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NOTE:
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SAUM / FASTING
• Fast means to stop.
• Fasting made obligatory in 2nd A.H.
• Fasting is commanded in al-Bakarah.
• Feed 60 people is the atonement for breaking the fast or sixty sontinuous fasts..
• Bab-ul-Riayn is the door for fast observing people.
• Tarrawih means to rest.
• Battle of Badr was fought in very first of Ramzan on 17th.
• Umar arranged the Namaz-e-Tarrawih.
• Month of Ramzan is known as Sayeed us Shahoor.
• Five days are forbidden for fasting throughout the year.
• Wajib means ordained.
• 1st Ashra of Ramzan=Ashra-e-Rehmat.
• 2nd Ashra=Ashra-e-Maghfirat.
• 3rd Ashra=Ashra-e-Nijat.
HAJJ
• Hajj means to intend.
• Hajj made compulsory in 9 A.H.
• First Hajj offered in 9 A.H.
• Hajj ordained in Surah Bakr.
• The holy prophet performed only 1 Hajj in 10th A.H.
• There are 3 types of Hajj.
• One tawaf of Kaaba is known as Shoot.
• Tawaf begins from Shoot.
• Number of Jamarat is 3.
• Mosque located in Mina is Kheef.
UMMUL MOMINEEN
• Umat-ul-Momineen is called to Wives of Holy prophet.
• Zainab bint Khazeema is known as Ummal Masakeen.
• Hazat Umme-e-Salma the wife of holy prophet died in last.
• Abu Bakar gave the collection of Quran to Hazrat Hafsa.
• Khadija died on the tenth of Ramadan 10 Nabvi.
• Khadija was buried in Hujun above Makka
• In the Cottage of Hazrat Ayesha, prophet spent his last days.
• Khadija died at 65 years age.
• Last wife of Prophet Um Maimoona.
• Khadija belonged to the tribe of Banu Asad.
• First woman to lead an Islamic army Ayesha: Jange Jamal
• Ayesha narrated maximum number of ahadith.
• The second wife named Sauda.
• Zainub bint Jaish (Surah Ahzab) was married to the Prophet though Allah’s revelation or will.
• Daughter of Umer who married to Prophet was Hafsa.
• Ummmul momineen died last was Umaay Salma.
• Hazrat Khadija was the first person to read Namaz amongst the Ummah of the Prophet.
• Umm-e-Salma was alive at Karbala tragedy. She was the last of the wives of Prophet to die.
• Ummul Momineen Ummay Habiba was daughter of Abu Sufyan.
• Ummul Momineen Ummay Habiba migrated to Abyssinia and Madina as well.
• Ummul Momineen Hazrat Safia was the progeny of Hazrat Haroon.
• After the victory of Khyber, Prophet married Hazrat Safia.
• Hazrat Maria Qibtiya gave birth to Hazrat Ibrahim, son of Prophet.
• Hazrat Khadija was buried at Jannat-e-Moalla in Macca.
• Najashi was the king through which Prophet married to Ummay Habiba.
• The Umm-ul-Momineen Javeria’s actual name was Barrah.
• Hazrat Khadija received salutation from Allah.
• Third wife of Prophet was Hazrat Ayesha.
• Sauda said about Ayesha “My soul might be in her body”
• Hazrat Khadija was the only Ummul Momineen who was not buried in Jannatul Baqi.
• Prophet not offerd funeral prayer of Khadija due to Allah’s will.
• Ayesha is called Al-Tayyabeen.
• The eldest daughter of Prophet was Zainab.
• Grand daughter of Prophet was Ummamah.
• Hazrat Ruqia died on the day of the victory of battle of Badr she was the wife of Usman.
• After Ruqia’s death Ummay Kalsoom married Usman.
• Qasim was born in 11 years before Prophethood.
• Hassan is known as Shabbar which means handsome.
• For 14 months Hasan remained Khalifa.
• Hasan is buried at Jannat-ul-Baq’ee.
• Total number of sons of Prophet was 3.
• Eldest son of the Prophet Qasim.
• Third son-in-law of Prophet was Abul A’as.
COMPANIONS OF PROPHET
• Hazrat Asad died first among the Sahabah.
• Hamza & Hussain are known as leader of Martyrs.
• Hazrat Usman Bin Talha was the Key holder of Kaaba.
• Hazrat Saad bin Ubi waqas conquered Persia firstly.
• Qabeela bin Qais is known as cup bearer of Zam Zam.
• Abbas was instrumental in bringing abu Sufiyan in Islam.
• Periods of Caliphs
• Abu Bakar 632-634
• Hazrat Umar 634-644
• Hazrat Usman 644-656
• Hazrat Ali 656-661
• Abu Bakar 2 years 3 months.
• Hazrat Umar 10 years 5 months 21 days.
• Hazrat Usman 12 years.
• Hazrat Ali 4 years 9 months.
• Hazrat Abu Bakar was the merchant of cloth.
• Real name of Hazrat Abu Bakar was Abdullah.
• Apostasy movement took place in the khilafat of Abu Bakar.
4) What is Sahihain:
a) Mishkat
b) Bukhari
c) Bukhari and Muslim
d) Ibne Majah
9) What is Istelam:
a) Salam to Kaaba
b) Salam to Hajre Aswad
c) Kissing Hajre Aswad
d) Praying at Muqam –e-Ibrahim
21) The word Muhammad (SAW) as a name has been mentioned in Quran only:
(a) Two times
(b) Four times
c) Six times
d) Seven times
33) What was the total number of idols which were fixed around the Kaaba?
(a) 260
(b) 360
(c) 460
(d) 560
38) Name of the son of Hazarat Yaqoob (A.S) whose off-springs are the Jews.
(a) Tibrani
(b) Yahooda
(c) Ishaq (a.s)
(d) Yousaf (a.s)
HUMAN BLOOD
• Universal donor group is O group
• Total volume of blood in human body is 5.5 liters (chk 6 liters)
GENE/CELL
• The genetic material of chromatin is DNA
• Hereditary material is DNA
• Gender of a person is determined by 23rd chromosome
• Autosome are sex chromosome = 23
• Nucleus of human body cell contains about 20,000 genes, half of which being contributed by each parent
• Term gene was coined by Johannsen in 1909
• DNA = Deoxy ribose nucleic acid
• RNA = Ribose nucleic acid
• Histones are on chromosomes
DISEASES/CURE
• TB tuberculosis is a bacterial disease
• Bacillus causes TB
• Salmonella Typhus are bacteria causing Typhoid
• Vibrio cholera cause Cholera
• Clostridium Tetni cause Tetanus
ORES
• Ore of Aluminum is Bauxite
• Pyrolusite is an ore of manganese
• Myrolusite is an ore of Manganese.
• Ore of Gold is Native Gold
• Argentite is an ore of silver
• Magnetite and hematite are iron ores.
• The important ore of Chromium is Chromite
• Bauxite is an ore of aluminum. It contains mineral alumina, or aluminum oxide.
• Diaspore, Felspar, Alurite, Zibcite, and Bauxite are the ores of Aluminum.
• Malachite is an ore of Copper
• Radium is extracted from an ore called Pitch Blonde
• Which element is extracted from the ore Sphalerite-Zinc
• Saccharine is obtained from coal tar
• What is extracted from the ore cinnabar-Mercury
• What is extracted from the ore caserite-Tin
• Aqua Regia is the mixture of Nitric Acid and HCL in 1:3.
ALLOYS
• Bronze is the mixture of Copper and tin.
• Brass is an alloy of Copper and Zinc
CHEMICAL FORMULAS
• Common Salt is NaCl = sodium chloride
• Chun is Ca(OH)2 = calcium hydroxide
• Washing soda = Na2CO3= sodium carbonate
• Baking soda = NaHCO3 = sodium bicarbonate
• Chalk = CaCO3 = calcium carbonate
• Plaster of Paris = CaSO4.1/2 H2O
• Gypsum salt is CaSo4 + 2H2O.
• Cholestrol = C27 H46O
• Carbohydrates = C+O+H
• Protein = C+Nitrogen + O+H
• C2 H5 OH is the formula of what Alcohol
• H14 N2 is a poisonous alkaloid consumed daily by millions what-Nicotine
• What element was named after the Greek word for green-Chlorine
• What elements name comes from the Greek for light bearing-Phosphorous
• Alphabetically what is the first element in the periodic table-Actinium
• What elements name comes from the Greek word for violet-Iodine
• Mercury is also known as Quick Silver
• Coal is also known as Black Diamond
• The lightest known metal is Lithium
• The oil used to preserve timber is Creosote oil
GEOGRAPHY OF EARTH
• Longitude is measured from East to West
• Latitude is measured from North to South of Equator.
• New Zealand is close to Int: Date Line.
• Arabia is the larges peninsula.
• Antarctica is in South Pole.
• The largest latitude circle on earth is the Equator.
• Equinox (equal nights) means the equal duration of day & night.
• Lines drawn parallel to equator is latitude
• 1 hour difference in local time between two places is 15 deg: Longitude
• 23 degree longitude is Tropic of Cancer
• 70% of earth’s surface is covered with water
• Isobar is the lines joining places of equal air pressure on a map
• Isohyets are lines joining places of equal rainfall over a period
• Isotherm are Lines of equal temperature
• Contours are places with equal altitude
• There are 36 tectonic plates
• Crust of earth is 0.5%
• Upper part of earth on which earth floats is Asthensosphere
• Earth’s speed is greatest when it is closest to the sun
• Spring tide occurs when earth, moon and sun are in straight line
• Isthmus is a narrow land strip separating two seas and connecting two land marks
• Day and night are equal on 21st March (at all parallel of latitude) and 23rd September
• Core of earth is metallic
• Temperature at earth’s core is 2000 deg: C
• Tide at its maximum height is spring tide
• International dateline lies along 180 deg: meridian
• Speed of earth rotation is highest at the north pole
• Minimum land area recommended for forest is 25%
• Earth’s total surface covered by forests is 15%
• Ordovician are the oldest rock
• Earthquake is a post volcanic activity
• Of total water on earth, fresh water reserves are 2.7%
• Highest grade of coal is Anthracite
• Coal mainly suitable for thermal power production is Bituminous
• First stage of coal formation is Peat
• Equator is called the great circle
• Mean radius of earth is 6400 km
• Total world surface area is 510 million sq: km
• soil formed by deposition of silt is Alluvial soil
• Winds blow from areas of high pressure to low pressure.
• Movement of tectonic plates may cause eruption of a volcano
FACTS OF EARTH
• Largest element found in earth crust is Silicon, second is Aluminum
• Polar diameter of earth is 7900 miles
• Equatorial diameter is 7927 miles = 12,756 km
• Earth’s polar diameter is shorter than the equatorial diameter by 43 km
• Distance of equator from either of poles is 10,002 km
• World is divided into 24 time zones
• Age of earth is 5 billion years
• Speed of earth in orbit around sun is 8.5 miles/sec = 1600 km/min = 29 km/sec
• Weight of earth is 6586 x 10 raise to 18 tons
• Earth has 46.6% oxygen and 27.7% silicon
• On 21st June, sun is vertically overhead the Tropic of Cancer
• The South Temperate zone lies between Capricorn and Antarctic circle
• At equator the duration of the day is 12 hours
• 510 million square kilometers is the total surface area of the earth
• Sun is 400 times larger than the Moon.
• About 6 billion people living on the Earth.
• When are you most likely to see a penumbra: During an Eclipse
• At equator an object weights the least.
• A wind which reverses seasonally is Monsoon.
• Water is the most powerful source of erosion
• Tropic of cancer crosses Pakistan.
• Spring tides occur at new moon or at full moon.
• Neap tides occur at first and third quarters of the moon.
• Oceans are on average 4 km deep.
• Frozen water covers about 10% of the earth
• Solar eclipse occurs on new moon.
• Lunar eclipse occurs on full moon.
• The standard time of England is known as Greenwich Mean Time. T is local time of Greenwich Observatory which on
0° longitude.
• Daylight saving time begun during WWI.
• There are three belts of calm viz: Doldrums, Tropic of Cancer & Tropic of Capricorn.
• Horn of Africa is Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia.
• Kimberley is associated with Diamonds.
• In Titusfills in Pennsylvania (US) is world’s first oil-well drilled.
• Thickness of earth crust 20 miles.
• Max height of cloud 20,000.
2. The field of specialization of famous Muslim scientist Abu Usman Aljahiz was:
Zoology
3. Albatros is:
A sea bird
19. The earth’s ………………. is divided into 15 major plates of various sizes:
Lithosphere
24. Uranium is best used as nuclear fuel in one of the following forms:
U 235
27. One of the following countries produces maximum energy from atomic reactors:
France
32. Dacron is
a. Polyethylene
34. An area of microbiology that is concerned with the occurence of disease in human population is
Epidemiology
35. The number of electrons of a neutral atom is automatically known if one knows the:
Atomic number
40. The damage to the ..............nerve could result in the defect of the eye movement:
Cranial nerve
45. Which of the following does not vary predictably with the depth of the aquatic environment?
Salinity
47. Which of the following is not a major sub division of the biosphere?
Stratosphere
49. When a patient's immune system becomes reactive to a drug, this is an example of:
Allergy
Gyroscope: is an instrument used to illustrate dynamics of rotating bodies. It is a type of spinning wheel fixed to the
axle.
Hydrometer: is an instrument used for measuring the specific gravity of liquids.
Hydrophone: is an instrument used for recording sound under water.
Hygrometer: is an instrument used for measuring humidity in air.
Kymograph: is an instrument used to record graphically various physiological movements i.e., blood pressure, heart
beating, study of lungs etc in living beings.
Lactometer: is an apparatus used for measuring the purity of milk.
Manometer: for determining the pressure of a gas.
Mariner’s Compass: is an apparatus which is used to guide the sailors. The needle always points north-south.
Micrometer: is an instrument used for converting sound i.e., fraction of the lowest division of a given scale.
Microphone: is an instrument used for converting sound waves into electrical vibrations.
Microscope: is an instrument which is used for magnifying minute objects by a lens system.
Microtome: is used for cutting an object into thin parts for microscopic inspection.
Odometer: is an instrument by virtue of which the distance covered by wheeled vehicles is recorded.
Periscope: It is usually used by the crew of a submarine to survey the ships etc, on the surface of the sea while the
submarine is under water. It also enables the sailors to observe objects on the other side of an obstacle without
exposing themselves.
Phonograph: is an instrument used for reproducing sound.
Photometer: is an apparatus used to compare the illuminating power of two sources of light.
Pipette: It is a glass tube with the aid of which a definite volume of liquid may be transferred.
Potentiometer: is used for comparing the e.m.f.s, of cells, measurements of the thermal e.m.f.s, large potential
differences and currents. It is also used for measuring low resistances.
Psychrometer: is an instrument for measurement of the humidity of the atmosphere.
Pyrometer: is an instrument for recording high temperatures from a great distance (i.e., for recording temperature of
the sun etc.) by making use of the laws of radiation.
Radar: Radio, Angle, Detection And Range is used to detect the direction and range of an approaching aeroplane by
means of radio microwaves.
Rain Gauge: is an apparatus for recording of rainfall at a particular place.
