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  • 1121 Battle of Didgori: Georgian army under King David the Builder wins a decisive victory over the renowned Seljuk commander Ilghazi
  • 1480 Ottoman troops conquer Otranto in southern Italy after a 15-day siege, killing 12,000, enslaving 5,000, and beheading 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam
  • 1851 American inventor Isaac Singer patents his famous sewing machine
  • The 1910 Model T Ford

    Model T

    1908 Ford Motor Company builds its first Model T car, which Henry Ford himself tests on a hunting trip to Wisconsin and northern Michigan [1]
  • 1981 Don Estridge unveils the company's first personal computer, the IBM PC, at New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel, priced at $1,565 with 16 kilobytes of RAM, helping bring computing to the masses [1]
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  • 1927 Silent film "Wings," starring Clara Bow and directed by William A. Wellman, premieres in NY as the first film and one of only two silent films to win an Academy Award for Best Picture
  • 1991 Heavy metal band Metallica releases its fifth album, "Metallica," which debuts at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart
  • 1964 Mickey Mantle switch-hits a home run for the record 10th and final time in a game, with one going 502 feet

The last quagga (a zebra subspecies with fewer stripes) dies at Artis Magistra Zoo in Amsterdam

August 12, 1883

  • Christian III

    1503 - 1559

  • Erwin Schrödinger

    1887 - 1961

  • Alexei Nikolaevich

    1904 - 1918

  • Guy Gibson

    1918 - 1944

  • George Soros

    95 Years Old

  • François Hollande

    71 Years Old
More Birthdays on August 12

  • Cecil B. DeMille

    1881 - 1959

  • Jane Wyatt

    1910 - 2006

  • Cantinflas

    1911 - 1993

  • Casey Affleck

    50 Years Old

  • Christy Mathewson

    1880 - 1925

  • Harry Hopman

    1906 - 1985

  • Pete Sampras

    54 Years Old

  • Iva Majoli

    48 Years Old

  • Tyson Fury

    37 Years Old

Nicaragua celebrates the end of its National Literacy Crusade, a massive effort over five months that reduces illiteracy from 50% to 12%

August 12, 1980

  • 1806 Frontiersman Davy Crockett (20) weds Polly Finley in Tennessee
  • 1940 PGA golfer Sam Snead (28) weds high school sweetheart Audrey Karnes
  • 1941 "I Love Lucy" actress Vivan Vance (32) weds actor Philip Ober (39)
  • 2011 American rock singer-songwriter John Mellencamp (59) divorces model Elaine Irwin (41) after 18 years of marriage
More August 12 Weddings

  • William Blake

    1757 - 1827

  • George Stephenson

    1781 - 1848

  • John Philip Holland

    1841 - 1914

  • Karl Ziegler

    1898 - 1973

  • William Shockley

    1910 - 1989

  • Loretta Young

    1913 - 2000
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  • The Madagascar as painted by Thomas Goldsworth Dutton. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

    Ship of Gold Sails Into Oblivion

    A frigate with more than 150 souls on board, as well as nearly three tons of gold, sailed out of Melbourne on this day – never to be seen again. August 12, 1853
  • The 1910 Model T Ford

    Weekly Quiz for August 12 - 18

    Test your knowledge of historical events and famous people in our multi-choice, weekly history quiz for August 12 - 18. Then challenge your friends!
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  • Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra in the 1963 movie. Its costs nearly bankrupted Twentieth Century Fox

    Did a Snake Kill Cleopatra?

    August 10, 0030 BC
  • Jackson Pollock in front of Summertime: Number 9A for Life magazine, 1949 | Image source: kazoart.com

    ‘Jack The Dripper’ Paintings Sell For Millions

    August 11, 1956
  • Repeated deadly arrow-storms stopped the French in their tracks at the Battle of Agincourt

    Defiance in the Hundred Years' War

    August 13, 1415
  • A huge crowd gathers in Owensboro to watch the execution of Rainey Bethea

    America's Last Public Hanging

    August 14, 1936
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