9 January | Insight
2012: a preview
It’s January once again. People are getting back to work and filling in their calendars for the coming months. Here are some things you may (or may not) want to include in yours:
- January – the World Cockroach Championships in Australia
- February – the next leap day
- March – The end of Facebook, according to Weekly World News
- April – Edinburgh Beltane Fire Festival
- May – Gloucestershire Cheese Rolling, where competitors chase a wheel of cheese down Cooper’s hill in Gloucestershire, England
- June – the last transit of Venus we are likely to see in our lifetimes
- July – the opening of the London Olympics
- August – Mars Science Laboratory due to land on the red planet
- September – six men wearing reindeer horns perform the traditional yearly Horn Dance in Staffordshire, England
- October – China will follow the European Union with the phase-out of inefficient light bulbs
- November – total solar eclipse in some parts of the world
- December – the world will end, according to the ancient Mayan calendar
