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| August 12th, 2030 | Event | Cleopatra commits suicide after her lover, Mark Antony s defeat at the battle of Actium. |
| August 12th, 2007 | Event | Bulk carrier M/V New Flame collides with oil tanker Torm Gertrud at the southernmost tip of Gibraltar, ending up partially submerged. |
| August 12th, 2005 | Event | Sri Lanka s foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, is fatally shot by an LTTE sniper at his home. |
| August 12th, 2005 | Event | An F2 tornado strikes the coal mining town of Wright, Wyoming, destroying nearly 100 homes and killing two people. |
| August 12th, 2005 | Event | Civil unrest provoked in the Maldives |
| August 12th, 2005 | Event | An F1 tornado strikes Glen Cove, New York, a rare event on Long Island |
| August 12th, 2004 | Event | New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey comes out publicly as a gay man. |
| August 12th, 2000 | Event | The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy exploded and sank in the Barents Sea during a military exercise. |
| August 12th, 1994 | Event | Major League Baseball players go on strike. The work stoppage forces the cancellation of the 1994 World Series. |
| August 12th, 1992 | Event | Canada, Mexico, and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). |
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