August, 12th in History

[Spiritus Temporis]

Events

Friday 12, 2005:
Civil unrest provoked in the Maldives

Thursday 12, 2004:
Lee Hsien Loong is sworn in as Singapore's 3rd Prime Minister.

Saturday 12, 2000:
The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy exploded and sank in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.

Friday 12, 1994:
Major League Baseball players go on strike. The work stoppage will force the cancellation of the World Series.

Wednesday 12, 1992:
Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Sunday 12, 1990:
Sue, the most complete skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex, was discovered near Faith, South Dakota.

Monday 12, 1985:
Japan Airlines Flight 123, a Boeing 747 jumbo jet, crashes into Mount Ogura in Gunma Prefecture Japan killing 520 in the world's worst single-plane air disaster. Four people miraculously survive.

Wednesday 12, 1981:
The IBM PC, an early personal computer, is introduced

Saturday 12, 1978:
Japan and China sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China.

Friday 12, 1966:
John Lennon apologizes at a Chicago news conference for saying the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus."

Friday 12, 1960:
Echo I, the first communications satellite, launched

Wednesday 12, 1953:
Nuclear testing: The Soviet atomic bomb project proceeded with the detonation of Joe 4, the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon.

Tuesday 12, 1952:
Prominent Jewish intellectuals were murdered in Moscow.

Wednesday 12, 1914:
World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer between Austria-Hungary and Serbia

Wednesday 12, 1908:
First Model T Ford built

Friday 12, 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.

Sunday 12, 1883:
The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam

Sunday 12, 1877:
Asaph Hall discovers Deimos

Saturday 12, 1854:
Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon is executed by shooting, in regard to the Battle of Guaymas.

Tuesday 12, 1851:
Isaac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine

Wednesday 12, 1676:
Praying Indian John Alderman shot and killed Metacomet the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip's War.

Tuesday 12, 1332:
Scots under the Earl of Mar routed by Edward Balliol

Thursday 12, 1323:
Sweden and Novgorod (Russia) regulates the border for the first time

Saturday 12, 1099:
The First Crusade concluded with a decisive victory in the Battle of Ascalon over Fatimid forces under Al-Afdal Shahanshah.

Tuesday 12, -490:
but see 12 September.

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/12-august/on-this-day.html


People born on August 12

1988:
Leah Pipes, actress (b: August 12, 1988) (Biography of Leah Pipes)

1980:
Dominique Swain, American actress (b: August 12, 1980) (Biography of Dominique Swain)
Matt Thiessen, Canadian-born singer (Reliant K) (b: August 12, 1980) (Biography of Matt Thiessen)

1977:
Plaxico Burress, American football player (b: August 12, 1977) (Biography of Plaxico Burress)

1976:
Antoine Walker, American basketball player (b: August 12, 1976) (Biography of Antoine Walker)

1974:
Matt Clement, baseball pitcher (b: August 12, 1974) (Biography of Matt Clement)

1973:
Richard Reid, English terrorist (b: August 12, 1973) (Biography of Richard Reid)

1972:
Rebecca Gayheart, American actress (b: August 12, 1972) (Biography of Rebecca Gayheart)

1971:
Michael Ian Black, American comedian (b: August 12, 1971) (Biography of Michael Ian Black)
Pete Sampras, American tennis player (b: August 12, 1971) (Biography of Pete Sampras)

1967:
Regilio Tuur, Dutch boxer (b: August 12, 1967) (Biography of Regilio Tuur)

1962:
Miss Cleo, American television psychic (b: August 12, 1962) (Biography of Miss Cleo)

1954:
Pat Metheny, American guitarist (b: August 12, 1954) (Biography of Pat Metheny)

1949:
Mark Knopfler, British guitarist (b: August 12, 1949) (Biography of Mark Knopfler)

1945:
Ann M. Martin,american author (b: August 12, 1945) (Biography of Ann M. Martin)

1939:
George Hamilton, American actor (b: August 12, 1939) (Biography of George Hamilton (actor))

1933:
Parnelli Jones, American race car driver (b: August 12, 1933) (Biography of Parnelli Jones)

1931:
William Goldman, American screenwriter (b: August 12, 1931) (Biography of William Goldman)

1930:
George Soros American businessman (b: August 12, 1930) (Biography of George Soros)

