About August 12
August 12, 2023 is the 224th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 141 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 182 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
- 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.
- 1480 –Battle of Otranto: Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam.
- 1499 –First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets.
- 1877 –Asaph Hall discovers the Mars moon Deimos.
- 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.
- 1952 –The Night of the Murdered Poets: 13 prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 1977 –The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
- 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.
- 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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