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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_12" title="August 12">August 12</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1099" title="1099">1099</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades" title="Crusades">Crusades</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatimid_Caliphate" title="Fatimid Caliphate">Fatimid</a> forces under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Afdal_Shahanshah" title="Al-Afdal Shahanshah">al-Afdal Shahanshah</a> began retreating to Egypt after the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ascalon" title="Battle of Ascalon">Battle of Ascalon</a></b>, concluding the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Crusade" title="First Crusade">First Crusade</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952" title="1952">1952</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Murdered_Poets" title="Night of the Murdered Poets">Thirteen Jewish poets were executed</a></b> in Moscow for espionage based on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_confession" title="False confession">false confessions</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969" title="1969">1969</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles" title="The Troubles">The Troubles</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bogside" title="Battle of the Bogside">Riots erupted</a> in the neighbourhood of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogside" title="Bogside">Bogside</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry" title="Derry">Derry</a>, and <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Northern_Ireland_riots" title="1969 Northern Ireland riots">spread across much of Northern Ireland</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985" title="1985">1985</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Air_Lines_Flight_123" title="Japan Air Lines Flight 123">Japan Air Lines Flight 123</a></b> crashed into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Takamagahara" title="Mount Takamagahara">Mount Takamagahara</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunma_Prefecture" title="Gunma Prefecture">Gunma Prefecture</a>, killing 520 of 524 people on board in the world's worst single-aircraft <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_accidents_and_incidents" title="Aviation accidents and incidents">aviation disaster</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990" title="1990">1990</a> – Near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith,_South_Dakota" title="Faith, South Dakota">Faith, South Dakota</a>, American paleontologist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Hendrickson" title="Sue Hendrickson">Sue Hendrickson</a> found one of the most complete.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A6nberht" title="Jænberht">Jænberht</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 792); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_F._Mulledy" title="Thomas F. Mulledy">Thomas F. Mulledy</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1794); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandar_%C4%90uri%C4%87" title="Aleksandar Đurić">Aleksandar Đurić</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1970); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaline_Ness" title="Evaline Ness">Evaline Ness</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1986)</p>
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