The 84th Academy Awards, honoring films in 2011, was held at the Dolby Theatre on February 26, 2012.

Since 30 June 2012 when the last leap second was added, TAI has been exactly 35 seconds ahead of UTC.

In the beginning of April 2012, when a new military Coup d ' état was under preparation, the Angolan regime decided to withdraw its military mission from Guinea-Bissau.

NASA's planned Space Interferometry Mission ( SIM PlanetQuest ) ( now cancelled ) was to utilize astrometric techniques to detect terrestrial planets orbiting 200 or so of the nearest solar-type stars, and the European Space Agency's GAIA ( due to launch in 2012 ), which will be applying astrometric techniques in its stellar census.

As of May 2012 a private member's bill was before the House of Lords which would grant Turing a statutory pardon if enacted.

Furthermore, it was subject to relativity and thus was not constant for all observers, therefore, in 2012, the IAU redefined it again to just simply be.

With the definitions used before 2012, the astronomical unit was dependent on the heliocentric gravitational constant, that is the product of the gravitational constant G and the solar mass M < sub >☉</ sub >.

The 1976 definition of the astronomical unit was incomplete, in particular because it does not specify the frame of reference in which time is to be measured, but proved practical for the calculation of ephemerides: a fuller definition that is consistent with general relativity was proposed, and " vigorous debate " ensued until in August 2012 the International Astronomical Union adopted the current definition of 1 astronomical unit = 149597870700 meters.

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

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Selkirk, el verdadero Robinson Crusoe, a stop motion film by Tournier Animation based on Alexander Selkirk's life was premiered simultaneously in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay on 2 February 2012.

ASU's undergraduate program is ranked 65th for public universities and 132nd of 280 " national universities " by the 2012 US News and World Report ranking of US colleges and universities ; and, for the fourth year in a row, ASU was ranked in the top 10 for " Up and Coming " universities in the US, for substantial improvements to academics and facilities.

Erickson was also fired in 2012, and replaced by Todd Graham.

* 2012 – The Oak Creek shooting took place at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six people ; the perpetrator was shot dead by police.

In September 2011 it was announced that production of the Rapide would be moved to the company's factory in Gaydon, production will begin in the second half of 2012 and will see all of the current Aston Martin range produced from the Gaydon facility.

20 Sept. 2012 < http :// www. newadvent. org / cathen / 01132c. htm Adam was accepted among the capitulars of Bremen, and by 1069 he appeared as director of the cathedral's school.

On 9 February 2012, Steinsaltz was honored by Israeli President Shimon Peres with Israel's first President's Prize for his scholarship in Talmud.

In 2012, the album was ranked # 385 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, while Newsweek magazine pronounced it the second best album of its decade.

A Blu-ray and DVD release of season 9, titled Beavis and Butt-head-Volume 4, was released on February 14, 2012 in the United States.

It was initially supposed to be in service in 2012, but some observers expect it not to be ready before 2016.

After the completion of the Plovdiv-Dimitrovgrad high-speed line on 1 July 2012 the top operating speed was raised to 200 km / h and the national top speed record of 197 km / h set between Iskar and Elin Pelin with a leased Siemens Taurus electric locomotive is soon expected to be broken.

The construction of the project was awarded to the İçtaş-Astaldi consortium on May 29, 2012.

An under sea water supply tunnel with a length of, named the Bosphorus Water Tunnel, was constructed in 2012 to transfer water from the Melen Creek in Düzce Province ( to the east of the Bosphorus strait, in northwestern Anatolia ) to the European side of Istanbul, from a distance of.

On 14 September 2012 Brian Lara was inducted to the ICC's Hall of Fame at the awards ceremony held in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Santer was elected to the American Geophysical Union in 2011, and inducted into the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.

On March 6, 2012, it was announced that Brooks will be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

In 2012, Postel was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society.

* Leo Carlin, ticket manager, 1960 – present ; will be inducted on November 26, 2012

* 23 Troy Vincent, CB, 1996 – 2003 ; will be inducted on November 26, 2012

* In 2012, Zimmermann was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society.

Time selected Nurmi as the greatest Olympian of all time in 1996, and IAAF named him among the first twelve athletes to be inducted into the IAAF Hall of Fame in 2012.

In 2012, Crocker was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society.

As of 2012, the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame has inducted 66 representatives of the Giants ( 55 players and 11 managers ) into the Hall of Fame, more than any other team in the history of baseball.

Amos will be inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame on October 11, 2012.

In 2012, a special committee finally inducted the Comets into the hall.

In 2012, Roche was inducted into Irish America magazine's Hall of Fame.

Since 1959, 323 coaches, players, referees, contributors, and teams have been inducted, with the most recent class entering on September 7, 2012.

On November 29, 2011, it was announced that Kreutzberger would be inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in March 2012.

On April 14, 2012, The Crickets were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by a special committee, aimed at correcting the mistake of not including the band with Buddy Holly when he was first inducted in 1986.

In 2012 he was inducted into Modern Drummer's Drum Hall Of Fame.

In 2012, however, the committee ratified that mistake announcing that the group would be inducted on their own merit.

On April 14, 2012 Glyn Johns was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, honoured for musical excellence.

* Red Hot Chili Peppers ( inducted April 28, 2012 )

The Small Faces were recently inducted into the Rock n Roll of Fame 2012.

Kenneth Thomas " Kenney " Jones ( born 16 September 1948, London Hospital, Whitechapel, East London ) is a veteran English rock drummer best known for his work in the Small Faces and the Faces, for which he was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2012, and The Who.

Jodeci will be inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame on October 11, 2012.

He will be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in November as part of its 2012 class.