August 12 in history: • 1323 – Sweden and the Novgorod Republic signed the Treaty of Nöteborg, resulting in a hiatus in the Swedish–Novgorodian Wars. → go there • 1834 – A race riot in Philadelphia, United States, destroyed African-American businesses and killed two people. → go there • 1985 – Japan Air Lines Flight 123 (aircraft involved pictured) crashed into Mount Takamagahara in Japan, killing 520 of 524 people on board, including singer Kyu Sakamoto, in the world's deadliest single-aircraft aviation disaster. → go there • 2000 – Kursk, an Oscar-class submarine of the Russian Navy, suffered an on-board explosion and sank in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing 118 people. → go there • 2021 – Six people, including the perpetrator, were killed in a mass shooting in Plymouth, England. → go there Died 1315: Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick Wiki link Born 1861: Luigi Galleani Wiki link Born 1965: Mohammed Deif Wiki link Died 2025: Aino Pervik Wiki link Pictured: Aircraft involved in Japan Air Lines Flight 123.