World Event Highlights in 2012

The year 2012 was full of newnesses. In the end of the year we outlive an apocalypse, but I am not sure it was as appreciable in the invention's sphere as e.g. 2007 ("the age of" IPhone). The Olympics was staged in summer in London. Natural disasters soured people's life, we made for ourselves and built our planet, buggered each other around by insincerities. Still no change.
Things influenced the world:

• Felix Baumgartner set the world record for skydiving in 15 March 2012. This brave Australian guy jumped out of a capsule from 39 kms high. "The Man of the Year" fell 3:43 minutes before opening his parachute and reached the speed of 580 kms/h. 

• Tokyo Skytree opened in 22 May 2012. The tower is the second highest building in the world after the skytower in Dubai with its 634 m height. The project started in 2008, but finally just ended in 2012. The investment is together 806 million USD.

• "I Will If You Will". In 2007, a great idea was achieved in Sidney, Australia. The environmental project named Earth Hour is a world-wide activist program now. Since that 6, 950 cities and 152 countries switch of their lights for an hour in the day 23th March. It reached 7001 cities. For more informations look at: http://www.earthhour.org/blog/look-back-2012-earth-hour

• Who haven't heard about the "Gangnam Style Burst"? A South Korean rapper stirred the world with his song. Since 15 July, more than 1 billion people watched at the video in Youtube and a lot of imitations was uploaded in the internet. Parodies are popular, too.

• I have to mention the biggest fake in the year, what is about the end of the world. According to the Maya Calendar, the Earth had to be robbed or destroyed in 21 December. I don't know whom is the origin of this idea, but it made a huge effect on the world. Some people killed himself or herself, because they were afraid. The another gave away their goods...so it was a perfect attack against naive people by the craft. A number of persons apprehended it as a joke and celebrated it. :) We alived.