August 12 Events |
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| August 12th, 2030 (August 12 2030) | Event | Cleopatra commits suicide after her lover, Mark Antony s defeat at the battle of Actium. | |
| August 12th, 2007 (August 12 2007) | Event | Bulk carrier M/V New Flame collides with oil tanker Torm Gertrud at the southernmost tip of Gibraltar, ending up partially submerged. | |
| 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, 2004 (August 12 2004) | Event | New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey comes out publicly as a gay man. | |
| August 12th, 2000 (August 12 2000) | Event | The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy exploded and sank in the Barents Sea during a military exercise. | |
| August 12th, 1994 (August 12 1994) | Event | Major League Baseball players go on strike. The work stoppage forces the cancellation of the 1994 World Series. | |
| August 12th, 1992 (August 12 1992) | Event | Canada, Mexico, and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). | |
| August 12th, 1990 (August 12 1990) | Event | Sue, the most complete skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex, is discovered near Faith, South Dakota. | |
| 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, 1982 (August 12 1982) | Event | Mexico announces it is unable to pay its enormous external debt, marking the beginning of a debt crisis that spread to all of Latin America and the Third World. | |
| August 12th, 1981 (August 12 1981) | Event | The IBM Personal Computer is released. | |
| August 12th, 1980 (August 12 1980) | Event | Signing of the Montevideo Treaty, which established the Latin American Integration Association. | |
| August 12th, 1978 (August 12 1978) | Event | Japan and the People s Republic of China sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People s Republic of China. | |
| August 12th, 1977 (August 12 1977) | Event | The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise. | |
| August 12th, 1969 (August 12 1969) | Event | Battle of the Bogside, Catholic community of Derry engage in two-day battle with the Royal Ulster Constabulary | |
| August 12th, 1964 (August 12 1964) | Event | South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to its racist policy. | |
| August 12th, 1964 (August 12 1964) | Event | Charlie Wilson, one of the Great Train Robbers escapes from Winson Green Prison in Birmingham, England. | |
| August 12th, 1960 (August 12 1960) | Event | Echo I, the first communications satellite, launched. | |
| August 12th, 1953 (August 12 1953) | Event | Nuclear testing: The Soviet atomic bomb project proceeded with the detonation of Joe 4, the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon. | |
| August 12th, 1952 (August 12 1952) | Event | The Night of the Murdered PoetsThirteen most prominent Jewish intellectuals were murdered in Moscow. | |
| August 12th, 1944 (August 12 1944) | Event | Waffen SS troops massacre more than 500 civil people in Sant Anna di Stazzema. | |
| August 12th, 1944 (August 12 1944) | Event | Alencon liberated by General Leclerc, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces. | |
| August 12th, 1943 (August 12 1943) | Event | Alleged date of the first Philadelphia Experiment test on United States Navy ship USS Eldridge. | |
| 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, 1914 (August 12 1914) | Event | World WarBritain declares war on Austria-Hungary; British Empire countries automatically included. | |
| August 12th, 1908 (August 12 1908) | Event | First Model T Ford built. | |
| August 12th, 1898 (August 12 1898) | Event | Armistice ends the Spanish-American War. | |
| August 12th, 1898 (August 12 1898) | Event | The Hawaiian flag is lowered from Iolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the American flag to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawai`i to the United States. | |
| August 12th, 1883 (August 12 1883) | Event | The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam. | |
| August 12th, 1877 (August 12 1877) | Event | Asaph Hall discovers Deimos. | |
| August 12th, 1851 (August 12 1851) | Event | Isaac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine. | |
| August 12th, 1833 (August 12 1833) | Event | Chicago was founded. | |
| August 12th, 1806 (August 12 1806) | Event | Santiago de Liniers re-takes the city of Buenos Aires after the first British invasion. | |
| August 12th, 1793 (August 12 1793) | Event | The Rhone department was created when the former departement of Rhone-et-Loire was split into two departments: Rhone and Loire (Lere). | |
| August 12th, 1687 (August 12 1687) | Event | Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottomans at the Battle of Mohacs. | |
| August 12th, 1676 (August 12 1676) | Event | Praying Indian John Alderman shot and killed Metacomet the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip s War. | |
| August 12th, 1499 (August 12 1499) | Event | First act of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets. | |
| August 12th, 1480 (August 12 1480) | Event | Battle of OtrantoOttoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam. | |
| August 12th, 1332 (August 12 1332) | Event | Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin MoorScots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar routed by Edward Balliol. | |
| August 12th, 1323 (August 12 1323) | Event | Treaty of NoteborgSweden and Novgorod (Russia) regulates the border for the first time. | |
| August 12th, 1281 (August 12 1281) | Event | The fleet of Qubilai Khan is destroyed by a typhoon while approaching Japan. | |
| August 12th, 1164 (August 12 1164) | Event | Battle of Harim: Nur ad-Din defeats the Crusader armies of the County of Tripoli and the Principality of Antioch. | |
| August 12th, 1121 (August 12 1121) | Event | Battle of Didgori: The Georgian army under King David the Builder won a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi. | |
| August 12th, 1099 (August 12 1099) | Event | First Crusade: Battle of AscalonCrusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid forces under Al-Afdal Shahanshah. Considered the last engagement of the First Crusade. | |
