📜 This Day in History

August 12

• 1099Crusades: Fatimid forces under al-Afdal Shahanshah began retreating to Egypt after the Battle of Ascalon, concluding the First Crusade.
• 1881Franco-American children as young as seven years old began striking against Cabot Mill in Brunswick, Maine, shutting down operations for three days.
• 1944World War II: In Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Italy, the Waffen-SS and the Brigate Nere murdered about 560 local villagers and refugees and burned their bodies.
• 1952Thirteen Jewish poets were executed in Moscow for espionage based on false confessions.
• 1990Near Faith, South Dakota, American paleontologist Sue Hendrickson found one of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons, nicknamed Sue.
• 2021Six people, including the perpetrator, were killed in a mass shooting in Plymouth, England.

Born on this day

• 1866Jacinto Benavente, Spanish playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1954)
• 1887Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1961)
• 1930George Soros, Hungarian-American businessman and investor, founded the Soros Fund Management
• 1954François Hollande, French lawyer and politician, 24th President of France