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2011 2012 The Future

Contents 1 Timeline 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March

Timeline

January

• January 2
  • Iranian officials report that the country will not shut down the Strait of Hormuz, as was previously threatened.
  • President Barack Obama ended his 10-day winter vacation in his birth state, Hawaii.

• January 3
  • Voters in Iowa go to the polls for electoral caucuses.

• January 4
  • President Barack Obama installs Richard Cordray as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's first director through a recess appointment. The President also names two Democrats and one Republican on the National Labor Relations Board by means of his power recess appoint. These actions spur Republican ire.
  • Republican primary candidate, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney wins the 2012 Iowa Caucus. Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum is second, behind by eight votes and Congressman Ron Paul takes third place.
  • Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann ends her campaign.

• January 5
  • President Obama has unveils a new defense strategy that aims to cut spending.

• January 6
  • In Syria hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in a display of defiance to show the Arab League observers the strength of the opposition movement. The protests were the largest since October.

• January 10
  • Mitt Romney wins the New Hampshire Republican primary with Ron Paul in second and Jon Huntsman in third.

• January 13
  • Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia capsizes in Italian waters, killing at least 11 people.

• January 16
  • Martin Luther King day.
  • Jon Huntsman abandons his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination and endorsed Mitt Romney.

• January 18
  • Several major websites, including Reddit and the English Wikipedia, undergo blackouts in protest against controversial internet legislation (SOPA and PIPA) proposed by the United States Congress.

• January 19
  • Rick Perry drops out of the 2012 Republican Party presidential primaries and endorses rival candidate Newt Gingrich.
  • Kodak files for bankruptcy protection.

• January 21
  • Former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich of Georgia wins the Republican Party South Carolina presidential primary with 243,153 votes (40.4%). Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, who won the New Hampshire primary, came in second with 167,279 (27.8%).

• January 22
  • Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords announces on her website that she will resign from Congress to continue her recuperation from the brain injury she suffered when shot just over a year ago.

• January 31:
  • Mitt Romney wins Florida Republican Presidential open primary

February

• February 3
  • According to Department of Labor statistics, employers added over 240,000 jobs in the month of January and the unemployment rate dropped to 8.3%, the lowest percent in three years.
  • A court martial is ordered for US Private Bradley Manning responsible for leaking hundreds of thousands of documents to Wikileaks.

• February 4
  • Mitt Romney wins Nevada Republican Presidential binding caucus.
  • Russia and China veto on a UN Security Council resolution calling for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down over his bloody crackdown on a popular uprising.
  • Over 100,000 people protest for and against Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

• February 5
  • Super Bowl XLVI is played in Indianapolis with the New York Giants defeating the New England Patriots 21-17.

• February 7
  • Former Sen. Rick Santorum wins the Colorado Republican Presidential nonbinding caucus, the Minnesota Republican caucus and the Missouri Republican primary.

• February 8
  • The Syrian government launches an offensive in Homs.
  • The death toll throughout Europe rises to over 400 from a cold wave.

• February 10
  • Egyptian protesters march towards the Defense Ministry in Cairo, demanding the return of a civilian government.

• February 11
  • Mitt Romney wins the Maine Republican primary.
  • President Obama says employees who work for religious organizations that object to the use of birth control, including hospitals and charities associated with the Catholic Church, would be able to obtain contraception from the employer’s insurer.
  • Singer and actress Whitney Houston dies suddenly at the age of 48 at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel.

• February 12
  • The Greek Parliament votes to approve austerity measures demanded in return for another bailout from the eurozone.
  • The 54th Grammy Awards for music is held and re-worked to commemorate the late Whitney Houston.

• February 16
  • The United Nations General Assembly votes in favor of an Arab sponsored resolution condemning human rights violations by the Syrian government.
  • The House Oversight Committee chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) held a hearing related to women’s access to birth control in which all the testifiers were male. Issa denied the Democrats their witness because she was not a member of the clergy, but a student at Georgetown.

• February 19
  • Iranian warships dock at Syrian port.

• February 21
  • The bombardment of Homs in Syria continues for an 18th successive day.

• February 22
  • Former Louisiana governor Buddy Roemer ended his campaign for the Republican Party (GOP) presidential nomination to seek the backing of the Reform Party of the United States of America.
  • Two Western journalists are killed in the Syrian city of Homs, American Marie Colvin working for the Sunday Times and French photographer Remi Ochlik.
  • The International Atomic Energy Agency states that Iran has denied inspectors access to the Parchin military site where it believes that suspicious nuclear activities may be taking place.

