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Events on the 12th of August in history

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12 Aug 2030 Cleopatra VII Philopator, the last ruler of the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty, commits suicide, allegedly by means of an asp bite.
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12 Aug 1071 Alp Arslan beat Byzantines, Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes
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12 Aug 1071 Battle at Manzikert Armenia, Venetian Byzantine brings islam to Europe
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12 Aug 1099 Battle at Ascalon: Godfried of Broth beats Egyptians
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12 Aug 1099 Crusaders are victorious at Battle of Ascalon
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12 Aug 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.
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12 Aug 1121 Battle of Didgori: The Georgian army under King David IV wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi.
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12 Aug 1164 Battle of Harim: Nur ad-Din Zangi defeats the Crusader armies of the County of Tripoli and the Principality of Antioch.
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12 Aug 1323 Signature of the Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Novgorod (Russia), that regulates the border between the two countries for the first time.
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12 Aug 1332 Battle of Dupplin Moor; Scottish dynastic battle
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12 Aug 1336 English King Edward III endswool export to Flanders
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12 Aug 1480 Battle of Otranto: Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam; they are later honored in the Church.
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12 Aug 1492 Christopher Columbus discovers Canary Islands
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12 Aug 1499 First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets.
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12 Aug 1508 Ponce de Le
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12 Aug 1530 Florence surrenders for Emperor Karel I
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12 Aug 1549 French troops occupy Ambleteuse England
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12 Aug 1553 Pope Julius III orders confiscation and burning of Jewish Talmud
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12 Aug 1588 Medemblik surrenders to Spanish army
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12 Aug 1624 The president of Louis XIII of France's royal council is arrested, leaving Cardinal Richelieu in the role of the King's principal minister.
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12 Aug 1658 1st US police corps forms (New Amsterdam)
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12 Aug 1665 English fleet beat Dutch fleet
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12 Aug 1676 1st war between American colonists and Indians ends in New England
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12 Aug 1676 Praying Indian John Alderman shoots and kills Metacomet, the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip's War.
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12 Aug 1676 King Philip's War (vs Wampanoag Indians) ends in New England
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12 Aug 1687 Charles of Lotharingen defeats Turkish leaders
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12 Aug 1687 Ottoman invaders of Hungary routed at Battle of Mohacs
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12 Aug 1687 Battle of Mohács: Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottoman Empire.
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12 Aug 1759 Battle of Kunersdorf - Russian-Austrian army overpowers Prussians
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12 Aug 1765 Treaty of Allahabad is signed. The Treaty marks the political and constitutional involvement and the beginning of Company rule in India.
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12 Aug 1793 The Rhône and Loire départments are created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire is split into two.
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12 Aug 1806 Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires re-takes the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina after the first British invasion.
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12 Aug 1812 Dr Joseph Lister is 1st surgeon to use disinfectant during surgery
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12 Aug 1831 Dutch troops conquer Leuven
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12 Aug 1831 Netherlands and Belgium sign peace treaty
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12 Aug 1831 French intervention forces William I of the Netherlands to abandon his attempt to suppress the Belgian Revolution.
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12 Aug 1851 Isaac Singer patents sewing machine
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12 Aug 1851 Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
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12 Aug 1856 Anthony Fass patents accordion
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12 Aug 1861 Skirmish at Texas-rebels are attacked by Apache Indians
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12 Aug 1862 Gen John Hunt Morgan and his raiders capture Gallatin, Texas
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12 Aug 1863 1st cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC area)
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12 Aug 1867 President Andrew Johnson defies Congress suspending Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
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12 Aug 1876 Madeline (US) beats Countess Dufferin (Canada) in 4th America's Cup
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12 Aug 1877 Asaph Hall discovers the Mars moon Deimos.
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12 Aug 1877 Thomas Edison invents the Edisonphone, a sound recording device
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12 Aug 1879 1st National Archery Association tournament (Chicago)
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12 Aug 1883 The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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12 Aug 1888 Bertha, wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes 1st motor tour
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12 Aug 1896 Gold discovered at Klondike River at Dawson
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12 Aug 1896 Willem II soccer team forms in Tilburg
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12 Aug 1898 An Armistice ends the Spanish–American War.
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12 Aug 1898 The Hawaiian flag is lowered from ʻIolani 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 Hawaii to the United States.
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12 Aug 1898 Hawaii formally annexed to US
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12 Aug 1898 Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed
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12 Aug 1901 Boer general Kritzinger driven out of Cape colony
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12 Aug 1905 King Leopold II opens Central Station Antwerp
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12 Aug 1914 Cavalery battle at Halen, Belgium ("Battle der Zilveren Helmen")
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12 Aug 1914 German 16.5" / 12" guns fires on forts round Luik
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12 Aug 1914 Great Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary
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12 Aug 1914 Russian troops take East-Prussia and occupy Marggrabowa
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12 Aug 1914 World War I: The United Kingdom declares war on Austria-Hungary; the countries of the British Empire follow suit.
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12 Aug 1914 World War I: The Battle of Haelen a.k.a. (Battle of the Silver Helmets) a clash between large Belgian and German cavalry formations at Halen, Belgium.
