Notable Historical Events on August 12th
August 12th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
3 |
Venus-Jupiter in conjunction-Star of Bethlehem |
1071 |
Alp Arslan beat Byzantines, emperor Romanos IV Diogenes |
1099 |
Battle at Ascalon: Godfried of Broth leading the Crusaders beats Egyptians Fatimid army |
1121 |
Battle of Didgori: the Georgian army under King David the Builder wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi. |
1164 |
Battle of Harim: Nur ad-Din defeats the Crusader armies of the County of Tripoli and the Principality of Antioch. |
1323 |
Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Novgorod (Russia) regulates the border for the first time. |
1332 |
Battle of Dupplin Moor; Scottish dynastic battle |
1336 |
English King Edward III ends wool export to Flanders |
1480 |
Battle of Otranto - Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam. |
1492 |
Christopher Columbus arrives in the Canary Islands on his first voyage to the New World |
1499 |
First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets. |
1508 |
Juan Ponce de Leon arrives in Puerto Rico |
1530 |
Florence surrenders for emperor Karel I |
1549 |
French troops occupy Ambleteuse England |
1553 |
Pope Julius III orders confiscation & burning of Jewish Talmud |
1588 |
Commander of the English fleet Lord Howard of Effingham calls off chase of the Spanish Armada off coast of Scotland |
1588 |
Medemblik surrenders to Spanish army |
1658 |
1st American police force forms (New Amsterdam) |
1665 |
English fleet beat Dutch fleet |
1676 |
1st war between American colonists & Indians ends in New England |
1687 |
Charles of Lotharingen defeats Turkish leaders |
1687 |
Battle of Mohacs: Ottoman invaders of Hungary routed by forces of Holy Roman Emperor under Charles of Lorraine |
1759 |
Battle of Kunersdorf - Russian-Austrian army overpowers Prussians |
1793 |
The Rhône départment is created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire was split into two: Rhône and Loire (Lêre). |
1812 |
Duke of Wellington's troops enter Madrid |
1831 |
Dutch troops conquer Leuven |
1831 |
Netherlands & Belgium sign peace treaty |
1833 |
Chicago is founded. |
1851 |
1st America's Cup - US schooner America beats British yacht Aurora after race around the Isle of Wight |
1851 |
Isaac Singer patents sewing machine |
1856 |
Anthony Fass patents accordion |
1861 |
Skirmish at Texas - rebels are attacked by Apache Indians |
1862 |
Gen John Hunt Morgan & his raiders capture Gallatin, TX |
1863 |
1st cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC) |
1865 |
Joseph Lister performs 1st antiseptic surgery |
1867 |
US President A Johnson defies Congress suspending Secretary of War Edwin Stanton |
1876 |
Madeline (US) beats Countess Dufferin (Canada) in 4th America's Cup |
1877 |
Thomas Edison invents Edisonphone, a sound recording device |
1879 |
1st National Archery Association tournament (Chicago) |
1883 |
The last quagga (zebra subspecies) dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam. |
1884 |
Bill Murdoch scores 1st Test Cricket double-century, 211 at The Oval |
1886 |
W G Grace made his highest Test Cricket score, v Aust, The Oval |
1888 |
Bertha, wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes 1st motor tour |
1896 |
Willem II soccer team forms in Tilburg |
1898 |
Hawaii formally annexed to US |
1898 |
Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed |
1901 |
Boer general Kritzinger driven out of Cape colony |
1903 |
The Japanese Minister to Russia presents a note to the Russian Government protesting against its failure to evacuate Manchuria |
1905 |
King Leopold II opens Central Station Antwerp |
1908 |
Henry Ford's company builds the first Model T car |
1914 |
Cavalry battle at Halen, Belgium ("Battle of the Silver Helmets") |
1914 |
German 16.5"/12" guns fires on forts round Liege |
1914 |
Great Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary |
1914 |
Russian troops take East-Prussia & occupy Marggrabowa |
1915 |
"Of Human Bondage" by William Somerset Maugham, published |
1916 |
Picasso, Max Jacob, Kisling, Ortiz & Paquerette photographed in Paris |
1918 |
Battle of Amiens ends in WWI, Allieds beat Germans - the last great battle on the Western Front |
1920 |
Battle of Warsaw (Vistula) between Poland and Russia begins |
1922 |
Dedication of Frederick Douglas' home in Wash DC as national shrine |
1923 |
Dutch AR-leader Coair replaces De Geer as minister of finances |
1923 |
Enrico Tiraboschi is 1st to swim English Channel westward |
1925 |
KMA-AM in Shenandoah IA begins radio transmissions |
1925 |
The first cast of Alpha Psi Omega, drawn from The Masquers of Fairmont College, West Virginia, is initiated. |
1927 |
"Wings", the only silent film to win an Oscar for best picture, opens |
1928 |
9th Olympic Games close in Amsterdam |
1931 |
