August 2012 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 2012 According to a poll conducted by British Film Institute's magazine 'Sight and sound', Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 thriller suspense thriller "Vertigo" was named the greatest film of all times.
• 02 Aug 2012 Syrian Civil War
• 03 Aug 2012 Mexican Drug War: Another member of Los Zetas, a Mexican drug cartel, is arrested by the Mexican Army. He was responsible for the decapitation of 49 bodies and their dumping on a roadside in May 2012. The suspect is also one of 37 escapees from the Apodaca prison riot earlier in the year.
• 04 Aug 2012 Arab Spring
• 05 Aug 2012 Civil war in Syria:
• 06 Aug 2012 ''Curiosity'', the Mars Science Laboratory mission's rover, successfully lands on Mars.ref name=MarsScienceLaboratory
• 07 Aug 2012 Mexican Drug War: The United States has frozen the assets of three Belize-based associates belonging to Mexico's top drug lord Joaquin ampquotEl Chapoampquot Guzman.
• 08 Aug 2012 Armed men open fire on a checkpoint at the Egyptian city Arish, Sinai Peninsula.
• 09 Aug 2012 Civil war in Syria:
• 10 Aug 2012 Mexican Drug War
• 11 Aug 2012 Civil war in Syria:
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• 15 Aug 2012 Mexican Drug War
• 16 Aug 2012 Civil war in Syria:
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• 18 Aug 2012 Civil war in Syria:
• 19 Aug 2012 Mexican Drug War
• 20 Aug 2012 Civil war in Syria:
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• 23 Aug 2012 Tropical Storm Isaac (2012): In its 23.00 PM bulletin, the U.S. National Hurricane Center reduces its hurricane warning level for Hispaniola Island in the Caribbean Sea to a hurricane watch and storm warning.
• 24 Aug 2012 Civil war in Syria:
• 25 Aug 2012 Civil war in Syria
• 26 Aug 2012 Unknown organised people have taken the lives of seventeen villagers, including two women, in Afghanistan's southern Kajaki region.
• 27 Aug 2012 Blockade of Gaza Strip: According to a United Nations report, the Gaza Strip won't be ampquota living placeampquot by 2020 because its infrastructure in water, sanitation, and health is not up to the task of a growing population.
• 28 Aug 2012 Civil war in Syria:
• 29 Aug 2012 Civil war in Syria:
• 30 Aug 2012 Syrian Civil War
• 31 Aug 2012 At least three people are killed in a shooting at the Pathmark grocery store, Old Bridge, New Jersey.

Famous Birthday

• Gaius Caligula

  Roman emperor from 37 AD to 41 AD.

• Finn McDermott

  American noted family, second son and fourth child of Tori Spelling and her husband.

Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
2. Flo Rida - Whistle
3. Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
4. Maroon 5 - Payphone
5. Katy Perry - Wide Awake