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Events on August 12

• 1812 The first rack railway in England begins operation. It connects a colliery in Middleton with Leeds for the transport of coal.
• 1845 The Beethoven monument on Münsterplatz in Bonn, designed by Ernst Hähnel and executed by Jacob Daniel Burgschmiet, is ceremonially unveiled. The unveiling ceremony is accompanied by a multi-day festival under the direction of Franz Liszt. The first Beethoven Hall is established as the venue.
• 1908 Production of the Ford Model T (colloquially also known as the Tin Lizzie, German for “tin lizzie”) begins.
• 1919 With the adoption of the Bamberg Constitution by the state parliament, Bavaria receives the first democratic constitution in its history.
• 1949 In Geneva, an amendment to the Geneva Conventions by 18 states is signed at the end of a diplomatic conference. Drawing on the experiences of the Second World War, four agreements are concluded, with the one on the protection of civilians in wartime representing the most important addition.
• 1953 The Soviet Union draws level with the United States in the arms race by detonating a hydrogen bomb.
• 1961 The Council of Ministers of the GDR decides on the establishment of barriers and controlled border crossings to West Germany.
• 1970 Détente policy of the Brandt era: The Moscow Treaty is signed as the first of the Eastern Treaties.
• 1981 The IBM Personal Computer is announced and, as an open computer architecture, goes on to become the most widespread computer architecture of all time.
• 1990 The West German FDP unites at a special party congress in Hanover with the Association of Free Democrats, the German Forum Party (DFP) and the GDR's F.D.P. Two bloc parties of the GDR, the LDPD and the NDPD, have joined together within the Association of Free Democrats.
• 2000 The Russian nuclear submarine Kursk sinks after several explosions in the Barents Sea. The entire crew of 118 men is killed in the process.
• 2018 The NASA space probe Parker Solar Probe, for the study of the solar corona, is launched.

Born on August 12

• 1860 Klara Hitler, Mother of Adolf Hitler
• 1881 Cecil B. DeMille, American director and film producer
• 1900 Elisabeth Freifrau von und zu Guttenberg, German noblewoman, founder and chairwoman of several social welfare and charitable institutions and organizations
• 1911 Cantinflas, Mexican actor, singer, comedian and producer
• 1930 George Soros, American investment banker and currency speculator
• 1930 Peter Weck, Austrian director, theatre manager and actor
• 1942 Wolfgang Huber, German Protestant theologian, bishop and chairman of the council of the Evangelical Church in Germany
• 1950 Iris Berben, German actress
• 1971 Pete Sampras, American tennis player
• 1992 Cara Delevingne, British model and actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „12. August“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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