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August 12
What happened on this day
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International Youth Day
UN day highlighting the role of young people as essential partners in change.
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IBM PC released
45 years ago
The IBM 5150 launches in 1981, setting the template for the personal computer.
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World Elephant Day
14 years ago
Conservation day founded in 2012 to press the case of African and Asian elephants against poaching and habitat loss.
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First antiseptic surgery
161 years ago
Joseph Lister dresses an 11-year-old's compound fracture with carbolic acid in Glasgow in 1865; the wound heals clean and surgery is remade.
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Erwin Schrödinger born
139 years ago
The Austrian physicist whose wave equation underpins quantum mechanics is born in 1887; his imagined cat is the field's most famous puzzle.
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