August 12: Queen Sirikit's Birthday and Mother's Day in Thailand
Sue the Tyrannosaurus
- 30 BC – Cleopatra VII Philopator, the last ruler of the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty, committed suicide, allegedly by means of an asp bite.
- 1676 – Puritans and their Native American allies killed Wampanoag sachem Metacomet (known as "King Philip"), essentially ending King Philip's War.
- 1883 – The last known quagga, a subspecies of the plains zebra, died at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.
- 1985 – Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashed into the ridge of Mount Takamagahara in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520 of 524 on board in the world's worst single-aircraft aviation disaster.
- 1990 – American paleontologist Sue Hendrickson found the most complete skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus ever discovered (pictured) near Faith, South Dakota, US.
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