August 12
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August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 141 more days until the end of the year.
[edit] Births
- 1503 - Christian III of Denmark and Norway (died 1559)
- 1604 - Tokugawa Iemitsu, 3rd Tokugawa shogun (died 1651)
- 1629 - Tsar Alexei I of Russia (died 1676)
- 1774 - Robert Southey, English poet and biographer (died 1843)
- 1831 - Helena Blavatsky, author (died 1891)
- 1859 - Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (died 1929)
- 1866 - Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer (died 1954)
- 1876 - Mary Roberts Rinehart, author (died 1958)
- 1880 - Christy Mathewson, Baseball Hall of Famer (died 1925)
- 1880 - Radclyffe Hall, British author (died 1943)
- 1881 - Cecil B. DeMille, American director (died 1959)
- 1883 - Pauline Frederick, stage and film actress (died 1938)
- 1887 - Erwin Schrödinger, physicist (died 1961)
- 1892 - Alfred Lunt, actor (died 1977)
- 1904 - Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov, Tsarevich, heir to the throne of Russia (died 1918)
- 1906 - Pauline Frederick, journalist (died 1990)
- 1906 - Tedd Pierce, animator (died 1972)
- 1907 - Joe Besser, actor, comedian; member of the Three Stooges (died 1988)
- 1911:
- Cantinflas (Mario Moreno Reyes), actor (died 1993)
- Jane Wyatt, actress
- 1924:
- 1926 - John Derek, actor (died 1998)
- 1927:
- Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist
- Porter Wagoner, country and western singer
- 1928:
- Bob Buhl, Major League Baseball player (died 2001)
- 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:
- Michael Ian Black, comedian
- Pete Sampras, tennis player
- 1972:
- Rebecca Gayheart, actress
- Takanohana Kōji, sumo wrestler (65th yokozuna)
- 1973 - Richard Reid, alleged Al-Qaida operative; "the shoe bomber"
[edit] Deaths
- 1914 - John Philip Holland, early submarine designer (born 1840)
- 1918 - Anna Held, actress and singer, (born 1872)
- 1923 - Vatrslav Jagić - Croatian philologist (born 1838)
- 1928 - Leos Janacek, Czech composer
- 1943 - Bobby Peel, Yorkshire left-arm spinner and leading bowler of 1880s and 1890s (born 1857).
- 1948 - Harry Brearley, inventor of stainless steel
- 1955 - Thomas Mann, German author
- 1964 - Ian Fleming, British novelist
- 1968 - Angus Walters, schooner captain
- 1982 - Henry Fonda, American actor
- 1982 - Joe Tex, (Joseph Arrington), singer
- 1982 - Salvador Sanchez, world champion boxer
- 1985 - Manfred Winkelhock, auto racing driver
- 1985 - Kyu Sakamoto, singer (born 1941)
- 1989 - William Shockley, physicist
- 1992 - John Cage, American composer
- 1997 - Luther Allison, blues musician, guitarist
[edit] Events
- 1099 - First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon - Crusaders defeat Saracens and the Kingdom of Jerusalem is established under Godfrey of Bouillon.
- 1323 - Treaty of Nöteborg - Sweden and Novgorod (Russia) regulates the border for the first time
- 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 Deimos
- 1883 - The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam
- 1898 - Armistice ends the Spanish-American War
- 1898 - The Hawaiian flag is lowered from Iolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the American flag to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States.
- 1908 - First Model T Ford built
- 1914 - World War I - Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary; British Empire countries automatically included.
- - Beginning of the Battle of Cer between Austria-Hungary and Serbia
- 1953 - Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates its first hydrogen bomb.
- 1960 - Echo I, the first communications satellite, launched
- 1981 - The IBM PC, an early personal computer, is introduced
- 1985 - Japan Airlines flight 123 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 NAFTA.
- 1994 - The Woodstock '94 rock concert takes place.
- 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.
- 2004 - Lee Hsien Loong is sworn in as Singapore's 3rd Prime Minister.
