< Portal:Current events

September 2012 was the ninth month of that leap year. The month, which began on a Saturday, ended on a Sunday after 30 days.

Portal:Current events

This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from September 2012.

September 1, 2012 (2012-09-01) (Saturday)
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September 2, 2012 (2012-09-02) (Sunday)
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September 3, 2012 (2012-09-03) (Monday)
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  • Swaziland virgins perform an annual reed dance, paying homage to the king, pleasing tourists and compatriots. (Reuters)
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September 4, 2012 (2012-09-04) (Tuesday)
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  • Scientists develop a "magic carpet" with optical fibers to help prevent elderly people from falling by a warning when it detects unusual footsteps. (Daily Mail)
  • Beijing and Shanghai place orders for the world's longest bus, the 101 foot (31 m), five-axle, four-steering-axle, three-tiered AutoTram. It carries 256 passengers and costs about $10 million a piece. Due to advanced electronics, it is said to be as maneuverable and precise as a conventional bus. (Daily Mail)
  • The opening date of the new airport serving the Berlin area is delayed again, until late October 2013. (The Local)
September 5, 2012 (2012-09-05) (Wednesday)
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September 6, 2012 (2012-09-06) (Thursday)
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  • A Christian lobbyist's kin defend him after he claims homosexuality reduces life expectancy more than smoking and should therefore be discouraged. He himself states he "was not comparing homosexuality with smoking at all." (Sydney Morning Herald) (SBS)
September 7, 2012 (2012-09-07) (Friday)
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September 8, 2012 (2012-09-08) (Saturday)
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September 9, 2012 (2012-09-09) (Sunday)
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September 10, 2012 (2012-09-10) (Monday)
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  • Three boys aged eight and nine are killed when a bazooka grenade, left over from a war in Cambodia, explodes. (AP via ABC News) (Jane's)
  • Tariq al-Hashimi rejects the charges leading to his death sentence in Baghdad on Sunday. He, being a Sunni, claims to be a "target" of Shiite prime minister Nouri al-Maliki. He refuses to return to Iraq for an appeal as long as, according to him, the judicial system is "corrupt". He claims to put the verdict "on his chest as a medal". Al-Qaeda says "black days" are ahead. The reaction of Iraqi people on the street generally welcomes a fair rule of law but is wary of political influencing and sectarianism. (ABC News) (Euronews)
  • According to a parliamentary answer by the ministry of health, the value of a life lost during a clinical trial is 2.2 lakh rupees ($ 4,000) in India in 2011. This number is the average compensation paid for deaths during clinical trials. No rules governing compensations for clinical trial-related injury or death have been approved by the Parliament of India yet. (IRNA)
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September 11, 2012 (2012-09-11) (Tuesday)
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  • At least 29 people are killed and 11 injured after a bus runs off a mountain highway in western Nepal. (AP via NineMSN)
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September 12, 2012 (2012-09-12) (Wednesday)
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September 13, 2012 (2012-09-13) (Thursday)
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September 14, 2012 (2012-09-14) (Friday)
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  • The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge begin legal action after the magazine Closer published topless pictures of the Duchess taken during a holiday to France last week, and which their spokesman describes as “a grotesque and totally unjustifiable” invasion of privacy. (BBC) (The Telegraph)
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September 15, 2012 (2012-09-15) (Saturday)
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September 16, 2012 (2012-09-16) (Sunday)
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September 17, 2012 (2012-09-17) (Monday)
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September 18, 2012 (2012-09-18) (Tuesday)
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  • Following the world's first mother-to-daughter uterus transplants at the University of Gothenburg two women may now be able to give birth using the wombs in which they were carried. (BBC)
September 19, 2012 (2012-09-19) (Wednesday)
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September 20, 2012 (2012-09-20) (Thursday)
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September 21, 2012 (2012-09-21) (Friday)
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  • During a Green Day performance at Las Vegas' IHeartRadio music festival, Billie Joe Armstrong became agitated onstage and stopped the band's set midway through their performance. In an expletive-filled rant, Armstrong criticized the event's promoters for allegedly cutting short the band's performance before smashing his guitar and storming off stage.
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September 22, 2012 (2012-09-22) (Saturday)
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  • The drunken driver of a car, speeding at nearly 200 kilometre (124 miles) per hour, hits a bus stop on Minskaya Street in Moscow. Seven pedestrians who were waiting for the bus were killed. (Ria Novosti) (Xinhua)
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September 23, 2012 (2012-09-23) (Sunday)
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September 24, 2012 (2012-09-24) (Monday)
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September 25, 2012 (2012-09-25) (Tuesday)
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September 26, 2012 (2012-09-26) (Wednesday)
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September 27, 2012 (2012-09-27) (Thursday)
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  • Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health voices concerns that the novel coronavirus, similar to SARS and reported to have originated from the country, might affect the Hajj, the religious pilgrimage set to occur next month. The ministry suggests that travelers take the necessary precautions. (ABC News)
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  • The Mars Curiosity rover, for the first time, discovers what, upon further study, could be determined to be direct evidence of a fast-moving streambed- a past water source- on the planet, moving from speculation to potential proof of past water, a landmark step because such an area would be a logical site for a future base and for the discovery of past life. (Washington Post)
  • Scientists in Japan confirm the 2004 discovery of a 113th element, paving the way for it to be named and included on the periodic table. (Mainichi Shimbun) (Nature)
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September 28, 2012 (2012-09-28) (Friday)
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  • Nigeria suspends flights to Saudi Arabia after hundreds of Nigerian women attending the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca were deported for not traveling with a male escort. (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
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September 29, 2012 (2012-09-29) (Saturday)
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September 30, 2012 (2012-09-30) (Sunday)
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  • Singer George Michael cancels the Australian leg of his tour due to "major anxiety", resulting from his recovery from life-threatening pneumonia last November. (BBC)
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