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 ).

< li > On June 15, 2012, a working Apple I was sold at auction by Sotheby's for a record $ 374, 500, more than double the expected price .</ li >

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.

Finnish Defence Forces reported on 3 September 2012 that the United States has not delivered any of the AMRAAM anti-aircraft missiles they had ordered due to a mysterious engine malfunction in cold weather that the manufacturer, Raytheon, has not been able to determine the fault of.

but such imports remain controversial even though in 2012 the EU was reported to import 30 million tons a year of GM crops.

As of 2012, major equipment items reported by the IISS included ten T-55 tanks ( marked as potentially unserviceable ), 5 AMX-13 light tanks, 34 reconnaissance vehicles, 10 BMP-1 / 2 armoured infantry fighting vehicles, 41 wheeled APCs, and 36 + artillery pieces.

Following several years more of war, the IISS reported only four aircraft in 2012: one Mil Mi-24 attack helicopter, and three SA330L Puma transports ( marked as potentially unserviceable ).

As of August 7, 2012, the project reported that the world has 16, 345 indexed primary degree confluence points and 6, 132 of them, in 185 countries, have been visited at least once.

Recently, on 26 April 2012, scientists reported that lichen survived and showed remarkable results on the adaptation capacity of photosynthetic activity within the simulation time of 34 days under Martian conditions in the Mars Simulation Laboratory ( MSL ) maintained by the German Aerospace Center ( DLR ).

The Standard Model of particle physics contains 12 flavors of elementary fermions, plus their corresponding antiparticles, as well as elementary bosons that mediate the forces and the Higgs boson, which was reported on July 4th, 2012, as having been likely detected by the two main experiments at the LHC ( ATLAS and CMS ).

Equipment reportedly includes 30 T-34 tanks, 8 T-54 tanks ( IISS 2012 ), and PT-76 light tanks ( 15 reported in service by IISS Military Balance 2012 ).

In February of 2012, it was reported in Turkish newspapers that another Syriac manuscript of the Gospel of Barnabas had been found in Cyprus in 2000, in an operation conducted by police against smugglers ; and, having been kept in a police repository since then, had been deposited in the Ethnography Museum of Ankara.

In February 2012, Busey filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, with reported liabilities of $ 500, 000 to $ 1, 000, 000.

On 23 January 2012, The Financial Post reported that Richard Baker ( owner of NDRC and governor of Hudson Bay's Company ) had dissolved Hudson ’ s Bay Trading Company and that the Hudson's Bay Company would now also operate the Lord & Taylor chain.

In 2012 it was reported that confidential agreements and negotiations had been entered into by the Haitian government granting licenses for exploration or mining of gold and associated metals such as copper for over 1, 000 square miles in the mineralized zone stretching from east to west across northern Haiti.

The 2012 HDI Practices and Salary Report reported that for the first time in the 20 years of the report, that Service Desk ( at 32. 3 %) is used more than Help Desk ( at 26. 6 %) or other names ( sum of which total 40. 1 %).

As of July 2012, " Hezbollah is ... reported to have up to 50, 000 missiles — more than three times the 13, 000 it reportedly held when it began launching rockets at Israel six years ago, leading to the Second Lebanon War.

Java is as of 2012 one of the most popular programming languages in use, particularly for client-server web applications, with a reported 10 million users.

* In 2009, it was reported that Roger Daltrey was developing a biographical film about Moon called See Me Feel Me: Keith Moon Naked for Your Pleasure, to be released in 2012.

and 2002, processes for growing gallium nitride ( GaN ) LEDs on silicon were successfully demonstrated, yielding high power LEDs reported in January 2012.

On 22 March 2012, it was reported that rebel troops from the military appeared on state TV announcing they had seized control of the country.

After the death of band member Greg Ham on 19 April 2012, many stories reported his disappointment at the ruling and " suggesting that this particular case and the ruling completely destroyed his life ".

Forbes reported that Whitacre was guest speaker at the Quantico FBI Academy during 2011 about second chances., and he was keynote speaker for the 40th Annual NAPSA ( Pre Trial Services and U. S. Federal Probation ) Conference in 2012 along with Robert F Kennedy, Jr.

An article in 2012 in a front-page story of the German news magazine Der Spiegel reported that much of the information pertaining to the mishandling of the massacre has been covered up by the German authorities for the past decades.

In August 2012, Der Spiegel reported that following the massacre, Germany began secret meetings with Black September, at the behest of the West German government, due to the fear that Black September would carry out other terrorist attacks in Germany.

On 16 July 2012, North Korean state media reported that the Chief of General Staff of the Korean People's Army Vice Marshal Ri Yong-ho had been relieved of all his Party duties, namely his Politburo Standing Committee membership, Politburo membership, and Party Central Military Commission vice-chairmanship, stating this move was due to unspecified illness.