* 2012 – The opening ceremony of the Summer Paralympic Games is held in London.

In January 2012, Aon announced that headquarters would be moved from Chicago to London.

The company moved its headquarters from Chicago to London in 2012.

They include the Olympics in Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000, Salt Lake City in 2002, Athens in 2004, Turin in 2006, Beijing in 2008, Vancouver in 2010, and London in 2012.

In April 2012, Marc Jenner from Tunbridge Wells in Kent, ran in the Virgin London Marathon dressed in a Bagpuss costume to raise money for the charity, supported by Emily Firmin and Oliver Postgate's family.

In 2009 – 10, the club won their first " Double " and in 2012 became the first London club to win the UEFA Champions League.

This seven-judge procedure has been modified as of the 2012 London Olympics: rather than eliminating one high and one low award and then reducing the total by as in previous international events, the two highest awards and the two lowest are disregarded, leaving three to be summed and multiplied by the difficulty rating.

The 2012 London Olympics saw the first use of eleven judges.

The score is computed similarly to the scores from other diving events, but has been modified starting with the 2012 London Olympics for the use of the larger judging panels.

They are being used for the London 2012 relay.

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.

* Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act, London: Allen Lane, 1975 ; with a new postscript, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977 ; London: Breviary Stuff Publications, 2012.

Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2012.

* Jeremy Naydler, Gardening as a Sacred Art ( London, Floris Books, 2012 ).

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.

Located in the London Borough of Hillingdon, in West London, Heathrow is the busiest airport in the United Kingdom and the third busiest airport in the world ( as of 2012 ) in terms of total passenger traffic, handling more international passengers than any other airport around the globe.

On 6 July 2005 London won the bid to host the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.

Prince Harry being driven through London during the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of 5 June 2012

On 12 August 2012, The Prince represented his grandmother, the Queen, at the Closing Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

* 2012 – The Shard in London is inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 metres ( 1, 020 ft ).

* 2012 – The opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England, United Kingdom.

File: Berthe Morisot-Sommertag-1879. jpeg | Summer Day National Gallery, London 1879

Summer is hot and humid throughout the state, with average highs in New London of 81 ° F ( 27 ° C ) and 87 ° F ( 31 ° C ) in Windsor Locks.

* Algar, N., " Hopper at Birmingham ," in Sight and Sound ( London ), Summer 1982

1908 Summer Olympics in London: Display of the British women's gymnastics team

* 1948 – Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad – after a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, open in London, England, United Kingdom.

* The London 2012 Summer Olympic Committee contacted The Who manager Bill Curbishley about Moon performing at the games, 34 years after his death.

In 2011 the United Kingdom's Royal Mint minted a fifty pence coin depicting a swimmer and another for the triathlon, in preparation for the 2012 Summer Olympics, to be held in London.

The sound itself was heard during a segment of the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in London as rock band Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody was played to the stadium.

The Madison was a Summer Olympic event for men from 2000-2008, but was dropped ahead of the 2012 London Olympics.

The Summer Olympics were resumed in 1948 in London and the Winter games were held that year in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

* April 27 – The 1908 Summer Olympics begin in London.

* July 29 – The 1948 Summer Olympics begin in London, the first since the 1936 Summer Olympics

He performed at the closing ceremony for the London 2012 Summer Olympics.

The London water tower, fire department, and London High School were featured in a Nike commercial promoting the 2012 Summer Olympics.

On 12 August 2012, Queen performed at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in London, England, United Kingdom.

In June 1939, the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) awarded the 1944 Olympic Summer Games to London, ahead of Rome, Detroit, Budapest, Lausanne, Helsinki, Montreal and Athens.

London, which had previously hosted the 1908 Summer Olympics, became the second city to host the Olympics twice ; Paris hosted the event in 1900 and 1924.

It became the first city to host the Olympics for the third time when London hosted the 2012 Summer Olympics.

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