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On August 24, 2012, anders Behring Breivik, perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, is sentenced to 21 years of preventive detention. The year's #1 song was "Somebody That I Used to Know" by Gotye featuring Kimbra. Artem Kotenko, Princess Athena of Denmark, Blue Ivy Carter would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · August 24, 2012
Anders Behring Breivik is a Norwegian neo-Nazi, mass murderer, and domestic terrorist who perpetrated the 2011 Norway attacks. A believer in the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, he sought to combat perceived "Cultural Marxism" by detonating a car bomb at the Regjeringskvartalet in Oslo, then carrying out a mass shooting at a summer camp of the Labor Party's youth wing on the island of Utøya, in total killing 77 people and injuring over 323.
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2012 (MMXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2012th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 12th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2010s decade.
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Anders Behring Breivik is a Norwegian neo-Nazi, mass murderer, and domestic terrorist who perpetrated the 2011 Norway attacks. A believer in the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, he sought to combat perceived "Cultural Marxism" by detonating a car bomb at the Regjeringskvartalet in Oslo, then carrying out a mass shooting at a summer camp of the Labor Party's youth wing on the island of Utøya, in total killing 77 people and injuring over 323.
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