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That was the year that was 2012. What happened and where did it happen?. Who is this and what did she do?. What happened?. Who was this wonderful person?. Who is this and what did he just do?. What job did he take on again and from whom?. Who is this and what did he become?.
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Who are these three, what are their day jobs and what are they collecting here?
1 The Costa Corcordia capsized off the Italian coast after hitting an island 2 Laura Dekker became the youngest person to have sailed single-handedly around the world 3 The Mediterranean coast froze in the Adriatic coastal town of Senj, Croatia 4 Whitney Houston 5 Christian Wulff resigned 6 Vladimir Putin and Dimitri Medvedev swapped jobs as Prime Minister and President of Russia 7 Joachim Gauck became President of Germany at the second attempt 8 The Space Shuttle Discovery took its final flight to the Smithsonian museum in Washington 9 Psy did his Gangnam Style 10 The new airport Berlin / Brandenburg did not open again 11 Mark Zuckerberg floated a small part of Facebook on the NY Stock Exchange 12 The Olympic rings share the limelight with the Moon under Tower Bridge in London 13 After being collected by James Bond, HRH the Queen jumps first and is followed by her most loyal servant 14 Neil Armstrong, first man on the Moon, dies 15 Herman van Rompuy, President of the European Council, Jose Barroso, President of the European Commission, Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament collect the Nobel Peace Prize for the EU in Oslo 16 Two Japanese coastguard ships squeeze a Chinese fisherboat near the Senkaku Islands, which the Chinese and Japanese boat claim 17 The Austrian extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner jumps from 39km and breaks 4 world records, including being the first man to fall faster than the speed of sound 18 Lance Armstrong finally admits to taking everything on offer (admittedly in 2013 on TV with Oprah) 19 Hurricane Sandy tore through New York and moved north 20 Clint Eastwood talked to a chair at the Republican Convention. The chair was meant to symbolise President Obama, of whose policies he was not enamoured 21 The new Chinese leadership massed around Xi Jinping who succeeded Hu Jintao as President 22 North Korea launched a satellite, using a rocket which could also carry a nuclear warhead. Everyone got upset