August 12
1624 - Cardinal Richelieu was named chief minister of France by King Louis XIII.
1851 - Issac 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 acquitted by the Senate.)
1898 - A peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed.
1944 - During World War II, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., eldest son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was killed with his co-pilot when their explosives-laden Navy plane blew up over England.
1960 - The first balloon communications satellite — the Echo 1 — was launched by the United States from Cape Canaveral.
1972 - The last American combat troops left Vietnam.
1978 - Pope Paul VI, who had died Aug. 6 at age 80, was buried in St. Peter's Basilica.
1981 - IBM introduced its first personal computer, the model 5150, at a press conference in New York.
1985 - In the world's worst single-aircraft disaster, a Japan Air Lines 747 crashed into Mount Osutaka, killing 520 of the 524 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 miliary submarine Kursk, and its 118-member crew, were lost in the Barents Sea.
2004 - New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey announced his resignation.
2013 - James "Whitey" Bulger, the feared Boston mob boss who became one of the nation's most-wanted fugitives, was convicted in a string of 11 killings and dozens of other gangland crimes, many of them committed while he was said to be an FBI informant. (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.)
2013 - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Department of Justice would no longer demand mandatory minimum sentences for many low-level, non-violent non-repeat drug offenders, a major policy change.
2018 - A NASA spacecraft, the Parker Solar Probe, lifted off on a mission intended to bring it within 3.8 million miles of the surface of the sun.
2022 - Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and stabbed in the neck by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.
Birthdays
22 - Judaea Brown (actress)
23 - Savannah Lee May (actress)
25 - Rudy Pankow (actor)
28 - Sara Ali Khan (actress)
30 - Imani Hakim (actress)
31 - Cara Delevingne (actress)
32 - Khris Middleton (basketball player)
33 - Christina Cimorelli (singer)
35 - Leah Pipes (actress)
35 - Tyson Fury (boxer)
39 - Marian Rivera (actress)
43 - Maggie Lawson (actress)
43 - Malaysia Pargo (reality star)
48 - Casey Affleck (actor)
52 - Rebecca Gayheart (actress)
52 - Yvette Nicole Brown (actress)
52 - Michael Ian Black (actor/comedian)
52 - Pete Sampras (tennis player)
56 - Brent Sexton (actor)
58 - Peter Krause (actor)
60 - Sir Mix-A-Lot (rapper)
67 - Danny Shirley (singer)
67 - Bruce Greenwood (actor)
69 - Sam J. Jones (actor)
73 - Jim Beaver (actor)
82 - Jennifer Warren (actress)
82 - Dana Ivey (actress)
84 - 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.
1950 - In the first international game by an NFL team, the New York Giants defeated the Canadian Football League's Ottawa Roughriders 20-6 in Ottawa.
1963 - Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals 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.
1973 - Jack Nicklaus won his 14th major golf title. The win broke the record that had been held by Bobby Jones for 50 years.
1978 - NFL New England Patriots wide receiver Darryl Stingley suffers a spinal cord injury leaving him with incomplete quadriplegia from a hit by Oakland Raiders Jack Tatum, in a preseason exhibition game.
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 would last for 232 days and would result in the World Series being canceled for the first time in 90 years.
2007 - Tiger Woods wins his second consecutive and fourth overall PGA Championship.
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 - Brooks Koepka wins the PGA Championship in St. Louis; Tiger Woods finished second after a final-round score of 64; the win made Koepka only the fifth player to win two majors in one calendar year (he also won the 2018 U.S. Open).
1624 - Cardinal Richelieu was named chief minister of France by King Louis XIII.
1851 - Issac 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 acquitted by the Senate.)
1898 - A peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed.
1944 - During World War II, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., eldest son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was killed with his co-pilot when their explosives-laden Navy plane blew up over England.
1960 - The first balloon communications satellite — the Echo 1 — was launched by the United States from Cape Canaveral.
1972 - The last American combat troops left Vietnam.
1978 - Pope Paul VI, who had died Aug. 6 at age 80, was buried in St. Peter's Basilica.
1981 - IBM introduced its first personal computer, the model 5150, at a press conference in New York.
1985 - In the world's worst single-aircraft disaster, a Japan Air Lines 747 crashed into Mount Osutaka, killing 520 of the 524 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 miliary submarine Kursk, and its 118-member crew, were lost in the Barents Sea.
2004 - New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey announced his resignation.
2013 - James "Whitey" Bulger, the feared Boston mob boss who became one of the nation's most-wanted fugitives, was convicted in a string of 11 killings and dozens of other gangland crimes, many of them committed while he was said to be an FBI informant. (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.)
2013 - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Department of Justice would no longer demand mandatory minimum sentences for many low-level, non-violent non-repeat drug offenders, a major policy change.
2018 - A NASA spacecraft, the Parker Solar Probe, lifted off on a mission intended to bring it within 3.8 million miles of the surface of the sun.
2022 - Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and stabbed in the neck by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.
Birthdays
22 - Judaea Brown (actress)
23 - Savannah Lee May (actress)
25 - Rudy Pankow (actor)
28 - Sara Ali Khan (actress)
30 - Imani Hakim (actress)
31 - Cara Delevingne (actress)
32 - Khris Middleton (basketball player)
33 - Christina Cimorelli (singer)
35 - Leah Pipes (actress)
35 - Tyson Fury (boxer)
39 - Marian Rivera (actress)
43 - Maggie Lawson (actress)
43 - Malaysia Pargo (reality star)
48 - Casey Affleck (actor)
52 - Rebecca Gayheart (actress)
52 - Yvette Nicole Brown (actress)
52 - Michael Ian Black (actor/comedian)
52 - Pete Sampras (tennis player)
56 - Brent Sexton (actor)
58 - Peter Krause (actor)
60 - Sir Mix-A-Lot (rapper)
67 - Danny Shirley (singer)
67 - Bruce Greenwood (actor)
69 - Sam J. Jones (actor)
73 - Jim Beaver (actor)
82 - Jennifer Warren (actress)
82 - Dana Ivey (actress)
84 - 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.
1950 - In the first international game by an NFL team, the New York Giants defeated the Canadian Football League's Ottawa Roughriders 20-6 in Ottawa.
1963 - Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals 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.
1973 - Jack Nicklaus won his 14th major golf title. The win broke the record that had been held by Bobby Jones for 50 years.
1978 - NFL New England Patriots wide receiver Darryl Stingley suffers a spinal cord injury leaving him with incomplete quadriplegia from a hit by Oakland Raiders Jack Tatum, in a preseason exhibition game.
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 would last for 232 days and would result in the World Series being canceled for the first time in 90 years.
2007 - Tiger Woods wins his second consecutive and fourth overall PGA Championship.
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 - Brooks Koepka wins the PGA Championship in St. Louis; Tiger Woods finished second after a final-round score of 64; the win made Koepka only the fifth player to win two majors in one calendar year (he also won the 2018 U.S. Open).
