What happend on 12th August

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13.08
1985

Japan Airlines Flight 123, a Boeing 747 jumbo jet, crashes into Mount Ogura in Gunma Prefecture Japan killing 520 in the world's worst single-plane air disaster. Four people miraculously survive.

1981

The IBM PC, an early personal computer, is introduced

1978

Japan and China sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China.

1966

John Lennon apologizes at a Chicago news conference for saying the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus."

1966

Massacre of Braybrook Street as three policemen are shot dead in East Acton, London.

1960

Echo I, the first communications satellite, launched

1953

Nuclear testing: The Soviet atomic bomb project proceeded with the detonation of Joe 4, the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon.

1952

The Night of the Murdered Poets

1914

World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer between Austria-Hungary and Serbia

1914

World War I