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This is a list of selected August 12 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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International Youth Day primary sources
Mother's Day and Queen Sirikit's Birthday in Thailand Mother's Day: refimprove; Sirikit: unreferenced sections
1121Georgian-Seljuk wars: Forces led by David the Builder decisively won the Battle of Didgori, driving Ilghazi and the Seljuk Turks out of Georgia. refimprove
1323 – Sweden and the Novgorod Republic signed the Treaty of Nöteborg resulting in a temporary hiatus in the Swedish–Novgorodian Wars. lots of inline tags
1676Puritans and their Native American allies killed the Wampanoag chief Metacomet (known as "King Philip"), essentially ending King Philip's War. refimprove sections
1851 – American inventor Isaac Singer was granted a patent for his sewing machine. needs more footnotes
1877 – American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Deimos, the smaller of the two moons of Mars. too many {{CN}} tags (10)
1944 – After a week of indiscriminate killing of civilians in Wola, Warsaw, Poland, SS General Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski ordered that any remaining Poles be sent to labour or concentration camps. too many {{CN}} tags (8)
1948 – About 600 unarmed Pashtuns in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, protesting the arrests of leaders of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement, were massacred by police and militia forces. refimprove
1950Korean War: Members of the North Korean People's Army executed 75 U.S. Army prisoners of war. manner of death not mentioned in source
1953 – The first Soviet thermonuclear bomb, Joe 4, was detonated at Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR. lots of CN tags (5)
1981 – The IBM Personal Computer, the original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform, was introduced. refimprove section
1994Major League Baseball players went on a 232-day strike, forcing the cancellation of the rest of the season and the World Series. unreferenced section
2005 – Sri Lanka foreign minister Lakshman Kadirgamar was fatally shot by a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam sniper as he was getting out of his swimming pool at his home in Colombo. refimprove
2008 – A ceasefire was announced between Russian, Georgian and South Ossetian separatist forces in the Russo-Georgian War. tagged with {POV}
Abraham Zacuto |b|1452| Uncited birthdate
Robert Southey |b|1774 refimprove
William Blake |d|1827 original research
Charles Blackman |b|1928 refimprove section
George Soros |b|1930| Lots of unsourced paras, 1-sentence sections

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Quagga mare at London Zoo
Quagga mare at London Zoo
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