Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 12
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File:Davit Agmashenebeli.jpg|David the Builder of Georgia
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File:Edward Harrison May - Isaac Merrit Singer - Google Art Project.jpg|Isaac M. Singer
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File:TRex9.JPG|Tyrannosaurus rex
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File:Smyth Report.jpg|Cover of the 1945 Princeton edition of the Smyth Report
File:Tyrannosaurus Sue.jpg|Sue, the most complete T. rex skeleton found
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| International Youth Day
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| Mother's Day and Queen Sirikit's Birthday in Thailand
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| 1121 – Georgian-Seljuk wars: Forces led by David the Builder decisively won the Battle of Didgori, driving Ilghazi and the Seljuk Turks out of Georgia.
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| 1323 – Sweden and the Novgorod Republic signed the Treaty of Nöteborg resulting in a temporary hiatus in the Swedish–Novgorodian Wars.
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| 1676 – Puritans and their Native American allies killed the Wampanoag chief Metacomet (known as "King Philip"), essentially ending King Philip's War.
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| 1851 – American inventor Isaac Singer was granted a patent for his sewing machine.
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| 1877 – American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Deimos, the smaller of the two moons of Mars.
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| 1944 – After a week of indiscriminate killing of civilians in Wola, Warsaw, Poland, SS General Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski ordered that any remaining Poles be sent to labour or concentration camps.
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| 1948 – About 600 unarmed Pashtuns in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, protesting the arrests of leaders of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement, were massacred by police and militia forces.
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| 1950 – Korean War: Members of the North Korean People's Army executed 75 U.S. Army prisoners of war.
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| 1953 – The first Soviet thermonuclear bomb, {{nowrap|Joe 4}}, was detonated at Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR.
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| 1981 – The IBM Personal Computer, the original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform, was introduced.
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| 1994 – Major League Baseball players went on a 232-day strike, forcing the cancellation of the rest of the season and the World Series.
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| 2005 – Sri Lanka foreign minister Lakshman Kadirgamar was fatally shot by a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam sniper as he was getting out of his swimming pool at his home in Colombo.
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| 2008 – A ceasefire was announced between Russian, Georgian and South Ossetian separatist forces in the Russo-Georgian War.
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| Abraham Zacuto |b|1452|
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| Robert Southey |b|1774
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| William Blake |d|1827
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| Charles Blackman |b|1928
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| George Soros |b|1930|
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- 1099 – Crusades: Fatimid forces under al-Afdal Shahanshah began retreating to Egypt after the Battle of Ascalon, concluding the First Crusade.
- 1881 – Franco-American children as young as seven years old commenced a strike against Cabot Mill of Brunswick, Maine. The Mill had to shut down operations for three days.
- 1945 – An official administrative history of the Manhattan Project, written by American physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth, was released to the public days after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- 1952 – Thirteen Jewish poets were executed in Moscow for espionage based on false confessions.
- 1969 – The Troubles: Riots erupted in the neighbourhood of Bogside in Derry, and spread across much of Northern Ireland.
- 1985 – Japan Air Lines Flight 123 crashed into Mount Takamagahara in Gunma Prefecture, killing 520 of 524 people on board in the world's worst single-aircraft aviation disaster.
- 1990 – Near Faith, South Dakota, American paleontologist Sue Hendrickson found one of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons, nicknamed Sue (pictured).
- 2000 – Kursk, an Oscar-class submarine of the Russian Navy, suffered an on-board explosion and sank in the Barents Sea during a military exercise with 118 lives lost.
- 2016 – The state-owned Taedonggang Brewing Company inaugurated the first beer festival in North Korea.
- Born/died:Jænberht |d|792|Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick |d|1315| Thomas F. Mulledy |b|1794| Maurice Fernandes |b|1897| Percy Mayfield |b|1920| Aleksandar Đurić |b|1970| Evaline Ness |d|1986|Mario Balotelli |b|1990
Notes
- Phobos (moon) appears on August 18, so Deimos should not appear in the same year
- Enola Gay/Little Boy appear on August 6 and Bockscar/Fat Man appear on August 9 – Smyth Report should not appear in the same year
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- 1834 – A race riot in Philadelphia destroyed African-American businesses and killed two people.
- 1883 – The last known quagga (example pictured), a subspecies of the plains zebra, died at Natura Artis Magistra, a zoo in Amsterdam.
- 1914 – World War I: Belgian troops won a victory at the Battle of Halen, but were ultimately unable to stop the German invasion of Belgium.
- 1944 – World War II: In Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Italy, the Waffen-SS and the Brigate Nere murdered about 560 local villagers and refugees and burned their bodies.
{{Born and died list|Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria |b|1629|John C. Young |b|1803| Carlos Mesa |b|1953| Ladi Kwali |d|1984 |}}
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