4. ZAKRIYA AL RAZI
Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Zakariya Al Razi 865 to 925 AD Persia. He was great physician. Known as Rhazes in West
His field of interest were Physics and Chemistry. Most brilliant pillar of Islamic medicine. contributed in the fields
of music, mathematics, astronomy, ethics. Earned title, Father of Pediatrics, by writing his monograph on "Diseases in
Children". He believed in five eternal principles in metaphysics namely Creator, Soul, Matter, Time and space. He was
first scientist to classify substances into vegetables, animals and minerals. His famous books are:
Arabian Medicine
Al Hawi
kitab Al Mansuri
Al Judari Wal Hasbah
Kitab Al Asrar
Barr ul Saat
Kitab Al Asraar
Fi jamal il musuqi
6. AL-BIRUNI
Abu Rehan muhamad al biruni was born in 973 AD in khwarzim. He was simultaneously a physician, astronomer,
mathematician, physicist, geographer and historian. He learnt Sanskrit language in order to investigate Indian
knowledge. He explained the problems of advanced trigonometry. it was he who discovered that light travels faster
than sound. He accurately determinded the weight of 18 stones in physics. He gave an understaning to the tems of
longitudes and latitudes. He died at the age of 75 years in 1048 AD. His books are:
TAhqiq al Hind
7. IBN AL HAITHUM
Abul Ali Hassan Ibn Al Haithum born in 975 AD Basrah. Alhazan in West. Outstanding Mathematician, physiologists
and optician. Famous for his optical works which were translated in Latin. He explained refraction of light rays through
transparent objects, discovered magnifying lenses, and the function of retina as the seat of vision. He dentified gravity
as force, a theory which later developed by Newton. He observed the semi lunar shape of the image of the Sun during
eclipse on a wall opposite a fine hole in the window-shutters, the first record camera obscure. He died in Cairo in 1039
AD. His famous books are:
Uyunul Ariba fi Tabaqaat il Atibba
Kitab Al Manazar
ON twilight Phenomena
Mizanul Hikma
Configuration of the Universe
8. IBN AL BAITAR
Born in Malaga (spain) at the end of 12th century. Great Botanist and Pharmacist. He made complete collection of
plants and herbs extending from Spain to Syria. He discovered many new plants and extracted medical drugs from
them. His work was considered and authority in plants and he gave new orientation to the classification and
nomenclature of plant kingdom over which modern botany is based. He died in Damascus in 1248 A.D. He was the
author of following famous books:
Kitab Al Jami fi Adwiya Al Mufzada
Jami
Mughani
Fold mountains: these mountains are mainly made up of folded strata of sedimentary rocks.These rocks are folded
when they are compressed.These are the highest mountains of the world e.g the alps ,the himalayas, rockies.
Block mountains: These are parts of the earth's crust which have been uplifted due to the earth's movement along
the line of weakness called faults.
Residual mountains: these are formed by the differences in the rates of erosion.
Volcanic mountains: These mountains are formed by accumulation of material erupted from the interior of the earth
Balanced Diet
13. Balanced diet – 1993, 2002, 2007, 2008,
14. Pasteurization – 1987, 1995, 2001, 2008
15. Disease caused by deficiency – 1987
16. Sources of Vitamins – 1990
Computers
17. Software – 1991, 2000, 2002
18. Registers – 1998, 2000
19. Computers – 1991
20. Microcomputers – 1991
21. Peripheral – uses – 1991
Universe
40. Solar System - 1999, 2002, 2003, 2008
41. Planets – 1986, 2002
42. Lunar Eclipse – 1994, 1999
43. Solar Eclipse – 1999
44. Hovering Satellite – 1994
45. Steroid – 2002
46. Mercury – 2004
47. Plato – 2004
48. Communication satellite – 2005
49. Satellites – 2007
50. Supernova – 2008
51. Synchronous satellite - 2009
52. Big Dipper - 2009
53. Nebula - 2009
Hazards of Sciences
54. Water pollution – 1995, 2000, 2001, 2005
55. Global warming – 1998, 2004, 2006
56. Green house effect – 1998, 2001, 2009
57. Acid rain – 1990, 2002
58. Environmental pollution – 1988
59. Reclaim a saline soil – 1989
60. Water logging – 1989
61. Salinity – 1989
62. Ozone depletion - 1996
Geography
63. Earthquake – 1989, 1998, 2008
64. Heavy water – 1989, 1985
65. Structure of earth – 1997, 2003
66. Minerals – 2002, 2009
67. Lightening – 1985
68. Seasonal variation – 1991
69. Movements of the earth and its atmosphere – 2000
70. Seismograph – 2004
71. Tsunami – 2005
72. Sedimentary rocks – 2007
73. Days and nights – 1991
74. Volcanoes – 1999
75. International Date Line – 1998
76. Deforestation – 1995
77. Igneous rocks - 2009
Biology
78. Pollination (cross) – 1988, 1991, 2001, 2003
79. Photosynthesis – 1987, 1988, 1998, 2001
80. Ecosystem – 1994, 2000, 2001, 2002
Chemistry
129. aPolymer (synthetic) – 1994, 2001, 2002
130. Heavy water
131. Soft water
132. Carbon cycle – 1992, 1998, 2000
133. Suplhide Cynnabar (Hgs) – 2003
134. Catalyst – 1992
135. Fermentation - 2009
136. Aqua Regia - 2009
137. Enrichment of Uranium - 2009
138. Allotropy - 2009
Diseases
139. Virus –1987, 1994
140. Meningistis – 2000
141. Pollen allergy – 2006
142. Bird flu – 2006
143. Short sightedness – 1998
Physics
145. Nuclear fission – 1986, 1987, 1998, 2001
146. Fusion – 1986, 1998, 2001
147. Radioactivity – 1989, 2008
148. Law of gravitation – 1992
149. Conductor – 1998
150. Resistor – 1998
151. Transistor – 1998
152. Escape velocity – 1999
153. Optic fiber – 2003
Inventions of Science
154. Laser – 1986, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008
155. Pesticides – 1990, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2003
156. Semiconductor – 1990, 1998, 2000, 2008
157. Antibiotics – 1989, 1996, 2001, 2002
158. Ceramics – 1996, 2001, 2007, 2008
159. Telephone – 1990, 1994, 2000
160. RADAR – 1986, 2001
161. Vaccine – 1990, 1996, 2001
162. Television – 1999, 2001
163. Plastics – 1986, 2008
164. Fertilizers – 2002, 2004
165. Microwave oven – 2001, 2008
166. Immunization – 1995
167. Transmistor – 1998
168. Escape velocity – 1999
169. PVC – 2001
170. Tape recorder – 2001
171. Camera – 2008
172. Teleprinter- 2009
173. Vacuum Cleaner - 2009
Miscellaneous
174. Ultrasonic waves – 1986, 2005
175. Plaster of Paris – 1998, 2006
176. Microwave oven – 2001, 2008
177. Radio waves – 1990
178. Antibody – 1998
179. Scavenger – 1998
180. Superconductivity – 2004
181. Night Vision Technology – 2004
182. Supersonics – 2006
183. Short circuit – 1998
184. Shockwaves – 2005
185. Second barrier – 2005
186. Solar cell – 2005
187. Reaction time – 1998
188. Quartz – 2003
189. Allele – 2002
190. Pressure cooker – 2001
191. Paramagnetism and diamagnetism – 2001
192. CNG – 2001
193. Super fluid – 2005
194. Photovoltaic cell – 2005
195. Theodolite – 2006
196. Hygrometer – 2005
197. Role of Nitrogen and phosphorous in plant – 1990
198. Modulation – 1995
199. Saponification – 1997
200. Nuclear reactor – 2007
Consciousness:
Meaning: the state of understanding and realizing something.
Use in sentence: Her consciousness that she's different makes her feel uneasy.
Conscientiousness:
Meaning: putting a lot of effort into your work/ controlled by or done according to conscience
Use in sentence: She has always been a very conscientious worker.
Ingenious:
Meaning: very clever and skilful
Use in sentence: She was ingenious at finding ways to work more quickly.
Ingenuous:
Meaning: honest, sincere and trusting/ showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness
Use in sentence: It has to be said it was rather ingenuous of him to ask a complete stranger to look after his luggage.
Fantastic:
Meaning: extremely good
Use in sentence: You look fantastic in that dress.
Fanatical:
Meaning: describes someone whose admiration for something is considered to be extreme or unreasonable
Use in sentence: His enthusiasm for aerobics was almost fanatical.
Honourable:
Meaning: a title used before the name of some government officials
Use in sentence: The Honourable Andrew Robinson
Honorary:
Meaning: given as an honour to someone
Use in sentence: She received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University in recognition of her work for the
homeless.
Politician:
Meaning: a member of a government or law-making organization
Use in sentence: We do not have good politicians in our country.
Statesman:
Meaning: an experienced politician, especially one who is respected for making good judgments
Use in sentence: He was a soldier and statesman.
Grateful:
Meaning: showing or expressing thanks, especially to another person
Use in sentence: I'm so grateful (to you) for all that you've done.
Gratified:
Meaning: to please someone, or to satisfy a wish or need
Use in sentence: We were gratified by the response to our appeal.
Imaginary:
Meaning: describes something that is created by and exists only in the mind; that is not real
Use in sentence: As a child I had an imaginary friend called Polly.
Imaginative:
Meaning: of, relating to, or characterized by imagination
Use in sentence: The architects have made imaginative use of glass and transparent plastic.
Negligent:
Negligible:
Meaning: too slight or small in amount to be of importance
Use in sentence: The difference between the two products is negligible.
Placable:
Meaning: to stop from being angry
Use in sentence: The Canaanites had many gods and they ran here, there and everywhere to placate these gods.
Placeable:
Meaning: capable of being recognized
Use in sentence: An easy thing you could do is making clocks placeable on walls.
Restive:
Meaning: unwilling to be controlled or be patient
Use in sentence: The audience was becoming restive as they waited for the performance to begin.
Restless:
Meaning: unwilling or unable to stay still or to be quiet and calm, because you are worried or bored
Use in sentence: He's a restless type - he never stays in one country for long.
Amiable:
Meaning: describes a person or their behavior that is pleasant and friendly
Use in sentence: So amiable was the mood of the meeting that a decision was soon reached.
Amicable:
Meaning: relating to behavior between people that is pleasant often despite a difficult situation
Use in sentence: His manner was perfectly amicable but I felt uncomfortable.
Considerable:
Meaning: large or of noticeable importance
Use in sentence: The fire caused considerable damage to the church.
Considerate:
Meaning: kind and helpful
Use in sentence: She promises to be quieter and more considerate in future.
Ingenious:
Meaning: very clever and skillful
Use in sentence: She was ingenious at finding ways to work more quickly.
Ingenuous:
Meaning: honest, sincere and trusting/ showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness
Use in sentence: It has to be said it was rather ingenuous of him to ask a complete stranger to look after his
luggage.(Pair Repeated: 1)
Momentary:
Meaning: lasting for a very short time
Use in sentence: Be careful not to make even momentary short circuits with metal tools.
Momentous:
Meaning: very important because of effects on future events
Use in sentence: Whether or not to move overseas was a momentous decision for the family.
Virtuous:
Meaning: having good moral qualities and behavior
Use in sentence: He described them as a virtuous and hard-working people.
Virtual:
Meaning: describes something that can be done or seen using a computer and therefore without going anywhere or
talking to anyone
Use in sentence: In tests, we have found the virtual machine runs at a reasonable speed.
At a par:
Meaning: A term that refers to a bond, preferred stock or other debt obligation that is trading at its face value.
Use in sentence: Due to ever-changing interest rates, financial instruments almost never trade exactly at par..
Compliment:
Meaning: remark that expresses approval, admiration or respect
Use in sentence: I take it as a compliment when people say I look like my mother.
Complement:
Meaning: to make something else seem better or more attractive when combining with it
Use in sentence: The music complements her voice perfectly.
Complacent:
Meaning: Satisfied
Use in sentence: We can't afford to become complacent about any of our products.
Complaisant:
Meaning: willing to please; affably agreeable; obliging
Use in sentence: Can we really sit back and watch the suffering of a whole nation and be so complaisant?
State:
Meaning: a country or its government
Use in sentence: Britain is one of the member states of the European Union.
Government:
Meaning: the group of people who officially control a country
Use in sentence: The government is expected to announce its/their tax proposals today.
Eminent:
Meaning: famous, respected or important
Use in sentence: An eminent historian
Prominent:
Meaning: very well-known and important
Use in sentence: The government should be playing a more prominent role in promoting human rights.
Below:
Meaning: in a lower position
Use in sentence: From the top of the skyscraper the cars below us looked like insects.
Beneath:
Meaning: in or to a lower position
Use in sentence: Jeremy hid the letter beneath a pile of papers.
Portly:
Meaning: fat and round
Use in sentence: He was a portly figure in a tight-fitting jacket and bow tie.
Comely:
Meaning: describes a woman who is attractive in appearance
Use in sentence: She is very comely.
Setup:
Meaning: the way in which something is set up
Use in sentence: This allows simplified setup of Local Area Networking devices.
Set upon:
Meaning: to attack someone
Use in sentence: He was set upon by a vicious dog.
Shall:
Meaning: used instead of 'will' when the subject is 'I' or 'we'
Will:
Meaning: used to talk about what is going to happen in the future, especially things that you are certain about or
things that are planned
Use in sentence: Clare will be five years old next month.
Sink:
Meaning: to (cause something or someone to) go down below the surface or to the bottom of a liquid or soft
substance
Use in sentence: Enemy aircraft sank two battleships.
Drown:
Meaning: to (cause to) die by being unable to breathe under water
Use in sentence: He drowned in a boating accident.
Altar:
Meaning: a type of table used in ceremonies in a Christian church or in other religious buildings
Use in sentence: A 3rd century Roman pagan altar was also recently found on the site.
Alter:
Meaning: to change something
Use in sentence: We've had to alter some of our plans.
Apposite:
Meaning: suitable and right for the occasion
Use in sentence: It is, however, apposite to note that this process will continue in the year ahead.
Opposite:
Meaning: completely different
Use in sentence: You'd never know they're sisters - they're completely opposite to each other in every way.
Bear:
Meaning: to accept, tolerate or endure especially something unpleasant
Use in sentence: It's your decision - you must bear the responsibility if things go wrong.
Bare:
Meaning: without any clothes or not covered by anything
Use in sentence: Don't walk around outside in your bare feet.
Complacent:
Meaning: Satisfied
Use in sentence: We can't afford to become complacent about any of our products.
Complaisant:
Meaning: willing to please; affably agreeable; obliging
Use in sentence: Can we really sit back and watch the suffering of a whole nation and be so complaisant? (Pair
Repeated: 1)
Confident:
Meaning: having confidence
Use in sentence: Be a bit more confident in yourself!
Confidant:
Meaning: a person you trust and share your feelings and secrets with
Use in sentence: Within a few short years he was a trusted confidant.
Disease:
Meaning: illness of people, animals, plants, etc.
Use in sentence: Starvation and diseases have killed thousands of refugees.
Decease:
Meaning: a person's death
Use in sentence: The house will not be yours till after your mother's decease.
Gate:
Meaning: a part of a fence or outside wall that is fixed at one side and opens and closes like a door
Gait:
Meaning: a particular way of walking
Use in sentence: He walked with a slow stiff gait.
Judicial:
Meaning: involving a court of law
Use in sentence: The defense team will seek a judicial review of the sentence.
Judicious:
Meaning: having or showing reason and good judgment in making decisions
Use in sentence: We should make judicious use of the resources available to us.
Ingenious:
Meaning: very clever and skillful
Use in sentence: She was ingenious at finding ways to work more quickly.
Ingenuous:
Meaning: honest, sincere and trusting/ showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness
Use in sentence: It has to be said it was rather ingenuous of him to ask a complete stranger to look after his
luggage.(Pair Repeated: 2)
Yoke:
Meaning: a wooden bar which is fastened over the necks of two animals, especially cattle, and connected to the
vehicle or load that they are pulling
Use in sentence: In just a few weeks another 10 nations, many freed from the yoke of Communist oppression.
Yolk:
Meaning: the yellow, middle part of an egg
Use in sentence: I like eggs lightly cooked so that the yolk is still runny.
2) who was the mughal emperor who accepted the British pension firstly?
Shah Alam-II
6) Before 1857 how many Universities on Western pattern were established in India?
