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Random Upcoming 2012 World Events

January

• January 13 – January 22 – The first Winter Youth Olympics will be held in Innsbruck, Austria.
• January 31 – 433 Eros, the second-largest Near Earth Object on record (size 13 km × 13 km × 33 km) will pass Earth at 0.1790 astronomical units (26,780,000 km; 16,640,000 mi). 

February

• February 6 – Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, marking the 60th anniversary of her accession to the thrones of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia & New Zealand, and the 60th anniversary of her becoming Head of the Commonwealth.

May

• May 12 – August 12 – The 2012 World Expo is to be held in Yeosu, South Korea.
• May 20 – Annular solar eclipse. Path of annularity runs through the Pacific Ocean from northern China to California.

June

• June 6 – The second and last solar transit of Venus of the century. The next pair is predicted to occur in2117 and 2125.
• June 18 – June 23 – Turing Centenary Conference at the University of Cambridge, in honor of the mathematician, computer scientist, and cryptographer Alan Turing, the last day of the conference being the hundredth anniversary of his birth.

July

• July 27 – Opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics begins in London at 19:30 UTC, 20:30 BST. London will become the first city in history to host the Summer Olympic Games three times.

August

• August 6 – August 20 – Mars Science Laboratory also known as the Curiosity rover is scheduled to land onMars.^[8]
• August 12 – Closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

November

• November 13 – Total solar eclipse (visible in Northern Australia and the South Pacific).

December

• December 21 – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, notably used by the pre-Columbian Maya civilizationamong others, completes a "great cycle" of thirteen b'ak'tuns (periods of 144,000 days each) since the mythicalcreation date of the calendar's current era. P.S. In case you're worried about the world ending... read this.
• December 31 – The first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol ends.