Daily Calendar - August 12

224th day of the year, 141 days left until the New Year.

Church Calendar

Confessor Tsotnes, devoted to Georgia (Dadiani, XIII); Apostles of the 70: Silas, Silvanes, Crescentis, Epenetus and Andronicus (I); Martyr John the Horseman (IV); Martyrs: Polychronus, Bishop of Babylon, Parmen, Elymas and Chrysostom, Deacons Luke and Muko, Princes of Persia Abdon and Senis, Martyrs Olympos and Maximus (c. 251); Holy Martyr Valentine (Valentine) Bishop and his three disciples: Proculus, Ephibius and Apollonius and the righteous Abundius (c. 273).

Born:

1827 _ Giorgi Kartvelishvili, philanthropist, patron of the arts, public figure. Died 1901.

1887 _ Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Died 1961.

1904 – Alexei Romanov, the only son of Russian Emperor Nicholas II. Shot by the Bolsheviks along with his family in 1918.

1928 - Guram Asatiani, Georgian literary critic, critic. Died 1982.

Died:

1827 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet.

1827 – William Blake, English poet.

1848 – George Stephenson, inventor of the steam engine.

1900 – Wilhelm Steinitz, the first official world chess champion.

1921 – Pyotr Boborykin, Russian writer, who introduced the word “intellectual”.

1955 – Thomas Mann, great German writer, Nobel Prize laureate.

Events:

1121 _ The Battle of Didgori took place between the Georgians and the Seljuk Turks. David the Builder brutally defeated the coalition army of the Turks and won a brilliant victory.

1492 - Christopher Columbus discovered the Canary Islands.

1851 - American Isaac Singer patented the foot-operated sewing machine.

1877 - American Thomas Edison recorded the first melody with a mechanical saw.

1914 - Great Britain declared war on Austria-Hungary.

1928 - The IX Olympic Games ended in Amsterdam.

1972 - American troops left Vietnam.

2000 - The flagship of the Russian submarine nuclear flotilla, the Kursk, suffered a disaster in the Barents Sea. 118 sailors died.

Memorable days

Massachusetts - Indian Day.

North. Ireland _ Orangemen's Day

Zambia _ Youth Day.

Thailand _ Queen's Birthday.

Cuba — People's Victory Day.

Zimbabwe — Army Day.