Yangtzee River floods after heavy rain crumbles dikes in China |
1933 |
Cuban dictator Machado y Morales flees after military coup |
1935 |
Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park, 41,766 on hand |
1936 |
120°F (49°C), Seymour, Texas (state record) |
1936 |
Demo baseball game at 1936 Olympics in Berlin, world beats US, 6-5 |
1936 |
Diver Marjorie Gestring is youngest Olympic gold medalist (13y 268d) |
1940 |
Luftwaffe bombs British radar stations, loses 31 aircraft |
1940 |
Netherlands starts rationing textiles |
1941 |
French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany |
1942 |
British premier Churchill arrives in Moscow, meets Stalin |
1942 |
German 1st tank leader captures Elista, Kalmukkensteppe |
1942 |
Lt General Bernard Montgomery arrives in Cairo |
1943 |
Alleged date of the first Philadelphia Experiment test on United States Navy ship USS Eldridge. |
1944 |
Churchill & Tito meet in Naples |
1944 |
Pipeline under ocean (Pluto) begins operating |
1944 |
Waffen SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema. |
1948 |
Cleveland Indians get 29 hits in a 9 inning game |
1948 |
Court of justice sentences General Friedrich Christiansen, commander of the German Wehrmacht in the Netherlands, to 12 years imprisonment |
1949 |
16th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Philadelphia 38, All-Stars 0 (93,780) |
1950 |
NY Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 20-6 in Ottawa |
1950 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Humani generis |
1951 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship |
1952 |
Hussain ibn Talal proclaimed King of Jordan |
1953 |
Ann Davison arrives in Miami in her 23 foot boat Felicity Ann, becoming the 1st woman to sail solo across the Atlantic |
1953 |
Heavy earthquake strikes the Ionian islands, 435 killed |
1953 |
Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb |
1954 |
Senator Eddie Yost draws his 100th walk for 5th year in a row |
1955 |
22nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 30, Cleveland 27 (75,000) |
1955 |
Pres Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour |
1955 |
WPBT TV channel 2 in Miami, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
KOTI TV channel 2 in Klamath Falls, OR (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA World Golf Championship |
1959 |
1st ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island |
1959 |
Progressive Party under John Steytler forms in South Africa |
1960 |
27th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 32, All-Stars 7 (70,000) |
1960 |
Echo 1, 1st communications satellite, is launched |
1960 |
Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 8.21m |
1960 |
USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to an altitude of 41,600 m |
1962 |
1st time 2 people in space |
1962 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Tournament |
1962 |
Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely Aug 15 |
1963 |
Portuguese dictator Salazar firm on African colonization |
1963 |
Stan Musial announces he will retire at end of year |
1964 |
10th time Mantle switch-hits HR in a game, one goes 502 feet |
1964 |
Mickey Mantle switch-hits HR record 10th & final time in a game |
1964 |
Race riot in Elizabeth, NJ |
1965 |
Elizabeth Lane becomes first female British supreme court justice |
1965 |
Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc applies for a NL franchise |
1965 |
Race riot in West Side of Chicago |
1967 |
New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season victory, beat St Louis 23-14 |
1969 |
Boston Celtics sold for an NBA record $6 million |
1969 |
Battle of the Bogside: RUC officers, backed by loyalists, entered the nationalist Bogside in armoured cars and tried to suppress the riot by using CS gas, water cannon and eventually firearms; the almost continuous rioting lasted for two days |
1970 |
Curt Flood loses his $41 million antitrust suit against baseball |
1971 |
Syriam Pres Assad drops diplomatic relations with Jordan |
1972 |
"Funny Thing Happened..." closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 156 perfs |
1972 |
"Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 1316 performances |
1972 |
Ian & Greg Chappell both scores centuries in same Test Cricket innings |
1972 |
Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam |
1973 |
55th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 277 at Canterbury Cleve |
1973 |
Betty Burfeindt wins LPGA Child & Family Service Golf Opens |
1973 |
WPBA National Championship won by Betty Morris |
1974 |
Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 & walks only 2 as Angels top Red Sox, 4-2 |
1974 |
Yankees Mickey Mantle & Whitey Ford become 1st team mates inducted to hall of fame on same day |
1976 |
1st approach & lands test (ALT) of orbiter Enterprise |
1976 |
