Year 2012 In Gifs

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[b]January 14.[/b] The [url="http://gizmodo.com/5876100/first-video-of-the-cruise-ship-sinking-in-italy"]984-foot cruise ship [i]Costa Concordia[/i] runs aground on the island of Giglio, Italy[/url]. More than 4,000 people were evacuated, 30 dead, two missing and presumed dead, and 64 injured.[/size][/font][/color][/size][/font]


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[Joey_Tribbiani]

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[url="http://gizmodo.com/5882967/watch-how-the-special-forces-busted-into-megaupload-mansion"]Kim Dotcom gets busted[/url][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times,] at his New Zealand mansion at the request of the US government. His beloved [/font][/color][url="http://gizmodo.com/5877612/feds-kill-megaupload"]Megaupload servers are closed[/url][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times,]. This is not [/font][/color][url="http://us.gizmodo.com/5877987/the-best-worst-photos-of-megaupload-kim-dotcom"]the best photo of Dotcom[/url][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times,], but it's the cream of the animated crop[/font][/color]

[Joey_Tribbiani]

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[b]March 6.[/b][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times,] Anonymous falls to ruin after its beloved leader [/font][/color][url="http://gizmodo.com/5890825/lulzsec-leader-betrays-all-of-anonymous"]betrays them[/url][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times,].[/font][/color]

[Joey_Tribbiani]

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[b]May 18[/b]. [url="http://gizmodo.com/5911228/16-facebook-ipo-set-for-38-per-share"]Facebook debuts[/url] on the stock market in what became one of the [url="http://gizmodo.com/5911962/why-facebooks-tanking-today"]biggest (or at least most decried) IPO disasters[/url]mankind had ever witnessed.[/size][/font][/color][/size][/font][/size][/font]

[Joey_Tribbiani]

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[b]July 15[/b][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times,]. PSY 6 releases [/font][/color][i]Gangnam Style[/i][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times,]. It quickly went viral. By the end of the year, the video was the most watched clip in the history of the internet.[/font][/color]

[Joey_Tribbiani]

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[b]July 27.[/b][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times,] The 2012 Summer Games open in London. A couple weeks later, Usain Bolt runs his way into the history books by achieving a "double triple:" winning 100 meters, 200 meters and the 4x100m relays at consecutive olympic games. Along the way, he fist-bumped his way into our hearts.[/font][/color]

[Joey_Tribbiani]

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[b]August 6.[/b][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times,] The [/font][/color][url="http://us.gizmodo.com/5932039/the-mars-curiosity-rover-has-landed--live-coverage-from-jpl"]Mars Curiosity rover lands successfully on the Red Planet[/url][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times,] after [/font][/color][url="http://us.gizmodo.com/5920588/why-nasas-mars-curiosity-rover-landing-will-be-seven-minutes-of-absolute-terror"]seven minutes of terror[/url][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times,]. The most successful NASA mission in decades.[/font][/color]

[Joey_Tribbiani]

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[b]September 7.[/b][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times,] The Syrian civil war has been ongoing since last year, but the last months have been more bloody than ever. In this terrible image you can see a clear example:[/font][/color][url="http://us.gizmodo.com/5941513/incredible-photograph-captures-exact-moment-of-tank-shell-hit-against-syrian-rebels"]rebels of the Noor Den al-Zenke battalion being obliterated by a Syrian army tank[/url][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times,] in Aleppo.[/font][/color]

[Joey_Tribbiani]

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[b]October 14.[/b][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times,] Felix Baumgartner [/font][/color][url="http://gizmodo.com/5951621/watch-the-video-of-the-space-jump-here"]jumps from 127,000 feet all the way back down to Earth[/url][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times,], breaking not only the sound barriers, but some world records as well. He gathered vital information for NASA in the process[/font][/color]

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[Joey_Tribbiani]

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[b]October 15[/b][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times,]. The Space Shuttle flew for the last time in 2011, but the individual spacecrafts made their way to their final homes this year. The Endeavour, pictured here, had to go [/font][/color][url="http://gizmodo.com/5952220/every-time-i-watch-this-im-sure-the-space-shuttle-will-lose-a-wing"]through the streets of Los Angeles[/url][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times,] to arrive at its final destination.[/font][/color]

[Joey_Tribbiani]

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[b]October 29.[/b][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times,] Frankenstorm Sandy hits the North East of the United States, [/font][/color][url="http://us.gizmodo.com/5955575/hurricane-sandy-satellite-photos-and-videos-updating-live"]causing billions in damage and killing more than a hundred people[/url][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times,]. In this image, the Con Edison power plant on New York's 14th Street explodes[/font][/color]

[Joey_Tribbiani]

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[b]November 6.[/b][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times,] Republican Mitt Romney loses the 2012 US Presidential election...[/font][/color]

[Joey_Tribbiani]

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[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times,]...Obama and Biden win.[/font][/color]

[Joey_Tribbiani]

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[b]November 12.[/b][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times,] The outlandish saga of John McAfee begins. [/font][/color][url="http://us.gizmodo.com/5959812/john-mcafee-wanted-for-murder"]Wanted for questioning[/url][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times,]about to the murder of his neighbor, the antivirus millionaire escaped Belize only to be caught a few weeks later and [/font][/color][url="http://gizmodo.com/5968084/john-mcafee-is-back-on-us-soil"]deported to Miami[/url][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times,].[/font][/color]