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
- 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.
- 1323 –Signature of the Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Novgorod (Russia), that regulates the border between the two countries for the first time.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 –An Armistice ends the Spanish-American War.
- 1914 –World War I: the United Kingdom declares war on Austria-Hungary; the countries of the British Empire follow suit.
- 1944 –Waffen SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
- 1953 –The islands of Zakynthos and Kefalonia in Greece are severely damaged by an earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale.
- 1964 –South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country’s racist policies.
- 1977 –The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
- 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.
- 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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