August 12
1624 - Cardinal Richelieu was named chief minister of France by King Louis XIII.
1851 - Isaac Singer patented the sewing machine.
1865 - British surgeon Joseph Lister became the first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery.
1867 - President Andrew Johnson sparked a move to impeach him as he defied Congress by suspending Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, with whom he had clashed over Reconstruction policies. (Johnson was ultimately tried and acquitted by the Senate.)
1898 - A peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed.
1898 - Hawaii was formally annexed to the United States.
1902 - International Harvester Co. was formed by a merger of McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., Deering Harvester Co. and several other manufacturers.
1939 - The MGM movie musical “The Wizard of Oz,” starring Judy Garland, had its world premiere at the Strand Theater in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, three days before opening in Hollywood.
1944 - Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., eldest son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was killed when an explosives-laden Navy plane blew up over England during World War II.
1953 - The Soviet Union conducted a secret test of its first hydrogen bomb.
1960 - The first balloon satellite, Echo 1, was launched by the United States from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1966 - John Lennon apologized at a news conference in Chicago for saying "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus."
1972 - The last American combat troops left Vietnam.
1977 - The space shuttle Enterprise passed its first solo flight test by taking off atop a Boeing 747, separating and then touching down in California's Mojave Desert.
1981 - IBM introduced its first personal computer, the model 5150.
1985 - In the world's largest single-aircraft disaster, a Japan Air Lines 747 crashed into Mount Osutaka, killing 520 of the 524 people on board.
1998 - Swiss banks agreed to pay $1.25 billion to settle lawsuits brought by Holocaust survivors and their heirs. The banks had kept millions of dollars deposited by Holocaust victims before and during World War II.
2000 - The Russian military submarine Kursk and its 118-member crew were lost in the Barents Sea.
2004 - New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey announced his resignation and proclaimed himself "a gay American".
2004 - The California Supreme Court voided the nearly 4,000 same-sex marriages sanctioned in San Francisco earlier in the year.
2008 - Russia halted its devastating five-day assault on Georgia that left homes in smoldering ruins and uprooted 100,000 people.
2011 - A divided three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta struck down the centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care overhaul, the so-called individual mandate. (The mandate was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in June 2012.)
2013 - Notorious Boston gangster James (Whitey) Bulger was found guilty of 31 of the 32 charges he faced, including murder, extortion, money laundering, drug dealing and possession of weapons. (Bulger was sentenced to life; he was fatally beaten at a West Virginia prison in 2018, hours after being transferred from a facility in Florida.)
2016 - A judge in Milwaukee overturned the conviction of Brendan Dassey, who was found guilty of helping his uncle kill a woman in a case profiled in the Netflix series “Making a Murderer,” ruling that investigators coerced a confession using deceptive tactics. (The ruling was later overturned by a federal appeals court; the U.S. Supreme Court would decline to hear the case.)
2017 - A car plowed into a crowd of people peacefully protesting a white nationalist rally in the Virginia college town of Charlottesville, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and hurting more than a dozen others. (The attacker, James Alex Fields, was sentenced to life in prison on 29 federal hate crime charges, and life plus 419 years on state charges.) President Donald Trump condemned what he called an “egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides.”
2020 - Appearing together for the first time as running mates, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris put aside their one-time political rivalry to deliver an aggressive attack on the character and performance of President Donald Trump; because of the coronavirus, their appearance came in a mostly empty high school gym in Delaware.
Birthdays
21 - Savannah Lee May (actress)
23 - Lauren Cimorelli (singer)
25 - Torri Webster (actress)
26 - Sara Ali Khan (actress)
28 - Imani Hakim (actress)
29 - Cara Delevingne (actress)
30 - Khris Middleton (basketball player)
31 - Christina Cimorelli (singer)
33 - Leah Pipes (actress)
33 - Tyson Fury (boxer)
41 - Dominique Swain (actress)
41 - Malaysia Pargo (reality star)
41 - Maggie Lawson (actress)
46 - Casey Affleck (actor)
50 - Rebecca Gayheart (actress)
50 - Yvette Nicole Brown (actress)
50 - Michael Ian Black (actor/comedian)
50 - Pete Sampras (tennis player)
54 - Brent Sexton (actor)
56 - Peter Krause (actor)
58 - Sir Mix-A-Lot (rapper)
65 - Bruce Greenwood (actor)
67 - Sam J. Jones (actor)
71 - Jim Beaver (actor)
80 - Jennifer Warren (actress)
82 - George Hamilton (actor)
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Today in Sports History - August 12
1909 - The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, home to the Indianapolis 500, first opened.