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12 Aug 1915 "Of Human Bondage, " by William Somerset Maugham, published
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12 Aug 1923 Dutch AR-leader Coair replaces De Geer as Minister of Finances
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12 Aug 1923 Enrico Tiraboschi is 1st to swim English Channel westward
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12 Aug 1925 KMA-AM in Shenandoah IA begins radio transmissions
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12 Aug 1927 "Wings, " the only silent film to win an Oscar for best picture, opens
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12 Aug 1928 9th Olympic Games close in Amsterdam
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12 Aug 1931 Yangtzee River floods after heavy rain crumbles dikes in China
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12 Aug 1933 Cuban Dictator Machado y Morales flees after military coup
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12 Aug 1935 Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park, 41,766 on hand
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12 Aug 1936 Demo baseball game at 1936 Olympics in Berlin, world beats US, 6-5
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12 Aug 1936 120
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12 Aug 1936 Diver Marjorie Gestring is youngest Olympic gold medalist (13y 268d)
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12 Aug 1940 Luftwaffe bombs British radar stations, loses 31 aircrafts
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12 Aug 1940 Netherlands starts rationing textile
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12 Aug 1941 French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany
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12 Aug 1942 British Premier Churchill arrives in Moscow, meets Stalin
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12 Aug 1942 German 1st tank leader captures Elista, Kalmukkensteppe
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12 Aug 1942 Lieutenant General Montgomery arrives in Cairo
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12 Aug 1944 Churchill and Tito meet in Naples
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12 Aug 1944 Pipeline under ocean (Pluto) begins operating
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12 Aug 1944 Waffen-SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
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12 Aug 1944 Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during which time at least 40,000 people were killed indiscriminately or in mass executions.
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12 Aug 1944 Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.
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12 Aug 1948 Cleveland Indians get 29 hits in a 9 inning game
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12 Aug 1948 Court of justice sentences Gen Fr Christiansen to 12 years
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12 Aug 1948 USS Nevada is struck from the naval record.
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12 Aug 1949 16th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Philadelphia 38, All-Stars 0 (93,780)
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12 Aug 1950 New York Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 20-6 in Ottawa
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12 Aug 1950 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Humani generis
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12 Aug 1950 Korean War: Bloody Gulch massacre—American POWs are massacred by North Korean Army.
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12 Aug 1951 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship
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12 Aug 1952 Hussain ibn Talal proclaimed King of Jordan
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12 Aug 1952 The Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union.
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12 Aug 1953 Heavy earthquake strikes Isotope islands, 435 killed
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12 Aug 1953 Nuclear weapons testing: The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of Joe 4, the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon.
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12 Aug 1953 The islands of Zakynthos and Kefalonia in Greece are severely damaged by an earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale.
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12 Aug 1953 Ann Davidson, 1st woman to sail solo across Atlantic, arrives Miami
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12 Aug 1953 Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb
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12 Aug 1954 Senator Eddie Yost draws his 100th walk for 5th year in a row
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12 Aug 1955 22nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 30, Cleveland 27 (75,000)
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12 Aug 1955 President Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour
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12 Aug 1955 WPBT TV channel 2 in Miami, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting
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12 Aug 1956 Canadain actor William Shatner (Star Trek) marries Gloria Brink
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12 Aug 1956 KOTI TV channel 2 in Klamath Falls, OR (NBC / CBS) begins broadcasting
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12 Aug 1956 Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA World Golf Championship
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12 Aug 1956 William Shatner marries Gloria Rand
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12 Aug 1958 Art Kane photographs 57 notable jazz musicians in the black and white group portrait "A Great Day in Harlem" in front of a Brownstone in New York City.
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12 Aug 1959 Progressive Party under John Steytler forms in South Africa
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12 Aug 1959 1st ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island
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12 Aug 1960 27th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 32, All-Stars 7 (70,000)
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12 Aug 1960 Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched.
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12 Aug 1960 Echo 1, 1st communications satellite, is launched
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12 Aug 1960 Ralph Boston of the US, sets then long jump record at 26' 11
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12 Aug 1960 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 41,600 m
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12 Aug 1962 1st time 2 people in space
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12 Aug 1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Tournament
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12 Aug 1962 Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely August 15
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12 Aug 1963 Portuguese Dictator Salazar firm on African colonization
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12 Aug 1963 Stan Musial announces he will retire at end of year
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12 Aug 1964 Mickey Mantle switch-hits HR record 10th and final time in a game
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12 Aug 1964 Race riot in Elizabeth, New Jersey
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12 Aug 1964 South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies.
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12 Aug 1964 Charlie Wilson, one of the Great Train Robbers, escapes from Winson Green Prison in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom.
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12 Aug 1964 10th time Mantle switch-hits HR in a game, one goes 502 feet
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12 Aug 1965 Elizabeth Lane becomes 1st female British Supreme Court Justice
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12 Aug 1965 Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc applies for a NL franchise
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12 Aug 1965 Race riot in West Side of Chicago
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12 Aug 1967 New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season victory, beat St Louis 23-14
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12 Aug 1969 Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside.
