Saturday, August 12 is the 224th day of the Gregorian calendar, with 141 days left until the end of the year.
Saint of the day: Saint Giovanna Francesca de Chantal
Proverb of August
The sun in August deceives the farmer in the garden
It happened today
1898 – The Hawaiian flag is lowered from Iolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced by the US flag, signifying the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States
1946 – The Unione Calcio Sampdoria is founded, born from the merger between Andrea Doria and Sampierdarenese
1976 – Tel al-Zaatar massacre: between 1,500 and 3,000 Palestinian refugees are massacred in a camp in northeastern Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War
1981 – The IBM PC is presented, a personal computer that will be the reference standard, in the 1980s, for all PC models based on the x86 architecture
1985 – A Japan Airlines Boeing 747, Flight 123, crashes into Mount Ogura, Japan, killing 520, in the largest aviation disaster in history involving a single aircraft
1994 – Major League Baseball players go on strike. Abstention from work will force the cancellation of the World Series
2000 – The Russian nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea in a training exercise: all 118 sailors of the crew die
2012 – The Games of the XXX Olympiad hosted in London, in the United Kingdom, officially close
2018 – The Parker Solar Probe is launched with the aim of analyzing the Sun and its solar wind
birthdays
Alexandra Amoroso – Italian singer who rose to prominence in 2009 thanks to her participation and victory in the eighth edition of the talent show Amici di Maria De Filippi (August 12, 1986)
Philip Pucillo – Italian actor (August 12, 1989)
Balotelli Barwuah Mario – Italian footballer (August 12, 1990)
Teodoro Stefano Mammucari – better known as Teo Mammucari, is an Italian television host, actor and comedian (August 12, 1964)
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2023-08-11 15:50:01
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