August 12
August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 141 days remaining.
Events:
- 1099 - Kingdom of Jerusalem 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
- 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
- 1908 - First Model T Ford built
- 1953 - First Soviet hydrogen bomb tested
- 1960 - Echo I, the first communications satellite, launched
- 1961 - Construction begins on the Berlin Wall
- 1981 - The IBM PC, the first bit personal computer, is introduced
- 1994 - Woodstock II rock concert
- 2000 - Russian submarine Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea
Births:
- 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 Schrodinger, physicist
- 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
- 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
Deaths:
- 875 - Louis II Holy Roman Emperor
- 1484 - Pope Sixtus IV
- 1612 - Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer
- 1689 - Pope Innocent XI
- 1827 - William Blake, poet and printmaker
- 1848 - George Stephenson, locomotive designer
- 1914 - John Philip Holland, early submarine designer
- 1955 - Thomas Mann, author
- 1964 - Ian Fleming, novelist
- 1982 - Henry Fonda, actor
- 1982 - Joe Tex (Joseph Arrington), singer
- 1985 - Manfred Winkelhock, auto racing driver
- 1989 - William Shockley, physicist
- 1992 - John Cage, American composer
- 2000 - Loretta Young, actress
- 2002 - Enos Slaughter, baseball Hall of Famer
August 11 - August 13 - July 12 - September 12 - more historical anniversaries
See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December