12 August

The 12t o August is the 224t day o the year (225t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 141 days bidin.

 Events 
 1569 - The Pols-Lithuanie Commonweel is creatit.
 1825 - Simon Bolivar becomes Preses o Colombie.
 1833 - Chicago is incorporatit as a ceety.
 1883 - The last quagga dies in a zoo in Amsterdam.
 1898 - An Armistice ends the Spaingie-American War.
 1898 - Hawaii is offeecially annexed bi the Unitit States.
 1908 - The first Ford Model T is biggit.
 1914 - Warld War I: The Unitit Kinrick declares war on Austrick-Hungary.
 1928 - The 1928 Simmer Olympics in Amsterdam end.
 1944 - The SS murthers 560 fowk in the Italian village o Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
 1948 - The Unitit States recognises the govrenment o Sooth Korea.
 1952 - 13 Jewish intellectuals are murthert in a single nicht in Moscow.
 1953 - The Soviet Union detonates its first hydrogen bomb.
 1964 - Sooth Africae is banned frae the Olympics due tae its Apartheid policy.
 1976 - 1,000 tae 3,500 Palestinians are kilt in the Tel-Al Zataar massacre.
 1977 - First flicht o the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
 1981 - The IBM Personal Computer is introduced.
 1985 - Japan Airlines Flicht 123, a Boeing 747, crashes intae Moont Ogura, Japan, killin 520 fowk.
 2000 - Roushie submarine Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea.
 2004 - Lee Hsien Loong becomes Prime meenister o Singapore.
 2004 - Swaden's population offeecially reaches the total o 9 million.
 2012 - End o the 2012 Simmer Olympics in Lunnon.
 2014 - Maryam Mirzakhani becomes the first woman tae win the Fields Medal, ane o the biggest awairds in mathematics.
 2015 - Twa splosions in a warehoose containin chemical substances kill at least 173 fowk in Tianjin, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae, an injure 100s.
 2017 - Far-richt groups hauld the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginie; 1 coonter-protester is attackit and kilt in a vehicle-rammin attack.
 2018 - The first multi-sport European Championships in Glesga an Berlin end.
 2020 - A passenger train derails naur Stonehaven, Aiberdeenshire, killin 3 fowk an injurin 6.

 Births 
 1762 - Keeng George IV o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1830)
 1810 - James Nicol, Scots geologist (d. 1879)
 1831 - Helena Blavatsky, Roushie-American writer an occultist (d. 1891)
 1866 - Jacinto Benavente, Spaingie dramatist (d. 1954)
 1881 - Cecil B. DeMille, American film director (d. 1959)
 1887 - Erwin Schrödinger, Austrick pheesicist (d. 1961)
 1904 - Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich o Roushie (d. 1918)
 1911 - Cantinflas, Mexican comic film actor (d. 1993)
 1924 - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Preses o Pakistan (d. 1988)
 1927 - Bobby Kirk, Scots fitbawer (d. 2010)
 1932 - Sirikit, Queen Mither o Thailand
 1949 - Mark Knopfler, Breetish muisicker
 1954 - Francois Hollande, umwhile Preses o Fraunce
 1966 - Tobias Ellwood, Inglis politeecian
 1970 - Alan Brown, Scots politeecian
 1971 - Pete Sampras, American tennis player
 1975 - Casey Affleck, American actor
 1981 - Djibril Cissé, French fitbawer
 1983 - Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Dutch fitbawer
 1989 - Kirstene Hair, Scots politeecian
 1990 - Mario Balotelli, Italian fitbawer
 1992 - Cara Delevingne, Inglis model an actress

 Daiths 
 1424 - Yongle Emperor o Cheenae (b. 1360)
 1633 - Jacopo Peri, Italian componer (b. 1561)
 1689 - Pape Innocent XI (b. 1611)
 1827 - William Blake, Inglis poet (b. 1757)
 1848 - George Stephenson, Inglis ingineer (b. 1781)
 1900 - Wilhelm Steinitz, German chess player (b. 1836)
 1955 - Thomas Mann, German writer (b. 1875)
 1955 - James Batcheller Sumner, American chemist (b. 1887)
 1964 - Ian Fleming, Inglis writer (b. 1908)
 1965 - Willie Gallacher, Scots politeecian (b. 1881)
 1979 - Ernst Boris Chain, German biochemist (b. 1906)
 1982 - Henry Fonda, American actor (b. 1905)
 1989 - William Shockley, American pheesicist (b. 1910)
 1992 - John Cage, American componer (b. 1912)
 2000 - Loretta Young, American actress (b. 1913)
 2013 - David McLetchie, Scots politeecian (b. 1952)
 2014 - Lauren Bacall, American actress (b. 1924)

 Halidays 
 Glorious Twelfth - stairt o the Groose-shuitin season
 Internaitional Youth Day
 Mither's Day (Thailand)

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Category:Days o the year