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Dates So in the year 2012, there is alot going on until the big day, and here some that is suppose to happen.
On Jan. 1st- Poland will adot the Euro. Jan. 13th- 22nd- The first Winter Youth Olympics will be held in Innsbruck, Austria. Jan. 31st- The second largest Near Earth object is say to pass Earth. Feb. 5th- Super Bowl XLVI will be played in Indiana. March 22nd- Unless the European Council votes to extend current copyright law, The Beatles debut album, Please Please Please, will fall out of copyright. April 17th- The U.S. will cede wartime control of the miltary of the Republic of Korea after 50 years and dissolve the Combined Forces Command. May 20th- Annular solar Eclipse, a Sunday. Path of totality runs through the Pacific Ocean from northern China to California. June 6th- The second and last solar transit of Venus of the century. June 9th-July 1st- The UEFA Euro 2012 will be played in Poland and Ukraine. June 18th–June 23rd – Turing Centenary Conference at the University of Cambridge, in honor of the mathematician, computer scientist, and cryptographer Alan Turing, the last day of the conference being the hundredth anniversary of his birth. July 18th–21st - The 2012 World Rowing Championships will be held at Plovdiv, Bulgaria. July 27th - Opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics begins in London at 7:30 pm. August 12th - Closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, a Sunday. August 29th - Start of the 2012 Summer Paralympics. November 6th - The United States Presidential, Senate, and House of Representatives elections. November 13th - Total solar eclipse (visible in northern Australia and the South Pacific). November 28th - Penumbral lunar eclipse. December 3rd - Jupiter oppositions. December 21st - 11:11 UTC. Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, Summer Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere. December 21 - The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, notably used by the Maya civilization among others of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, completes its thirteenth b'ak'tun, or minor numerical sub-cycle, since the calendar's mythical starting point (equivalent to August 11, 3114 BC in the proleptic Gregorian calendar, according to the "GMT correlation" JDN = 584283). The Long Count B'ak'tun date of this starting point (13.0.0.0.0) is repeated for the first time in a span of approximately 5,125 solar years. The significance of this period-ending to the pre-Columbian Maya themselves is unclear, and there is an incomplete inscription (Tortuguero Monument 6) that records this date. It is also to be found carved on the walls of the Temple of Inscriptions in Palenque, where it functions as a base date from which other dates are computed. But the Maya certainly did not take it as representing the end of the current world, since an inscription by Pacal at Palenque looks forward to a royal anniversary on October 15, 4772. December 23 - An alternative date for the completion of the thirteenth B'ak'tun in the Maya calendar, using a correlation constant of 584285 (a.k.a. the Thompson, "astronomical" or "Lounsbury correlation"), which is supported by a few Mayanist researchers. December 31 - The Kyoto Protocol will expire.
Unknown Dates Ireland will cease analogue television broadcasts. China will launch the Kuafu spacecraft. Pleiades, a proposed super computer built by Intel and SGI for NASA's Ames Research Center, will be completed, expected to reach a peak performance of 10 Petaflops (10 quadrillion operations per second). Sequoia, a proposed super computer built by IBM for the National Nuclear Security Administration will be completed, expected to reach a peak performance of 20 Petaflops. Start of the commercial operation of the first unit from the Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant II. The 108 ft (33 m) Elwha Dam and 210 ft (64 m) Glines Canyon Dam will be removed from the Elwha River in Washington state, marking the largest dam removal project in history. The Canberra class light aircraft carriers/large amphibious ships, the largest ships ever to be operated by the Royal Australian Navy, will be in service. On the sun, the solar maximum of Solar Cycle 24 in the 11-year sunspot cycle is forecast to occur. Solar Cycle 24 is regarded to have commenced January 2008, and on average will reach its peak of maximal sunspot activity around 2012. The period between successive solar maxima averages 11 years (the Schwabe cycle), and the previous solar maximum of Solar Cycle 23 occurred 2000 - 2002. During the solar maximum the sun's magnetic poles will reverse. The
United Kingdom will complete a 5-year process to cease analogue television
broadcasts region-by-region, with Meridian Broadcasting, ITV London,
Tyne Tees Television and UTV being the last areas to switch off analogue.
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