None
10) The first session of Muslim Educational Conference was held at:
Aligarh in 1886
15) In Kashmir the ceasefire between Pakistan and India was signed on:
27th july 1949
21) Sir syed ahmed khan advocated the inclusion of Indians in Legislative Council in his famous book, Causes of the
Indian Revolt, as early as:
a) 1850 b) 1860 c) 1870 d) None of these
22) Who repeatedly refers to Sir Syed as Father of Muslim India and Father of Modern Muslim India:
a) Hali b) Abdul Qadir c) Ch. Khaliquz Zaman d) None of these
23) Military strength of East India Company and the Financial Support of Jaggat Seth of Murshidabad gave birth to
events at:
a) Plassey b) Panipat c) None of these
24) Clive in one of his Gazettes made it mandatory that no Muslim shall be given an employment higher than that of
chaprasy or a junior clerk has recorded by:
a) Majumdar b) Hasan Isphani c) Karamat Ali d) None of these
25) The renowned author of the Spirit of Islam and a Short History of the Saracens was:
a) Shiblee b) Nawab Mohsin c) Syed Ameer Ali
26) Nawab Sir Salimullah Khan was President of Bengal Musilm Leage in:
a) 1903 b) 1913 c) 1923 d) 1912
27) The first issue of Maualana Abul Kalam Azads „Al Hilal‟ came out on 13 July:
a) 1912 b) 1922 c) 1932 d) none of these
28) At the annual session of Anjuman Hamayat Islam in 1911 Iqbal‟s poem was recited, poetically called:
a) Sham-o-Shahr b) Shikwa c) Jawab-i-Shikwa d) None of these
29) Sir sultan Muhammad shah, the agha khan headed the historic simla deputation which successfully presented
Muslim demands on 01, October 1906 before:
a) Lord Curzon b) Lord Irwin c) lord Minto d) None of these
30) Quaid-i-Azam said in an interview on any hope of India and Pakistan coming to a peaceful settlement „provided
the Indian government shed the superiority complex and deal with Pakistan on an equal footing given to special
correspondent from:
a) Germany b) France c) Switzerland d) None of these
33) In the Hindu Kush mountains all passes connect Pakistan with:
a) China b) Afghanistan c) Tajikistan d) None of these
36) In connection with land reforms the Punjab tenancy act was passed in:
a) 1877 b) 1887 c) 1897 d) none of these
38) Kalabagh iron deposits are largest in Pakistan with an estimated reserve of:
a) 309 m tons b) 509 m tons c) 709 m tons d) None of these
39) Cotton textile the largest industry of Pakistan employ industrial labour force of magnitude of ?
a) 80 % b) 65 % c) 50% d) 36-40%
40) The emergence of Gwadar port and its development has promoted :
a) Rural –urban migration b) Urban-urban migration c) None of these
41) From 1858 upto about 1870 nearly all British Politicians, authors blamed the Muslims for:
a. Disloyalty b. Independence c. Leadership d. None of these
44) Indian Khilafat Deputation visited England to put their views before LIyod George in:
a. 1940 b. 1930 c. 1920 d. None of these
47) In 1917 Kheiri Brothers suggested a plan of partition of India in conference of the Socialist International held in:
a. London b. Oslo c. Stockholm d. None of these
48) In 1928 Agha Khan III advocated independence of each province at the meeting of All parties convention in:
a. Patna b. Hyderabad c. Calcutta d. None of these
49) Founder of Pakistan M.A. Jinnah declared unequivocally that “it is impossible to work a democratic parliamentary
government in India” in press interview given to:
a. The Hindustan Times b. Manchester Guardian c. The Financial Times d. None of these
50) Kazi Saeed-ud-Din Ahmad, an Aligarh geographer clearly demarcated areas to substantiate the two nation theory
were in all:
a. Four b. Six c. Eight d. None of these
51) On 7th August, Muhammad Ali Jinnah left India for the last time and flew to:
a. Quetta b. Lahore c. Karachi d. None of these
52) Junagadh was a small maritime sate and had an area of:
a. 4500 Sq Km b. 9000 Sq Km c. 10000 Sq Km d. None of these
54) The Salt Range lies in the large accumulation of pure salt at Khewra and:
a. Attock b. Jhelum c. Kalabagh d. None of these
57) Relics of stone tools found in caves and terraces that date back to Pleistocene period have been discovered in:
a. Sind b. Punjab (Soan village nearby Rawalpindi)c. Balochistan d. None of these
58) National Highway Authority receipts to the tune of 1850 million rupees have been reported by May:
a. 2002 b. 2003 c. 2004 d. None of these
60) Pakistan foreign policy is the safe-guarding of its sovereignty, security and:
a. International Relations b. External Trade c. Territorial integrity d. None of these
61) The first Muslim general entered Victorious in the sub-continent Indo-Pak in the year:
(a) 612 AD (b) 712 AD (c) 812 AD (d) None of these
62) On the execution of Muhammad Bin Qasim, the rule of Caliph ended and Arab princes in Mansura (Sindh) and
Multan (Punjab) established their independent dynasties in Sub-continent in the year:
(a) 861 AD (b) 871 AD (c) 881 AD (d) None of these
63) Who became the first Sultan of newly established Muslim Sultanate of Delhi in 1207:
(a) Shahabudin Ghuri (b) Qatub-din Aibek (c) Zaheer-u-din Babar (d) None of these
64) Who has written the book entitled "The Making of Pakistan"
(a) Qurashi I.H. (b) Muhammad Ali Ch. (c) Waheed-uz-Zaman (d) K.K.Aziz
67) Quaid-e-Azam called Islam "Our bedrock and sheet anchor" while addressing:
(a) Punjab Students Federation (b) Muslim Students Peshawar (c) Indian Muslims (d) None of these
68) The resolution for formation of All-Indian Muslim League was passed at the meeting of All India Educational
Conference (1906) and was moved by:
(a) Nawab Viqar ul Mulk (b) Nawab Mohsin ul Mulk (c) Nawab Salim ullah (d) None of these
69) The demand of separate electorate for Indian Muslims was first accepted in the Act of:
(a) 1909 (b) 1919 (c) 1935 (d) None of these
70) The provincial governments of Congress resigned and All-India Muslim League as a mark of relief observed the
"Day of Deliverance" on:
(a) 22 Oct. 1939 (b) 22 Nov. 1939 (c) 22 Dec. 1939 (d) None of these
71) The Lahore Resolution was amended and Pakistan was made an integral part of League's objective. The
amendment was made in the Annual session (1941) of All India Muslim League, which was held at:
(a) Karachi (b) Lahore (c) Madras (d) None of these
72) Radcliffe Commission submitted its formula for the division of India in to two countries to Lord Mountbatton on:
(a) 9 August 1947 (b) 19 August 1947 (c) 29 August 1947 (d) None of these
73) Ch. Rahmat Ali, the architect of the name of Pakistan, died on:
74) Liaquat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, while addressing a meeting at Rawalpindi was assassinated
on:
(a) Oct 6, 1951 (b) Oct 16, 1951 (c) Oct. 26,1951 (d) None of these
75) The Legal Frame Work Order, which amended a constitution of Pakistan unilaterally was issued by:
(a) Yahya Khan (b) Ayub Khan (c) Zia-ul-Haq" (d) None of these
76) The country, which supported the Pakistan Movement before the emergence of Pakistan:
(a) Iran (b) Indonesia (c) Saudi Arabia (d) None of these
77) Durand Line, which divides the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan is as long as:
(a) 2252 Km (b) 2262 Km (c) 2272 Km (d) None of these
80) The Regional Cooperation for Development (RCD) was established among Pakistan, Iran and Turkey in 1964 and
was annulled in:
(a) 1969 (b) 1979 (c) 1989 (d) None of these
81) Mahmud of Ghazni waged war against rebellious India in the year of:
a. 900 b. 1000 c. 1100 d. None of these
82) Shahab-ud-Din Muhammad Ghuri defeated Pirthviraj in the year 1192 in the field of:
a. Panipat b. Nagpur c. Tarori or Tarain d. None of these
84) The downfall of Muslim rule in India started with the demise of:
a. Akbar b. Aurangzeb c. Bahadur Shah Zafar d. None of these
85) The Holy Quran was first translated into Persian by:
a. Shah Ismail Shaheed b. Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi c. Shah Waliullah d. None of these
86) Anjuman-e-Islamia Punjab was founded for the renaissance of Islam in the year:
a. 1849 b. 1859 c. 1869 d. None of these
87) “Pakistan’s Constitution should incorporate the essential principles of Islam, which are as good and relevant in our
day, as were 1300 years ago. But Pakistan should not be a theocratic state ruled by priests.” This statement was
given by:
a. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan b. Allama Iqbal c. Quaid-e-Azam d. None of these
89) Who divided Bengal into East and West Bengal in July 1905?
a. Lord Curzon b. Lord Minto c. Lord Morely d. None of these
91) The resolution of non-cooperation with British Government was passed in the meeting of All India National
Congress in 1920, which was held at:
a. Madras b. Bomby c. Nagpur d. Calcutta
94) All India Muslim League observed the “Direct Action Day” on:
a. August 6, 1944 b. August 6, 1945 c. August 6, 1946 d. 16 August, 1946
95) Objective Resolution was passed by the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan on:
a. March 12, 1947 b. March 12, 1948 c. March 12, 1949 d. None of these
96) With regard the division of power between Federation and Provinces the Constitution of Pakistan (1962) was
provided with:
a. Single list of subjects b. Two lists of subjects c. Three lists of subjects d. None of these
97) The height of Pakistan’s highest mountain Pak-Godwin Austin is as high as:
a. 26, 250 ft b. 27, 250 ft c. 28, 250 ft d. None of these
98) The Government of Pakistan established the Indus River System Authority in the year:
a. 1960 b. 1970 c. 1980 d. None of these
99) Under the Indus Water Treaty of 1960 Pakistan has the right to use exclusively the water of:
a. Ravi, Sutleg and Chenab b. Sutleg, Chenab and Jhelum c. Chenab, Jhelum and Indus d. None of these
100) At present Pakistan has vast natural resources and items of mineral as many as:
a. 14 items b. 15 items c. 16 items d. None of these.
101) Who rejected the verdicts of jurists that idol worshippers are liable to be murdered?
(a) Mahmood Ghaznawi (b) Shamd-ud-Din Iltumish (c) Jalal-ud-Din Deroz (d) None of these
106) Which office held supreme judicial authority during Mughal rule?
(a) King (b) Qazi-ul-Qazat (c) Saddar-us-Sadur (d) None of these
110) How many Muslim seats were secured by All India Moslim League in 1945-46 Election of Provincial assemblies?
(a) 396 (b) 425 (c) 441 (d) None of these 446
111) Who presided over the session of Constituent Assembly of Pakistan 10 August 1947?
(a) Quaid-e-Azam (b) Liaqat ali khan (c) Ch. Khaliq-uz-Zaman (d) Sir Agha Khan
112) Who rejected the theory of composite nationalism advanced by the Indian National congress?
(a) Mualana Maudoodi (b) Allam Mashriqi (c) Hussain Ahmed Madni (d) Quaid-e-Azam
114) In which constitution of Pakistan, the Ministers were neither members of the parliament nor answerable to
parliament?
116) Which provincial Chief Minister was dismissed on the issue of One Unit?
(a) Chief Minister NWFP (b) Chief Minister Sindh (c) Chief Minister Punjab (d) Chief Minister
Baluchistan
117) Which Radio Station already existed at the time of creation of Pakistan?
(a) Peshawar (b) Karachi (c) Quetta (d) None of these
118) Under Yahya‟s LFO, what option National Assembly had if it couldn‟t frame the constitution within 120 days?
(a) Dissolved automatically (b) President will dissolve it (c) Extension in time frame (d) None of these
119) What percentage of total polled votes in East Pakistan was secured by Awami League in 1970 elections?
(a) 54 % (b) 60 % (c) 75 % (d) None of these
122) Ghiyas-ud-din Balban declared himself king of Delhi Sultanate in the year
a.1166 b.1266 c.1366 d. None of these
123) Who founded Daulatabad and shifted the capital of Delhi Sultanate?
a. Ghiyas-ud-din Tughluq b. Muhammad Tughluq c. Feroze shah Tughluq d. Mone of these
124) Who set up the chain of justice to redress the grievances of oppressed people?
a. Zaheer-ud-din Babar b. Shahab-ud-din Shahjahan c. Aurangzeb Alimgir d. Jahangir
125) Who was known in history as Mujaddid Alf Thani, the reformer of second millennium?
a .Shaikh Ahmed Sirhindi b .Shah Waliullah c .Sir Syed Ahmed Khan d .None of these
128) Who initiated the cult of Shivaji against the Muslims of India?
A. Bal Ganga dher tilak b. Bennerji c. Pandit madan mohan d. None of these
130) When Nehru committee was constituted to propose the future constitution of India?
a. Feb 1927 b. Feb 1928 c. Feb 1929 d. None of these
132) Who first thought of the possibility of a Muslim republic embracing the present Central Asian states in north west
of sub-continent?
a. Abdul Halim Sharar b. Syed Jamal ud Din Afghani c. Ch.Rehmat Ali d. None of these
134) Who negotiated with cabinet mission (1946) on behalf of All India National Congress?
a. Ghandi b. Nehru c. A.K.Azad d. None of these
135) When Abu ala Maududi was awarded death punishment by military court on" Qadiani issue"?
136) Muhammad Ali Bogra, the then P.M of Pakistan, presented his constitutional formula to the Constituent Assembly
on:
a. Sep7,1953 b. Oct 7,1953 c. Nov7,1953 d. None of these
137) When was the 17th amendment bill ratified by the President, after getting passed by both houses of Majlis-e-
Shura?
a. Dec29,2003 b. Dec30,2003 c. Dec31,2003 d. None of these
138) When was the local government system under the devolution of power plan, 2001, inaugurated?
a. Aug 4,2001 b. Aug 14,2001 c. Aug 24,2001 d. None of these
144) Who for the first time translated the Holy Quran in Urdu language?
(a) Shah Walliullah and Shah Abdul Aziz
(b) Shah Abdul Qadir and Shah Rafiuddin
(c) Syed Ahmed Baralvi and Shah Ismail Dehlvi
(d) None of these
145) Faraizi Movements was primarily a religious movement. What change Dudhu Mian brought in the movement?
(a) Transferred it into a gurreilla movement
(b) Transferred it into a political movement
(c) Transferred it into a Cultural movement
(d) None of these
146) Which of the following was/were the drawback(s) of the government of Indian Act 1858?
(a) Control of the Secretary of State for India and his council was bureaucratic in nature
(b) Expenses of the Secretary of State for India and his Council became a burden on Indian revenues:
(c) Both of these
(d) None of these
147) By how many member s the Executive Council of the Governor General was enlarged under the Indian Council
Act of 1861?
(a) One member
(b) Two members
(c) Four members
(d) SIX
148) As per the Government of India Act 1858, the transfer of the control of the Government of Indian from the East
Indian Company and assumption by the Crown was to be announced by Queen’s Proclamation, which was accordingly
149) Where, during the War of Independence, was Sir Syed Ahmed Khan working/ posted.
(a) Delhi
(b) Bijnaur
(c) Aligarh
150) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan established a Translation Society (later, renamed as „Scientific society‟) in 1864. In which
town was it founded?
(a) Bijnaur
(b) Aligarh
(c) Ghazipur
(d) None of these
151) In 1867, some prominent Hindus of Banares Launched a movement for the replacement of Urdu written in
Nasta‟leeq by Hindi written in Deva Nagiri script as the Court language. In which province(s) was this movement
started?
(a) Bengal Province
(b) Central Provinces
(c) North-western Provinces
(d) None of these
152) What was the designation of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan in M.A.O school at Aligarh?
(a) Secretary, Managing Committee
(b) President, Managing Committee
(c) Parton, Managing Committee
(d) None of these
153) Which organization is considered the first Muslim political body constituted to represent the Muslims of the
subcontinent as a whole?
(a) Anjuman-e-Mussalmanan-e-Hind
(b) Central National Mohammadan Association
(c) Urdu Defence Association
(d) None of these
154) Mention the importance announcement(s) that was/were made by the Governor General Lord Hardinge in the
Darbar at Delhi in 1911?
(a) Annulment of the partition of Bengal
(b) Transfer of Capital from Calcutta to Delhi
(c) Both of these
(d) None of these
155) Which Muslim leader left the politics after the cancellation of the partition of Bengal?
(a) Nawab Salimullah Khan
(b) Nawab Waqar-ul-Mulk
(c) Nawab Hamidullah Khan
(d) None of these
156) First sesstion of All-indian Muslim League was held on 29-30 December 1907. Where was it held?
(a) Lahore
(b) Aligarh
(c) Karachi
(d) None of these
157) “Few individuals significantly alter the source of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone
can be created with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three”. Who made these remarks about
Quaid-e-Azam?
(a) Stanley Wolpert
(b) Ian Stephens
(c) Lawrence Ziring
(d) None of these
158) The All-India Muslim League observed „Day of Deliverance‟ after the resignation of the All-India Congress
ministries. On what date was it observed?
(a) 22 October 1938
159) Who was the first leader of opposition in the first National Assembly constituted under the 1962 constitution of
Pakistan?
