About August 12
August 12, 2025 is the 224th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 141 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 189 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
- 1099 –First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid forces led by Al-Afdal Shahanshah. This is considered the last engagement of the First Crusade.
- 1164 –Battle of Harim: Nur ad-Din Zangi defeats the Crusader armies of the County of Tripoli and the Principality of Antioch.
- 1499 –First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets.
- 1793 –The Rhône and Loire (Lêre) départments are created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire is split into two.
- 1806 –Santiago de Liniers re-takes the city of Buenos Aires after the first British invasion.
- 1877 –Asaph Hall discovers the Mars moon Deimos.
- 1883 –The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.
- 1898 –An Armistice ends the Spanish-American War.
- 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.
- 1944 –Waffen SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
- 1952 –The Night of the Murdered Poets: 13 prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow.
- 1960 –Echo 1A, NASA’s first successful communications satellite, is launched.
- 1969 –Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside.
- 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
- 1977 –The Sri Lankan riots of 1977, targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamil people, begin, less than a month after the United National Party came to power. Over 300 Tamils are killed.
- 1980 –The Montevideo Treaty, establishing the Latin American Integration Association, is signed.
- 1981 –The IBM Personal Computer is released.
- 1985 –Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.
- 1994 –Major League Baseball players go on strike. This will force the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
- 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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