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Events on Saturday 12 August 2000 3
1913 – 2000Loretta Young (1913-2000)American actress with a career from silent films to her own TV show, winning an Oscar for The Farmer's Daughter.
2000Loretta Young dies in Los AngelesLoretta Young dies aged 87.
2000Sinking of the submarine KurskExplosions kill all 118 aboard a Russian nuclear submarineOn 12 August 2000 the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea after a torpedo explosion set off a second, larger blast. All 118 crew died; some survived for hours in a rear compartment before the air gave out. President Vladimir Putin was criticised for the slow official response and for at first refusing foreign help.