Historical Events on February 12 (Part 2)

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• 2012 Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow is re-elected President of Turkmenistan with 97% of the vote
• 2012 Zambia defeat Ivory Coast 8-7 on penalties in the Africa Cup of Nations

• 2013 North Korea allegedly conducts its third nuclear test, saying it was a nuclear device that could be weaponized

• 2014 German Nordic combined skier Eric Frenzel wins the 1st of 3 career Olympic gold medals in Individual normal hill/10 km event in Sochi; wins event again Pyeongchang and long hill 4 x 5k relay

• 2014 Switzerland’s Dominique Gisin and Tina Maze of Slovenia tie for gold in the women’s downhill event at 1:41.57s at the Sochi Winter Games; first-ever dead-heat in Olympic alpine skiing
• 2014 Tatyana Volosozhar and Maksim Trankov win the Olympic gold in pairs figure skating
• 2016 Britain's Ordnance Survey, using NASA data posts map of Mars on Flickr
• 2016 Fiji becomes the first country to ratify the UN climate deal (signed Paris, December 2015)

• 2016 Pope Francis meets Patriarch Kirill in Havana - first meeting between Catholic and Russian Orthodox church heads for nearly 1,000 years
• 2016 Student leader Kanhaiya Kumar is arrested on “anti-nationalism” charges by Indian police at an anniversary event of the death of Afzal Guru, at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University

• 2017 Emergency spillway at Oroville Dam, California threatens to collapse, 180,00 residents ordered to evacuate
• 2017 North Korea conducts a solid fuel ballistic missile test from Banghyon air base
• 2018 American snowboarder Jamie Anderson retains her Olympic slopestyle title (Sochi 2014) at the Pyeongchang Winter Games, comfortably ahead of Canada's Laurie Blouin
• 2018 Dutch speed skater Ireen Wüst becomes first Winter Olympian to win an individual gold medal in 4 straight Games with victory in the 1,500m at Pyeongchang; first speed skater to win 10 Olympic medals
• 2018 French biathlete Martin Fourcade wins men's 12.5k pursuit gold medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics; also wins 15k mass start gold
• 2018 German biathlete Laura Dahlmeier wins her 2nd gold medal of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the women's 10k pursuit; also wins 7.5k sprint gold
• 2018 Oxfam deputy director resigns over charity's failure to deal with sexual misconduct allegations in Haiti and Chad

• 2018 Tropical cyclone Gita strikes Tonga as a category four cyclone causing widespread damage
• 2019 24 hour general strike in Belgium forces all fights to be cancelled and schools shut
• 2019 Australian government loses historic vote on own bill with amendment to allow offshore sick refugees access to healthcare, first loss in 78 years
• 2019 Hotel fire in New Delhi, India, kills 17

• 2019 NASA data shows the world has got greener - 5% more leafier since early 2000s, mostly due to tree planting in China, intensive farming in India
• 2019 Rare Black panthers spotted for the first time in nearly 100 years in Laikipia County, Kenya
• 2019 Republic of Macedonia officially changes it name to the Republic of North Macedonia to end long dispute with Greece
• 2019 Trial of 12 Catalonia independence leaders begins in Madrid
• 2019 US national debt tops 22 trillion for the first time according to US Treasury
• 2019 Vulcan Inc. announces the rediscovery near the Solomon Islands of World War II aircraft carrier USS Hornet, which sank in 1942 with the loss of 140 lives.
• 2021 Tokyo Olympics Chief Yoshiro Mori resigns after his comments that talkative women made meetings “drag on too long”
• 2022 French forces say they have killed 40 fighters in air attacks in Burkina Faso linked to deadly attacks on Benin border [1]
• 2023 India opens the first part of what will be its longest expressway linking Mumbai with New Delhi over 1,386-kilometer (861 mile) [1]

• 2024 Oldest known 11,000 Stone Age megastructure, used for hunting, revealed submerged in Bay of Mecklenburg, off the German coast [1]

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