World Event Highlights 2012

World Event Highlights 2012

The most memorable events in 2012:

UEFA 2012

This year UEFA (the 14^th European Football Championship) was held in Polan and Ukraine,and this year’s winner was Spain,who has got the prize,the 23 million euro.

Olympic games in London(motto:Inspire a Generation)

It was the 3^rd time for London to host the Olympics. The main focus was a new Olympic Park.  204 nations were attending, with 10 820 athletes on 302 events,in 26 sports. Financing the games costed $14.46 billion. The USA has got 104 medals ,the second China 88 medals and Great Britain 65.

Curiosity explores the Red Planet

Nasa has successfully landed Curiosity, a  rover big as a car on Mars. This landing costed about 2.5 billion dollars,and the journey to the Mars lasted eight months.It was Nasa’s sevent landing on this planet,but it was the most exiting and expensive one.This mission’s goal was to find out the climate,the geology,if there is life on Mars,and to prepare for human exploitations.

The last cycle of the Mayan calendar

Better known as the end of the world. Much people belived that the end is coming because mayan people were smart in architecture, mathematical and astronomical systems,and they wrote a calendar which ended on 21^st December in 2012. This event of course passed without any incidents,and there is no end YET.

And for the end,the video which became the most known and seen on youtube. Enjoy and gangnam style.:D