(a) Sardar Bahadur Khan
(b) Khan. A sabur
(c) Mumtaz Daultana
169) The first issue of Maualana Abul Kalam Azads ‘Al Hilal’ came out on 13 July:
a) 1912
b) 1922
c) 1932
d) None of these
170) In the hindu kush mountains all passes connect Pakistan with:
a) China
b) Afghanistan
174) Ch. Rahmat Ali, the architect of the name of Pakistan, died on:
(a) Feb. 2, 1951
(b) Feb. 12,1951
(c) Feb. 22,1951
(d) None of these
176) Who divided Bengal into East and West Bengal in July 1905?
a. Lord Curzon
b. Lord Minto
c. Lord Morely
d. None of these
178) The height of Pakistan’s highest mountain Pak-Godwin Austin is as high as:
a. 26, 250 ft
b. 27, 250 ft
c. 28, 250 ft
d. None of these
181) Which Radio Station already existed at the time of creation of Pakistan?
(a) Peshawar
(b) Karachi
184) After war of 1971 which agreement was signed between India and Pakistan?
(a) Culcutta Pact
(b) Lucknow Pact
(c) Simla Pact
(d) Bombay Pact
44) Who for the first time translated the Holy Quran in Urdu language?
(a) Shah Walliullah and Shah Abdul Aziz
(b) Shah Abdul Qadir and Shah Rafiuddin
(c) Syed Ahmed Baralvi and Shah Ismail Dehlvi
45) Faraizi Movemnents was primarily a religious movement. What change Dudhu Mian brought in the movement?
(a) Transferred it into a guerrilla movement
(b) Transferred it into a political movement
(c) Transferred it into a Cultural movement
(d) None of these
46) Which of the following was/were the drawback(s) of the government of Indian Act 1858?
(a) Control of the Secretary of State for India and his council was bureaucratic in nature
(b) Expenses of the Secretary of State for India and his Council became a burden on Indian revenues:
(c) Both of these
(d) None of these
47) By how many member(s) the Executive Council of the Governor General was enlarged under the Indian Council
Act of 1861 ?
(a) One member
(b) Two members
(c) Four members
(d) None of these
48) As per the Government of Indian Act 1858, the transfer of the control of the Government of Indian from the East
Indian Company and assumption by the Crown was to be announced by Queen’s Proclamation, which was accordingly
read in a Darbar. Where was this Darbar held?
(a) Calcuta
(b) Delhi
(c) Allahabad
(d) None of these
49) Where, during the War of Independence, was Sir Syed Ahmed Khan working/ posted.
(a) Delhi
(b) Bijnaur
(c) Aligarh
(d) None of these
50) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan established a Translation Society (later, renamed as ‘Scientific society’) in 1864. In which
town was it founded?
(a) Bijnaur
(b) Aligarh
(c) Ghazipur
(d) None of these
51) In 1867, some prominent Hindus of Banares Launched a movement for the replacement of Urdu written in
Nasta’leeq by Hindi written in Deva Nagiri script as the Court language. In which province(s) was this movement
started?
(a) Bengal Province
(b) Central Provinces
(c) North-western Provinces
(d) None of these
52) What was the designation of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan in M.A.O school at Aligarh?
(a) Secretary, Managing Committee
(b) President, Managing Committee
(c) Patron, Managing Committee
(d) None of these
53) Which organization is considered the first Muslim political body continued to represent the Muslims of the
subcontinent as a whole?
(a) Anjuman-e-Mussalmanan-e-Hind
(b) Central National Mohammadan Association
(c) Urdu Defence Association
(d) None of these
54) Mention the importance announcement (s) that was/were made by the Governor General Lord Hardinge in thie
Darbar at Delhi in 1911?
(a) Annulment of the partition of Bengal
55) Which Muslim leader left the politics after the cancellation of the partition of Bengal?
(a) Nawab Salimullah Khan
(b) Nawab Waqar-ul-Mulk
(c) Nawab Hamidullah Khan
(d) None of these
56) First session of All-India Muslim League was helo on 29-30 December 19074. where was it held?
(a) Lahore
(b) Aligarh
(c) Karachi
(d) None of these
57) “Few individuals significantly alter the source of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone
can be created with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three”. Who made these remarks about
Quaid-e-Azam?
(a) Stanley Wolpert
(b) Ian Stephens
(c) Lawrence Ziring
(d) None of these
57) The All-indian Muslim League observed ‘Day of Delivernce’ after the resignation of the All-India Congress
minstereis. On what date was it observed?
(a) 22 octuber 1938
(b) 22 December 1938
(c) 22 October 1939
(d)22 December 1939
58) Who was the first leader of opposition in the first National Assembly constituted under the 1962 constitution of
Pakistan?
(a) Sardar Bahadur Khan
(b) Khan. A sabur
(c) Mumtaz Daultana
(d) None of these
68) The Black Sea and the Mediterranean are connected by:
a.Shattal Arab
b.Dardanelles
c.Strait of Gibraltar
CSS-1989
81) India launched its first Missile with the name of:
a.Indira
b.Verma
c.Agni
d.Monica
82) Who has been named as the first recipient of Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights:
a.Hosni Mubarak
b.Nelson Mandela
c.Rajiv Gandhi
d.Mrs. Margaret Thatcher
84) How many people were stampeded in Football Match at Sheffield Hill Borough Stadium:
a.38
b.67
c.95
d.110
2005
89) The constitution of European Union has not been ratified by:
a.Italy
b.Netherlands
c.France
d.None of these
90) After United States, the largest contributor in the United Nations Budget is:
a.Germany
b.France
c.U.K.
d.Japan is and was in 2005 as well
94) U.S. president George Bush has created Millennium Challenge Account to:
a.Improve national security network
b.Provide financial aid to Iraq and Afghanistan
c.Help poor countries pursuing democratic ideals
d.None of these
96) In which month does the U.N. General Assembly usually meet every year:
a.January
b.March
c.September
d.None of these
98) The project to reduce water logging and salinity area in Pakistan has been financially supported by:
a.World Bank
b.IMF
c.Asian Development Bank
(I don’t really know, and cant find it either, wild guess is option ‘c’)
99) Pakistan and U.S. Navies recently conducted Joint exercises in the Arabian Sea by the name:
a.Optimum Impact
b.Diver’s Move
c.Inspired Union
d.None of these
100) Which of the following Internet Search Engines will introduce the World’s Biggest digital Library:
a.Yahoo
b.Google
c.Gigablast
d.None of these
101) The recently appointed United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres is the former Prime
Minister of:
a.Denmark
b.Romania
c.Canada
d.Portugal
102) When a country grants another country MFN (Most Favored Nations) status in mutual trade, it implies:
a.Providing same trade concessions as are being given to other countries without any discrimination
b.Trade will be through exchange of Commodities rather than foreign exchanges
c.Imports and Exports payments will be in local currencies only
d.None of these
103) The programme “United Nations Millennium Development Goals” is focusing on:
a.Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
b.Achieve Universal Primary education
c.Promote gender equality and empower women
d.All of these
104) The largest Agency of FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) by area is:
a.North Waziristan
b.South Waziristan
c.Khyber Agency
d.None of these
107) Under “Vision 2025” WAPDA will construct SATPARA Dam on Indus river in:
a.Balochistan
b.NWFP
c.Northern Areas
d.None of these
2006
108) How many medals were won by Pakistan in the 18th Commonwealth games:
a.3
110) In the absence of President, who becomes the acting President of Pakistan:
a.Speaker of the National Assembly
b.Chairman of the Senate
c.Chief Justice of Pakistan
d.None of these
(Please discuss option‘d’ as selectable as it depends upon who the President
appoints as Acting President; the obvious choice is option ‘b’ of course)
111) Han Myung has become the First Woman Prime Minister of:
a.South Korea
b.North Korea
c.Vietnam
d.None of these
118) Nobel prize for the year 2005 was awarded to M. Elbardei together with:
a.United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
b.International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
c.World Health Organization (WHO)
118) Who is the United States, assistant secretary of state for South Asian and Central Asian affairs:
a.Riyan C. Crooker
b.Nancy Powell
c.Richard A. Boucher
d.None of these
119) What was the magnitude of the Earthquake that shook northern Pakistan and Azad Kashmir on October 8, 2005:
a.5.7
b.7.5
c.7.7
d.7.6
120) Rafiq Bahauddin al Hariri had been the Prime Minister of:
a.Libya
b.Lebanon
c.Syria
d.None of these
124) The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Standing Committee had agreed in principle to
grant an observer status to:
a.China and Japan (not sure)
b.Britain and France
c.United States and South Korea
d.None of these
125) George Washington was the First President of USA. Who is the incumbent Vice President of America:
a.Georgen Bush
b.Gerlad Ford
c.Dick Cheney (in 2006)
d.None of these
2007
133) How many members the National Security Council (Pakistan) has:
a.11
b.13
c.15
d.None of these
134) Nobel Peace Prize for the year 2006 was awarded to:
a.Dr. Mahatir Mohammad
b.Dr. Mohammad Yunus
c.Dr. Abdul Kalam
d.None of these
139) What is the name of the only Pakistani who won a Nobel Prize:
a.Dr. Ashfaq Ahmed
b.Dr. Abdus-Salam
c.Dr. Abdul Qadeer
142) India has constructed ‘Baglihar Dam’ in occupied Kashmir’s district of:
a.Udhumpur
b.Doda
c.Jammu
d.None of these
144) Which of the following regions of Balochistan will be irrigated through Kachi Canal
Project:
a.Quetta
b.Zhob
c.Nasirabad
d.None of these
2008
145) Transparency International is based in:
a.New York
b.London
c.Berlin
d.None of these
150) Former US Vice-President Al Gore has won Nobel Peace Prize 2007 for his campaign against:
a.Child Labour
b.Human Rights Violations
153) The district of the country having lowest population density is:
a.Khuzdar
b.Kalat
c.Kharan (with a population density of only 4 ppl/km2, Awaran and Chagai share the same with Kharan.)
d.None of these
161) The first President of America who made an official visit to Pakistan was:
a.Richard Nixon
b.Dwight D. Eisenhower
c.Lyndon B. Johnson
164) Which of the following International Organizations has no formal structure and secretariat:
a.Green Peace
b.D-8
c.G-8
d.None of these
2009
170) Who were the three statesmen who formulated Non-Aligned Movement (NAM):
a.Gandhi, Nasser, Tito
b.Nehru, Nasser, Tito
c.Chou-en-Lai, Bhutto, Nehru
d.Soe Karno, Nasser, Tito
173) In which month does the UN General Assembly usually meet every year:
a.August
b.September
c.October
d.None of these
174) Which of the following countries have the power of veto in the General Assembly of UNO:
a.USA
b.Russia
c.China
d.All of these
175) The term of office of a judge of the International Court of Justice is:
a.5 years
b.7 years
c.9 years
d.None of these
176) Alliance among India, Germany, Japan and Brazil to support each other’s bid for
permanent seat on UN Security Council is called:
a.Alliance 4
b.G 4
c.Big 4
d.None of these
2010
184) Which of the following countries is the world's largest emitter of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere?
a) China
b) America
c) Russia
d) India
193) The Strait of Malacca is the main shipping channel between the India Ocean and:
a) The North Pacific Ocean
b) South Pacific Ocean
193) The recently published book " Between Dreams and Realities" is written by:
a) Shamshad Ahmad Khan
b) Gohar Ayub
c) Sahibzada Yakoob Ali Khan
d) Sirtaj Aziz
195) Which of the following categories of Nobel Prise was established in 1968?
a) Medicine
b) Literature
c) Economics
d) None of these
Here are first 30 for June from current affairs vol 2 by rai iqbal
202) Name the spacecraft which returned to earth to end historic trip recently.
(a) SpaceX Dragon
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(b) Discovery
(c) X Man Dragon
d) Dragon Fly
204) Irish voters recently backed which pact by large majority by exhibiting final memorandum results?
(a) European Union fiscal pact
(b) European Union Bailout pact
(c) European Union Monterey pact
(d) European Union Health pact
205) Who won the 73rd PGA Tour Golf Title 2012?
(a) Tiger Woods
(b) Rogen Martar
(c) Wenn John
(d) None of these
206) Name the Indian cricketer who took oath as Rajya Sabha MP.
(a) Sachin Tendulkar
(b) Rahul Dravid
(c) Yoraj Singh
(d) Caple Dav
207) Which Asian stock market hit 28-year low on 4th June 2012?
(a) Tokyo
(b) London
(c) New York
(d) Paris
208) The United Nations Human Rights Council votes to condemn the massacre carried out by Syrian forces in the
town of Houla, despite Russia, China and Cuba voting against the resolution. Houla massacre incident took place on:
(a) June 21, 2012
(b) June 23, 2012
(c) May 25, 2012
(d) June 26, 2012
209) A court in Cairo, Egypt, found former president Hosni Mubarak and former interior minister ______guilty for
complicity in the killings of demonstrators in the 2011 revolution that ousted Mubarak and both are sentenced to life
in prison.
(a) Habib al-Adly
(b) Barry Unsworth
(c) Razan Ghazzawi
(d) Nabil Al Arabi
210) Name the Pakistan Interior Minister who was suspended for dual nationality:
(a) Rehman Malik
(b) Sherien Rehman
(c) Raja Pervez Ashraf
(d) None of these
211) Who won the 21st Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament 2012?
(a) Japan
(b) New Zealand
(c) Australia
(d) Pakistan
212) Which country has approved world’s first ‘healthy cola’ for being beneficial to health?
(a) Japan
(b) New Zealand
(c) Australia
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(d) USA
213) Which country marked 23rd anniversary of the military crackdown in Tiananmen Square?
(a) Japan
(b) China
(c) Australia
(d) USA
214) Which cricketer was recalled by West Indies Cricket Board into One-day squad after 14 month long stand-off?
(a) Ray Bradbury
(b) Chris Gayle
(c) Chander Paul
215) Name the psychiatrist and balloonist who took off on the world’s first intercontinental flight in solar-powered
plane.
(a) Bertrand Piccard
(b) Chris Piccard
(c) Ray Bradbury
(d) None of these
216) Which planet crossed the sun on 5th June 2012 making one complete orbiter rotation?
(a) Venus
(b) Earth
(c) Jupiter
(d) Mars
217) Name the author of ‘The Twilight Zone’ who passed away recently.
(a) Bertrand Piccard
(b) Chris Piccard
(c) Ray Bradbury
(d) None of these
218) International Olympic Committee has announced to live stream free London Olympic Games on which medium to
fans in 64 territories across Asia and Africa including India?
(a) Google
(b) Youtube
(c) Face Book
(d) Hotmail
220) Name the Lebanese journalist who headed Arab’s newspaper An-Nahar and died recently.
(a) Ghassan Tueni
(b) Victoria Zara
(c) Ray Bradbury
(d) Habib al-Adly
221) Where in the world forced marriage is set to become crime recently?
(a) Britain
(b) USA
(c) Pakistan
(d) Japan
222) Which 2 disease has been identified as top killers around the world by UNICEF in 2012?
(a) Pneumonia and Diarrhea
(b) Pneumonia and AIDs
(c) Fever and Diarrhea
(d) Pneumonia and Dengue
223) Who became the 10th woman in tennis history to win all 4 Grand Slam titles after defeating Italy’s Sara Errani in
the French Open 2012?
(a) Maria Sharapova
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(b) Serena Williams
(c) Venus Williams
(d) Victoria Zara
225) To which Eurogroup the Eurozone finance ministers were willing to respond favourably to the need of 100 billion
euros to a bailout request from its troubled banks?
(a) Spain
(b) Greece
(c) Cyprus
(d) Italy
226) What value of bailout did Spain receive recently from European finance ministers?
