* 1931 – Chuck Metcalf, American jazz double-bassist ( d. 2012 )

* 2011 -– 2012 Apollo Theatre, London ( UK ); with David Suchet ( James Tyrone ) and Laurie Metcalf ( Mary Tyrone ), Trevor White ( Jamie Tyrone ), Kyle Soller ( Edmund Tyrone ) and Rosie Sansom as Cathleen, directed by Anthony Page.

Following Scott's death in 2012, film critic Stephen Metcalf argued that the film marked an important turning point in the history of the American film industry.

Eve M Duffy and Alida C Metcalf, The Return of Hans Staden: A Go-between in the Atlantic World, ( 2012 )

In 2012, Metcalf resigned from the Utah Ski and Snowboard Working Group in opposition to proposed legislation that would transfer ownership of public lands from the federal government to the state of Utah.

Most recently he appeared in the premier of David Mamet ’ s November at the Ethel Barrymore Theater, with Nathan Lane, Dylan Baker, and Laurie Metcalf as well as playing the title character opposite Peter Dinklage in the all-male cast of " The Imaginary Invalid " for Bard College's SummerScape Festival 2012.

In 2012, BJU joined the National Christian College Athletic Association ( NCCAA ).

On 24 August 2012, the University of Leicester and Leicester City Council, in association with the Richard III Society, announced that they had joined forces to begin a search for the mortal remains of King Richard.

On May 5, 2012, Welch joined the band onstage for the first time in 7 years at the Carolina Rebellion festival, signaling peace between both sides.

Opeth joined Mastodon for a co-headlining North American tour in April and May 2012, supported by Ghost.

On August 1, 2012, Vlaar officially joined Aston Villa, signing a three year contract.

As of January 2012, a spokesperson for Microsoft has confirmed that Cutler is no longer working on Windows Azure, and has since joined the Xbox team.

* Design Awards: Eight shows have swept the design awards ( original 3 of Best Scenic Design, Best Costume Design, Best Lighting Design – joined by Best Sound Design starting in 2008 ): Follies ( 1972 ), The Phantom of the Opera ( 1986 ), The Lion King ( 1998 ), The Producers ( 2001 ), The Light in the Piazza ( 2005 ), The Coast of Utopia ( 2007 ), the 2008 revival of South Pacific ( first to sweep the expanded 4 awards for Creative Arts ) and Peter and the Starcatcher ( first straight play to sweep the expanded four awards for Creative Arts ) ( 2012 ).

They were shortly joined by an additional 68 immigrants on September 2, 2012 .. Refuges and illegal immigration from sub-Saharan nations has been a problem that Spain, and the European Union as a whole, has been trying to solve.

In March, 2012, Nick Young joined the Clippers as part of a three-team trade with the Washington Wizards and the Denver Nuggets.

Watts joined Microsoft Research in New York City by its opening on May 3, 2012.

Two charter members left the conference in 2011, and in 2012, two more universities left, while another two joined from other conferences.

Texas A & M officially joined the SEC on July 1, 2012.

On October 10, Texas Christian University's Board of Trustees voted to accept the invitation from the Big 12 Conference, and the school joined the conference on July 1, 2012.

In 2012, the West Virginia Mountaineers joined the Florida Atlantic Owls and Hartwick College Hawks as men's soccer affiliates.

The UMass Minutemen joined the MAC as a football-only member in July 2012.

Meanwhile, Temple ended its affiliation with the MAC in football and joined the Big East for football in July 2012 ( it will switch all of its other sports to the Big East in July 2013 and end its membership in the Atlantic 10 at that time ).

Virginia Commonwealth and Butler joined the A-10 on July 1, 2012.

In 2012, Butler joined the conference after leaving the Horizon League and VCU joined after leaving the CAA.

The MIAA is considered one of the top conferences in NCAA Division II, and has seen three member schools move up to NCAA Division I. Southwest Missouri State University ( now called Missouri State University ) made the jump in 1981, Southeast Missouri State University moved up in 1991, and the University of Nebraska at Omaha joined The Summit League in 2012.

