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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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