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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. It is the peak of the Perseid meteor shower . It is also known as the "Glorious Twelfth " in the UK , as it marks the traditional start of the grouse shooting season.
Contents
1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances
5 External links
Events 490 BC - the Battle of Marathon , in which Athens defeated an invading army of Persians , may have been fought on this date in the proleptic Julian calendar - but see 12 September .
30 BC - Cleopatra commits suicide after her defeat and Mark Antony's defeat at the battle of Actium.
1099 - First Crusade : Battle of Ascalon - Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid forces under Al-Afdal Shahanshah . Considered the last engagement of the First Crusade.
1121 - Battle of Didgori : The Georgian army under King David the Builder won a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi .
1281 - The fleet of Qubilai Khan is destroyed by a typhoon while approaching Japan .
1323 - Treaty of Nöteborg - Sweden and Novgorod (Russia ) regulates the border for the first time.
1332 - Wars of Scottish Independence : Battle of Dupplin Moor - Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar routed by Edward Balliol .
1499 - First act of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets.
1676 - Praying Indian John Alderman shot and killed Metacomet the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip's War .
1687 - Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottomans at the Battle of Mohács .
1806 - Santiago de Liniers re-takes the city of Buenos Aires after the first English invasion .
1833 - Chicago was founded.
1851 - Isaac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine .
1868 - US President Andrew Johnson suspends Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton , thus setting up his own impeachment.
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 Hawai`i to the United States .
1908 - First Model T Ford built.
1914 - World War I - Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary ; British Empire countries automatically included.
1925 - The first cast of Alpha Psi Omega , drawn from The Masquers of Fairmont College, West Virginia , was initiated.
1943 - Alleged date of the first Philadelphia Experiment test on United States Navy ship USS Eldridge .
1944 - Waffen SS troops massacre more than 500 civil people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema .
1944 - Alençon liberated by General Leclerc , the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by the Allied forces.
1952 - The Night of the Murdered Poets - Thirteen most prominent Jewish intellectuals were murdered in Moscow.
1953 - Nuclear testing : The Soviet atomic bomb project proceeded with the detonation of Joe 4 Soviet thermonuclear weapon .
1960 - Echo I communications satellite , launched
1964 - South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to its racist policy.
1966 - Massacre of Braybrook Street as three policemen are shot dead in East Acton, London.
1969 - Battle of the Bogside , Catholic community of Derry engage in two-day battle with the Royal Ulster Constabulary
1978 - Japan and the People's Republic of China sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China .
1980 - Signing of the Montevideo Treaty , which established the Latin American Integration Association .
1981 - Release of the IBM PC or Personal Computer
1982 - 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 .
1985 - Japan Airlines Flight 123 , a Boeing 747 jumbo jet, crashes into Mount Ogura in Gunma Prefecture , Japan , killing 520 in the world's worst single-plane air disaster. Four people miraculously survive.
1990 - Sue skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex Faith , South Dakota .
1992 - Canada, Mexico, and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
1994 - Major League Baseball players go on strike . The work stoppage forces the cancellation of the 1994 World Series .
2000 - The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy exploded and sank in the Barents Sea during a military exercise .
2004 - Lee Hsien Loong is sworn in as Singapore 's 3rd Prime Minister .
2005 - Sri Lanka 's foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar , is fatally shot by a sniper at his home.
2005 - An F2 tornado strikes the coal mining town of Wright, Wyoming , destroying nearly 100 homes and killing two people.
