 action-thriller Syriana, the 2006 comedy-drama remake Griffin & Phoenix, the 2007 romantic comedy The Ex, the 2008 science fiction film The X-Files: I Want to Believe and the 2009 disaster adventure drama 2012.

Coincidentally, some survivors of the Costa Concordia disaster, which has drawn comparisons to the Titanic disaster, have claimed that the song was playing in a restaurant when Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia first made impact with a rock, which eventually caused the ship to partially sink on the night of January 13, 2012.

* 2012 ( 2009 ), a science fiction apocalyptic disaster film based loosely on the 2012 phenomenon.

On January 8th, 2012 Pieter van Vollenhoven unveiled a memorial for the victims of the disaster, which on that day, had taken place exactly fifty years ago.