Lördag den 12:e augusti år 2023
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This is week: 32
Day of the year is: 224 of total 365 days.
Historical events this day: (from Wikipedia)
- 1121 - Kingdom of Georgia. Close to 1 million troops involved.
- 1164 - Battle of Harim.
- 1246 - Bishop Laurentius of Linköping announces in letter that he has sent nuns to Solberga monastery on Gotland.
- 1492 – Christopher Columbus arrives in the Canary Islands during his first voyage to the 'new world'.
- 1868 – Baha'is founder Bahá'u'lláh banished together with his family from Adrianople in the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) to his final place of exile the prison city Akka in the present Israel.
- 1877 – Thomas Edison gets his invention the phonograph to work for the first time.
- 1883 - Last one the quagga dies in Zoo in Amsterdam.
- 1908 - The first The T-Ford finished.
- 1944 – The Wola Massacre. Between 40,000 and 50,000 civilians are shot dead by the Nazi German SS.
- 1952 – Night of the Murdered Poets.
- 1953 – The 1953 Ionian Islands earthquake. An estimated 400 to 800 people die.
- 1964 – The Beatles first movie Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! has a world premiere.
- 1970 - By Treaty of Moscow admits West Germany Oder-Neisse line
- 1981 – IBM releases his first PC and gives it the name IBM 5150.
- 1985 - A plane crash occurs with Japan Airlines Flight 123. 520 people die and it will be the worst airplane disaster ever.
- 1983 - A violent forest fire breaks out along the railway between Hultsfred and Oskarshamn.
- 2000 - The Russian atomthe submarine Kursk explodes and sinks in Arctic Ocean and the entire crew of 118 men perish.
- 2004 – Sweden's population exceeds 9 million.
- 2005 – Sri Lankan Minister of Foreign Affairs Lakshman Kadirgamar is murdered by a sniper in his home.
- 2015 – Attacks in Tianjin, China and 173 people die and 797 are injured and 8 are missing.
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