August 12

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

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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 - Great War - 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 - Woodstock '94 rock concert
1994 - Major League Baseball players go on strike. The work stoppage will force the cancellation of the World Series.

1904 - Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov, Tsarevich, heir to the throne of Russia (d. 1918)
1906 - Pauline Frederick , journalist (d. 1990)
1906 - Tedd Pierce, animator (d. 1972)
1907 - Joe Besser, actor, comedian; member of the Three Stooges (d. 1988)
1911:
- Cantinflas (Mario Moreno Reyes), actor (d. 1993)
- Jane Wyatt, actress
1924:
- Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Leader of Pakistan, (d. 1988)
- Derek Shackleton, Hampshire and England medium-pace bowler
1926 - John Derek, actor (d. 1998)
1927:
- Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist
- Porter Wagoner, country and western singer
1928:
- Bob Buhl, Major League Baseball player (d. 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"
1976 - Antoine Walker, basketball player
1977 - Plaxico Burress, American football player
1988 - Leah Pipes, actress

1914 - John Philip Holland, early submarine designer (b. 1840)
1918 - Anna Held, actress amd singer, (b. 1872)
1923 - Vatrslav Jagić - Croatian philologist (b. 1838)
1928 - Leos Janacek, Czech composer
1943 - Bobby Peel, Yorkshire left-arm spinner and leading bowler of 1880s and 1890s (b. 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 (b. 1941)
1989 - William Shockley, physicist
1992 - John Cage, American composer
1997 - Luther Allison, blues musician, guitarist

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