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it happened today – this day in history – August 12
30BC: Cleopatra commits suicide. 1323: The Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Novgorod (Russia) regulates the border for the first time. 1336: Edward III ends wool exports to Flanders. 1480: Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert …