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Holidays August 12: all about this day

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International Youth Day and Elephant Day are the most interesting events on August 12 at Athletistic.

August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 141 days left before the end of the year.

What holidays in Ukraine and the world
  • International Youth Day

  • world elephant day

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What happened on August 12
  • 1099 – Crusaders defeat Muslims at Ascalon.

  • 1658 – The first police detachment, the Ratelwacht, is formed in North America.

  • 1851 – American Isaac Merritt Singer patents a foot-operated sewing machine.

  • 1865 – British surgeon Joseph Lister for the first time used phenol (carbolic acid) during surgery to disinfect instruments and doctors’ hands.

  • 1896 – Gold is found in the Klondike River.

  • 1915 – the first combat use of a torpedo bomber.

  • 1916 – near Berezhany, battles for Lysonia mountain began between the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen and the Russian army.

  • 1918 – The United States introduced a ban on the sale of alcohol in train stations.

  • 1919 – the beginning of the offensive of the united army of the UNR in Kyiv and Odessa.

  • 1933 – the first match of the Ukrainian football team took place.

  • 1947 – the first raids of UPA detachments headed for Western Europe.

  • 1949 – The Geneva Convention for the Protection of War Victims is signed.

  • 1949 – in London, due to the starlings located on the minute hand of the clock, Big Ben starts running four and a half minutes late.

  • 1953 – Ann Davidson becomes the first woman to sail the Atlantic Ocean solo.

  • 1962 – the first Ukrainian cosmonaut Pavel Popovich went into space.

  • 1970 – Janis Joplin at Harvard University gave her last concert.

  • 1981 – The IBM PC is introduced.

  • 1985 – A Boeing 747 plane crashes 100 km from Tokyo.

  • 1988 – Martin Scorsese’s film was released in the USA The Last Temptation of Christ.

  • 1990 – not far from the city of Lubny, the Hill of Sorrow was laid – a monument to the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933.

  • 1992 – The United States, Canada and Mexico sign an agreement to create the North American Free Trade Area (the largest single trade area in the world).

  • 1994 – the rock festival opens Woodstock 94dedicated to the 25th anniversary of its predecessor.

  • 1994 – Oliver Stone’s film was released in the USA natural killers.

  • 1999 – in Ukraine they decided to close all sobering-up stations.

  • 2010 – the highest temperature in the history of Ukraine was recorded in Luhansk – + 42°C.

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Sewing machine singer

Who was born on August 12

1541 – Ipatiy Potiy, Metropolitan, Ukrainian polemical writer.

1911 – Andrey Beletsky – Ukrainian linguist, polyglot; son of literary critic Alexander Beletsky, older brother of painter and art historian Platon Beletsky.

1969 – Tanita Tikaram, famous singer.

Who is celebrating name day tomorrow?

Anatoly, Apollo, Valentin, Herman, Ivan, Luka, Maxim, Pavel, Angelina, Agnia.

What can’t be done tomorrow
  • Refuse help.

  • Eat too much.

  • Be lazy.

  • Start new things before the old ones are finished.

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