12th of August it is the 224th day of the Gregorian calendar and the Catholic Church remembers Saint John. Francesca de Chantal, San Giuliano and Sant Euplio. Here is a daily almanac with saints, anniversaries, horoscopes and memorable dates.
What is celebrated on August 12
OUR saints of the day August 12 – remembered and revered by the Catholic Church – I am Saint Joan Francesca de Chantal, San Giuliano and Sant Euplio.
In addition, it is noted world elephant day.
Birthdays and anniversaries
Several I born 12th of August. Among them: Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati, Italian politician; Alessandra Amoroso, Italian singer; François Hollande, politician and former President of the French Republic; Daniela Piazza, Italian actress; Marc Juliano, Italian football manager and former football player; Stefano Benny, Italian writer; Roberto D’Aversa, football manager and former Italian footballer; Casey Affleck, American actor; Djibril Cisse, former French footballer; Chiara Galiazzo, Italian singer; Pat Metheny, American musician; Amedeo Mingi, Italian singer and songwriter.
Anniversaries of birth
- Cecil Blount DeMille, American director and producer;
- Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi, Italian politician and writer.
death anniversaries
- Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist;
- William Blake, English poet and painter;
- Cleopatra, Egyptian queen;
- Francesco Crispi, Italian politician;
- Ian Fleming, English writer and “father” of James Bond;
- Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel laureate;
- Lester William Polfus, known as Les Paul, is an American guitarist.
It happened today, August 12th.
304- Sant Euplio is beheaded in Catania.
1765 – With the signing of the Treaty of Allahabad between the 18th Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II and British Major General Robert Clive, British rule began in India.
1800 – A Commission is born that will develop the Napoleonic Code.
1851 – August 12 Isaac Merritt Singer receives a patent for his sewing machine.
1865 – First antiseptic operation in Glasgow.
1898 – Accession of Hawaii to the USA.
1914 – Great Britain declares war on the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Also on August 12 of the same year, France declared war on the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This is the first stage of the Great War.
1938 – Adolf Hitler establishes the Cross of Honor for German mothers to help spread the “Aryan race”.
1943 – Nazi retaliation in Castiglione di Sicilia (Connecticut), 16 victims.
1952 – The Soviet Union exploded its first hydrogen bomb. On the same day, August 12, a terrifying earthquake of magnitude 7.3 struck Zakynthos.
1976- The Tel ez-Zaatar massacre, one of the bloodiest in the Lebanese Civil War, resulted in the deaths of between 1,500 and 3,000 Palestinian refugees in Beirut.
2000- The Russian nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk sank in the Barents Sea during an exercise, killing all 118 crew members.
2012- The London Olympics have come to an end.
2018- Launch of the Parker Solar Probe to analyze the Sun and its solar wind.
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