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August 12 is the 224th day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar (225th in high). 141 days to the end of the year.

Events
1813 - Austria declared war on Napoleon.
In 1851, the American Isaac Singer received a patent for the sewing machine powered by a pedal, releasing both the tailor's hands.
1875 "At a meeting of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee a decision was made to organize and explode the Stara Zagora Uprising (1875).
1877
The Bulgarian Navy was created in 1879.
1879
1887
In 1898, the United States annexed Hawaii.
In 1898, the peace protocol was signed to end the Spanish-American war.
1904
1953, the Soviet Union performed its first attempt at a hydrogen bomb.

1961
1962, the USSR Spaceship Vostok was brought into orbit.
In the period 12 August, Koprivshtitsa held the First National Council of People's Creativity.
1970 the USSR and Western Germany signed a non-aggressive pact.
1972
1974 - Turkey places an ultimatum on Cyprus requesting the establishment of an autonomous district in the Turkish Cypriot-populated area.
1981
1985
In 1992, the United States, Canada and Mexico signed a treaty to establish the North American Free Trade Organisation, which unites the two richest markets in the world.
1994 The Union for the Fatherland has been established. The chairman is Guinho Ganev.
In response to charges of embezzlement during World War II of Jewish assets, Swiss banks agreed to pay compensation of one billion and two hundred and fifty million US dollars to the survivors of the Holocaust.
In 2000 the Russian nuclear submarine was hit by an accident, 117 military sailors died.
2006

Born

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1762 "George IV, British King († 1830)
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