(a) $125 billion
(b) $135 billion
(c) $145 billion
(d) $155 billion
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World Events in Year 2012
Jan 7th - Hot air balloon crashes in Carterton, New Zealand, killing 11
Jan 13th - Cruise ship, Costa Concordia, runs aground at Isola de Giglio, Italy, with at least 15 deaths
Jan 14th - Suicide bomber kills 53 and injures 130 in Basra, Iraq
Jan 14th - Ma Ying-jeou wins re-election as President of the Republic of China with 51% of the vote
Jan 18th - Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) blackout becomes the largest protest in the history of the internet
Jan 19th - FBI shuts down Megaupload.com for alleged copyright infringement, hacker group Anonymous responds by
attacking government and entertainment industry websites
Jan 23rd - European Union agrees to embargo Iranian oil in protest against Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program
Jan 28th - Death toll from coordinated bombing attacks in Kano, Nigeria, reaches 185
Feb 1st - At least 73 people are killed in the Egyptian football riots in Port Said
Feb 2nd - Cold snap across Europe kills more than 100 people (over 400 people by 08-02)
Feb 2nd - MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papa New Guinea with 246 people saved and 126 missing (100 of
these estimated to be trapped inside)
Feb 2nd - NHL player Sam Gagner becomes the first player to scores eight points in one game for the Edmonton
Oilers against the Chicago Blackhawks since 1989
Feb 4th - Tens of thousands of people are stranded by floods in the Australian states of New South Wales and
Queensland
Feb 5th - Quarterback Eli Manning wins his second Superbowl Most Valuable Player Award after leading the New York
Giants to a 21-17 victory over the New England Patriots in Superbowl XLVI
Feb 6th - 6.9 magnitude quake hits near the central Philipines with 43 confirmed deaths
Feb 6th - Queen Elizabeth II marks her 60th anniversary of becoming Britain's Monarch becoming only the second to
do so
Feb 11th - Israel Air Force conducts four air strikes in Gaza Strip
Feb 12th - Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow is re-elected president of Turkmenistan with 97% of the vote
Feb 12th - Zambia defeat Ivory Coast 8-7 on penalties in the Africa Cup of Nations
Feb 15th - United Kingdom unemployment rate reaches 17 year high of 8.4%
Feb 15th - Fire at Comayagua prison, Honduras, kills 358
Feb 17th - The President of Germany, Christian Wulff, resigns over a corruption scandal
Feb 17th - Approximately 70 ancient Olympic artifacts are stolen from the Archaeological Museum of Greece
Feb 18th - Kateri Tekakwitha canonized as the first native American saint
Feb 19th - 44 people killed in prison brawl in Apocada, Mexico, between two rival drug cartels
Feb 20th - Scientists successfully regenerate Silene stenophylla from a 31,800 year old piece of fruit, greatly
surpassing the previous record of 2,000 years
Feb 20th - South Korea angers North Korea as it proceeds with live fire drills in disputed Korean sea borders
Feb 21st - Yemen voters go to the polls for a presidential election where the only candidate on the ballot paper is vice-
president Abd Rabbuh Mansur al-Hadi
Feb 22nd - Train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 50 and injures hundreds
Feb 23rd - A series of bomb attacks across 12 Iraqi cities kills 60 and injures 200
Feb 25th - Syrian Army kills 100 civilians in artillery shelling of Homs and Hama
Feb 25th - Al Qaeda suicide bombing kills at least 26 people in Mukalla, Yemen
Feb 25th - World Health Organization removes India from the list of polio endemic countries
Feb 25th - Louisiana Red, American blues musician, dies from stroke at 79
Feb 26th - The film The Artist wins five Academy Awards and becomes the first silent film to win since 1927
Feb 26th - Bus plunges off a cliff in Shanxi, China causing 15 deaths
Feb 26th - Train derailment kills 3 and injures 45 in Burlington, Ontario
Feb 27th - Wikileaks begins disclosing 5 million emails from private intelligence company Stratfor
Feb 28th - Occupy London protesters evicted from St Paul's Cathedral
Feb 28th - Discovery of the largest prehistoric penguin, Kairuku grebneffi, at nearly 5ft tall
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Mar 2nd - New fiscal compact to prevent excessive debt is signed by 25 out of 27 European Union members
Mar 3rd - Lorry crash in east Guinea kills 50 and injures 27
Mar 3rd - Two trains crash in Szczekociny, Poland, with 16 people dead and up to 50 injured
Mar 4th - Munitions dump explosions kill at least 250 people in the Republic of Congo
Mar 4th - Vladimir Putin wins Russian presidential election amid allegations of voter fraud
Mar 4th - Over 10,000 illegal Peruvian gold miners clash with police to gain control of Puerto Maldonado
Mar 5th - 27 members of Iraq's security force are killed by gunmen disguised as police in Haditha
Mar 5th - Tropical Storm Irina kills 65 in Madagascar
Mar 6th - 9,000 residents are evacuated from Wagga Wagga, Australia, as the Murrimbidgee River threatens to
overflow
Mar 6th - Francisco Xavier do Amaral, East Timorese President, dies at 75
Mar 8th - Greece secures debt-restructuring deal with private lenders
Mar 8th - Toyota recalls 700,000 vehicles over safety concerns
Mar 9th - Senior members of hacking group Lulz Sec are arrested, including one member of the FBI, in the United
States, United Kingdom and Ireland
Mar 10th - At least 130 rockets are fired into Israel from Gaza
Mar 11th - US soldier kills 16 civilians in Afghanistan
Mar 12th - 100 people are killed in ethnic clashes and cattle raids in South Sudan
Mar 12th - 45 people, including children, are massacred by the Syrian Army in Homs
Mar 12th - China records its highest trade deficit in over a decade
Mar 13th - 19 people are shot dead in a bus attack in Ethiopia
Mar 13th - Encyclopedia Britannica announces that it will no longer public printed versions of its encyclopedia
Mar 13th - 110 people are killed and 63 are missing after a ferry collides with an oil tanker near Dhaka, Bangladesh
Mar 13th - 28 people, including 22 children, are killed in a motorway bus crash near Sierre, Switzerland
Mar 16th - Turkish NATO helicopter crashes into a house killing ten people in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan
Mar 16th - Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar becomes first cricketer to score 100 international centuries
Mar 17th - Bolton Wanderer footballer Fabrice Muamba collapses and is rushed to hospital during a live football match
against Tottenham Hotspur
Mar 17th - Wales defeat France to record their eleventh Grand Slam in the Six Nation's Championship
Mar 17th - John Demjanjuk, convicted Nazi war criminal, dies from natural causes at 91
Mar 18th - Superleague Greece football match between Olympiacos and Panathinaikos is abandoned after fans set fire
to Athens' Olympic Stadium
Mar 18th - Joachim Gauck elected President of the Federal republic of Germany by the Federal Assembly
Mar 19th - Wendy's overtakes Burger King to become the second best selling hamburger chain
Mar 20th - 50 people are killed and 240 injured in a wave of terror attacks across 10 cities in Iraq
Mar 20th - Disney movie John Carter records one of the largest losses in cinema history with a $200 million dollar
write down
Mar 21st - Greek Parliament votes in favour of an international bailout deal
Mar 21st - Five former Guatemalan paramilitaries are sentenced to 7,710 years in jail for their role in the Plan de
Sanchez massacre in 1982
Mar 22nd - Largest protest in Quebec's history occurs in Montreal with over 200,000 people marching against
government tuition hikes and for free access to post-secondary education
Mar 22nd - Australia's most wanted man, Malcolm Naden, is captured after seven years on the run in Gloucester, New
South Wales
Mar 22nd - Massive fire devours thousands of hectares of ancient forests and threatens wildlife on Mount Kenya
Mar 23rd - African Union suspends Mali's membership following a coup
Mar 24th - African Union deploys 5,000 strong force with the aim of catching or killing warlord Joseph Kony
Mar 25th - Peter Cruddas, treasurer of Britain's Conservative Party, resigns after being caught on film selling access to
British Prime Minister David Cameron
Mar 26th - Macky Sall elected as President of Senegal
Mar 26th - Canadian Film maker, James Cameron, becomes the first person to visit Challenger Deep, the deepest
point on Earth in over 50 years
Mar 30th - Spanish Government cuts 27 Billion Euros from its budget in one of its toughest austerity driver in history
Mar 30th - Mastercard and Visa announce a massive breach in security with over ten million compromised credit card
numbers
Mar 30th - American Mega Millions lottery hits a world record lottery amount of 640 million dollars
Mar 31st - Fiji Floods kill 2 people and force thousands to be evacuated
Apr 1st - Plane crash in Western Siberia kills at least 31 people ( UTair Aviation ATR-72)
Apr 2nd - Oikos University, Oakland shooting kills seven people and injures 3
Apr 3rd - Spanish unemployment reaches record high, youth unemployment stands at 50%
Apr 3rd - Moscow fire kills 17 migrant workers
Apr 3rd - US President Barack Obama officially secures Democratic presidential nomination
Apr 4th - German Nobel Laureat, Gunter Grass, publishes controversial poem that claims Israel is plotting to wipe out
Iran
Apr 4th - Somalia's National Theatre is struck by a suicide bomber killing ten people including the presidents of the
Somali Olympic Committee and Football Federation
Apr 4th - Boris Todic, President of Serbia, resigns
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Apr 5th - Severe storms in Argentina kill 14 people
Apr 5th - 77 year old pensioner's suicide outside Greece's parliament prompts further protests in Athens
Apr 5th - International internet group Anonymous hack several Chinese bureaus in opposition to censorship
Apr 6th - US F-18 Hornet crashes into side of apartment building in Virginia with no fatalities
Apr 7th - Joyce Banda becomes President of Malawi
Apr 7th - 130 Pakistani Army soldiers are buried in an avalanche near the Siachen Glacier
Apr 8th - Gunter Grass labelled persona non gratta by Israeli internal affairs minister Eli Yishai
Apr 8th - Pope Benedict XVI calls for an end to Syrian blood shed in papal Easter message
Apr 9th - The Lion King becomes highest grossing Broadway show after overtaking The Phantom of the Opera
Apr 10th - United Nations deadline for Syrian troop withdrawal passes as violence continues
Apr 10th - Apple Inc claims a value of $600 billion making it the largest company by market capitalization in the world
Apr 10th - Rick Santorum suspends his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination making Mitt Romney the
overwhelming favourite
Apr 10th - Raymond Aubrac, French Resistance Leader, dies at 97
Apr 11th - 8.6 magnitude earth quack and 8.2 aftershock occurs off the coast of Indonesia
Apr 11th - 2011 London riot looter is jailed for 11 years after starting a fire at a furniture retailer
Apr 11th - South Korean legislative elections result in the governing Saenuri Party retaining governance
Apr 11th - Prime Minister of Greece, Lucas Papademos, resigns and calls an election for May 6
Apr 12th - A ceasefire in the 2011-2012 Syrian uprising comes into effect
Apr 12th - Bodleian, Oxford University and Vatican libraries announce over 1.5 million pages of ancient texts will be
made available across the internet
Apr 12th - Civilian rule in Mali is returned after Dioncounda Traore is sworn in as interim president
Apr 13th - North Korean long range rocket testing ends in failure after the rocket broke up after launch
Apr 15th - 400 Islamist Militants escape from a Pakistan prison after an insurgent attack
Apr 15th - China loosens monetary policy and allows the Yuan to fluctuate up to 1% against the US dollar
Apr 15th - US Secret Service inappropriate conduct scandal begins with at least 11 people implicated
Apr 16th - At least 55 people are killed in the Syrian uprising despite UN presence to oversee ceasefire
Apr 16th - For the first time since 1977 no Pulitzer Prize is awarded for fiction
Apr 17th - The St Cuthbert Gospel, Europe's oldest intact book, purchased by the British Library for 9 million pounds
Apr 18th - The Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Naples begins burning artworks after cultural institution budget
cuts
Apr 19th - Levon Helm, American rock musician, dies from throat cancer at 71
Apr 20th - Plane crash near Islamabad, Pakistan, kills 127 people
Apr 20th - 40 people are killed and 27 injured after a tractor trailer collided with a bus in Alamo, Mexico
Apr 21st - Two trains in Sloterdijk, Netherlands, injure 117 people in a head on collision
Apr 21st - Chicago White Sox pitcher, Philip Humber, pitches the 21st MLB perfect game against the Seattle Mariners
Apr 22nd - 30 year old women collapses and dies during London Marathon
Apr 23rd - Netherlands Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, tenders resignation, paving the way for early elections
Apr 23rd - Rangers F.C. owner, Craig Whyte, is banned for life from any involvement in Scottish football
Apr 23rd - 38,000 London Marathon entrants have their home and email contacts published in a data protection
breach
Apr 25th - The United Kingdom dips back into recession after the economy shrunk 0.2% in the first quarter of 2012
Apr 26th - 70 people are killed by rocket attacks by the Syrian Army on the city of Hama
Apr 26th - Indonesia suspends imports of American beef after a confirmed case of mad cow disease in California
Apr 27th - Four explosions in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, kill 27 people
Apr 28th - Tent collapse in St Louis, Missouri, kills one and injures 110 people
Apr 29th - International Chemical Weapons Convention deadline for chemical weapon stockpiles comes into effect
Apr 30th - The unfinished One World Trade Center overtakes the Empire State building to become the tallest building
in New York
Apr 30th - Spain's economy double dips after a 0.3% contraction and 25% unemployment rate
Apr 30th - Overloaded ferry in the Brahmaputra River,India, killing 103 people
Apr 30th - Manchester City defeat Manchester United 1-0 in what is claimed to be the biggest match in the English
Premier League's history
May 1st - China and Russia sign $15 billion dollar trade deal
May 1st - Guggenheim Partners make the largest ever purchase of a sports franchise after buying the Los Angeles
Dodgers for $2.1 billion
May 2nd - Edvard Munch's famous painting 'The Scream' sells at auction for $119,922,500
May 2nd - Barcelona football player Lionel Messi breaks the European goal-scoring record with 68 goals
May 4th - 14 decapitated bodies and 9 hung from a bridge are found in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico
May 5th - 17 people are killed and 47 missing after a flash flood in Nepal
May 5th - Japan shuts down its nuclear reactors leaving the country without nuclear power for the first time since
1970
May 6th - Francois Hollande elected President of France
May 6th - Greece parliamentary election results in 60% support for parties opposed to austerity measures
May 7th - NATO air strike kills 14 and woulds 6 civilians in Afghanistan's Badghis Province
May 7th - Vladimir Putin sworn in for third six year term as President of Russia
May 7th - Paeleoclimatological research claims dinosaur flatulence may have warmed the earth
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May 9th - Mark Rothko's "Orange, Red, Yellow" becomes the most expensive contemporary art piece to be sold at
auction for $86.9 million dollars
May 9th - A Russian passenger jet disappears with 45 people on board
May 9th - United States President, Barack Obama, officially states his support for same sex marriage
May 10th - The Red Cross suspends all humanitarian work in Pakistan after a worker was kidnapped and killed
May 10th - Two bombings in Damascus, Syria, kill 55 people and injure 370
May 11th - Chinese scientists break world record by transferring photons over 97 kilometers using quantum
teleportation
May 12th - The discovery of a missing Mayan calender piece disproves 2012 Armageddon
May 13th - 49 dismembered bodies are found on a Mexican highway as part of the Mexican drug war
May 13th - Torrential rain in Hunan Province, China, destroys a bridge, 3,500 homes and displaces 28,000 people
May 13th - Manchester City win the English Premier League for the first time
May 14th - 1,500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons agree to end mass hunger strike
May 14th - Stanford University scientists develop prototype bionic eye
May 15th - Eurozone economy narrowly avoids recession
May 15th - Greece's fifth attempt to a form a coalition government fails and new June elections are scheduled
May 19th - Chelsea defeat Bayern Munich in penalty shootout to win the UEFA Champion's League
May 20th - Tomislav Nikolić elected president of Serbia
May 20th - 6.0 magnitude earthquake kills 6 and injures dozens in northern Italy
May 21st - 120 people are killed and 350 injured by a suicide bomb in Sana'a, Yemen
May 21st - 13 people are killed and 22 people injured after a bus falls 80 metres off a cliff in Albania
May 22nd - 14 people die and 30 are injured in train collision in India
May 22nd - Philip Philips is crowned the eleventh American Idol
May 25th - Up to 116 people are massacred, including women and children, by the Syrian army in Houla, in the Homs
province
May 25th - A SpaceX Dragon becomes the first commercial spacecraft to dock at the International Space Station
May 26th - A gunman in the Finnish town of Hyvink
May 26th - Pope Benedict XVI's butler is arrested for allegedly leaking confidential documents
May 27th - A NATO airstrike kills a family of eight, including six children, in Afghanistan
May 29th - Thousands march in protest in Johannesburg against Brett Murray's controversial painting The Spear
