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===August=== * [[August 1]] – Microsoft finishes development of [[Windows 8]], with general availability announced for October 26.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Warren |first=Tom |date=2012-08-01 |title=Microsoft completes Windows 8 development, announces release to manufacturing |url=https://www.theverge.com/2012/8/1/3188541/windows-8-rtm-development-complete |access-date=2023-12-22 |website=The Verge |language=en}}</ref> * [[August 6]] – ''[[Curiosity (rover)|Curiosity]]'', the [[Mars Science Laboratory]] mission's [[Mars rover|rover]], successfully lands on [[Mars]].<ref name="MarsScienceLaboratory">{{cite web |url=http://www.space.com/13501-nasa-mars-rover-curiosity-atlas5-rocket.html |title=NASA's Next Mars Rover Hoisted Atop Rocket |date=November 4, 2011 |publisher=Space.com |access-date=2011-11-04 |archive-date=November 6, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111106200548/http://www.space.com/13501-nasa-mars-rover-curiosity-atlas5-rocket.html |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[August 24]] – The [[House of Representatives (Japan)|House of Representatives of Japan]] passes a resolution criticizing the [[President of South Korea]] [[Lee Myung-bak]]'s visit to the disputed [[Liancourt Rocks]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2012/08/178302.html|title=Login - Kyodo News|access-date=March 1, 2020|archive-date=August 29, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120829070807/http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2012/08/178302.html|url-status=live}}</ref>{{importance inline|date=May 2020}} * [[August 25]] – The [[Voyager 1]] space probe becomes the first human-made object to successfully exit the [[Solar System]] and enter Interstellar space, and to an extent, becoming the first [[Interstellar probe]], pioneering Interstellar exploration. * [[August 31]] – [[Armenia–Hungary relations|Armenia severs diplomatic relations with Hungary]], following the extradition to [[Azerbaijan]] and subsequent pardoning of [[Ramil Safarov]], who was convicted of killing an Armenian soldier in Hungary in 2004. The move is also met with fierce criticism from other countries.<ref>{{cite web|last=Gorondi |first=Pablo |url=https://montrealgazette.com/life/Azerbaijani+military+officer+serving+life+murder+Hungary+freed+when/7173300/story.html |title=Azerbaijani military officer serving life for murder in Hungary is freed when sent home |website=Montreal Gazette |date=2012-08-31 |access-date=2012-11-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111220948/http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Azerbaijani%2Bmilitary%2Bofficer%2Bserving%2Blife%2Bmurder%2BHungary%2Bfreed%2Bwhen/7173300/story.html |archive-date=November 11, 2012 }}</ref>
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