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Events

• 1121 (905 years ago) Battle of Didgori: The Georgian army under King David IV wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi.
• 1323 (703 years ago) The Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Novgorod Republic is signed, regulating the border between the two countries for the first time.
• 1806 (220 years ago) Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires re-takes the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina after the first British invasion.
• 1883 (143 years ago) The last quagga dies at the Natura Artis Magistra, a zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• 1914 (112 years ago) World War I: France, the United Kingdom and the British Empire declare war on Austria-Hungary.
• 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: Waffen-SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
• 1964 (62 years ago) South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies.
• 1977 (49 years ago) The Sri Lanka Riots, targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamils, begin, less than a month after the United National Party came to power. Over 300 Tamils are killed.

Births

• 1762 (264 years ago) George IV of the United Kingdom,
• 1831 (195 years ago) Helena Blavatsky, Russian theosophist and scholar (died 1891)
• 1866 (160 years ago) Jacinto Benavente, Spanish playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1954)
• 1887 (139 years ago) Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1961)
• 1930 (96 years ago) George Soros, Hungarian-American businessman and investor, founded the Soros Fund Management
• 1954 (72 years ago) François Hollande, French lawyer and politician, 24th President of France
• 1971 (55 years ago) Pete Sampras, American tennis player
• 1990 (36 years ago) Mario Balotelli, Italian footballer

Deaths

• 30 BC Cleopatra, Egyptian queen (born 69 BC)
• 1689 (337 years ago) Pope Innocent XI,
• 1827 (199 years ago) William Blake, English poet and painter (born 1757)
• 1955 (71 years ago) Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1875)
• 1964 (62 years ago) Ian Fleming, English spy, journalist, and author (born 1908)
• 1982 (44 years ago) Henry Fonda, American actor (born 1905)
• 1989 (37 years ago) William Shockley, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910)
• 2014 (12 years ago) Lauren Bacall, American model, actress, and singer (born 1924)

All 396 events, births and deaths of August 12