May 29th - Facebook's problematic public listing could cost those involved $115 million from technical glitches
May 29th - A 5.9 magnitude earthquake kills 24 people near Bologna, northern Italy
May 29th - Indonesian police make the biggest drug bust in ten years after seizing over a million ecstasy pills valued
at $45 million
May 30th - A number of nations including Germany, Turkey and Canada, expel Syrian diplomats following the Houla
massacre
May 30th - Vishwanathan Anand wins his fifth World Chess Championship
May 31st - Egypt formally ends its 31 year state of emergency
Jun 1st - New York Mets pitcher Johan Santana pitches a no-hitter against the St. Louis Cardinals
Jun 3rd - Suicide car bombing kills 15 and inures 42 people in Bauchi, Nigeria
Jun 3rd - Plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, kills all 152 passengers and 40 people on the ground
Jun 3rd - Tiger Woods' 73rd PGA tour victory equals Jack Nicklaus's record
Jun 4th - US drone attack kills 15 militants in Pakistan, including high ranking al-Qaeda official, Abu Yahya al-Libi
Jun 4th - Car bomb kills 26 and injures 190 people in central Baghdad, Iraq
Jun 4th - Japan's stock market plummets to record lows with the S&P/TOPIX 150 reaching its lowest level since 1983
Jun 4th - Wedding party bus crashes killing 23 and injuring 60 people in Islamabad, Pakistan
Jun 6th - Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs
Jun 6th - The Solar Impulse completes the world's first intercontinental flight powered by the sun
Jun 7th - 16th century archaeology remains of the Curtain Theatre, where some of Shakespeare's plays were first
performed, were found under a pub in London
Jun 7th - Credit rating agency Fitch downgrades Spain's credit rating to BBB in the wake of international bailout
speculation
Jun 7th - A bus falls into a ravine in La Paz, Bolivia, killing 16 and injuring 32 people
Jun 8th - A bus bombing in Pakistan kills 18 and injures 35 people
Jun 9th - It is announced that up to $125 million dollars in loans will be given to aid Spain's struggling banks
Jun 9th - Burma riots kill 20 people and burn down 300 houses
Jun 10th - A Helicopter crash near Nairobi, Kenya, kills five people, including George Saitoti, a Kenyan cabinet
minister
Jun 11th - Five people are killed after an ambulance hits a roadside bomb in Afghanistan
Jun 11th - 23 people are killed after two villages are attacked in northern Nigeria
Jun 11th - The Nobel Prize is reduced by 20% to prevent any future undermining of capital
Jun 11th - Two earthquakes in Afghanistan trigger landslides that kill more than 80 people
Jun 11th - Los Angeles Kings defeat New Jersey Devils 6-1 in game 6 to win the NHL's Stanley Cup
Jun 12th - The chemical compound NOTT-202, which is capable of selectively absorbing carbon dioxide, is created
Jun 12th - An Australian coroner's report rules that a dingo was responsible for the death of a baby in 1980
Jun 12th - The World Health Organization concludes that diesel exhaust causes cancer
Jun 13th - A series of bombings across Iraq kill 93 and wound 300 people
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Jun 13th - San Francisco Giants' Matt Cain pitches first perfect game in the franchise's history against the Houston
Astros
Jun 14th - An explosion at an Indian steel plant kills 11 people and severely injures 16
Jun 14th - The world's first stem-cell assisted vein transplant is undertaken by Swedish doctors on a 10 year old girl
Jun 15th - Apple I computer sells for a record $374,500
Jun 15th - Five Dutch banks, including ING, receive credit rating downgrades of one or two notches
Jun 16th - 32 people are killed by a car bomb in Baghdad
Jun 16th - Coca-Cola begins business in Myanmar after 60 years
Jun 16th - A collapse of a stage at a Toronto Radiohead concert kills one person
Jun 16th - 30 people are killed and 15 injured after a bus falls into a gorge in Osmanabad, India
Jun 17th - France's Socialist Party wins a majority in the legislative election
Jun 17th - Greek voters return to the polls after the failed May 6 election
Jun 17th - American golfer, Webb Simpson, wins the US Open
Jun 18th - 15 people are killed and 40 injured in a suicide attack in Baquba, Iraq
Jun 19th - A man in Saudi Arabia is beheaded for witchcraft and sorcery
Jun 19th - Antonis Samaras, the leader of the New Democracy party in Greece, forms a coalition government
Jun 20th - Western Libyan tribal clashes kill 105 people and injure 500
Jun 20th - A Syrian fighter pilot lands in Jordan and defects from the Syrian uprising
Jun 21st - Moody's downgrades 15 major banks in the UK, US, Canada and Europe
Jun 21st - A boat of 200 asylum seekers headed to Australia capsizes and 110 survivors are rescued
Jun 21st - Miami Heat win the 2012 NBA finals after defeating the Oklahoma City Thunder 4 games to one
Jun 22nd - Two Baghdad market bombings kill 14 people and injure 106
Jun 23rd - Greece proposes to slow down austerity measures by two years
Jun 23rd - A bus of Czech tourists crashes in Croatia killing 8 and injuring 44
Jun 23rd - 76 monks are hospitalized in Thailand following an attack by a swarm of bees
Jun 24th - Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood becomes President of Egypt
Jun 24th - Female athletes will be allowed to compete for Saudi Arabia at the Olympics for the first time
Jun 25th - 33 Syrian army officers defect to Turkey
Jun 28th - A series of car bombs in Iraq kills 14 and injures 50 people
Jun 29th - 16 Naxalite Maoist insurgents in India are killed by police
Jun 29th - Three bombs in Balid, Iraq, kill 6 people and injure 45
Jun 29th - 15,000 Japanese anti-nuclear protesters blockade the Japanese Prime Minister's office in Tokyo
Jun 30th - 30 people attending a funeral in Zamalka, Syria, are killed on a day that saw 83 civilian deaths
Jun 30th - Mid-Atlantic storms in the United States kill 13 and leave millions without power in Ohio, Virginia, Maryland
and the District of Columbia.
Jun 30th - Mohamed Morsi is sworn in as President of Egypt
Jul 1st - 17 people are killed and 45 injured in an attack on two churches in Garissa, Kenya
Jul 1st - Spain's football team crush Italy 4-0 to win the 2012 UEFA Euro Cup
Jul 2nd - GlaxoSmithKline settle the largest healthcare fraud case in history for US$3 Billion
Jul 2nd - Monsoon rain in East India kills at least 79 people and leaves 2.2 million homeless
Jul 3rd - Truck bombing kills 25 people and wounds 40 in Diwaniyah, Iraq
Jul 3rd - Antonio Esfandiari wins a record $18.3 million in poker after winning the 2012 World Series of Poker
$1,000,000 Buy-In
Jul 5th - The Shard, the tallest building in Europe, is opened and stands at 309.6 metres (1,016 ft)
Jul 5th - South Korea announce plans to begin "scientific' whaling of minke whales
Jul 5th - Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party is elected President of Mexico after a recount
following irregularities
Jul 6th - Gunmen kill 18 people in Turbat, Pakistan
Jul 7th - Floods in the Krasnodar region, Russia, kill 140 people
Jul 8th - Roadside car bomb kills 14 civilians in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province
Jul 8th - Tens of thousands protest over election corruption in Mexico City after Enrique Pe
Jul 10th - The American Episcopal Church becomes the first to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages
Jul 11th - POliciy academy suicide bombing kills 20 in Sana'a, Yemen
Jul 11th - S/2012 P 1, the fifth moon of Pluto is discovered
Jul 12th - 200 people are killed by the Syrian army in Tremseh
Jul 12th - 90-155 people are killed after an oil tanker crashes and explodes in Okogbe, Rivers State, Nigeria
Jul 13th - China's economic growth drops to 7.6%, its lowest level for three years
Jul 13th - 19-30 people are killed after a train collides with a truck in Malelane, South Africa
Jul 13th - Financially troubled Scottish football club, Rangers, is voted into the third division
Jul 14th - Suicide bomber attacks a wedding reception and kills 22 people and inures 22 in northern Afghanistan
Jul 14th - Floods on the Japanese island of Kyushu kill 20 and displace 250,000
Jul 15th - 39 pilgrims are killed in a bus crash in Parasi, Nepal
Jul 15th - A Russian Soyuz rocket with an international team launches for a mission to the International Space Station
Jul 17th - 17 people are wounded in a bar shooting in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Jul 18th - 6 Israeli tourists are killed and 30 injured after a bomb explodes on a tourist bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria
Jul 18th - 14 people are killed after a bomb explosion at Pakistan's Orakzai Agency
Jul 18th - Violence across Syria results in 97 deaths
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Jul 18th - Syrian suicide bombing kills three high profile government officials, including Syria's Minister of Defence
Jul 18th - 24 people are killed after a ferry sinks off the coast of Zanzibar
Jul 18th - Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the
Korean People's Army
Jul 20th - 12 people are killed and 59 injured after a gunman opens fire at a Dark Knight movie premier in Aurora,
Colorado,
Jul 20th - 21 people are killed and 29 injured in a bus accident in Nayarit, Mexico
Jul 22nd - Car bombs kills 20 people and injures 80 in Madaen and Najaf, Iraq
Jul 22nd - Pranab Mukherjee is elected President of India
Jul 22nd - At least 77 people are killed by torrential rain in Beijing, China
Jul 23rd - A series of attacks across Iraq kill 103 people
Jul 24th - John Dramani becomes President of Ghana after the death of President John Atta Mills
Jul 24th - Four barrels containing 248 human fetuses are found in Sverdlovsk, Russia
Jul 25th - The 2012 Summer Olympics begin
Jul 25th - Ivica Dačić is sworn in as Prime Minister of Serbia
Jul 25th - Italy's credit rating is downgraded to CCC+ by Egan-Jones
Jul 26th - At least 200 people are killed in a day of violence in Syria
Jul 26th - Insurgent attack kills 19 people and destroys a helicopter at Baqubah, Iraq
Jul 26th - North Korea is hit by Tropical Storm Khanun, killing 88 people and leaving 60,000 people homeless
Jul 27th - Queen Elizabeth II announces the opening of the London 2012 Olympics at the opening ceremony
Jul 28th - Ye Shiwen of China sets world record in the women's 400m individual medley in 4:28.43
Jul 28th - 18 people are killed and 11 injured in ethnic clashes in Ethiopia
Jul 29th - Tropical Storm Khanun kills 88 people and leaves 60,000 homeless in North Korea
Jul 30th - Train fire kills 32 and injures 27 people in Andhra Pradesh, India
Jul 30th - Indian power grid failure leaves over 300 million without power
Jul 31st - Two car bombs kill 21 people in Baghdad, Iraq
Jul 31st - A second power grid failure in two days leaves 670 million people in India without power
Aug 1st - Typhoon Saola kills elven people and displaces over 150,000 in the Philippines
Aug 1st - 8 Women's badminton doubles players are disqualified from the 2012 summer Olympics for "not using one's
best efforts to win a match"
Aug 2nd - 23 people are killed after two blasts in a fruit market in Lahore, Pakistan
Aug 3rd - United Nations General Assembly c reproaches The United Nations Security Council over its lack of action in
Syria
Aug 4th - 45 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Abyan, Yemen
Aug 4th - South African Oscar Pistorius becomes first amputee to compete at the Olympics
Aug 5th - Gunman opens fire on Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin killing six people and committing suicide
Aug 5th - 19 people are killed by Kurdish rebels in Hakk
Aug 5th - General Motors signs a record breaking $559 million marketing deal with Manchester United
Aug 6th - Mount Tongariro, New Zealand, erupts for the first time in a century
Aug 7th - 21 people are killed by a gun attack in a church in Okene, Nigeria
Aug 7th - Heavy rain forces 20,000 people to flee their homes in Manila, Phillipines
Aug 7th - 200,000 people are evacuated from Shanghai in anticipation of Typhoon Haikui
Aug 8th - China announces that it plans to close 23 rare earth mines and up to 50 smelting companies
Aug 8th - 16 people are killed from flooding from heavy rain in Manilla, Philippines
Aug 9th - The death toll from the Philippines' floods rise to 70
Aug 9th - Usain Bolt becomes the first person to win the 100m and 200m sprint in back to back Olympics
Aug 11th - 153 people are killed and 1300 injured in Tabriz and Ahar, Iran after two earthquakes of up to 6.4
magnitude
Aug 11th - 13 people are killed and 15 injured by a lightning strike at a Mosque in Bangladesh
Aug 12th - The 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony completes the games
Aug 13th - Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus is stripped of her shot-put gold medal after failing a doping test
Aug 14th - 46 people are killed and 80 injured after a series of suicide bombings in Afghanistan
Aug 16th - Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, is granted political asylum by Ecuador
Aug 16th - 113 people are killed and over 200 wounded in a series of attacks across Iraq
Aug 16th - South African police open fire on striking mine workers and kill at least 34 people
Aug 17th - Three members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot are jailed for two years
Aug 17th - Gay pride events are banned for a century in Moscow
Aug 18th - Al-Qaeda militants kill 14 people in an attack in Aden, Yemen
Aug 18th - NATO air strikes kill at least 13 militants in Afghanistan
Aug 19th - 32 people are killed after a plane crash in Talodi, Sudan
Aug 20th - 20 people are killed in a riot in Caracas, Venezuela
Aug 20th - South Africa become the top-ranked test cricket nation after defeating England
Aug 21st - 20 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo die from the Ebola virus
Aug 22nd - 47 people are killed in the Syrian civil war
Aug 22nd - 48 people are killed in Kenyan tribal wars between the Pokomo and Orma
Aug 22nd - Russia and Vanuatu become members of the World Trade Organization
Aug 23rd - Four people are killed and 28 injured in a hot air ballooning accident in Slovenia
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Aug 23rd - At least 30 are killed as a result of monsoon rain in Rajasthan, India
Aug 24th - Monsoon rains and floods kill 26 people in Pakistan
Aug 24th - Yangmingtan Bridge collapses in China killing three people
Aug 24th - Both Apple and Samsung are found guilty of patent infringement in a South Korean court
Aug 24th - A US jury in California finds that Samsung is guilty of patent infringement and awards over US$1 billion in
damages to Apple
Aug 25th - 330 people are killed as a result of conflict in the Syrian civil war
Aug 25th - 39 people are killed and 80 are injured after a gas leak in North Venezuelan refinery
Aug 25th - 85,000 people are displaced by severe floods in Myanmar
Aug 26th - 15 year-old New Zealand golfer, Lydia Ko, becomes the youngest LPGA Tour event winner and the first
amateur winner since 1969
Aug 26th - 36 people are killed in a bus crash in Yan'an,China
Aug 26th - 17 villagers in Afghanistan's Kajaki district are beheaded by an unknown organization
Aug 26th - A Legionellosis outbreak in Quebec City, Canada, kills 8 and infects 104
Aug 27th - First interplanetary human voice recording is broadcast from the Mars Rover Curiosity
Aug 28th - Mitt Romney is officially nominated as the United States Republican Party's candidate
Aug 29th - Georgian hostage crisis results in 3 police officers and 10 militants being killed
Aug 29th - Operation Eagle, undertaken by the Egyptian Army, results in the deaths of 11 suspected terrorists and the
arrest of another 23
Aug 29th - Banana Spider venom is found to be effective in relieving erectile dysfunction
Aug 29th - The USADA claims to have stripped Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles
Aug 30th - Cholera outbreak kills 229 people in Sierra Leone
Aug 30th - A blast in the in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, China, kills 26 miners with 21 missing
Aug 31st - Apple loses its patent dispute with Samsung in Tokyo, Japan
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Sep 13th - 33,000 people are evacuated after Guatemala's Volcano of Fire erupts
Sep 13th - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev calls for Russian punk band Pussy Riot to be freed
Sep 13th - Dr Mustafa Abushagur is elected as Prime Minister of Libya
Sep 14th - 21 people are killed after a ferry sank in Indonesia
Sep 15th - Japan announces that it will phase out nuclear energy by the 2030s
Sep 16th - 8 female civilians are killed by a NATO airstrike in Laghman, Afghanistan
Sep 16th - 8 police officers are killed by a roadside bombing by Kurdistan Workers' Party militants in Turkey
Sep 16th - 14 people are killed and 7 wounded by a roadside bomb Jandol, Turkey
Sep 16th - Anti-Japanese protesters set fire to Panasonic plant in Qingdao, China
Sep 16th - Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, seeks a court order to resolve a week long teachers strike
Sep 16th - NHL locks out its players after the expiry of the collective bargaining agreement
Sep 17th - Panasonic suspends operations at its three factories in China
Sep 17th - China dispatches 1,000 fishing boats to Senkaku Islands
Sep 17th - 13 people are killed in a bus accident in Jubail, Saudi Arabia
Sep 17th - Swedish forensic scientists find no conclusive evidence of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's DNA in a torn
condom
Sep 17th - United States and Japanese government officials agree to put a second missile defence system in Japan
Sep 18th - 10 soliders are killed and 70 injured by a missile attack by Kurdish militants in Bingol, Turkey
Sep 18th - 26 people are killed in a fire in a Pemex gas facility in Reynosa, Mexico
Sep 18th - The Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools reach a deal that ends an 8-day strike.