1963 - Stan Musial announces his retirement from baseball.
1964 - Mickey Mantle set a major league baseball record when he hit home runs from both the left and ride sides of the plate in the same game for the 10th time in his career.
1969 - The Boston Celtics were sold for $6 million. To date it was the highest price paid for a pro basketball team.
1973 - Jack Nicklaus won his 14th major golf title. The win broke the record that had been held by Bobby Jones for 50 years.
1974 - Nolan Ryan of the California Angels sets a record with 19 strikeouts in a 4-2 win over the Boston Red Sox.
1974 - Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1984 - Harmon Killebrew, Rick Ferrell, Don Drysdale, Pee Wee Reese, and Luis Aparicio are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1986 - Rod Carew became the first player in the history of the California Angels franchise to have his uniform (#29) retired.
1994 - In baseball’s eighth work stoppage since 1972, players went on strike rather than allow team owners to limit their salaries. (The strike ended in April 1995 and resulted in the World Series being canceled for the first time in 90 years.)
2007 - Tiger Woods wins the PGA Championship for the fourth time in his career.
2011 - Tiger Woods missed the cut at the PGA Championship at Atlanta Athletic Club with a 3-over 73, finishing out of the top 100 for the first time ever in a major.
2016 - Katie Ledecky won the 200-meter, 400-meter and 800-meter freestyle at the same Olympics. She was the first to win swimmer to win all three at the same Olympics since Debbie Meyer in 1968.
2018 - At the 100th PGA Championship, Brooks Koepka becomes just the fifth player in PGA history to win two majors in a calendar year (he also won the U.S. Open).
2019 - The Baltimore Orioles set a MLB record by giving up their 248th home run of the season.
1624 - Cardinal Richelieu was named chief minister of France by King Louis XIII.
1851 - Isaac Singer patented the sewing machine.
1865 - British surgeon Joseph Lister became the first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery.
1867 - President Andrew Johnson sparked a move to impeach him as he defied Congress by suspending Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, with whom he had clashed over Reconstruction policies. (Johnson was ultimately tried and acquitted by the Senate.)
1898 - A peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed.
1898 - Hawaii was formally annexed to the United States.
1902 - International Harvester Co. was formed by a merger of McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., Deering Harvester Co. and several other manufacturers.
1939 - The MGM movie musical “The Wizard of Oz,” starring Judy Garland, had its world premiere at the Strand Theater in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, three days before opening in Hollywood.
1944 - Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., eldest son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was killed when an explosives-laden Navy plane blew up over England during World War II.
1953 - The Soviet Union conducted a secret test of its first hydrogen bomb.
1960 - The first balloon satellite, Echo 1, was launched by the United States from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1966 - John Lennon apologized at a news conference in Chicago for saying "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus."
1972 - The last American combat troops left Vietnam.
1977 - The space shuttle Enterprise passed its first solo flight test by taking off atop a Boeing 747, separating and then touching down in California's Mojave Desert.
1981 - IBM introduced its first personal computer, the model 5150.
1985 - In the world's largest single-aircraft disaster, a Japan Air Lines 747 crashed into Mount Osutaka, killing 520 of the 524 people on board.
1998 - Swiss banks agreed to pay $1.25 billion to settle lawsuits brought by Holocaust survivors and their heirs. The banks had kept millions of dollars deposited by Holocaust victims before and during World War II.
2000 - The Russian military submarine Kursk and its 118-member crew were lost in the Barents Sea.
2004 - New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey announced his resignation and proclaimed himself "a gay American".
2004 - The California Supreme Court voided the nearly 4,000 same-sex marriages sanctioned in San Francisco earlier in the year.
2008 - Russia halted its devastating five-day assault on Georgia that left homes in smoldering ruins and uprooted 100,000 people.
