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  • Birmingham, UK
    Jul, 2012
    Queen Elizabeth II

    Elizabeth visited Birmingham

    Birmingham, UK
    Jul, 2012

    Elizabeth visited Birmingham in July 2012 as part of her Diamond Jubilee tour.




  • Mountain View, California, U.S.
    Jul, 2012
    Google LLC

    Google Launched a "Legalize Love" Campaign

    Mountain View, California, U.S.
    Jul, 2012

    In July 2012, Google launched a "Legalize Love" campaign in support of gay rights.




  • London, England, United Kingdom
    Monday Jul 2, 2012
    Uber

    Uber launches in London

    London, England, United Kingdom
    Monday Jul 2, 2012

    Uber launches in London, United Kingdom.




  • San Francisco, California, U.S.
    Jul, 2012
    Uber

    Uber announces UberX

    San Francisco, California, U.S.
    Jul, 2012

    Uber announces UberX, a service that uses lower-cost hybrid vehicles.




  • U.S.
    Jul, 2012
    Richard Branson

    LauncherOne

    U.S.
    Jul, 2012

    In July 2012, Branson announced plans to build an orbital space launch system, designated LauncherOne.




  • California, U.S.
    Jul, 2012
    Oculus

    The Foundation

    California, U.S.
    Jul, 2012

    Through MTBS's forums, Palmer developed the idea of creating a new head-mounted display that was more effective than what was currently on the market and was also inexpensive for gamers. To develop the new product. Luckey founded Oculus VR with Scaleform co-founders Brendan Iribe and Michael Antonov, Nate Mitchell, and Andrew Scott Reisse.




  • Caracas, Venzuela
    Monday Jul 9, 2012
    Hugo Chávez

    Chávez declared himself fully recovered from cancer

    Caracas, Venzuela
    Monday Jul 9, 2012

    On 9 July 2012, Chávez declared himself fully recovered from cancer just three months before the 2012 Venezuelan presidential election, which he won, securing a fourth term as president.


  • Italy
    Friday Jul 13, 2012
    Zlatan Ibrahimović

    Serie A Top Scorer

    Italy
    Friday Jul 13, 2012

    He finished the season as Serie A top scorer with 28 goals in 32 matches.


  • Tokyo, Japan
    Jul, 2012
    PlayStation Network

    Gaikai

    Tokyo, Japan
    Jul, 2012

    In July 2012, Sony Computer Entertainment announced that they had acquired video game streaming service Gaikai for $380 million.


  • Boston's South End, Massachusetts, U.S.
    Monday Jul 16, 2012
    Aaron Hernandez

    Boston double homicide

    Boston's South End, Massachusetts, U.S.
    Monday Jul 16, 2012

    Hernandez was investigated in connection with a double homicide that took place on July 16, 2012, near the Cure Lounge in Boston's South End. Daniel Jorge Correia de Abreu, 29, and Safiro Teixeira Furtado, 28, both immigrants from Cape Verde and living in Dorchester, were killed by gunshots fired into their vehicle. Witnesses testified that Hernandez's silver SUV pulled up next to the victims and someone from his car yelled, "What's up now, niggers?" Someone from the car then fired five shots, killing the two immigrants. Police immediately identified Hernandez, who was then playing for the Patriots, in the club's security camera footage, but thought it was a coincidence that the NFL star happened to be at the club that evening.


  • Paris, France
    Wednesday Jul 18, 2012
    Zlatan Ibrahimović

    Moving To PSG

    Paris, France
    Wednesday Jul 18, 2012

    On 17 July 2012, Paris Saint-Germain confirmed that they had reached an agreement to acquire the sporting and economic rights of Ibrahimović from Milan, having already agreed personal terms with the striker, for a transfer fee of €20 million. Valued at €180 million, these combined fees eclipsed those commanded by Nicolas Anelka. His three-year contract would see him receive a net annual salary of €14 million including bonuses (which would be €2 million more than what he was earning per year just before he left Milan), and make him the second best paid footballer in the world behind Samuel Eto'o. The following day, Ibrahimović signed the contract.


  • Aurora, Colorado, U.S.
    Friday Jul 20, 2012
    Mass Shootings in the United States

    Aurora Theater Shooting

    Aurora, Colorado, U.S.
    Friday Jul 20, 2012

    On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting occurred inside a "Century 16" movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, during a midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises. Dressed in tactical clothing, James Eagan Holmes set off tear gas grenades and shot into the audience with multiple firearms. Twelve people were killed and seventy others were injured, 58 of them from gunfire.


  • St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
    Monday Jul 23, 2012
    Dwayne Johnson

    WWE Raw 1000

    St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
    Monday Jul 23, 2012

    On July 23, at Raw 1000, The Rock announced he would wrestle for the WWE Championship at the Royal Rumble pay-per-view. During the show, he encountered then-reigning WWE Champion CM Punk, Daniel Bryan, and John Cena, all of whom expressed a desire to face him. The Rock later saved Cena from an assault by Big Show, only to be laid out by CM Punk.


  • London, England
    Saturday Jul 28, 2012
    Michael Phelps

    The Two-time defending Olympic champion

    London, England
    Saturday Jul 28, 2012

    On July 28, 2012, Phelps placed eighth in the morning prelims for the 400-meter individual medley. Phelps, the two-time defending Olympic champion, won his heat in 4 minutes, 13.33 seconds with a time that was well off his world record of 4:03.84 set four years ago in Beijing, when Phelps won a record eight gold medals.


  • Redmond, Washington, U.S.
    Tuesday Jul 31, 2012
    Microsoft

    Outlook.com

    Redmond, Washington, U.S.
    Tuesday Jul 31, 2012

    On July 31, they launched the Outlook.com webmail service to compete with Gmail.


  • Anningzhuang Rd, Haidian District, Beijing, China
    Jul, 2012
    Xiaomi

    Xiaomi Mi 2 smartphone

    Anningzhuang Rd, Haidian District, Beijing, China
    Jul, 2012

    In August 2012, following the first version of the smartphone, Xiaomi Corporation announced its new device called Xiaomi Mi 2 smartphone. It was improved from the previous version by updating the new firmware with the most updated Android Version.


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