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On this day in Wikipedia: Saturday, 12th August

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12th August 2021 🗓️ : Event - Plymouth Six people, five victims and the perpetrator are killed in Keyham, Plymouth in the worst mass shooting in the UK since 2010. "Plymouth ( (listen)) is a port city and unitary authority in South West England. It is located on the south coast of Devon, approximately 36 miles (58 km) south-west of Exeter and 193 miles (311 km) south-west of London. It is bordered by Cornwall to the west and south-west. Plymouth's early history..."

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12th August 2018 🗓️ : Event - Sarmada Thirty-nine civilians, including a dozen children, are killed in an explosion at a weapons depot in Sarmada, Syria. "Sarmada (Arabic: سرمدا) is a town in the Harem District, Idlib Governorate of Syria. It is in the extreme northwest of Syria near the border with Turkey. A church was consecrated in Sarmada by Patriarch Elias of Antioch in 722 CE. It is also the place in which the Battle of Sarmada took place..."

12th August 2013 🗓️ : Death - Vasily Peskov Vasiliy Mihaylovich Peskov, Russian ecologist and journalist (b. 1930) "Vasily Mikhailovich Peskov (Russian: Васи́лий Миха́йлович Песко́в; 14 March 1930 – 12 August 2013) was a Russian writer, journalist, photographer, traveller and ecologist. He worked in the Russian tabloid newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda since 1956. From 1975 until 1990, he conducted the TV programme..."

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12th August 1973 🗓️ : Death - Karl Ziegler Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) "Karl Waldemar Ziegler (German: [kaːʁl ˈvaldəˌmaʁ ˈt͡siːɡlɐ]; 26 November 1898 – 12 August 1973) was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963, with Giulio Natta, for work on polymers. The Nobel Committee recognized his "excellent work on organometallic compounds [which]...led to..."

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12th August 1923 🗓️ : Birth - John Holt (cricketer) John Holt, Jamaican cricketer (d. 1997) "John Kenneth Constantine Holt, known as J. K. Holt junior, (12 August 1923 – 3 June 1997) was a West Indian international cricketer who played in 17 Test matches between 1954 and 1959. Holt played for Jamaica from 1946 to 1961–62. He toured India, Pakistan and Ceylon with the Commonwealth XI in..."

12th August 1822 🗓️ : Death - Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Irish-English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (b. 1769) "Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, (18 June 1769 – 12 August 1822), usually known as Lord Castlereagh, derived from the courtesy title Viscount Castlereagh (UK: KAH-səl-ray) by which he was styled from 1796 to 1821, was an Anglo-Irish statesman and politician. As secretary to the Viceroy..."

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12th August 🗓️ : Holiday - Christian feast day: August 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) "August 11 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 13 All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 25 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.For August 12, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 30...."

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