Eleven magical minutes that dazzled the world: Spectacular London fireworks display ushers in 2012. 1  250,000 revellers watched the display which included rockets shooting out from Big Ben. 2  The display cost Â£1.9m in total to stage and included 12,000 fireworks costing Â£274,000.
In War and Military History. Mexico lost 51% of their former territory to the United States. It included present day Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California and most of Nevada, Utah, and part of Colorado. â¦ It started with the US violating a buffer zone on the border.
Since then, these territories were named as the Territorios de Nuevo Mexico (Territories of New Mexico). When Mexico attained its independence from Spain in 1821, it kept this territories, until it lost them to the United States during the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848.