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
- 30 BC –Cleopatra VII Philopator, the last ruler of the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty, commits suicide, allegedly by means of an asp bite.
- 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.
- 1121 –Battle of Didgori: the Georgian army under King David the Builder wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi.
- 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.
- 1687 –Battle of Mohács: Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottomans.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1952 –The Night of the Murdered Poets: 13 prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1977 –The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
- 1980 –The Montevideo Treaty, establishing the Latin American Integration Association, is signed.
- 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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