Danish defender, Mathias “ Zanka “ Jørgensen had earlier in 2012 signed a contract with the club and joined PSV during the summer.

On Thursday, July 26, 2012 it was announced he joined Season 3 of NBC's The Voice as a mentor for Christina Aguilera.

In 2012, golf's The Big Three reunited as South African golfer Gary Player joined for the ceremonial tee shots as honorary starters for the 76th playing of the Masters Tournament.

Swit joined neo-folk band, Roses Never Fade in 2012.

In January 2012, Feldman joined the U. K. television show Dancing on Ice with American pair skater Brooke Castile, and was eliminated in the fourth week of the show.

* 2012 – Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke, British politician and campaigner for disabled rights ( b. 1922 )

* 2012 – Ambrose Weekes, British alglican bishop ( b. 1919 )

* British Services Antarctic Expedition 2012

The size and structure of the British Army is continually evolving, but as of 1 July 2012, the British Army employs ; 107, 340 full-time soldiers ( 103, 590 Regulars, 3, 750 Gurkhas ) and 31, 600 Territorial soldiers for a combined component strength of 138, 500 soldiers.

The table below shows historical personnel trends of the British Army from 1750 to 2012.

In February 2012 an MI5 file on Chaplin was opened to the public which revealed that the FBI had contacted the British secret service to provide them with information which would enable them to ban Chaplin from the US.

In 2012 relations came under strain when Julian Assange, founder of the Wikileaks website, entered the Ecuadorian embassy in London and sought asylum ; Assange had recently lost a legal case against his extradition to Sweden on charges of sexual assault and rape, but when within the embassy he was on diplomatic territory and beyond the reach of the British police.

On 30 August 2012 it was announced that British firm Nyota Minerals was about to become the first foreign company to receive a mining licence to extract gold from an estimated resource of 52 tonnes in western Ethiopia.

* 1901 – Florence Green, British, last surviving veteran of World War I ( d. 2012 )

* 2012 – Robin Corbett, Baron Corbett of Castle Vale, British politician ( b. 1933 )

* 2012 – Florence Green, British, last surviving veteran of World War I ( b. 1901 )

In September, 2012, a British Comedy Society blue plaque, to commemorate Chapman, was unveiled at The Angel pub in Highgate, North London, by Jones, Palin, Barry Cryer and Carol Cleveland.

** Lotus F1 Team, a British Formula One team that started competing in 2012 season

* 1950 – Mary Tamm, British actress ( d. 2012 )

* 2012 – Paul McBride, British lawyer ( b. c. 1965 )

On the 13th of January 2012, the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the US will exchange ambassadors with Burma, after a landmark Burmese political prisoner amnesty .< ref > British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC )– US to exchange ambassadors with Burma, < http :// www. bbc. co. uk / news / world-asia-16554415 >.

* 1917 – Andrew Fielding Huxley, British scientist, Nobel laureate ( d. 2012 )

* The Phoenix ( comics ), a weekly British comic that started in 2012

However, by 2012 the influence of these small British shareholders over the overwhelmingly non-British owners ( mainly the publicly owned French company EDF ) of the firms that generate and distribute power in Britain is negligible.

* British Services Antarctic Expedition 2012 – In the Spirit of Scott

In 2009 the BBC broadcast Cruickshank on Kew: The Garden That Changed the World, a history of the relationship between Kew Gardens, David Attenborough's kingdom of plants 3D ( Aired on Sky Atlantic, and Sky 3D ' June 2012 '), and the British Empire.

Another theory, brought forth in 2012, suggests that the monument was intended to unify the different peoples of the British island.

In January 2012, British MP Tom Watson discovered that a public relations firm Portland Communications, hired by Stella Artois had been removing this fact from Wikipedia.

* In June 2012 started the filming of Twelve Years a Slave ( film ), directed by British director Steve McQueen who also co-wrote the script with John Ridley to adapt Northup's memoir book.