2005 - Civil unrest provoked in the Maldives
2005 - An F1 tornado strikes Glen Cove, New York , a rare event on Long Island
Births 1503 - Christian III of Denmark and Norway (d. 1559 )
1566 - Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (d. 1633 )
1604 - Tokugawa Iemitsu , Japanese shogun (d. 1651 )
1629 - Tsar Alexei I of Russia (d. 1676 )
1643 - King Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683 )
1644 - Heinrich Ignaz Biber , Bohemian composer (d. 1704 )
1647 - Johann Heinrich Acker , German writer (d. 1719 )
1686 - John Balguy , English philosopher (d. 1748 )
1696 - Maurice Greene , English composer (d. 1755 )
1720 - Konrad Ekhof , German actor (d. 1778 )
1762 - King George IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1830 )
1774 - Robert Southey , English poet and biographer (d. 1843 )
1831 - Helena Blavatsky , Ukrainian-born author (d. 1891 )
1856 - "Diamond Jim" Brady , American financier (d. 1917 )
1859 - Katharine Lee Bates , American poet (d. 1929 )
1866 - Jacinto Benavente , Spanish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1954 )
1867 - Edith Hamilton , German classicist (d. 1963 )
1876 - Mary Roberts Rinehart , American author (d. 1958 )
1880 - Radclyffe Hall , British author (d. 1943 )
1880 - Christy Mathewson , American baseball player (d. 1925 )
1881 - Cecil B. DeMille , American director (d. 1959 )
1883 - Pauline Frederick , American actress (d. 1938 )
1885 - Jean Cabannes , French physicist (d. 1959 )
1886 - Sir Keith Murdoch , Australian journalist and newspaper owner (d. 1952 )
1887 - Erwin Schrödinger , Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1961 )
1889 - Zerna Sharp , American writer and educator (Dick and Jane ) (d. 1981 )
1892 - Alfred Lunt , American actor (d. 1977 )
1902 - Mohammad Hatta , Vice President of Indonesia 1945-1956 (d. 1980 )
1904 - Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia (d. 1918 )
1906 - Harry Hopman , Australian-born tennis player and coach (d. 1985 )
1906 - Tedd Pierce , American animator (d. 1972 )
1907 - Joe Besser , American actor and comedian (d. 1988 )
1910 - Jane Wyatt , American actress (d. 2006 )
1911 - Cantinflas , Mexican actor (d. 1993 )
1912 - Samuel Fuller , American film director (d. 1997 )
1914 - Gerd Buchdahl , German philosopher (d. 2001 )
1919 - Vikram Sarabhai , Indian physicist (d. 1971 )
1924 - Derek Shackleton , English cricketer
1924 - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq , leader of Pakistan (d. 1988 )
1925 - Norris McWhirter , Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (d. 2004 )
1925 - Ross McWhirter , Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (d. 1975 )
1925 - George Wetherill , American scientist (d. 2006 )
1926 - John Derek , American actor (d. 1998 )
1926 - Joe Jones , American R&B singer (d. 2005 )
1926 - Wallace Markfield , American writer (d. 2002 )
1927 - Porter Wagoner , American singer
1928 - Charles Blackman , Australian artist
1928 - Bob Buhl , American baseball player (d. 2001 )
1928 - Dan Curtis , film and television producer and director
1929 - Buck Owens , American singer (d. 2006 )
1930 - George Soros American businessman
1930 - Jacques Tits , French mathematician
1931 - William Goldman , American screenwriter
1932 - Charlie O'Donnell , American game show announcer
1932 - Somdej Phra Nangchao Sirikit Phra Boromarajininat HM Queen Sirikit of Thailand
1933 - Parnelli Jones , American race car driver
1935 - John Cazale , Italian-American actor (d. 1978 )
1937 - Walter Dean Myers , African-American author
1939 - George Hamilton , American actor
1943 - Deborah Walley , American actress (d. 2001 )
1945 - Ann M. Martin , American author
1947 - Sam Rosen , American sportscaster
1949 - Mark Knopfler , British guitarist (Dire Straits)
1950 - Jim Beaver , American actor and writer
1951 - Willie Horton , American murderer and rapist
1952 - Chen Kaige , Chinese film director
1954 - Sam J. Jones , American actor
1954 - Pat Metheny , American guitarist
1955 - Terry Taylor , American retired professional wrestler
1956 - Bruce Greenwood , Canadian actor
1960 - Laurent Fignon , French cyclist
1962 - Miss Cleo , American psychic
1965 - Peter Krause , American actor
1967 - Regilio Tuur , Dutch boxer
1967 - Andrey Plotnikov , Russian race walker
1968 - Andras Jones , American actor
1970 - Anthony Swofford , American novelist
1970 - Jim Schlossnagle , baseball coach
1971 - Michael Ian Black , American comedian
1971 - Rebecca Gayheart , American actress
1971 - Pete Sampras , American tennis player
1972 - Mark Kinsella , Irish footballer
1972 - Takanohana , Sumo Yokozuna
1973 - Joseba Beloki , Spanish cyclist
1973 - Jonathan Coachman , American professional wrestler and executive
1973 - Richard Reid (shoe bomber)
1973 - Yvette Nicole Brown , American actress
1973 - Sayyed Muqtada al-Sadr - son of Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr
1974 - Matt Clement , American baseball pitcher
1975 - Casey Affleck , American actor
1976 - Mikko Viljami "Linde" Lindström , Finnish guitarist