Christian militia conquer Palestinian camp Tell al-Za'tar, 2000 killed |
1977 |
For 2nd straight day, Oakland's Manny Sanguillen foils a no-hit bid |
1977 |
High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 launched into Earth orbit |
1977 |
Space shuttle Enterprise makes 1st atmospheric flight |
1978 |
Arron Marshall completes a record shower of 336 hours |
1978 |
China & Japan sign peace treaty |
1978 |
ICE is launched |
1979 |
"Whoopee!" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 204 performances |
1979 |
Iran press censors start massive book burnings |
1979 |
Judy wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic Rankin |
1980 |
Signature of the Montevideo Treaty establishing the Latin American Integration Association. |
1981 |
IBM introduces its first Personal Computer (PC & PC-DOS version 1.0) |
1981 |
Jon Erikson (US) becomes 1st to triple cross English Channel (38:27) |
1983 |
General Manuel A Noriega becomes commander of Panamanian army |
1984 |
23rd Olympic games close at Los Angeles, Calif |
1984 |
Braves beat Padres 5-3, features 2 brawls & 19 ejections |
1984 |
Harmon Killebrew, Rick Ferrell, Don Drysdale, Pee Wee Reese, & Luis Aparicio inducted into Hall of Fame |
1984 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic |
1985 |
7th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
1985 |
Balt Orioles W Gross & L Sheets are 6th to hit consecutive pinch HRs |
1985 |
Japanese Boeing 747SR crashes, 520 die (worst in-flight toll) |
1986 |
Iran fires missile at refinery near Baghdad; Iraq raids Iranian terminal at Sirri Island severely disrupting Iranian exports |
1986 |
Don Baylor gets hits by a pitch for a record 25th time in a season |
1986 |
Red Sox pitcher Tim Lollar gets a pinch-hit single |
1987 |
Charles Cole climbs 870'Tyrolean Traverse from top of Elephant Rock |
1988 |
Boston Red Sox set AL consecutive home victories at 23 |
1988 |
Movie "Last Temptation of Christ" is released |
1988 |
Nelson Mandela is treated for tuberculosis at hospital |
1988 |
Red Sox beat Tigers 9-4 for AL record 23rd consecutive win at home |
1988 |
Richard Thornburgh becomes US Attorney General |
1990 |
12th annual Macy's Tap-o-mania |
1990 |
72nd PGA Championship: Wayne Grady shoots a 282 at Shoal Creek Ala |
1990 |
Cathy Gerring wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic |
1990 |
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories |
1991 |
Creditors vote to support Greyhound Bus reorganization plan |
1991 |
Last day in Test Cricket for Viv Richards, Dujon & Marshall |
1992 |
Canada, Mexico, and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). |
1993 |
Pope John Paul II begins visit of US |
1994 |
1st NFL game on Fox network (exhibition - SF vs Denver) |
1994 |
Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association strike |
1994 |
Panic in church of Brazzaville: 142 killed |
1994 |
Stephen G Breyer, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice |
1995 |
Lara completes 6th Test Cricket century, 152 at Trent Bridge |
1996 |
"Breakfast on Fox" premieres |
1999 |
Shakira records her first live album in New York City, titled "MTV Unplugged" |
2000 |
The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise. |
2004 |
New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey comes out publicly as a gay man. |
2005 |
Sri Lanka's foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, is fatally shot by an LTTE (Tamil Tigers) sniper at his home. |
2005 |
An F2 tornado strikes the coal mining town of Wright, Wyoming, destroying nearly 100 homes and killing two people. |
2005 |
Civil unrest provoked in the Maldives |
2005 |
An F1 tornado strikes Glen Cove, New York, a rare event on Long Island |
2007 |
Bulk carrier M/V New Flame collides with oil tanker Torm Gertrud at the southernmost tip of Gibraltar, ending up partially submerged. |
2007 |
89th PGA Championship: Tiger Woods shoots a 272 at Southern Hills Country Club |
2012 |
The 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony completes the games |
2012 |
94th PGA Championship: Rory McIlroy shoots a 275 at Kiawah Island Golf Resort |
2013 |
8 people are killed and 25 are injured in a suicide bomb attack in Balad, Iraq |
2013 |
30 people are killed by gunmen in northeast Nigeria |
2013 |
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta is elected President of Mali |
2013 |
Whitey Bulger is found guilty on 31 of 32 counts, and is found to have been involved in 11 murders |
2016 |
Michael Phelps's 13th Individual Gold Breaks an Ancient Record |
2016 |
Olympics-Swimming-Phelps wins 200m individual medley for 22nd gold |
2016 |
Trump insists 'Obama is founder of IS' |
2017 |
Virginia governor orders National Guard on standby ahead of 'alt-right' rally |
2017 |
Trump says he's considering military response to Venezuela |
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