Historical events on August 12
AUGUST 12, 1985
Japan Air Lines Flight 123 crashed into Mount Takamagahara in Gunma Prefecture, killing 520 of 524 people on board in the world's worst single-aircraft aviation disaster.
Japan Air Lines Flight 123 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Tokyo to Osaka, Japan. On August 12, 1985, the Boeing 747
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AUGUST 12, 1944
World War II: In Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Italy, the Waffen-SS and the Brigate Nere murdered about 560 local villagers and refugees and burned their bodies.
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all
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AUGUST 12, 2016
The state-owned Taedonggang Brewing Company inaugurated the first beer festival in North Korea.
The Taedonggang Brewing Company is a state-owned North Korean beer brewery company that brews the Taedonggang beer. The brewery is located in
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AUGUST 12, 1914
World War I: Belgian troops won a victory at the Battle of Halen, but were ultimately unable to stop the German invasion of Belgium.
World War I or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the
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AUGUST 12, 1952
Thirteen Jewish poets were executed in Moscow for espionage based on false confessions.
The Night of the Murdered Poets was the execution of thirteen Soviet Jews in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow on 12 August
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AUGUST 12, 1945
An official administrative history of the Manhattan Project, written by American physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth, was released to the public days after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Smyth Report is the common name of an administrative history written by American physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth about the Manhattan Project,
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AUGUST 12, 1881
Franco-American children as young as seven years old commenced a strike against Cabot Mill of Brunswick, Maine. The Mill had to shut down operations for three days.
French Americans or Franco-Americans are citizens or nationals of the United States who identify themselves with having full or partial French or
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AUGUST 12, 1990
Near Faith, South Dakota, American paleontologist Sue Hendrickson found one of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons, nicknamed Sue (pictured).
Faith is a city in the northeastern corner of Meade County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 367 at the 2020
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AUGUST 12, 1099
Crusades: Fatimid forces under al-Afdal Shahanshah began retreating to Egypt after the Battle of Ascalon, concluding the First Crusade.
The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period.
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AUGUST 12, 1969
The Troubles: Riots erupted in the neighbourhood of Bogside in Derry, and spread across much of Northern Ireland.
The Troubles were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also
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AUGUST 12, 1883
The last known quagga (example pictured), a subspecies of the plains zebra, died at Natura Artis Magistra, a zoo in Amsterdam.
The quagga is an extinct subspecies of the plains zebra that was endemic to South Africa until it was hunted to extinction
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