August 12th, 1945

Born on August 12th, 1945

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What happened on August 12th, 1945?

August 12th, 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.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smyth_Report

What else happened on August 12th?

August 12th, 2016

The state-owned Taedonggang Brewing Company inaugurated the first beer festival in North Korea.

August 12th, 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 with 118 lives lost.

August 12th, 1990

Near Faith, South Dakota, American paleontologist Sue Hendrickson found one of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons, nicknamed Sue (pictured).

August 12th, 1985

Japan Air Lines Flight 123 crashed into Mount Takamagahara in Gunma Prefecture, killing 520 of 524 people on board in the world's worst single-aircraft aviation disaster.

August 12th, 1969

The Troubles: Riots erupted in the neighbourhood of Bogside in Derry, and spread across much of Northern Ireland.

August 12th, 1952

Thirteen Jewish poets were executed in Moscow for espionage based on false confessions.

August 12th, 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.

August 12th, 1914

World War I: Belgian troops won a victory at the Battle of Halen, but were ultimately unable to stop the German invasion of the country.

August 12th, 1883

The last known quagga (colourised example pictured), a subspecies of the plains zebra, died at Natura Artis Magistra, a zoo in Amsterdam.

August 12th, 1881

Franco-American children as young as seven years old commenced a strike against Cabot Mill of Brunswick, Maine. The Mill had to shut down operations for three days.

August 12th, 1099

Crusades: Fatimid forces under al-Afdal Shahanshah began retreating to Egypt after the Battle of Ascalon, concluding the First Crusade.

August 12th, 1323

The Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Novgorod Republic is signed, regulating the border between the two countries for the first time.

August 12th, 1164

Battle of Harim: Nur ad-Din Zangi defeats the Crusader armies of the County of Tripoli and the Principality of Antioch.

August 12th, 1121

Battle of Didgori: The Georgian army under King David IV wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 12th

Born on August 12th, 1945

78

Jean Nouvel

French architect (b.1945)

*August 12th, 1945, Fumel

78

Bernard Accoyer

French politician

*August 12th, 1945, 3rd arrondissement of Lyon

78

Louis Godart

Italian-Belgian archaeologist

*August 12th, 1945, Bourseigne-Vieille

58

Ute Mora

German actress

*August 12th, 1945, Wuppertal †September 3rd, 2003, Munich

78

Fife Symington

American politician

*August 12th, 1945, New York City

78

Oriovisto Guimarães

Brazilian politician

*August 12th, 1945, Batatais

78

Giancarlo Cito

Italian entrepreneur and politician

*August 12th, 1945, Taranto

75

Alfredo Obberti

Argentine footballer

*August 12th, 1945, Buenos Aires †July 5th, 2021, Rosario

78

Dorothy E. Denning

American information security researcher

*August 12th, 1945, Grand Rapids

78

Ron Mael

American musician and co-founder of the band Sparks

*August 12th, 1945, Culver City

78

Rosaire Paiement

Canadian ice hockey player

*August 12th, 1945, Armstrong

78

Norm Marlborough

Australian politician

*August 12th, 1945, Yorkshire

78

Mal Washer

Australian politician

*August 12th, 1945, Bunbury

78

Gene Strenicer

Hungarian-Canadian soccer player

*August 12th, 1945, Budapest

78

Fernando Tiscareño

Olympic basketball player

*August 12th, 1945, Ciudad Juárez

78

Billy Fraser

Scottish footballer (born 1945)

*August 12th, 1945, Edinburgh

78

Milena Cillerová

Czech cross-country skier

*August 12th, 1945, Jilemnice

78

Veikko Salminen

Modern pentathlete, fencer

*August 12th, 1945, Helsinki

78

Ed Biedenbach

American basketball player-coach

*August 12th, 1945, Pittsburgh

78

Junuthula N. Reddy

Indian-American mechanical engineer

*August 12th, 1945, Hanamkonda district

78

Bruno Rigutto

French conductor and pianist

*August 12th, 1945, Charenton-le-Pont

78

Dušan Epifanić

Yugoslav sports shooter

*August 12th, 1945, Farkaždin

78

Nelson Aguiar Ramírez

Cuban dissident

*August 12th, 1945, Cuba

78

Alan Dennis Clark

British physicist

*August 12th, 1945, London

69

Claus Scholl

German professor

*August 12th, 1945, Kirchen †March 6th, 2015, Aachen

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69

François Hollande

President of France from 2012 to 2017

*August 12th, 1954, Rouen

62

Kristin Krohn Devold

Norwegian politician

*August 12th, 1961, Ålesund Municipality

77

Elisabetta Casellati

Italian lawyer and politician (born 1946)

