August 12th
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- 1883
The last quagga, a zebra subspecies with fewer stripes, dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam View Post →
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- -30
Cleopatra dies by suicide
- 1908
Henry Ford's company builds the first Model T car
- 1969
The Boston Celtics are sold for $6 million, the highest price paid for a pro basketball team at the time
- 1990
The largest dinosaur fossil is found by American paleontologist Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota
- 2000
The Russian submarine Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing all 118 on board
- 2005
An F1 tornado strikes Glen Cove, New York, a rare event on Long Island
- 2021
The Bennu Asteroid has a 1-in-1,750 chance of hitting Earth in 2182, according to data from NASA's OSIRIS-REX spacecraft
- 2021
The US Census reveals the country has grown more diverse, with growth in Hispanic (+23%) and Asian (+36%) populations and the first ever decline in the white population (-2.6%)
