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: Pols an Lithuanie mairches at the time 1883: The Quagga 2015: Tianjin chemical splosions 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 Erwin Schrödinger Cantinflas 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 1955: A 1901 edeetion o Thomas Mann 's Buddenbrooks 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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