Explore 58 historical events and records for United States of America in 2012.
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The Federal Open Market Committee publishes its first Statement on Longer-Run Goals and Monetary Policy Strategy and identifies two percent inflation, measured by the personal consumption expenditures price index, as most consistent with its mandate over the longer run.
The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury releases a major resolved-star survey of M31 using ultraviolet, optical and near-infrared Hubble observations.
Supports President Hadi's transitional government.
Maintains security and diplomatic cooperation during the political transition.
Releases Wrecking Ball, an album shaped by economic anger and social protest.
MESSENGER begins its first extended mission after completing the primary year of orbital observations.
Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame again as a member of Faces.
Mission controllers reduce MESSENGER's orbital period to about eight hours, increasing the number of close Mercury passes each day.
Awards Dylan the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Hubble measurements constrain M31's sideways motion against distant background galaxies, enabling a quantitative forecast of its future encounter with the Milky Way.
Pasachoff observes the final transit of Venus of the twenty-first century, an event not repeated until 2117.
The Federal Open Market Committee extends the maturity extension program through the end of 2012, planning additional purchases and sales of Treasury securities that further lengthen the average maturity of Federal Reserve holdings.
A Hubble hazard survey discovers Pluto's fifth and smallest known moon, later named Styx.
Presents the CMS collaboration's independent evidence for a new particle near 125 GeV during CERN's announcement of the discovery.
Presents the CMS collaboration's independent evidence for a new particle near 125 GeV during CERN's Higgs boson discovery announcement.
USADA announces a lifetime ban from competition, applicable to all sports which follow the World Anti-Doping Agency code
Death of Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong.
Leads the Voyager science team as Voyager 1 crosses the heliopause and leaves the solar-wind-dominated heliosphere for interstellar space.
Voyager 1 crosses the heliopause and becomes the first human-made object in interstellar space.
Addresses the Republican National Convention during Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.
Captures video of a brief meteoroid impact flash in Jupiter's atmosphere.
Releases Tempest.
Flaugher leads the Dark Energy Camera project as DECam obtains official first-light images, preparing the primary instrument for the Dark Energy Survey.
The Federal Open Market Committee announces purchases of 40 billion dollars of agency mortgage-backed securities per month and states that asset purchases can continue and be adjusted until the labour-market outlook improves substantially.
Debates Paul Ryan during the 2012 campaign.
Is reelected vice president with Barack Obama.
MESSENGER neutron measurements provide compelling evidence that Mercury's permanently shadowed north-polar craters contain abundant water ice.
The Federal Open Market Committee adds purchases of 45 billion dollars of longer-term Treasury securities per month and introduces explicit unemployment and inflation thresholds to help explain how long exceptionally low interest rates may remain appropriate.
Disqualified from from competitive cycling for life, for doping offenses by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)
Publication of "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk"
With collaborators, formulates the firewall paradox as a challenge to conventional assumptions about black hole horizons and quantum information.
With collaborators, formulates the firewall argument, sharpening the conflict among unitarity, effective field theory and a smooth black hole horizon.
Julia Louis Dreyfus received the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for playing vice president Selina Meyer in Veep.
Co-writes and stars in Frances Ha as a young dancer navigating friendship and work in New York.
Lena Dunham created Girls, a comedy drama following young women's friendships and uncertain professional lives in New York.
Publication of "Gone Girl"
Leads discovery of multiple planets orbiting the binary star Kepler-47.
Stars in Lincoln. Stars in Hope Springs
MESSENGER records its one-hundred-thousandth image from Mercury orbit as global and targeted imaging continues.
MESSENGER imaging shows that radar-bright polar deposits coincide with permanently shadowed areas where surface ice can remain stable.
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