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August 12

Sue, the most complete T. rex skeleton found

1099 – Crusades: Fatimid forces under al-Afdal Shahanshah began retreating to Egypt after the Battle of Ascalon, concluding the First Crusade.
1952 – Thirteen Jewish poets were executed in Moscow for espionage based on false confessions.
1969 – The Troubles: Riots erupted in the neighbourhood of Bogside in Derry, and spread across much of Northern Ireland.
1985 – Japan Air Lines Flight 123 crashed into Mount Takamagahara in Gunma Prefecture, killing 520 of 524 people on board in the world's worst single-aircraft aviation disaster.
1990 – Near Faith, South Dakota, American paleontologist Sue Hendrickson found one of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons, nicknamed Sue (pictured).

Jænberht (d. 792)
Thomas F. Mulledy (b. 1794)
Aleksandar Đurić (b. 1970)
Evaline Ness (d. 1986)

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Dinosaur Sue[edit]

Sorry if this is the wrong place, but on Wikipedia's main page, since it is now August 12 in UTC time, it mentions that Sue was discovered today in 1990. But this fact isn't reflected on this page. Is this an oversight or did someone forget to add it? I'd add it myself, but I'm not sure if it would be permitted or not. 67.149.52.125 (talk) 22:16, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

World Elephant Day[edit]

As worthwhile an issue as this might be, is this really enough of a "thing" to be here? --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 15:02, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]