• February 25
  • Over 100 civilians are killed by the Syrian army, primarily in the artillery shelling of the cities of Homs and Hama.

• February 26
  • Thousands of Russians form a human chain around the center of Moscow in protest against Vladimir Putin.
  • The 84th Academy Awards are held at the Hollywood and Highland Center Theater (formerly Kodak Theatre) in Hollywood, California.
  • Colombia's FARC announces that it has abandoned kidnapping and will soon release its last remaining captives.

• February 27
  • WikiLeaks begins disclosing 5 million e-mails from the private intelligence company Stratfor.

• February 28
  • Voters in the US states of Michigan and Arizona go to the polls for Republican Party primaries. Mitt Romney wins both states.
  • Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine announces that she will not seek re-election in 2012.

March

• March 1
  • Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley signs a law legalizing gay marriage in that state.

• March 2
  • Several tornadoes and severe thunderstorms hit 17 states.

• March 3
  • Romney wins the Washington state Republican caucuses.

• March 4
  • Vladimir Putin wins the presidential election in Russia, claiming 64% of the vote.

• March 5
  • Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu discusses Iran with President Obama in Washington D.C. President Obama encourages Netanyahu to give diplomacy and the European Union's oil sanctions a chance before taking military action.

• March 6 (Super Tuesday)
  • Newt Gingrich wins Georgia Republican primary.
  • Mitt Romney wins primaries in Virginia, Massachusetts, Ohio, Vermont and caucuses in Idaho and Alaska.
  • Rick Santorum wins the Oklahoma and Tennessee primaries and North Dakota caucuses.
  • Ron Paul finished second in four states: Vermont, Idaho, North Dakota and Virginia.
  • Veteran Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich is defeated in a Democrat primary in the 9th district by incumbent Marcia C. Kaptur after he was affected by redistricting. Samuel Wurzelbacher aka Joe the Plumber wins the Republican Party primary for that same 9th district.
  • Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) lost a primary to Army Reserves Major Brad Wenstrup.
  • The biggest solar flare in five years erupts.

• March 9
  • The U.S. economy adds 227,000 new jobs in February. This is the third consecutive month of job gains over 200,000. The unemployment holds steady at 8.3 percent, the same percentage as January.

• March 10
  • A U.S. soldier, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, kills 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children.
  • Kansas Republican Presidential binding caucus: Santorum wins with 51% of the vote.
  • In the Wyoming caucuses, U.S. Virgin Islands caucus and Guam Republican Presidential nonbinding caucus: Mitt Romney wins.
  • At least 130 rockets are fired into Israel from Gaza, and 12 Palestinians militants are killed in continuing violence.

• March 13
  • Alabama Republican Presidential primary: Santorum wins with 34.5% of the vote followed by Gingrich and Romney.
  • Hawaii Republican Presidential binding caucus: Romney wins with 45% of the vote, followed by Santorum, Paul and Gingrich.
  • Mississippi Republican Presidential open primary: Santorum wins with 33% of the vote followed by Gingrich, Romney and Paul.
  • Missouri Republican Presidential binding caucus: Santorum wins with 55.2% of the vote followed by Romney and Paul.

• March 14
  • A Goldman Sachs executive director of equity derivatives resigns from the company and concurrently publishes in the New York Times as an Op-Ed piece entitled "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs". The former employee describes the company as a place where profits come before the interests of clients.

• March 16
  • Actor George Clooney is arrested at a protest outside the Embassy of Sudan in Washington, D.C. together with Nick Clooney, Martin Luther King III, NAACP President Ben Jealous and several congressmen. They protested the continuing unrest between Sudan and Southern Sudan.
  • Former Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi is found guilty of a hate crime and invasion of privacy for his role in the suicide of Tyler Clementi.
  • Apple releases the 3rd generation Ipad.

• March 17
  • Julian Assange announces his plan to run for the Senate of Australia despite being under house arrest in the United Kingdom.

• March 18
  • Puerto Rico Republican Presidential binding caucus: Romney wins with 88% of the vote.

• March 20
  • A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes near the border of the Mexican states of Guerrero and Oaxaca.
  • Illinois Republican Presidential open primary: Romney wins with 46.6% of the vote, followed by Santorum, Paul and Gingrich.

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