August 12
1624 - Cardinal Richelieu was named 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 later impeached and then acquitted by the Senate.)
1898 - A peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed.
1944 - During World War II, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr, the eldest son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was killed along 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.
1972 - The last American combat troops left Vietnam.
1978 - Pope Paul VI, 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 - The world's largest single-aircraft disaster occurred as 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.
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.)
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.”
Birthdays
26 - Torri Webster (actress)
27 - Sara Ali Khan (actress)
29 - Imani Hakim (actress)
30 - Cara Delevingne (actress/model)
31 - Khris Middleton (basketball player)
32 - Christina Cimorelli (singer)
34 - Leah Pipes (actress)
34 - Tyson Fury (boxer)
42 - Dominique Swain (actress)
42 - Malaysia Pargo (reality star)
42 - Maggie Lawson (actress)
47 - Casey Affleck (actor)
51 - Rebecca Gayheart (actress)
51 - Yvette Nicole Brown (actress)
51 - Michael Ian Black (actor/comedian)
51 - Pete Sampras (tennis player)
55 - Brent Sexton (actor)
57 - Peter Krause (actor)
59 - Sir Mix-A-Lot (rapper)
66 - Bruce Greenwood (actor)
68 - Sam J. Jones (actor)
72 - Jim Beaver (actor)
81 - Jennifer Warren (actress)
83 - 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 of the St. Louis Cardinals announces his retirement.
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.
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 records 19 strikeouts in a win over the Boston Red Sox.
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 as a result the 232-day stoppage wiped out the World Series for the first time in 90 years.)
2007 - Tiger Woods wins his fourth career PGA Championship.
2012 - With a little British pomp and a lot of British pop, London brought the curtain down on the Olympic Games with a spectacular pageant. Before the closing ceremony, the U.S. men’s basketball team defended its title by fighting off another huge challenge from Spain, pulling away in the final minutes for a 107-100 victory and its second straight Olympic championship. The victory by the men’s basketball team gave the United States its 46th gold medal in London; the U.S. initially won 104 medals overall, but was later stripped of a silver medal after a men’s relay team member tested positive for steroids.
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 becomes just the fifth player to win two majors in the same calendar year when he won the PGA Championship. (He had also won the U.S. Open in 2018.)
2019 - The Baltimore Orioles allow a major league record 248th home run on the season.
2021 - The Chicago White Sox beat the New York Yankees 9-8 in the first Major League Baseball game ever played in Cockeye; the teams combined to hit eight home runs into the cornstalks beyond the outfield fence, next to the site used for the 1989 movie “Field of Dreams.”
1624 - Cardinal Richelieu was named 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 later impeached and then acquitted by the Senate.)
1898 - A peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed.
1944 - During World War II, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr, the eldest son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was killed along 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.
1972 - The last American combat troops left Vietnam.
1978 - Pope Paul VI, 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 - The world's largest single-aircraft disaster occurred as 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.
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.)
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.”
Birthdays
26 - Torri Webster (actress)
27 - Sara Ali Khan (actress)
29 - Imani Hakim (actress)
30 - Cara Delevingne (actress/model)
31 - Khris Middleton (basketball player)
32 - Christina Cimorelli (singer)
34 - Leah Pipes (actress)
34 - Tyson Fury (boxer)
42 - Dominique Swain (actress)
42 - Malaysia Pargo (reality star)
42 - Maggie Lawson (actress)
47 - Casey Affleck (actor)
51 - Rebecca Gayheart (actress)
51 - Yvette Nicole Brown (actress)
51 - Michael Ian Black (actor/comedian)
51 - Pete Sampras (tennis player)
55 - Brent Sexton (actor)
57 - Peter Krause (actor)
59 - Sir Mix-A-Lot (rapper)
66 - Bruce Greenwood (actor)
68 - Sam J. Jones (actor)
72 - Jim Beaver (actor)
81 - Jennifer Warren (actress)
83 - 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 of the St. Louis Cardinals announces his retirement.
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.
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 records 19 strikeouts in a win over the Boston Red Sox.
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 as a result the 232-day stoppage wiped out the World Series for the first time in 90 years.)
2007 - Tiger Woods wins his fourth career PGA Championship.
2012 - With a little British pomp and a lot of British pop, London brought the curtain down on the Olympic Games with a spectacular pageant. Before the closing ceremony, the U.S. men’s basketball team defended its title by fighting off another huge challenge from Spain, pulling away in the final minutes for a 107-100 victory and its second straight Olympic championship. The victory by the men’s basketball team gave the United States its 46th gold medal in London; the U.S. initially won 104 medals overall, but was later stripped of a silver medal after a men’s relay team member tested positive for steroids.
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 becomes just the fifth player to win two majors in the same calendar year when he won the PGA Championship. (He had also won the U.S. Open in 2018.)
2019 - The Baltimore Orioles allow a major league record 248th home run on the season.
2021 - The Chicago White Sox beat the New York Yankees 9-8 in the first Major League Baseball game ever played in Cockeye; the teams combined to hit eight home runs into the cornstalks beyond the outfield fence, next to the site used for the 1989 movie “Field of Dreams.”
