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===July=== * [[July 1]] – The final match of the [[UEFA Euro 2012]] takes place in [[Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex|Kyiv]] between [[Spain national football team|Spain]] and [[Italy national football team|Italy]]. Spain wins 4β0, achieving victorious from the third international tournament in a row, after winning [[UEFA Euro 2008]] and the [[2010 FIFA World Cup]]. * [[July 4]] ** [[CERN]] announces the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the [[Higgs boson]] after experiments at the [[Large Hadron Collider]].<ref name=cern1207>{{cite press release |url=http://press.cern/press-releases/2012/07/cern-experiments-observe-particle-consistent-long-sought-higgs-boson |title=CERN experiments observe particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson |publisher=CERN |date=July 4, 2012 |access-date=November 20, 2016 |archive-date=November 21, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171121031500/http://press.cern/press-releases/2012/07/cern-experiments-observe-particle-consistent-long-sought-higgs-boson |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=cms1207>{{cite web | url = http://cms.web.cern.ch/news/observation-new-particle-mass-125-gev | title = Observation of a New Particle with a Mass of 125 GeV | first = Lucas | last = Taylor | date = July 4, 2012 | website = CMS Public Website | publisher = CERN | access-date = July 8, 2012 | archive-date = July 5, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120705040217/http://cms.web.cern.ch/news/observation-new-particle-mass-125-gev | url-status = live }}</ref><ref name=atlas1207>{{cite web|title=Latest Results from ATLAS Higgs Search|publisher=ATLAS|url=http://www.atlas.ch/news/2012/latest-results-from-higgs-search.html |date=July 4, 2012 |access-date=July 4, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120707132113/http://www.atlas.ch/news/2012/latest-results-from-higgs-search.html|archive-date=July 7, 2012 }}</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXZ-yzwlwMw Video (04:38)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211215183624/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXZ-yzwlwMw |date=December 15, 2021 }} β [[CERN]] Announcement (4 July 2012) Of Higgs Boson Discovery.</ref><ref name="NYT-20120704">{{cite news |last=Overbye |first=Dennis |title=A New Particle Could Be Physics' Holy Grail |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/science/cern-physicists-may-have-discovered-higgs-boson-particle.html |date=July 4, 2012 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=July 4, 2012 |archive-date=July 4, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120704202256/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/science/cern-physicists-may-have-discovered-higgs-boson-particle.html |url-status=live }}</ref> ** [[Sport Club Corinthians Paulista]] wins the [[2012 Copa Libertadores|Copa Libertadores]] by beating the [[Boca Juniors]]. * [[July 20]] – [[2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting]]: 12 people are killed and 58 are injured in a [[mass shooting]] at a movie theater in [[Aurora, Colorado]]. The shooter, James Holmes, opens fire on a crowd during a screening of ''[[The Dark Knight Rises]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gma.yahoo.com/colorado-batman-movie-shooting-suspect-phd-student-085940589--abc-news-topstories.html|title=Colorado Movie Theater Shooting: 70 Victims The Largest Mass Shooting|work=Yahoo!|publisher=Gma.yahoo.com|date=2012-07-20|access-date=2012-08-18|archive-date=July 21, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120721004136/http://gma.yahoo.com/colorado-batman-movie-shooting-suspect-phd-student-085940589--abc-news-topstories.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[July 21]] – Turkish adventurer [[Erden EruΓ§]] becomes the first person in history to complete a solo human-powered [[circumnavigation]] of the Earth. * [[July 23]] – The [[Solar storm of 2012]] is an unusually large [[coronal mass ejection]] emitted by the [[Sun]] which barely misses the [[Earth]] by nine days. If it had hit, it would have caused up to US$2.6 trillion in damages to electrical equipment worldwide.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Phillips|first1=Tony|title=Near Miss: The Solar Superstorm of July 2012|url=https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/23jul_superstorm/|access-date=6 September 2020|agency=NASA|publisher=Science@NASA|date=23 July 2014|archive-date=July 25, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140725000533/https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/23jul_superstorm/|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[July 27]]–[[August 12]] – The [[2012 Summer Olympics]] are held in London, England, United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.london2012.com/|title=London 2012|access-date=January 23, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130228114959/http://www.london2012.com/|archive-date=February 28, 2013}}</ref> * [[July 30]]–[[July 31|31]] – In the worst power outage in world history, the [[2012 India blackouts]] leave 620 million people without power.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jul/31/india-blackout-electricity-power-cuts|title=India blackouts leave 700 million without power|date=July 31, 2012|author=Helen Pidd|access-date=July 31, 2012|work=The Guardian|location=London|archive-date=June 5, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605230637/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/31/india-blackout-electricity-power-cuts|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-07-31/india-power-outage/56600520/1|author=Hriday Sarma and Ruby Russell|title=620 million without power in India after 3 power grids fail|date=July 31, 2012|access-date=July 31, 2012|work=USA Today|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055256/http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-07-31/india-power-outage/56600520/1|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=India's Mass Power Failure Worst Ever in World History |url=http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=770631 |work=Outlook |agency=Press Trust of India|date=August 1, 2012 |access-date=August 1, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120801052804/http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=770631 |archive-date=August 1, 2012 }}</ref>
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