SomeFacts | August 12

On this day - August 12

1099 — First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon Crusaders under the command ...

1121 — Battle of Didgori: The Georgian army under King David IV wins ...

1164 — Battle of Harim: Nur ad-Din Zangi defeats the Crusader armies ...

1323 — The Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Novgorod Republic is ...

1492 — Christopher Columbus arrives in the Canary Islands on his ...

1499 — First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and ...

1624 — Charles de La Vieuville is arrested and replaced by Cardinal ...

1676 — Praying Indian John Alderman shoots and kills Metacomet, the ...

1687 — Battle of Mohács: Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottoman ...

1765 — Treaty of Allahabad is signed. The Treaty marks the political ...

1788 — The Anjala conspiracy is signed.

1793 — The Rhône and Loire départments are created when the former ...

1806 — Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires re-takes the ...

1831 — French intervention forces William I of the Netherlands to ...

1851 — Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.

1865 — Joseph Lister, British surgeon and scientist, performs the ...

1883 — The last quagga dies at the Natura Artis Magistra, a zoo in ...

1898 — The Hawaiian flag is lowered from ʻIolani Palace in an ...

1914 — World War I: The Battle of Halen a.k.a. Battle of the Silver ...

1914 — World War I: France, the United Kingdom and the British Empire ...

1944 — Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de ...

1944 — Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during ...

1944 — Waffen-SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di ...

1948 — Between 15 and 150 unarmed members of the Khudai Khidmatgar ...

1950 — Korean War: Bloody Gulch massacre: Seventy-five American POWs ...

1952 — The Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen prominent Jewish ...

1953 — The 7.2 Ms Ionian earthquake shakes the southern Ionian ...

1953 — Thermonuclear bomb testing: The Soviet atomic bomb project ...

1960 — Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications ...

1964 — South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the ...

1969 — Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in ...

1976 — Between 1,000 and 3,500 Palestinians are killed in the Tel ...

1977 — The Sri Lanka Riots: Targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamils, ...

1977 — The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.

1981 — The IBM Personal Computer is released.

1984 — An infamous brawl takes place at the Atlanta-Fulton County ...

1985 — Japan Air Lines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma ...

1990 — Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ...

1992 — Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of ...

1994 — Major League Baseball players go on strike, eventually forcing ...

2000 — The Russian Navy submarine Kursk explodes and sinks in the ...

2015 — At least two massive explosions kill 173 people and injure ...

2016 — Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) capture ...

2017 — The Unite the Right rally occurs in Charlottesville, Virginia, ...

2018 — Thirty-nine civilians, including a dozen children, are killed ...

2021 — Six people, five victims and the perpetrator are killed in ...