Sep 18th - World's first mother-to-daughter uterus transplant undertaken at the University of Gothenburg
Sep 19th - 9 people are killed and 20 wounded by a car bombing in Peshawar, Afghanistan
Sep 20th - 50 people are killed and dozens injured after a gas station is bombed by the Syrian Army in Ain Issa
Sep 20th - 14 people are killed in a cafe suicide bominbg in Somalia
Sep 20th - AU Optronics fined $500 million for a LCD screen price-fixing
Sep 21st - Japanese Prime Minister, Yoshihiko Noda, wins a leadership ballot
Sep 22nd - 7 pedestrians are killed by a drunk driver who hit a bus stop at 200km an hour in Moscow
Sep 23rd - Iran blocks the use of Google as a search engine
Sep 23rd - 20 Iranian US Visas are denied, including diplomats and two ministers, ahead of the UN general assembly
meeting in New York
Sep 23rd - Scientists discover four genetically distinct types of breast cancer
Sep 24th - Books by Japanese authors or about Japan are suspended by Chinese bookstores
Sep 25th - 50 Taiwanese ships clash with the Japan Coast Guard in waters off the Senkaku Islands
Sep 25th - Anouchka van Miltenburg is elected President of the Netherlands
Sep 26th - Syrian army massacres 40 civilians in Thiabieh, Damascus
Sep 26th - Greek trade unions call a general strike to protest austerity measures
Sep 26th - Japanese automakers suspend operations in China
Sep 27th - UN publicly releases documents from China and Japan detailing their contesting claims for the Senkoku
Islands
Sep 27th - The Mars Curiosity rover discovers what evidence of a fast-moving streambed-in Mars
Sep 27th - The 2004 Japanese discovery of the 133th element has been confirmed
Sep 28th - Aircraft crash kills 16 people in Kathmandu, Nepal
Sep 28th - Nigeria suspends flights to Saudi Arabia after hundreds of Nigerian women travelled without a male escort
Sep 30th - Two opposition Venezuelan politicians are shot dead a week before the presidential election
Sep 30th - Car bomb blasts kill at least 32 people across Iraq
Sep 30th - Melbourne Storm defeat the Canterbury Bulldogs in the 2012 NRL Grand Final
Sep 30th - Europe defeat the US 14.5-13.5 in the 39th Ryder Cup
Oct 1st - California becomes the first US state to ban conversion therapy for minors
Oct 1st - 36 people are killed in a ferry collision in Hong Kong
Oct 1st - 3 NATO soldiers and 16 Afghan police are killed by a suicide bombing in Khost, Afghanistan
Oct 2nd - 20 students are gunned down in Mubi, Nigeria
Oct 2nd - 10 people are killed after a minibus and truck collide in Ilocos Norte, Philippines
Oct 3rd - 34 people are killed by a series of bombings in Aleppo, Syria
Oct 4th - Turkey’s parliament approves cross-border military operations in Syria
Oct 4th - 19 people are killed after being buried by a landslide in Yunnan, China
Oct 4th - Jordan’s King Abdullah dissolves parliament in preparation for new elections
Oct 4th - Formula One legend, Michael Schumacher, retires
Oct 5th - Anglo Platinum Limited fires 12,000 striking workers in South Africa
Oct 6th - Paolo Gabriele, Pope Benedict XVI's butler, is found guilty of leaking confidential documents and is
sentenced to 18 months imprisonment
Oct 6th - The Leeds Rhinos defeat the Warrington Wolves 26-18 to win the 2012 Super League grand final
Oct 7th - 13 people are killed after a Sudanese military aeroplane crashes near Khartoum
Oct 7th - Sébastien Loeb wins the World Rally Championship for the ninth consecutive year
Oct 8th - 35 people are killed by a Nigerian military bomb struck a convoy in Maiduguri
Oct 8th - Hugo Chávez is re-elected as president of Venezuela for a fourth term
Oct 8th - Mustafa A.G. Abushagur, the first elected Libyan Prime Minister, is voted out of office by the Libyan
parliament
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Oct 8th - John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka win the 2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work on
reprogramming end stage cells to become pluripotent
Oct 9th - 25,000 people in Athens protest German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Oct 9th - Serge Haroche and David Wineland win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on quantum optics
Oct 10th - Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on G protein-coupled
receptors
Oct 11th - A further 83 people are killed throughout Syria by the Syrian army
Oct 11th - A US appeal court overturns a district court ruling banning the sale of Samsung
Oct 11th - Mo Yan, a hallucinatory realist writer, wins the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature
Oct 12th - The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves of an African-led force to oust Islamist militants
in northern Mali
Oct 12th - The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, sparking a series of critical commentary
Oct 13th - 15 people are killed by a market suicide bombing in Darra Adam Khel, Pakistan
Oct 13th - Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes Bild sells for $34 million, the highest sold artwork by a living artist
Oct 14th - 20 people are gunned down in a mosque in Dogo Dawa, Nigeria
Oct 15th - Hilary Mantel wins the 2012 Man Booker Prize for her novel Bring Up the Bodies
Oct 16th - Conflict in Maiduguri, Nigeria, leads to 24 militant deaths and several structures set ablaze
Oct 17th - The exoplanet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered orbiting Alpha Centauri
Oct 17th - Lance Armstrong loses a host of endorsements in the wake of his doping scandal
Oct 17th - Tens of thousands protest austerity measures in Greece
Oct 18th - Syrian military airstrikes kill 40 people in Maaret al-Numan
Oct 18th - Google stock trading is suspended after a premature release of a quarterly report indicating a 20% drop in
profits and a 9% fall in share price
Oct 19th - 8 people are killed and 78 injured by a car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon
Oct 22nd - 6 Italian scientists are convicted of manslaughter for their failure to predict the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake
Oct 22nd - Hurricane Sandy forms in the Western Caribbean Sea
Oct 23rd - 12 people are killed and 40 are injured in a hospital fire in Tainan, Taiwan
Oct 24th - Libyan militias capture Bani Walid resulting in 130 civilian deaths
Oct 24th - 3 people are shot dead and two critically wounded after being shot by an unknown gunman in Downey,
California
Oct 24th - Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Jamaica killing 1 person and causing over $50 million in damage
Oct 25th - Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Cuba and Haiti killing 65 people and causing over $80 million in damage
Oct 26th - 64 people are killed in West Burma after continued sectarian clashes
Oct 26th - 41 people are killed and 50 injured by a suicide bombing of a mosque in Maymana, Afghanistan
Oct 26th - China blocks the New York Times from searches and social media in response to an investigation into
Premier Wen Jiabao
Oct 26th - Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in the Bahamas killing 2 people and causing over $300 million in damage
Oct 27th - 46 people are killed and 123 injured in Iraq after a series of attacks and bombs
Oct 27th - Thousands demonstrate in Madrid against proposed budget cuts
Oct 28th - Syrian ceasefire collapses and 128 people are killed in ongoing civil war violence
Oct 28th - 15 people are killed and 33 injured by a series of Baghdad car bombings
Oct 28th - Sebastian Vettel wins the 2012 Formula One Indian Grand Prix
Oct 28th - San Francisco Giants defeat the Detroit Tigers in game four to take the 2012 MLB World Series
Oct 28th - Pablo Sandoval is named MLB 2012 World Series MVP.
Oct 29th - Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in New Jersey resulting in 110 deaths and $50 billion in damage and forces
the New York stock exchange to close
Oct 29th - Publishing companies Penguin and Random House merge to form the world's largest publisher
Oct 30th - Walt Disney purchases Lucasfilm Ltd and its rights for Star Wars and Indiana Jones for $4.05 billion
Oct 31st - The New York stock exchange opens after being closed for two days after Hurricane Sandy
Nov 1st - Google's Gmail becomes the world's most popular email service
Nov 1st - 22 people are killed and 111 injured after a fuel tanker explodes in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Nov 1st - Yellow fever kills 32 people and sickens 50 more in Darfur, Sudan
Nov 1st - Acid is poured over a 15 year old girl by her parents after being seen talking to a young man in an honour
killing in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan
Nov 1st - Scientists detect evidence of light from the universe's first stars, predicted to have formed 500 million years
after the big bang
Nov 3rd - Syrian rebels launch a major assault on Taftanaz airbase
Nov 4th - Bishop Tawadros appointed as the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church
Nov 4th - Kimi Raikkonen wins Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2012
Nov 4th - Syrian rebels capture a major oil field in Deir ez-Zor Governorate
Nov 5th - 50 Syrian military personnel are killed by a suicide car bomb in Hama
Nov 5th - Widespread flooding in Nigeria kills 363 people and displaces 2.1 million
Nov 6th - 5 people are shot at a poultry processing plant in Fresno, California
Nov 6th - Voters go to the polls for the US Presidential election with Barack Obama projected to claim an Electoral
College victory
Nov 6th - US territory Puerto Rico votes to become a US State
Nov 6th - Green Moon wins the Melbourne Cup race at Flemington
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Nov 7th - 48 people are killed by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake in Guatemala
Nov 7th - Voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington approve measures for same-sex marriage
Nov 9th - 2 Iranian fighter jets fire on a US General Atomics MQ-1 Predator drone in international air space
Nov 9th - 25 people are killed and 62 injured after a train carrying liquid fuel bursts into flames in Burma
Nov 9th - An Algerian C-295 military transport plane crashes near Avignon, France, killing 6 people
Nov 10th - 20 Syrian troops are killed by suicide bombings in Daara
Nov 10th - 27 people are killed and dozens injured in a prison conflict in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Nov 10th - Israeli counter strike on Palestinian militants in Gaza kills 5 and injure 30
Nov 10th - 17 people are killed in a helicopter crash as a result of bad weather in Turkey
Nov 10th - The final US presidential election results are declared after Barack Obama wins Florida to defeate Mitt
Romney 332-206 in Electoral College votes
Nov 11th - 12 people are killed by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Burma
Nov 12th - Into the Silence by Wade Davis wins the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize
Nov 13th - 3 Syrian tanks enter the demilitarized zone of Golan Heights
Nov 14th - A series of protests against austerity measures occur across Europe including Spain, Portugal, and Greece
Nov 14th - CFBDSIR 2149-0403 is discovered, the closest rogue planet to earth (100 light-years away)
Nov 15th - At least 95 people are killed in Syrian conflicts
Nov 15th - Deep Horizon Oil Spill: BP settles for 4.5 Billion
Nov 16th - Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 grosses $500 million in 24 hours to become the biggest entertainment launch of
all time
Nov 17th - 50 schoolchildren and a bus driver are killed after a train collides with a school bus in Manfalut, Egypt
Nov 18th - Lewis Hamilton wins the 2012 US Formula One Grand Prix
Nov 18th - Israeli Gaza rocket strikes kill 80 alleged terrorist targets
Nov 18th - Brad Keselowski wins the 2012 Nascar Sprint Cup
Nov 20th - Toshiba unveils a robot designed to help in nuclear disasters
Nov 21st - An Israel and Hamas ceasefire is negotiated
Nov 21st - Chelsea Manager Roberto Di Matteo is sacked and replaced by Rafael Ben
Nov 22nd - 2 people are killed and 120 injured after a 100-vehicle pile-up in dense fog in Texas
Nov 22nd - 6 attacks across Pakistan kill 37 people and injure 92
Nov 23rd - JR Tokai unveil a maglev LO train prototype capable of travelling up to 500km per hour
Nov 24th - Gangnam Style becomes the most viewed youtube video surpassing 808 million views
Nov 24th - Ernest Bai Koroma is re-elected President of Sierra Leone
Nov 24th - The continued NHL lockout results in all games to December 14 being cancelled
Nov 25th - 11 people are killed and 30 are wounded by twin car bombs hitting a Protestant church in Nigeria
Nov 25th - 16 people are killed and 44 injured after a wedding party bus plunges 300 ft down a gorge in India
Nov 25th - Sebastian Vettel wins the 2012 Formula One championship for the third consecutive year
Nov 26th - 10 children are killed and 15 people are injured after a Syrian government Jet drops a cluster bomb on a
playground
Nov 26th - The cost of Hurricane Sandy to New York is announced to be $32 Billion
Nov 27th - 29 people are killed and 126 are wounded by 8 car bombings across Iraq
Nov 27th - The eurozone announces that it will pay out 43.7 billion euros in Loans to Greece
Nov 28th - 54 people are killed and 120 are injured by two car bombs in Damascus, Syria
Nov 29th - 30 people are killed and 100 are wounded by bombs in Hillah and Karbala, Iraq
Nov 29th - The UN votes to approve Palestine’s status change from an observer to an observer state
Nov 29th - Luiz Felipe Scolari takes over as Brazilian Football coach
Nov 30th - At least 32 people are killed in a Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane crash in the Congo
Dec 1st - 8 people are killed and 36 injured after a bus overturns in Bolivia
Dec 1st - Enrique Peña Nieto sworn in as President of Mexico
Dec 1st - Ukranian Anna Ushenina wins the Women's World Chess Championship 2012
Dec 2nd - 9 people are killed after 30 cars are trapped in Sasago Tunnel, Japan
Dec 2nd - Borut Pahor is elected President of Slovenia
Dec 2nd - Pier Luigi Bersani is elected Italian Prime Minister
Dec 3rd - Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, reaches the end of our solar system and enters interstellar space
Dec 4th - 29 people are killed by a mortar attack in Bteeha, Syria
Dec 4th - Typhoon Bopha makes landfall in the Philippines killing at least 81 people
Dec 5th - 8 people are killed and 12 injured by a magnitude 5.6 earthquake in South Korea
Dec 6th - 7 people are killed and 770 injured during Egyptian protests
Dec 6th - Typhoon Bopha’s death toll rise to 418 with 318 missing and 179,000 displaced
Dec 6th - A 243 million year old Nyasasaurus fossil is discovered in Tanzania
Dec 8th - UN climate conference agrees to extend the Kyoto Protocol to 2020
Dec 9th - 13 people are killed and 10 are injured after a bus rolls of a cliff and falls 100 meters in Taiwan
Dec 9th - 6 people are killed and 41 are injured after a bus plunges 30 metres down a gorge in Guatemala
Dec 9th - Incumbent Ghanaian president John Mahama wins the general election amidst allegations of fraud
Dec 9th - The Social Liberal Union Party and Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta win by a landslide in the
parliamentary elections
Dec 9th - Juan Manuel Márquez knocks out Manny Pacquiao in round six for the WBO light welterweight title
Dec 10th - Google begins selling US$99 laptops
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Dec 10th - 11 people are killed and 23 are injured after a bus falls into a roadside pond in Minquan County, China
Dec 10th - 9 people are killed and 32 are wounded after a bus falls of a 300 meter cliff in Columbia
Dec 10th - Norwegian Magnus Carlsen breaks Garry Kasparov’s 13-year Elo rating record
Dec 11th - 125 people are killed and 200 are injured by bombings in Aqrab, Syria
Dec 11th - HSBC bank settles with US authorities to pay $1.9 billion for drug cartel money laundering
Dec 11th - British physicist, Stephen Hawking, wins the $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize, the most lucrative
academic prize in the world
Dec 13th - A car bombing in Qatana, outside Damascus, kills 16 people and injures 12
Dec 13th - Japan scrambles fighter jets in response to a Chinese plane in the Senkaku Islands dispute
Dec 14th - 28 people, including 20 children, are shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,
Connecticut
Dec 14th - Australian Joel Parkinson wins the 2012 ASP World Tour
Dec 14th - Gene Wolfe wins the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award
Dec 15th - 18 Asylum seekers drown in the Aegean Sea on the way to Greece from Turkey
Dec 16th - 4 people are killed after Cyclone Evan strikes Fiji
Dec 16th - Corinthians defeat Chelsea 1-0 to win the 2012 FIFA Club World Cup
Dec 16th - A gang rape of a woman on a bus in India that resulted in her death leads to national and international