*August 12th, 1946, Rovigo

28

Lee Yang

Taiwanese badminton player

*August 12th, 1995, Taipei

82

Dana Ivey

American actress

*August 12th, 1941, Atlanta

75

Larry Carpenter

American director

*August 12th, 1948, Brockport

51

Andrea Dakó

Badminton player

*August 12th, 1972, Budapest

93

George Soros

Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)

*August 12th, 1930, Budapest

80

Herta Däubler-Gmelin

German politician

*August 12th, 1943, Bratislava

82

Letícia Román

Italian actress

*August 12th, 1941, Rome

31

Toby Penty

English badminton player

*August 12th, 1992, Walton-on-Thames

74

Mark Knopfler

British musician

*August 12th, 1949, Glasgow

54

Tanita Tikaram

British singer-songwriter

*August 12th, 1969, Münster

46

Richard Spiegelburg

German pole vaulter

*August 12th, 1977, Georgsmarienhütte

52

Pete Sampras

American tennis player

*August 12th, 1971, Washington, D.C.

73

Erwin Schrödinger

Austrian physicist (1887–1961)

*August 12th, 1887, Vienna †January 4th, 1961, Vienna

32

Khris Middleton

American basketball player

*August 12th, 1991, Charleston

77

Francesco Morini

Italian footballer (1944-2021)

*August 12th, 1944, San Giuliano Terme †August 31st, 2021, Forte dei Marmi

52

Rebecca Gayheart

American actress

*August 12th, 1971, Hazard

81

Bianca Pitzorno

Italian writer and politician

*August 12th, 1942, Sassari

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Born in 1945

78

Vernon Wells

Australian actor

*December 31st, 1945, Rushworth

79

Manuel Neuer

German association football player

*March 27th, 1945, Gelsenkirchen

78

Franz Beckenbauer

German footballer (1945–2024)

*September 11th, 1945, Richard-Wagner-Straße 19 (München) †January 7th, 2024, Salzburg

75

Gerd Müller

German footballer (1945–2021)

*November 3rd, 1945, Nördlingen †August 15th, 2021, Wolfratshausen

79

Thilo Sarrazin

German economist and politician

*February 12th, 1945, Gera

72

Christine Kaufmann

German actress and businesswoman (1945-2017)

*January 11th, 1945, Lengdorf †March 28th, 2017, Munich

78

Victoria Bond

American composer

*May 6th, 1945, Los Angeles

78

Andreas Schmidt-Schaller

German actor

*October 30th, 1945, Arnstadt

78

Lasse Berghagen

Swedish singer, musician, songwriter, writer and television presenter

*May 13th, 1945, Enskede-Årsta-Vantör city district †October 19th, 2023, Stockholms Sankt Johannes

79

Rodrigo Duterte

President of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022

*March 28th, 1945, Maasin

78

Helen Mirren

English actor (born 1945)

*July 26th, 1945, Hammersmith

36

Bob Marley

Jamaican reggae musician (1945–1981)

*February 6th, 1945, Nine Mile †May 11th, 1981, Jackson Memorial Hospital

78

Manfred Clauss

German historian of classical antiquity

*August 16th, 1945, Cologne

78

Aung San Suu Kyi

Former State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy

*June 19th, 1945, Yangon

78

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

President of Brazil (2003–2010, 2023–present)

*October 27th, 1945, Caetés

78

Radovan Karadžić

Bosnian Serb politician, psychiatrist and poet convicted of genocide

*June 19th, 1945, Petnjica

78

John Lithgow

American actor

*October 19th, 1945, Rochester

76

Peter Patzak

Austrian film director and Screenwriter (1945-2021)

*January 2nd, 1945, Vienna †March 11th, 2021, Krems

71

Claus Ryskjær

Danish actor (1945-2016)

*June 26th, 1945, Frederiksberg †December 12th, 2016

72

Barkley L. Hendricks

African American painter

*April 16th, 1945, Nicetown-Tioga †April 18th, 2017, New London

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