Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 12

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  David the Builder of Georgia
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  IBM PC
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  Isaac M. Singer
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  A sewing machine
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  Tyrannosaurus rex
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  Deimos
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  Cover of the 1945 Princeton edition of the Smyth Report
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  Sue, the most complete T. rex skeleton found
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  Quagga mare at London Zoo

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
International Youth Day	primary sources
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.	lots of inline tags
1676 – Puritans and their Native American allies killed the Wampanoag chief Metacomet (known as "King Philip"), essentially ending King Philip's War.	refimprove sections
1851 – American inventor Isaac Singer was granted a patent for his sewing machine.	needs more footnotes
1877 – American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Deimos, the smaller of the two moons of Mars.	too many Template:Tl tags (10)
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 Template:Tl tags (8)
1948 – About 600 unarmed Pashtuns in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, protesting the arrests of leaders of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement, were massacred by police and militia forces.	refimprove
1950 – Korean War: Members of the North Korean People's Army executed 75 U.S. Army prisoners of war.	manner of death not mentioned in source
1953 – The first Soviet thermonuclear bomb, Template:Nowrap, was detonated at Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR.	lots of CN tags (5)
1981 – The IBM Personal Computer, the original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform, was introduced.	refimprove section
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 – Sri Lanka foreign minister 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
2008 – A ceasefire was announced between Russian, Georgian and South Ossetian separatist forces in the Russo-Georgian War.	tagged with {POV}
Abraham Zacuto |b|1452|	Uncited birthdate
Robert Southey |b|1774	refimprove
William Blake |d|1827	original research
Charles Blackman |b|1928	refimprove section
George Soros |b|1930|	Lots of unsourced paras, 1-sentence sections

Eligible

• 1099 – Crusades: Fatimid forces under al-Afdal Shahanshah began retreating to Egypt after the Battle of Ascalon, concluding the First Crusade.
• 1834 – A race riot in Philadelphia destroyed African-American businesses and killed two people.
• 1883 – The last known quagga (example pictured), a subspecies of the plains zebra, died at Natura Artis Magistra, a zoo in Amsterdam.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 1969 – The Troubles: Riots erupted in the neighbourhood of Bogside in Derry, and spread across much of Northern Ireland.
• 1990 – Near Faith, South Dakota, American paleontologist Sue Hendrickson found one of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons, nicknamed Sue (pictured).

• Born/died: | Jænberht|d|792| Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick |d|1315| Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria|b|1629| Thomas F. Mulledy |b|1794| John C. Young|b|1803| Maurice Fernandes |b|1897| Percy Mayfield |b|1920| Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. |d|1944| Carlos Mesa |b|1953| Leung Chun-ying |b|1954| Txiki Begiristain |b|1964| Aleksandar Đurić |b|1970| Walter Rudolf Hess |d|1973| Henry Fonda |d|1982| Ladi Kwali |d|1984| Kyu Sakamoto |d|1985| Evaline Ness |d|1986| Stefanos Tsitsipas |b|1998| Matthijs de Ligt |b|1999| Lauren Bacall |d|2014| George Reid |d|2025| Aino Pervik|d|2025|

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

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• 1881 – Franco-American children as young as seven years old began striking against Cabot Mill in Brunswick, Maine, shutting down operations for three days.
• 1952 – Thirteen Jewish poets were executed in Moscow for espionage based on false confessions.
• 1985 – Japan Air Lines Flight 123 (aircraft involved pictured) crashed into Mount Takamagahara in Gunma Prefecture, killing 520 of 524 people on board, including singer Kyu Sakamoto, in the world's worst single-aircraft aviation disaster.
• 2000 – Kursk, an Oscar-class submarine of the Russian Navy, suffered an on-board explosion and sank in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing 118 people.
• 2016 – The state-owned Taedonggang Brewing Company inaugurated the first beer festival in North Korea.