Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 12
This is a list of selected August 12 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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David the Builder of Georgia -
IBM PC -
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A sewing machine -
title=Sue, the most complete Tyrannosaurus skeleton ever found -
Tyrannosaurus rex -
Deimos -
A quagga in London Zoo
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| International Youth Day | stub |
| Mother's Day and Queen Sirikit's Birthday in Thailand | Mother's Day: refimprove; Sirikit: unreferenced sections |
| 1121 – Georgian-Seljuk wars: Forces led by David the Builder decisively won the Battle of Didgori, driving Ilghazi and the Seljuk Turks out of Georgia. | refimprove |
| 1323 – Sweden and the Novgorod Republic signed the Treaty of Nöteborg resulting in a temporary hiatus in the Swedish–Novgorodian Wars. | refimprove |
| 1676 – Puritans and their Native American allies killed the Wampanoag chief Metacomet (known as "King Philip"), essentially ending King Philip's War. | refimprove section |
| 1851 – American inventor Isaac Singer was granted a patent for his sewing machine. | needs more footnotes |
| 1944 – After a week of indiscriminate killing of civilians in Wola, Warsaw, Poland, SS General Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski ordered that any remaining Poles be sent to labour or concentration camps. | too many {{CN}} tags |
| 1952 – Thirteen Jewish poets in Moscow were executed for espionage based on false confessions. | referencing issues |
| 1969 – Riots erupted in the Bogside area of Derry and spread across much of Northern Ireland. | Bogside: refimprove section; Riots: expansion |
| 1994 – Major League Baseball players went on a 232-day strike, forcing the cancellation of the rest of the season and the World Series. | unreferenced section |
| 2005 – Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka Lakshman Kadirgamar was fatally shot by a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam sniper as he was getting out of his swimming pool at his home in Colombo. | refimprove |
| Robert Southey (b. 1774) | refimprove |
| William Blake (d. 1827) | original research |
| Charles Blackman (b. 1928) | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1877 – American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Deimos, the smaller of the two moons of Mars.
- 1883 – The last known quagga (example pictured), a subspecies of the plains zebra, died at the Natura Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.
- 1948 – About 600 unarmed Pashtuns in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, protesting the arrests of the leaders of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement, were massacred by police and militia forces.
- 1950 – Korean War: Members of the North Korean People's Army executed 75 captured U.S. Army prisoners of war.
- 1953 – The first Soviet thermonuclear bomb, Joe 4, was detonated at Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR.
- 1985 – Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashed into the ridge of Mount Takamagahara in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520 of 524 on board in the world's worst single-aircraft aviation disaster.
- 1990 – American paleontologist Sue Hendrickson found the most complete skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered near Faith, South Dakota, U.S.
- 2000 – The Oscar-class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy suffered an on-board explosion and sank in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.
- Born/died: Guy de Beauchamp (d. 1315) · Helena Blavatsky (b. 1831) · Cecil B. DeMille (b. 1881) · George Soros (b. 1930) · Mario Balotelli (b. 1990)
Notes
- Phobos (moon) appears on August 18, so Deimos should not appear in the same year
- Enola Gay/Little Boy appear on August 6 and Bockscar/Fat Man appear on August 9 – Smyth Report should not appear in the same year
- 1099 – The First Crusade concluded with the Battle of Ascalon and Fatimid forces under Al-Afdal Shahanshah retreating to Egypt.
- 1914 – World War I: Belgian forces were victorious in Halen but were ultimately unable to stop the German invasion of their kingdom.
- 1945 – An official administrative history (cover pictured) of the Manhattan Project, written by American physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth, was released just days after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- 1981 – The IBM Personal Computer, the original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform, was introduced.
Jænberht (d. 792) · Abraham Zacuto (b. 1452) · Maurice Fernandes (b. 1897)