1929:
Buck Owens, American singer (b: August 12, 1929) (Biography of Buck Owens)

1928:
Bob Buhl, baseball player (b: August 12, 1928 ; d: February 16, 2001) (Biography of Bob Buhl)
Dan Curtis, film and television producer and director (b: August 12, 1928) (Biography of Dan Curtis)

1927:
Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (b: August 12, 1927) (Biography of Mstislav Rostropovich)
Porter Wagoner, American singer (b: August 12, 1927) (Biography of Porter Wagoner)

1926:
John Derek, American actor (b: August 12, 1926) (Biography of John Derek)

1925:
Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b: August 12, 1925 ; d: April 19, 2004) (Biography of Norris McWhirter)
Ross McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b: August 12, 1925 ; d: November 27, 1975) (Biography of Ross McWhirter)

1924:
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, leader of Pakistan (b: August 12, 1924 ; d: August 17, 1988) (Biography of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq)
Derek Shackleton, English cricketer (b: August 12, 1924) (Biography of Derek Shackleton)

1911:
Cantinflas, Mexican actor (b: August 12, 1911 ; d: April 20, 1993) (Biography of Cantinflas)
Jane Wyatt, American actress (b: August 12, 1911) (Biography of Jane Wyatt)

1907:
Joe Besser, American actor and comedian (b: August 12, 1907 ; d: April 1, 1988) (Biography of Joe Besser)

1906:
Tedd Pierce, American animator (b: August 12, 1906 ; d: February 19, 1972) (Biography of Tedd Pierce)
Pauline Frederick, American journalist (b: August 12, 1906 ; d: September 19, 1938) (Biography of Pauline Frederick)

1904:
Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov, Tsarevich (b: August 12, 1904) (Biography of Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov)

1887:
Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b: August 12, 1887 ; d: January 4, 1961) (Biography of Erwin Schrödinger)

1881:
Cecil B. DeMille, American director (b: August 12, 1881 ; d: January 21, 1959) (Biography of Cecil B. DeMille)

1880:
Christy Mathewson, baseball player (b: August 12, 1880 ; d: October 7, 1925) (Biography of Christy Mathewson)
Radclyffe Hall, British author (b: August 12, 1880 ; d: October 7, 1943) (Biography of Radclyffe Hall)

1876:
Mary Roberts Rinehart, American author (b: August 12, 1876) (Biography of Mary Roberts Rinehart)

1867:
Edith Hamilton, German classicist (b: August 12, 1867) (Biography of Edith Hamilton)

1866:
Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b: August 12, 1866 ; d: July 14, 1954) (Biography of Jacinto Benavente)

1859:
Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (b: August 12, 1859 ; d: March 26, 1929) (Biography of Katharine Lee Bates)

1831:
Helena Blavatsky, Ukrainian-born author (b: August 12, 1831 ; d: May 8, 1891) (Biography of Helena Blavatsky)

1774:
Robert Southey, English poet and biographer (b: August 12, 1774 ; d: March 21, 1843) (Biography of Robert Southey)

1696:
Maurice Greene, English composer (b: August 12, 1696 ; d: December 1, 1755) (Biography of Maurice Greene (composer))

1686:
John Balguy, English philosopher (b: August 12, 1686 ; d: September 21, 1748) (Biography of John Balguy)

1647:
Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (b: August 12, 1647 ; d: September 21, 1719) (Biography of Johann Heinrich Acker)

1644:
Heinrich Ignaz Biber, Bohemian composer (b: August 12, 1644 ; d: May 3, 1704) (Biography of Heinrich Ignaz Biber)

1643:
King Afonso VI of Portugal (b: August 12, 1643 ; d: September 12, 1683) (Biography of Afonso VI of Portugal)

1629:
Tsar Alexei I of Russia (b: August 12, 1629) (Biography of Alexei I of Russia)

1626:
Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer (b: August 12, 1626 ; d: May 27, 1690) (Biography of Giovanni Legrenzi)

1604:
Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shogun (b: August 12, 1604) (Biography of Tokugawa Iemitsu)

1566:
Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (b: August 12, 1566 ; d: December 1, 1633) (Biography of Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain)

1503:
Christian III of Denmark and Norway (b: August 12, 1503) (Biography of Christian III of Denmark and Norway)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/12-august/births.html