Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 12

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 * 1881 – Franco-American children as young as seven years old commenced a strike against Cabot Mill of Brunswick, Maine. The Mill had to shut down operations for three days.
 * 1883 – The last known quagga (colourised example pictured), a subspecies of the plains zebra, died at Natura Artis Magistra, a zoo in Amsterdam.
 * 1914 – World War I: Belgian troops won a victory at the Battle of Halen, but were ultimately unable to stop the German invasion of the country.
 * 1944 – World 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.
 * 1945 – An official administrative history of the Manhattan Project, written by American physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth, was released to the public days after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
 * 2000 – Kursk, an Oscar-class submarine of the Russian Navy, suffered an on-board explosion and sank in the Barents Sea during a military exercise with 118 lives lost.
 * 2016 – The state-owned Taedonggang Brewing Company inaugurated the first beer festival in North Korea.
 * Born/died: Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick |d|1315| Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria |b|1629| John C. Young |b|1803| Maurice Fernandes |b|1897| Percy Mayfield |b|1920| Carlos Mesa  |b|1953|  Ladi Kwali |d|1984 | Mario Balotelli |b|1990