August 12

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August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 141 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observations

Events

1099 -- First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon - Crusaders defeat Saracens and the Kingdom of Jerusalem is established under Godfrey of Bouillon.
1323 - Treaty of N�teborg - Sweden and Novgorod (Russia) regulates the border for the first time
1332 - Battle of Dupplin Moor - Scots under the Earl of Mar routed by Edward Balliol
1676 - King Philip's War ends
1851 - Isaac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine
1854 - Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon is executed by shooting, in regard to the Battle of Guaymas.
1877 - Asaph Hall discovers Deimos
1883 - The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam
1898 - Armistice ends the Spanish-American War
1898 - 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 Hawaii to the United States.
1908 - First Model T Ford built
1914 - Great War - Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary; British Empire countries automatically included.
1953 - Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates its first hydrogen bomb.
1960 - Echo I, the first communications satellite, launched
1981 - The IBM PC, an early personal computer, is introduced
1985 - Japan Airlines flight 123 Boeing 747 jumbo jet crashes into Mount Ogura, Japan killing 520, in world's worst single-plane air disaster
1992 - Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of negotiations for NAFTA.
1994 - Woodstock '94 rock concert
1994 - Major League Baseball players go on strike. The work stoppage will force the cancellation of the World Series.
2000 - Russian submarine Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea
2004 - Sweden's 9th million inhabitant is born and well.
2004 - Lee Hsien Loong is sworn in as Singapore's 3rd Prime Minister

Births

1503 - Christian III of Denmark and Norway (d. 1559)
1604 - Tokugawa Iemitsu, 3rd Tokugawa shogun (d. 1651)
1629 - Tsar Alexei I of Russia (d. 1676)
1774 - Robert Southey, poet, biographer (d. 1843)
1831 - Helena Blavatsky, author (d. 1891)
1859 - Katherine Lee Bates, poet, author of America the Beautiful (d. 1929)
1876 - Mary Roberts Rinehart, author (d. 1958)
1880 - Christy Mathewson, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 1925)
1881 - Cecil B. DeMille, director (d. 1959)
1887 - Erwin Schr�dinger, physicist (d. 1961)
1892 - Alfred Lunt, actor (d. 1977)
1904 - Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov, Tsarevich, heir to the throne of Russia (d. 1918)
1906 - Pauline Frederick, journalist (d. 1990)
1907 - Joe Besser, actor, member of the Three Stooges (d. 1988)
1911 - Jane Wyatt, actress
1911 - Cantinflas (Mario Moreno Reyes), actor (d. 1993)
1924 - Muhammad Zia ul-Haq, Leader of Pakistan, (d. 1988)
1926 - John Derek, actor (d. 1998)
1927 - Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist
1927 - Porter Wagoner, country and western singer
1928 - Dan Curtis, movie and television producer and director
1929 - Buck Owens, country and western singer
1930 - George Soros American businessman
1931 - William Goldman, screenwriter
1933 - Parnelli Jones, auto racer
1939 - George Hamilton, actor
1949 - Mark Knopfler, musician
1954 - Pat Metheny, guitarist
1971 - Pete Sampras, tennis player
1972 - Rebecca Gayheart, actress
1972 - Takanohana Kōji, sumo wrestler (65th yokozuna)
1973 - Richard Reid, alleged Al-Qaida operative; "the shoe bomber"
1976 - Antoine Walker, basketball player

Deaths

875 - Louis II Holy Roman Emperor
1484 - Pope Sixtus IV
1612 - Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer
1633 - Jacopo Peri, composer
1689 - Pope Innocent XI
1827 - William Blake, poet and printmaker
1848 - George Stephenson, locomotive designer
1864 - Sakuma Shōzan, reformist of the late Tokugawa shogunate (b. 1811)
1914 - John Philip Holland, early submarine designer (b. 1840)
1923 - Vatrslav Jagić - Croatian philolog (b. 1838)
1928 - Leos Janacek, Czech composer
1955 - Thomas Mann, author
1964 - Ian Fleming, novelist
1968 - Angus Walters, schooner captain
1982 - Henry Fonda, actor
1982 - Joe Tex (Joseph Arrington), singer
1982 - Salvador Sanchez world champion boxer
1985 - Manfred Winkelhock, auto racing driver
1985 - Kyu Sakamoto, singer (b. 1941)
1989 - William Shockley, physicist
1992 - John Cage, American composer
2000 - Loretta Young, actress
2002 - Enos Slaughter, baseball Hall of Famer
2002 - Ed Headrick, developer of the Frisbee
2004 - Julia Child, chef and author
2004 - Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, inventor of computed axial tomography
2004 - Peter Woodthorpe, British character actor

Holidays and observations

Glorious Twelfth at the Yorkshire Dales
Zaraday (Discordianism)

August 11 - August 13 - July 12 - September 12 -- listing of all days

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