About August 12
August 12, 2024 is the 225th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 141 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 170 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
August 12: More About This Day
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.
What Happened On August 12
- 1323 –Signature of the Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Novgorod (Russia), that regulates the border between the two countries for the first time.
- 1499 –First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets.
- 1806 –Santiago de Liniers re-takes the city of Buenos Aires after the first British invasion.
- 1831 –French intervention forces William I of the Netherlands to abandon his attempt to suppress the Belgian Revolution.
- 1877 –Asaph Hall discovers the Mars moon Deimos.
- 1883 –The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.
- 1898 –The Hawaiian flag is lowered from Iolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawai`i to the United States.
- 1914 –World War I: the United Kingdom declares war on Austria-Hungary; the countries of the British Empire follow suit.
- 1944 –Alençon is liberated by General Leclerc, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.
- 1953 –Nuclear weapons testing: the Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of Joe 4, the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon.
- 1953 –The islands of Zakynthos and Kefalonia in Greece are severely damaged by an earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale.
- 1964 –Charlie Wilson, one of the Great Train Robbers, escapes from Winson Green Prison in Birmingham, England.
- 1964 –South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country’s racist policies.
- 1976 –Between 1,000 and 3,500 Palestinians are killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre, one of the bloodiest events of the Lebanese Civil War
- 1978 –The Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People’s Republic of China is signed.
- 1981 –The IBM Personal Computer is released.
- 1982 –Mexico announces it is unable to pay its enormous external debt, marking the beginning of a debt crisis that spreads to all of Latin America and the Third World.
- 2000 –The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.
- 2005 –Sri Lanka’s foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, is fatally shot by an LTTE sniper at his home.
- 2007 –The bulk carrier M/V New Flame collides with the oil tanker Torm Gertrud at the southernmost tip of Gibraltar, ending up partially submerged.
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