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12 Aug 1969 Boston Celtics sold for an NBA record $6 million
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12 Aug 1970 Curt Flood loses his $41 million antitrust suit against baseball
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12 Aug 1971 Syriam President Assad drops diplomatic relations with Jordan
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12 Aug 1972 "Funny Thing Happened..." closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 156 performances
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12 Aug 1972 "Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 1316 performances
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12 Aug 1972 Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam
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12 Aug 1973 55th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 277 at Canterbury - Cleveland
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12 Aug 1973 Betty Burfeindt wins LPGA Child and Family Service Golf Opens
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12 Aug 1973 WPBA National Championship won by Betty Morris
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12 Aug 1974 Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 and walks only 2 as Angels top Red Sox, 4-2
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12 Aug 1974 Nolan Ryan strikes-out 19 Red Sox
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12 Aug 1974 Yankees Mickey Mantle & Whitey Ford become 1st teammates elected to hall of fame on the same day
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12 Aug 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
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12 Aug 1976 1st approach & lands test (ALT) of orbiter Enterprise
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12 Aug 1977 The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
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12 Aug 1977 The 1977 riots in Sri Lanka, 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.
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12 Aug 1977 High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 launched into Earth orbit
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12 Aug 1977 Space shuttle Enterprise makes 1st atmospheric flight
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12 Aug 1978 China and Japan sign peace treaty
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12 Aug 1978 The Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China is signed.
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12 Aug 1978 Arron Marshall completes a record shower of 336 hours
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12 Aug 1978 ICE is launched
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12 Aug 1979 "Whoopee!" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 204 performances
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12 Aug 1979 Iran press censors start massive book burnings
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12 Aug 1979 Judy wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic Rankin
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12 Aug 1980 The Montevideo Treaty, establishing the Latin American Integration Association, is signed.
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12 Aug 1981 The IBM Personal Computer is released.
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12 Aug 1981 IBM introduces the PC and PC-DOS version 1.0
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12 Aug 1981 Jon Erikson (US) becomes 1st to triple cross English Channel (38:27)
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12 Aug 1982 Heavy Israeli bombardement of Beirut
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12 Aug 1982 Mexico announces that 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.
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12 Aug 1983 General Manuel A Noriega becomes commander of Panamanian army
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12 Aug 1984 23rd Olympic games close at Los Angeles, California
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12 Aug 1984 Braves beat Padres 5-3, features 2 brawls and 19 ejections
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12 Aug 1984 Harmon Killebrew, Rick Ferrell, Don Drysdale, Pee Wee Reese, and Luis Aparicio inducted into Hall of Fame
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12 Aug 1984 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
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12 Aug 1985 7th Emmy Sports Award presentation
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12 Aug 1985 Baltimore Orioles W Gross and L Sheets are 6th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
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12 Aug 1985 Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.
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12 Aug 1985 Japanese Boeing 747 crashes, 520 die (worst in-flight toll)
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12 Aug 1986 Don Baylor gets hits by a pitch for a record 25th time in a season
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12 Aug 1986 Red Sox pitcher Tim Lollar gets a pinch-hit single
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12 Aug 1987 Charles Cole climbs 870'Tyrolean Traverse from top of Elephant Rock
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12 Aug 1988 Movie "Last Temptation of Christ" is released
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12 Aug 1988 Red Sox beat Tigers 9-4 for AL record 23rd consecutive win at home
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12 Aug 1988 Boston Red Sox set AL consecutive home victories at 23
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12 Aug 1988 Nelson Mandela is treated for tuberculosis at the hospital
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12 Aug 1988 Richard Thornburgh becomes US Attorney General
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12 Aug 1990 72nd PGA Championship: Wayne Grady shoots a 282 at Shoal Creek Ala
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12 Aug 1990 Cathy Gerring wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic
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12 Aug 1990 Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton found to date, is discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota.
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12 Aug 1990 12th annual Macy's Tap-o-mania
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12 Aug 1990 Iraq President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve the Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories
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12 Aug 1991 Creditors vote to support Greyhound Bus reorganization plan
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12 Aug 1992 Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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12 Aug 1993 Pope John Paul II begins visit of US
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12 Aug 1993 Pope John Paul II starts his 8th annual World Youth Day in Denver's Mile High Stadium.
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12 Aug 1994 1st NFL game on Fox network (exhibition - SF vs. Denver)
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12 Aug 1994 Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association strike
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12 Aug 1994 Panic in Church of Brazzaville: 142 killed
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12 Aug 1994 Stephen G Breyer, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
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12 Aug 1994 Major League Baseball players go on strike. This will force the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
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12 Aug 1996 "Breakfast on Fox" premieres
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12 Aug 2000 The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.
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12 Aug 2004 Mr. Lee Hsien Loong is sworn in as Singapore's third Prime Minister.
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12 Aug 2005 Sri Lanka's foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, is fatally shot by an LTTE sniper at his home.
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12 Aug 2007 The bulk carrier MV New Flame collides with the oil tanker Torm Gertrud at the southernmost tip of Gibraltar, ending up partially submerged.
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