2011 - A divided three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta struck down the centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care overhaul, the so-called individual mandate. (The mandate was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in June 2012.)
2013 - Notorious Boston gangster James (Whitey) Bulger was found guilty of 31 of the 32 charges he faced, including murder, extortion, money laundering, drug dealing and possession of weapons. (Bulger was sentenced to life; he was fatally beaten at a West Virginia prison in 2018, hours after being transferred from a facility in Florida.)
2016 - A judge in Milwaukee overturned the conviction of Brendan Dassey, who was found guilty of helping his uncle kill a woman in a case profiled in the Netflix series “Making a Murderer,” ruling that investigators coerced a confession using deceptive tactics. (The ruling was later overturned by a federal appeals court; the U.S. Supreme Court would decline to hear the case.)
2017 - A car plowed into a crowd of people peacefully protesting a white nationalist rally in the Virginia college town of Charlottesville, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and hurting more than a dozen others. (The attacker, James Alex Fields, was sentenced to life in prison on 29 federal hate crime charges, and life plus 419 years on state charges.) President Donald Trump condemned what he called an “egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides.”
2020 - Appearing together for the first time as running mates, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris put aside their one-time political rivalry to deliver an aggressive attack on the character and performance of President Donald Trump; because of the coronavirus, their appearance came in a mostly empty high school gym in Delaware.
Birthdays
21 - Savannah Lee May (actress)
23 - Lauren Cimorelli (singer)
25 - Torri Webster (actress)
26 - Sara Ali Khan (actress)
28 - Imani Hakim (actress)
29 - Cara Delevingne (actress)
30 - Khris Middleton (basketball player)
31 - Christina Cimorelli (singer)
33 - Leah Pipes (actress)
33 - Tyson Fury (boxer)
41 - Dominique Swain (actress)
41 - Malaysia Pargo (reality star)
41 - Maggie Lawson (actress)
46 - Casey Affleck (actor)
50 - Rebecca Gayheart (actress)
50 - Yvette Nicole Brown (actress)
50 - Michael Ian Black (actor/comedian)
50 - Pete Sampras (tennis player)
54 - Brent Sexton (actor)
56 - Peter Krause (actor)
58 - Sir Mix-A-Lot (rapper)
65 - Bruce Greenwood (actor)
67 - Sam J. Jones (actor)
71 - Jim Beaver (actor)
80 - Jennifer Warren (actress)
82 - George Hamilton (actor)
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Today in Sports History - August 12
1909 - The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, home to the Indianapolis 500, first opened.
1963 - Stan Musial announces his retirement from baseball.
1964 - Mickey Mantle set a major league baseball record when he hit home runs from both the left and ride sides of the plate in the same game for the 10th time in his career.
1969 - The Boston Celtics were sold for $6 million. To date it was the highest price paid for a pro basketball team.
1973 - Jack Nicklaus won his 14th major golf title. The win broke the record that had been held by Bobby Jones for 50 years.
1974 - Nolan Ryan of the California Angels sets a record with 19 strikeouts in a 4-2 win over the Boston Red Sox.
1974 - Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1984 - Harmon Killebrew, Rick Ferrell, Don Drysdale, Pee Wee Reese, and Luis Aparicio are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1986 - Rod Carew became the first player in the history of the California Angels franchise to have his uniform (#29) retired.
1994 - In baseball’s eighth work stoppage since 1972, players went on strike rather than allow team owners to limit their salaries. (The strike ended in April 1995 and resulted in the World Series being canceled for the first time in 90 years.)
2007 - Tiger Woods wins the PGA Championship for the fourth time in his career.
2011 - Tiger Woods missed the cut at the PGA Championship at Atlanta Athletic Club with a 3-over 73, finishing out of the top 100 for the first time ever in a major.
2016 - Katie Ledecky won the 200-meter, 400-meter and 800-meter freestyle at the same Olympics. She was the first to win swimmer to win all three at the same Olympics since Debbie Meyer in 1968.
2018 - At the 100th PGA Championship, Brooks Koepka becomes just the fifth player in PGA history to win two majors in a calendar year (he also won the U.S. Open).
2019 - The Baltimore Orioles set a MLB record by giving up their 248th home run of the season.