outrage
Dec 17th - 17 people are killed and 70 are injured by a blast in a market in the Khyber Agency, Pakistan
Dec 17th - 10 girls collecting firewood are killed by a mine blast in east Afghanistan
Dec 17th - 18 people drown after an overloaded boat sinks in Cotonou, Benin
Dec 17th - NASA completes a successful mission to map the Moon’s gravity field
Dec 18th - 4 people are killed and 11 are injured after an apartment block collapses in Palermo, Italy
Dec 18th - 6 health workers dispensing polio vaccinations are gunned down in Pakistan
Dec 18th - The Seleka rebel coalition kills 15 people during its capture of Bria, the Central African Republic
Dec 19th - UBS bank is fined $1.5 billion for its role in manipulating the Libor rate
Dec 19th - Park Geun-hye wins the South Korean presidential election to become the nation’s first female president
Dec 20th - Apple is denied a patent for mobile pinch-to-zoom gestures by the US patent authorities
Dec 20th - Intercontinental Exchange purchases the New York Stock Exchange, the largest in the world, for $8 billion
Dec 21st - 39 people are killed in violent clashes in Kenya
Dec 21st - The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar reaches the date 13.0.0.0.0
Dec 21st - "Gangnam Style" becomes the first video to reach one billion views on YouTube
Dec 21st - The NHL announces a further cancellation of games until January 14 brining the total number of cancelled
games to 625
Dec 22nd - 6 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus
Dec 22nd - 8 people are killed by a suicide bomber in Peshawar, Pakistan
Dec 22nd - Tomasz Adamek outpoints Steve Cunningham in a split decision in the IBF heavyweight title eliminator at
the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Dec 23rd - 200 civilians are killed by the Syrian government’s warplanes in Helfaya, Syria
Dec 23rd - The Seleka rebel coalition takes over Bambari, the third largest town in the Central African Republic
Dec 24th - 11 kindergarten children are killed after a minivan plunges into a roadside pond
Dec 25th - 27 people are killed after an Antonov An-72 plane crashes near Shymkent, Kazakhstan
Dec 25th - 8 people are killed and thousands left homeless after two fires strike Manila, Philippines
Dec 26th - China opens the world’s longest high speed rail route from Beijing to Guangzhou
Dec 27th - NASA unveils plans to capture a 500 ton asteroid in 2025
Dec 28th - Jiroemon Kimura of Japan becomes the world's oldest verified man
Dec 28th - 13 people are killed and 19 are injured after a bus plunges into a river in western Nepal
Dec 28th - Vladimir Putin signs into law a ban on US adoption of Russian children
Dec 29th - 200 people are executed by the Syrian army in Homs
Dec 29th - 21 security personnel are killed by Pakistani Taliban near Peshawar
Dec 29th - 5 people are killed in a Tupolev Tu-204 plane crash in Moscow
Dec 30th - 19 people are killed by a suicide bomber in Balochistan, Pakistan
Dec 30th - 9 people are killed and 26 are injured in a tour bus crash off interstate 84, Oregon, US
Dec 30th - The opening of Line 6 of the Beijing subway makes it the longest metro network in the world at 442km
Jan 1st - 13 FARC members are killed by an airstrike by the Columbian military
Jan 1st - 13 Boko Harem members are killed by Nigeria’s military in Maiduguri
Jan 1st - 60 people are killed and 200 are injured after a stampede following New Year celebrations
Jan 1st - 18 people are killed and 16 wounded after a bus and mini-bus collision in Thiès, Senegal
Jan 1st - 10 people are killed and 120 are injured in a stampede in Luanda, Angola
Jan 1st - US bi-partisan deal temporarily avoids the fiscal cliff
Jan 1st - Magnus Carlsen breaks Garry Kasparov's chess FIDE rating, reaching 2,861
Jan 3rd - 27 Shiite pilgrims are killed and 60 are injured by a suicide bombing in Musayyib, Iraq
Jan 4th - 9 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria
Jan 4th - 8 people are killed by a gunman in Kawit, the Philippines
Jan 4th - 6 people are killed a 2 are seriously injured after a snowmobile veers off a ski slope on Mt Cermis, Italy
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Jan 4th - 3 people are killed after a Beechcraft BE35 crashes into a house in Florida
Jan 6th - 10 people are killed by a US drone attack in South Waziristan, Pakistan
Jan 6th - The NHL reaches an agreement to end a 113 day lockout
Jan 7th - Lionel Messi wins the FIFA Ballon d'Or for the third consecutive year
Jan 8th - 130 wildfires across Australia’s east coast force thousands to evacuate their homes
Jan 8th - 2,130 prisoners held by the Syrian government are exchanged for 48 Iranians kidnapped by Syrian rebels
Jan 10th - 81 people are killed and 120 are wounded by a twin bombing in Quetta, Pakistan
Jan 11th - 46 people are killed and 12 are missing after a landslide buries a village in the Yunnan province, China
Jan 11th - 29 people are killed and 12 are injured after a bus veers off a mountain road in Doti, Nepal
Jan 12th - A failed attempt to rescue a French hostage in Bulo Marer, Somalia, results in 18 deaths
Jan 12th - Beijing’s level of air pollution is declared to be at levels that are hazardous to human health
Jan 13th - Argo wins the Golden Globe awards for best drama and best director
Jan 15th - 83 people are killed and 150 are injured in a rocket attack on Aleppo University, Syria
Jan 15th - 19 Egyptian Army recruits are killed and 120 are injured in a train accident in Giza
Jan 16th - 24 people are dead after three car bombs exploded in Idlib Governorate, Syria
Jan 16th - A four day occupation of an Algerian BP facility by Amenas militants begins, killing 48 hostages
Jan 16th - 25 people are killed after an apartment block collapses in Alexandria, Egypt
Jan 17th - 106 people are massacred by Syrian army forces in Homs
Jan 17th - 33 people are killed by a series of bombs across Iraq
Jan 17th - 4 people are killed and over 2,000 are evacuated after a massive flood hits Jakarta, Indonesia
Jan 17th - 8 people are killed in a plane crash in Chiapas, Mexico
Jan 17th - Japan unveils plans to build the world’s largest wind farm near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
Jan 19th - 4 climbers are killed by an avalanche in Glen Coe, Scotland
Jan 19th - Calcium deposits are discovered on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity Rover
Jan 19th - The 2012-2013 NHL season begins after a 119-day lockout
Jan 19th - Lance Armstrong admits to doping in all seven of his Tour de France victories
Jan 20th - Austria votes to maintain compulsory military service in a referendum
Jan 20th - The San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens win the NFC and AFC championship games to reach
Super Bowl XLVII
Jan 21st - 30 people are killed in a car bombing in Salamiyeh, Syria
Jan 21st - 41 people are injured after two trains collide in Vienna, Austria
Jan 21st - 18 people are killed and 24 are injured after a bus falls down a ravine in Yungas, Bolivia
Jan 21st - 1 person is killed and 15 are injured by a magnitude 5.9 earthquake in Indonesia
Jan 21st - Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Netherlands’ Minister of Finance, becomes the President of the Euro Group
Jan 22nd - A series of Baghdad car bombings kill 17 people
Jan 23rd - 23 people are killed in a mosque suicide bombing in Tuz Khormato, Iraq
Jan 23rd - 18 people are killed in a market shooting in Damboa, Nigeria
Jan 23rd - US armed forces overturns 1994 ban on women serving in combat
Jan 24th - 17 people are killed and 34 are injured in a bus crash in Taperas, Bolivia
Jan 24th - A Japanese Coast guard ship engages a Taiwanese activist ship in the Senkaku Islands dispute
Jan 24th - Russian police kill 13 rebels in Vedeno District, Chechnya
Jan 24th - 17 people are killed and 34 are injured in a bus crash in Taperas, Bolivia
Jan 25th - Tropical cyclone Oswald makes landfall in Queensland, Australia, causing mass flooding
Jan 25th - 6 civilians and 1 police officer are shot dead and 456 people are injured during a nationwide protest against
Egypt’s 2011 revolution
Jan 25th - Islamist forces are driven out of Hombori by the Malian army
Jan 25th - 8 people are killed by 2 car bombs in Golan Heights, Syria
Jan 25th - 50 people are killed and 90 are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela
Jan 26th - 30 people are killed during a violent protest in Port Said, Egypt
Jan 26th - 10 people are killed and 20 are injured by a suicide bombing in Kunduz, Afghanistan
Jan 26th - The United States Sentencing Commission is hacked by Anonymous in response to the suicide of Aaron
Swartz
Jan 26th - Miloš Zeman wins the Czech Republic’s presidential election
Jan 26th - Victoria Azarenka defeats Li Na to win the women's singles at the 2013 Australian Open
Jan 27th - 20 police officers have been killed in a series of bomb attacks in Kandahar, Afghanistan
Jan 27th - In Port Said, Egypt, protests result in 7 people being killed and 630 are injured
Jan 27th - 11 people are killed and 32 are injured after a bus crashes down a ravine in Serta, Portugal
Jan 27th - 7 people are killed and 3 are injured after a retaining wall collapses during a football match at the Ugur
Sports Facility, Turkey
Jan 27th - Novak Djokovic defeats Andy Murray to wins his third consecutive men's singles title at the 2013 Australian
Open
Jan 27th - Magnus Carlsen wins the 2013 Tata Steel Chess Tournament
Jan 27th - Spain defeats Denmark to win the 2013 World Men's Handball Championship
Jan 28th - 10 people are killed and 11 are injured in after a freight train collides with a bus in Heihe City, China
Jan 28th - Iran’s Pishgam rocket successfully completes a return trip of sending a monkey into space
Jan 28th - 20 people are killed after a Bombardier CRJ200 airliner crashes outside Almaty, Kazakhstan
Jan 28th - John Kerry is voted to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton as the United States Secretary of State
Jan 30th - South Korea successfully launches its rocket Naro-1 which was carrying a scientific satellite
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Jan 31st - 300 people are injured in a train collision in Pretoria, South Africa
Jan 31st - 36 people are killed and 126 are injured in an explosion at Torre Ejecutiva Pemex, Mexico
Feb 1st - 21 people are killed and 30 are wounded by a market suicide bombing in Hangu, Pakistan
Feb 1st - Zenit-3SL, a Ukranian-Russian carrier rocket, fails 40 seconds after liftoff and crashes into the Pacific Ocean
Feb 2nd - 23 people are killed and 8 are injured after militants attacked an army base in the Lakki Marwat District,
Pakistan
Feb 2nd - Shinzō Abe, Japan’s Prime Minister, vows to defend the Senkaku Islands "at all cost.
Feb 3rd - 33 people are killed by a suicide bombing by an explosive-packed truck in Kirkuk, Iraq
Feb 4th - 20 people are killed after an apartment building was struck by a rocket in Aleppo, Syria
Feb 4th - Europol announces it will investigate over 680 football matches alleged to involve match fixing
Feb 5th - UK House of Commons votes in favour of same-sex marriage
Feb 6th - A magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurs Off the Solomon Islands coast causing the death of nine people
Feb 7th - Azerbaijan launches its first satellite, Azerspace-1
Feb 8th - 16 people are killed and 27 are wounded by a market bombing in Kalaya, Pakistan
Feb 8th - 100, 000 people march to demand justice for the atrocities of the Bangladesh Liberation War in Dhaka
Feb 10th - 5 people are killed by a falling life boat from the MS Thomson Majesty in the Canary islands
Feb 10th - 36 people are killed and 39 are injured in a stampede at a train station in Allahabad, India
Feb 11th - Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation from February 28, the first pope to resign since 1415
Feb 12th - North Korea confirms it has successfully tested a nuclear devic that could be weaponized
Feb 13th - 16 Muslim insurgents are killed in an attack on a Narathiwat military base, Thailand
Feb 14th - The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, will be
switched off for two years for upgrading
Feb 15th - Over 1,200 people are injured after a meteor breaks up over Chelyabinsk, Russia
Feb 15th - 2012 DA14, an asteroid with a 50m diameter, comes within 27,700km from Earth
Feb 16th - 84 people are killed and 190 are injured after a market bombing in Hazara Town, Pakistan
Feb 16th - Lionel Messi scores his 14th consecutive goal in La Liga and his 300th goal in 365 appearances for
Barcelona
Feb 17th - Australia defeat the West Indies to win the women's 2013 Cricket World Cup
Feb 20th - Estonia becomes the first country to establish a national system of fast chargers for electric cars
Feb 20th - Kepler-37b, the smallest known exoplanet, is discovered
Feb 21st - 83 people are killed and 250 are injured in a series of bombing attacks in Damascus, Syria
Feb 21st - 21 people are killed and 54 are injured in a bombing in Hyderabad, India
Feb 22nd - The UK's credit rating is downgraded from AAA to AA1 by Moody's Investors Service
Feb 23rd - 51 people are killed and 62 are injured in conflict between rival tribes in Darfur, Sudan
Feb 23rd - The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 wins worst picture at the 33rd Golden Raspberry Awards
Feb 25th - Italy Common Good, a centre left alliance, wins the Italian general election
Feb 25th - Cuban President Raul Castro announces he will not seek another term in 2018
Feb 26th - A flexible battery capable of being charged wirelessly and folded and stretched is developed
Feb 26th - A hot air balloon crashes in Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 tourists
Feb 26th - A rocket launched from the Gaza strip into Israel ends the ceasefire since November 2012
Feb 27th - 17 Afghan militia are killed by Taliban insurgents in an attack in the Andar District
Feb 27th - Pope Benedict XVI presents his farewell address to Vatican City
Feb 28th - The brains of two rats have been successfully connected so that they share information
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Mar 21st - 12 people are killed and 30 are injured by a car bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan
Mar 21st - A barter dispute loses control and results in 10 people being killed, 20 injured, and 4 mosques being burnt
to the ground in Myanmar
Mar 21st - The European Space Agency reveals new data that indicates that the universe is 13.82 billion years old
Mar 23rd - The US Senate approves its first budget in four years by a margin of 50–49
Mar 24th - 17 soldiers are killed by a suicide bomber at a military checkpoint in North Waziristan, Pakistan
Mar 25th - Golfer, Tiger Woods returns to his world number one ranking
Mar 28th - Pope Francis becomes the first Pope to wash the feet of women in the Maundy Thursday service
Mar 29th - 10 people are killed and 31 are injured by a blast outside the US consulate in Pakistan
Mar 29th - UN regulation of international arms trade is blocked by North Korea, Iran, and Syria
Mar 30th - North Korea declares it is at a state of war with South Korea
Mar 30th - Uhuru Kenyatta is declared the rightful winner of the Kenyan presidential election by the Supreme Court
Mar 31st - 2 people die from bird flu (type H7N9) in China
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May 6th - 15 people are killed and 50 are injured after a bomb detonates at a political rally in Pakistan
May 6th - Wal-Mart becomes the largest company by revenue on the Fortune 500 list
May 6th - The US Senate passes a bill enabling taxing of online sales
May 7th - 55 people are killed by a Boko Haram attack in Nigeria
May 7th - The Dow Jones Industrial average and S&P 500 set record highs
May 7th - 4 people are killed after the Mayon Volcano erupts in the Philippines
May 7th - 20 people are killed and 36 are injured after a gas tanker explodes in Ecatepec de Morelos, Mexico
May 7th - 8 people are killed and a dozen are injured after bear attacks in Orissa, India
May 7th - Jolly Nero, an Italian cargo ship, crashes into the port of Genoa, killing seven people
May 7th - Delaware becomes the 11th US State to legalize same-sex marriage
2017 Aug 21st - Next total solar eclipse visible from North America
2061 Jul 28th - 31st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
2063 Apr 5th - Earth's 1st contact with the extra-terrestrial Vulcan species in the Star Trek universe
2084 Nov 10th - Transit of Earth as seen from Mars
2126 Aug 14th - Comet Swift-Tuttle approaches close to Earth
2134 Mar 27th - 32nd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
2161 May 19th - Syzygy: 8 of 9 planets aligned on same side of sun
2304 Jan 1st - Mid-CALENDAR day
3268 Jan 23rd - Beginning of 2nd Julian Period (1/1 OS)
6000 Jan 1st - 1st reversible date since 11/11/1999
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