August 12

Friday 12, 2005:

Civil unrest provoked in the Maldives

Thursday 12, 2004:

Lee Hsien Loong is sworn in as Singapore's 3rd Prime Minister.

Saturday 12, 2000:

The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy exploded and sank in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.

Friday 12, 1994:

Major League Baseball players go on strike. The work stoppage will force the cancellation of the World Series.

Wednesday 12, 1992:

Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Sunday 12, 1990:

Sue, the most complete skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex, was discovered near Faith, South Dakota.

Monday 12, 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.

Wednesday 12, 1981:

The IBM PC, an early personal computer, is introduced

Saturday 12, 1978:

Japan and China sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China.

Friday 12, 1966:

John Lennon apologizes at a Chicago news conference for saying the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus."

Friday 12, 1960:

Echo I, the first communications satellite, launched

Wednesday 12, 1953:

Nuclear testing: The Soviet atomic bomb project proceeded with the detonation of Joe 4, the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon.

Tuesday 12, 1952:

Prominent Jewish intellectuals were murdered in Moscow.

Wednesday 12, 1914:

World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer between Austria-Hungary and Serbia

Wednesday 12, 1908:

First Model T Ford built

Friday 12, 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.

Sunday 12, 1883:

The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam

Sunday 12, 1877:

Asaph Hall discovers Deimos

Saturday 12, 1854:

Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon is executed by shooting, in regard to the Battle of Guaymas.

Tuesday 12, 1851:

Isaac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine

Wednesday 12, 1676:

Praying Indian John Alderman shot and killed Metacomet the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip's War.

Tuesday 12, 1332:

Scots under the Earl of Mar routed by Edward Balliol

Thursday 12, 1323:

Sweden and Novgorod (Russia) regulates the border for the first time

Saturday 12, 1099:

The First Crusade concluded with a decisive victory in the Battle of Ascalon over Fatimid forces under Al-Afdal Shahanshah.

Tuesday 12, -490:

but see 12 September.

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