1976 - Antoine Walker , American basketball player
1976 - Wednesday 13 , American musician (Wednesday 13 , Murderdolls )
1976 - Brad Lukowich , Canadian ice hockey player
1977 - Plaxico Burress , American football player
1977 - Jesper Grønkjær , Danish footballer
1977 - Park Yong-ha , South Korean actor and singer
1980 - Dominique Swain , American actress
1980 - Matt Thiessen , Canadian-born musician (Relient K )
1981 - Djibril Cissé , French footballer
1982 - Alexandros Tzorvas , Greek footballer
1987 - Dean Cox , English footballer
Deaths 30 BC - Cleopatra (b. 69 BC )
875 - Louis II Holy Roman Emperor (b. 825 )
1424 - Yongle , Emperor of China (b. 1460 )
1484 - George of Trebizond , Greek philosopher (b. 1395 )
1484 - Pope Sixtus IV (b. 1414 )
1512 - Alessandro Achillini , Italian philosopher (b. 1463 )
1577 - Thomas Smith , English diplomat and scholar (b. 1513 )
1588 - Alfonso Ferrabosco (I) , Italian composer (b. 1543 )
1612 - Giovanni Gabrieli , Italian composer
1633 - Jacopo Peri , Italian composer (b. 1561 )
1648 - Ibrahim I , Ottoman Sultan (b. 1615 )
1674 - Philippe de Champaigne , French painter (b. 1602 )
1676 - Metacomet, sachem of the Wampanoags. (b. c. 1639 )
1689 - Pope Innocent XI (b. 1611 )
1778 - Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven , British general and politician (b. 1714 )
1809 - Mikhail Kamensky , Russian field marshal (b. 1738 )
1810 - Etienne Louis Geoffroy , French pharmacist and entomologist (b. 1725 )
1822 - Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh , English politician and statesman (b. 1769 )
1827 - William Blake , English poet and artist (b. 1757 )
1848 - George Stephenson , British locomotive designer (b. 1781 )
1864 - Sakuma Shōzan , Japanese reformer (b. 1811 )
1865 - William Jackson Hooker , English botanist (b. 1785 )
1891 - James Russell Lowell , American poet and essayist (b. 1819 )
1900 - Wilhelm Steinitz , Austrian chess player (b. 1836 )
1901 - Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld , Finnish-Swedish explorer (b. 1832 )
1914 - John Philip Holland , Irish submarine designer (b. 1840 )
1918 - Anna Held , Polish-born actress and singer (b. 1872 )
1922 - Arthur Griffith , President of Ireland (b. 1871 )
1928 - Leoš Janáček , Czech composer (b. 1854 )
1934 - Hendrik Petrus Berlage , Dutch architect (b. 1856 )
1935 - Friedrich Schottky , German mathematician (b. 1851 )
1943 - Bobby Peel , English cricketer (b. 1857 )
1948 - Harry Brearley , English inventor (b. 1871 )
1952 - David Bergelson , Yiddish language writer (b. 1884 )
1955 - Thomas Mann , German writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1875 )
1955 - James B. Sumner , American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1887 )
1959 - Mike O'Neill , Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1877 )
1964 - Ian Fleming , English novelist (b. 1908 )
1973 - Walter Rudolf Hess , Swiss physiologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1881 )
1973 - Karl Ziegler , German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1898 )
1979 - Ernst Boris Chain , German-born biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1906 )
1982 - Henry Fonda , American actor (b. 1905 )
1982 - Salvador Sanchez , Mexican boxer (b. 1959 )
1982 - Varlam Shalamov , Russian writer (b. 1907 )
1982 - Joe Tex , American singer (b. 1933 )
1985 - Kyu Sakamoto , Japanese singer (plane crash) (b. 1941 )
1985 - Manfred Winkelhock , German race car driver (b. 1951 )
1988 - Jean-Michel Basquiat , Haitian-American artist (b. 1960 )
1988 - Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Deva Gosvami Maharaja , religious Guru from India (b. 1895 )
1989 - William Shockley , American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1910 )
1989 - Samuel Okwaraji , Nigerian international footballer (b. 1964 )
1990 - Dorothy Mackaill , British-born American actress (b. 1903 )
1992 - John Cage , American composer (b. 1912 )
1997 - Luther Allison , American musician (b. 1939 )
2000 - Loretta Young , American actress (b. 1913 )
2002 - Enos Slaughter , American baseball player (b. 1916 )
2004 - Sir Godfrey Hounsfield , English electrical engineer and inventor, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1919 )
2004 - Peter Woodthorpe , British actor (b. 1931 )
2005 - John Loder , co-founder of the anarcho-punk band CRASS (b. 1946 )
Holidays and observances Liturgical feasts
Roman Catholicism
Translation of Saint Andeolus , martyr [Viviers, Lyon]
Saint Claudius, martyr [Paderborn]
Saint Chrysanthus and Daria , martyrs [Toul]
Feast of the Crown of Thorns [Paris]
Saint Euplus , deacon, martyr [Cologne, Paderborn, Trier]
Saint Macarius , abbot, confessor [Langres]
Saint Muredach , bishop of Killala
Saint Thomas Percy , earl of Northumberland , martyr
Saint Tiburtius , martyr [Paris]
Saint Clare , virgin [common]
Saint Hilaria and companions, martyrs [Augsburg]
Translation of Saint Waldetrudis , virgin [Mons]
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