page_title: 2012
section_title: October
hierarchical_section_title: 2012 / Events / October
caption_attribution_description: Aerial views during an Army search and rescue mission show damage from Hurricane Sandy to the New Jersey coast, Oct. 30, 2012. The soldiers are assigned to the 1-150 Assault Helicopter Battalion, New Jersey Army National Guard. U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen.
context_page_description: 2012 was a leap year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar.
  The year 2012 was the International Year of Cooperatives and the Alan Turing Year.
context_section_description: October 1 - A ferry accident in Hong Kong kills 38 people.
  October 3 - A bomb attack believed to be linked to the Syrian conflict is carried out on the other side of the border with Turkey.
  October 9 - Pakistani schoolgirl and education activist Malala Yousafzai is shot and wounded during an assassination attempt by the Taliban while returning home on a school bus.
  October 12 - The European Union wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
  October 14 - Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner becomes the first person to break the sound barrier (travel faster than the speed of sound) without mechanical help, during a record space dive out of the Red Bull helium-filled balloon from 24 miles (39 kilometres) over Roswell, New Mexico, United States.
  October 15 - British Prime Minister David Cameron and Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond sign an agreement in Edinburgh, Scotland, on the terms and conditions of a referendum on Scottish independence, due to be held in 2014.
  October 19 - A bomb attack in Beirut, Lebanon, kills 11 people, including the Lebanese army chief, in an attack believed to be linked to the conflict in neighbouring Syria.
  October 24 - Ireland ceases analog television broadcasts.
  October 24-30 - Hurricane Sandy kills over 200 people in Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, the Bahamas, Eastern United States and parts of Canada and, in terms of diameter, it is the biggest North Atlantic Hurricane ever measured. Considerable storm surge damage causes major disruption on the eastern seaboard of the United States.
  October 26 - Silvio Berlusconi is found guilty of tax fraud.
  October 30 - Hurricane Sandy dissolves.
caption: Damage from Hurricane Sandy on the New Jersey coast on October 30.
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