Timeline January 2012

Events in January 2012 14

• 1938 – 2012 Etta James (1938-2012) Died 20 January 2012, aged 73 American singer known for the ballad "At Last," blending blues, jazz, R&B, and rock and roll across her career. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.
• 2012 "The Last Holiday" published posthumously Memoir His long-worked-on memoir "The Last Holiday" — focused on his role in the campaign to establish Martin Luther King Day as a national holiday — was published posthumously in January 2012.
• 2012 Australian Open 2012 Men: Novak Djokovic · Women: Victoria Azarenka Djokovic vs. Nadal — a 5h 53m epic, the longest Grand Slam final.
• 2012 2012: Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Vettel won his third consecutive title in a dramatic season, fighting back from last place in the opening lap of the final race in Brazil to finish sixth and clinch the championship.
• 2012 First Summit: Dhaulagiri Climbed his first 8,000-metre peak, Dhaulagiri (8,167m), while still serving in the British military, igniting his passion for high-altitude mountaineering.
• 2012 Gershwin Prize Together with Hal David, received the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the nation's highest honour for songwriters.
• 2012 Ginni Rometty becomes CEO — first woman to lead IBM Virginia 'Ginni' Rometty succeeds Sam Palmisano as IBM CEO on 1 January 2012 — the first woman to lead IBM in its 100-year history. Rometty articulates a strategy around cloud, analytics, mobile, social and security — the 'strategic imperatives' that IBM believes will drive future growth. She faces the challenge of growing new businesses fast enough to offset the secular decline in IBM's legacy hardware and services revenue. IBM's revenues begin a remarkable 22-consecutive-quarter decline starting in 2012.
• 2012 Helpless Starred in the mystery thriller Helpless, earning praise for portraying a man searching for his missing wife.
• 2012 Louis Vuitton Collaboration and Global Retrospectives Collaborated with Marc Jacobs on a line of Louis Vuitton products — leather goods, fashion, accessories and jewellery — covered in her signature dots, sold through pop-up shops worldwide. Major retrospectives opened at the Tate Modern in London and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in the same year.
• 2012 – 2014 Memory Engrams and Optogenetics His lab at MIT's Picower Institute made landmark discoveries using optogenetics — controlling neurons with light — to identify and manipulate specific memory cells (engrams) in mouse brains. In 2013, his team created a false memory in a mouse, demonstrating for the first time that memories could be artificially implanted.
• 2012 The Hobbit Appeared as the Great Goblin in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
• 2012 – 2018 UK Special Boat Service Selected for the UK's elite Special Boat Service, one of only a handful of Gurkhas ever admitted. Trained in extreme environments and served on classified operations. Received an MBE for his military service.
• 2012 Costa Concordia disaster Cruise ship capsizes off Tuscany The Costa Concordia struck rocks and capsized near Isola del Giglio, Italy, killing 32 people. Captain Francesco Schettino was later convicted of manslaughter for abandoning ship before passengers were evacuated.
• 2012 Tuareg rebellion begins in Mali Separatist uprising in northern Mali Tuareg rebels of the MNLA launched an armed uprising in northern Mali seeking independence for Azawad. The rebellion destabilized the region and was soon overtaken by Islamist militant groups.