August 12

August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 141 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observations

Events

1099 - First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon - Crusaders defeat Saracens and the Kingdom of Jerusalem is established under Godfrey of Bouillon.
1332 - Battle of Dupplin Moor - Scots under the Earl of Mar routed by Edward Balliol
1676 - King Philip's War ends
1851 - Isaac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine
1854 - Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon is executed by shooting, in regard to the Battle of Guaymas.
1877 - Asaph Hall discovers Phobos
1883 - The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam
1898 - Armistice ends the Spanish-American War
1898 - Hawaii annexed by United States
1908 - First Model T Ford built
1914 - Great War - Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary; British Empire countries automatically included.
1953 - Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates its first hydrogen bomb.
1960 - Echo I, the first communications satellite, launched
1961 - Cold War - Construction begins on the Berlin Wall
1981 - The IBM PC, the first bit personal computer, is introduced
1985 - A Japan Airlines Boeing 747 jumbo jet crashes into Mount Ogura, Japan killing 520, in world's worst single plane air disaster
1992 - Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA.
1994 - Woodstock '94 rock concert
1994 - Major League Baseball players go on strike. The work stoppage will force the cancellation of the World Series.
2000 - Russian submarine Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea

1503 - Christian III of Denmark and Norway († 1559)
1629 - Tsar Alexei I of Russia († 1676)
1774 - Robert Southey, poet, biographer († 1843)
1859 - Katherine Lee Bates, poet, author of America the Beautiful († 1929)
1876 - Mary Roberts Rinehart, author († 1958)
1880 - Christy Mathewson, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame († 1925)
1881 - Cecil B. DeMille, director († 1959)
1887 - Erwin Schr�dinger, physicist († 1961)
1892 - Alfred Lunt, actor († 1977)
1904 - Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov, Tsarevich, heir to the throne of Russia († 1918)
1906 - Pauline Frederick, journalist († 1990)
1907 - Joe Besser, actor, member of the Three Stooges († 1988)
1911 - Jane Wyatt, actress
1911 - Cantinflas (Mario Moreno Reyes), actor († 1993)
1926 - John Derek, actor († 1998)
1927 - Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist
1927 - Porter Wagoner, country and western singer
1928 - Dan Curtis, movie and television producer and director
1929 - Buck Owens, country and western singer
1930 - George Soros American businessman
1931 - William Goldman, screenwriter
1933 - Parnelli Jones, auto racer
1939 - George Hamilton, actor
1949 - Mark Knopfler, musician
1954 - Pat Metheny, guitarist
1971 - Pete Sampras, tennis player
1972 - Rebecca Gayheart, actress

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