Twenty children and six adult staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School were shot and killed in the village of Sandy Hook in Newtown, Connecticut.
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Egypt, denouncing President Mohammed Morsi and a draft constitution that was approved earlier in the
Women’s rights and education activist Malala Yousafzai was shot three times by a Taliban gunman as she tried to board her school bus in the
David Akers, for the San Francisco 49ers, kicked a 63-yard field goal, which tied the record set by Tom Dempsey in 1970. The San Francisco
Voyager 1 spacecraft became the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space.
Gunman James Holmes opened fire inside a crowded movie theater in Aurora, Colorado during a midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises,” killing 12 people
Trayvon Martin, 17, was shot to death in Sanford, Florida, during an altercation with neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, who said he had acted in
