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August 12th, 2005 (August 12 2005) | Event | Sri Lanka s foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, is fatally shot by an LTTE sniper at his home. | |
August 12th, 2005 (August 12 2005) | Event | An F2 tornado strikes the coal mining town of Wright, Wyoming, destroying nearly 100 homes and killing two people. | |
August 12th, 2005 (August 12 2005) | Event | Civil unrest provoked in the Maldives | |
August 12th, 2005 (August 12 2005) | Event | An F1 tornado strikes Glen Cove, New York, a rare event on Long Island | |
August 12th, 2005 (August 12 2005) | Death | John Loder, co-founder of the anarcho-punk band CRASS (born in 1946) | |
August 12th, 1985 (August 12 1985) | Event | Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Mount Ogura in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520. It is the worst single-plane air disaster. | |
August 12th, 1985 (August 12 1985) | Death | Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer (plane crash) (born in 1941) | |
August 12th, 1985 (August 12 1985) | Death | Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (born in 1951) | |
August 12th, 1975 (August 12 1975) | Birth | Casey Affleck, American actor | |
August 12th, 1975 (August 12 1975) | Birth | David Filmore, American actor | |
August 12th, 1965 (August 12 1965) | Birth | Peter Krause, American actor | |
August 12th, 1955 (August 12 1955) | Birth | Ann M. Martin, American author | |
August 12th, 1955 (August 12 1955) | Birth | Terry Taylor, American retired professional wrestler | |
August 12th, 1955 (August 12 1955) | Death | Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel laureate (born in 1875) | Thomas Mann Quotes |
August 12th, 1955 (August 12 1955) | Death | James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel laureate (born in 1887) | |
August 12th, 1935 (August 12 1935) | Birth | John Cazale, Italian-American actor (died in 1978) | |
August 12th, 1935 (August 12 1935) | Death | Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (born in 1851) | |
August 12th, 1925 (August 12 1925) | Event | The first cast of Alpha Psi Omega, drawn from The Masquers of Fairmont College, West Virginia, was initiated. | |
August 12th, 1925 (August 12 1925) | Birth | Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (died in 2004) | |
August 12th, 1925 (August 12 1925) | Birth | Ross McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (died in 1975) | |
August 12th, 1925 (August 12 1925) | Birth | George Wetherill, American scientist (died in 2006) | |
August 12th, 1915 (August 12 1915) | Birth | Michael Kidd, American choreographer (died in 2007) | |
August 12th, 1885 (August 12 1885) | Birth | Jean Cabannes, French physicist (died in 1959) | |
August 12th, 1885 (August 12 1885) | Birth | Marion Lorne, American actress (died in 1968) | |
August 12th, 1865 (August 12 1865) | Death | William Jackson Hooker, English botanist (born in 1785) | |
August 12th, 0875 (August 12 0875) | Death | Louis II Holy Roman Emperor (born in 825) | |