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The World in 2012 the year the world didn't end

On landing night, radio signals from Mars took 14 minutes to reach Earth. Curiosity's whole descent took only seven, so the rover was already safe on the ground before anyone at NASA could know it.

Life back then

Half the online world seemed to be on Facebook, which paid a billion dollars for a small photo app called Instagram. Samsung passed Nokia to become the biggest phone maker on Earth, ending 14 years at the top. Friends played Draw Something on their phones, Call Me Maybe owned the radio, and a Korean rapper named Psy taught the planet a horse dance with Gangnam Style.

The year in 8 events

• 🕯️Jan 13 The cruise ship Costa Concordia hits rocks off the Italian coast and rolls onto its side. 32 people die.
• 🔬Jul 4 Scientists at CERN in Switzerland announce they have found the Higgs boson particle.
• 🏅Jul 27 The Summer Olympics open in London, with the Queen appearing to skydive in with James Bond.
• 🚀Aug 6 The rover Curiosity lands on Mars after a descent NASA called seven minutes of terror.
• 📚Oct 9 Malala Yousafzai, a 15-year-old who wrote about girls going to school, is shot on her school bus in Pakistan. She survives.
• 🕯️Oct 29 Hurricane Sandy slams the US East Coast, flooding parts of New York City.
• 🗳️Nov 6 Barack Obama wins re-election, defeating Mitt Romney.
• 🎉Dec 21 The Maya calendar date some feared meant doomsday passes quietly. The same day, Gangnam Style becomes the first video to reach 1 billion views.

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