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August 12th is a date in History not for the faint of heart. August 12, 30 BC – Cleopatra Philopator, the last ruler of the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty, committed suicide by means of an asp. 1071 – Battle at Manzikert Armenia, Venetian Byzantine brought islam to Europe. 1099 – Battle of Ascalon Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeated Fatimid forces led by Al-Afdal Shahanshah. This is considered the last engagement of the First Crusade. 1121 – Battle of Didgori: The Georgian army under King David IV won a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi. 1164 – Battle of Harim: Nur ad-Din Zangi defeated the Crusader armies of the County of Tripoli and the Principality of Antioch. 1480 – Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians in Otranto for refusing to convert to Islam. 1499 – 1st engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets. 1676 – Praying Indian John Alderman shot and killed Metacomet, the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philips War in New England. 1687 – Battle of Mohács: Charles of Lorraine defeated the Ottoman invaders of Hungary . 1851 – Isaac Singer was granted a patent for his sewing machine. 1877 – Thomas Edison invented the Edisonphone, a sound recording device. 1896 – Gold was discovered at the Klondike River at Dawson. 1898 – An Armistice ended the Spanish–American War. 1898 – The Hawaiian flag was lowered and replaced with the U.S. flag to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawai`i to the U.S. 1944 – Waffen-SS troops massacred 560 people in SantAnna di Stazzema. 1944 – Nazi German troops ended the week-long Wola massacre, during which time at least 40,000 people were killed indiscriminately or in mass executions. 1950 – Bloody Gulch massacre—American POWs are massacred by North Korean Army. 1955 – President Eisenhower raised the minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour. 1960 – Echo 1A, NASAs 1st successful communications satellite, was launched. 1976 – Between 1,000 and 3,500 Palestinians were killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre, one of the bloodiest events of the Lebanese Civil War. 1981 – The IBM Personal Computer was released. 1982 – Mexico announced it is unable to pay its enormous external debt, marking the beginning of a debt crisis. 1992 – Canada, Mexico and the United States announced completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement. 2000 – The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy exploded and sank in the Barents Sea.

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