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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.
1898 - A peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed.
1898 - Hawaii was formally annexed to the United States.
1937 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated Hugo Black to the Supreme Court.
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., the 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 worst single-aircraft disaster, a Japan Air Lines 747 crashed into Mount Osutaka, killing 520 of the 524 on board.
1992 - After 14 months of negotiations, the United States, Mexico and Canada announced in Washington that they had concluded the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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 crew of 118 men were lost in the Barents Sea.
2004 - New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey announced his resignation amid revelations that he had an extramarital affair with another man 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 more than 100,000 people.
2009 - Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, a 23-year-old Georgia man, was convicted of aiding terrorist groups by sending videotapes of U.S. landmarks overseas and plotting to support "violent jihad" after a federal jury in Atlanta rejected his arguments that it was empty talk. (Sadequee was sentenced to 17 years in prison.)
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 in prison; he was fatally beaten at a West Virginia prison in 2018, just hours after being transferred from a facility in Florida.)
2014 - Lauren Bacall, 89, the slinky, sultry-voiced actress who created on-screen magic with Humphrey Bogart in "To Have and Have Not" and "The Big Sleep" and off-screen magic in one of Hollywood's most storied marriages, died in New York.
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;" Democrats and some Republicans called on him to specifically denounce white supremacy.
Birthdays
23 - Torri Webster (actress)
26 - Imani Hakim (actress)
27 - Cara Delevingne (actress/model)
28 - Khris Middleton (basketball player)
28 - Lakeith Stanfield (actor)
29 - Christina Cimorelli (singer)
31 - Tyson Fury (boxer)
31 - Leah Pipes (actress)
35 - Marian Rivera (actress)
36 - Meryem Uzerli (actress)
39 - Dominique Swain (actress)
39 - Malaysia Pargo (reality star)
39 - Maggie Lawson (actress)
44 - Casey Affleck (actor)
48 - Rebecca Gayheart (actress/model)
48 - Yvette Nicole Brown (actress)
48 - Michael Ian Black (actor/comedian)
48 - Pete Sampras (tennis player)
52 - Brent Sexton (actor)
54 - Peter Krause (actor)
56 - Sir Mix-A-Lot (rapper)
63 - Danny Shirley (country sniger)
63 - Bruce Greenwood (actor)
65 - Sam J. Jones (actor)
69 - Kid Creole (singer)
69 - Jim Beaver (actor)
78 - Jennifer Warren (actress)
78 - Dana Ivey (actress)
80 - George Hamilton (actor)
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Today in Sports History - August 12
1909 - The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the home of 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 in his career.
1969 - The Boston Celtics were sold for $6 million, the highest-price to date paid for a professional basketball team.
1973 - Jack Nicklaus won his 14th major title after winning the PGA Championship, breaking Bobby Jones' record that had stood for 50 years.
1974 - Nolan Ryan of the California Angels strikes out 19 batters and walks only two as the Angels top the Boston Red Sox 4-2.
1974 - Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford of the New York Yankees become the first teammates inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on the same day.
1984 - A game between the Atlanta Braves and San Diego Padres featured two brawls and 19 player ejections. (The Braves won the game 5-3.)
1986 - The California Angels retired Rod Carew's #29.
1988 - The Boston Red Sox beat the Detroit Tigers 9-4 to set an American League record with their 23rd consecutive home victory.
1994 - Major League Baseball players went on strike rather than allow owners to limit their salaries. The strike lasted for 232 days and as a result, the World Series would be canceled for the first time in 90 years.
2007 - Tiger Woods wins his fourth PGA Championship.
2012 - Rory McIlroy wins the PGA Championship.
2014 - Steve Ballmer officially became the new owner of the Los Angeles Clippers; the sale closed after a California court confirmed the authority of Shelly Sterling, on behalf of the Sterling Family Trust, to sell the franchise. (Her husband, Donald Sterling, had unsuccessfully fought the sale of the team he owned since 1981 in court.)
2016 - Katie Ledecky won the 200-meter, 400-meter and 800-meter freestyle at the same Olympics at the Games in Rio de Janeiro. She was the first 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.
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.
1898 - A peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed.
1898 - Hawaii was formally annexed to the United States.
1937 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated Hugo Black to the Supreme Court.
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., the 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 worst single-aircraft disaster, a Japan Air Lines 747 crashed into Mount Osutaka, killing 520 of the 524 on board.
1992 - After 14 months of negotiations, the United States, Mexico and Canada announced in Washington that they had concluded the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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 crew of 118 men were lost in the Barents Sea.
2004 - New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey announced his resignation amid revelations that he had an extramarital affair with another man 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 more than 100,000 people.
2009 - Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, a 23-year-old Georgia man, was convicted of aiding terrorist groups by sending videotapes of U.S. landmarks overseas and plotting to support "violent jihad" after a federal jury in Atlanta rejected his arguments that it was empty talk. (Sadequee was sentenced to 17 years in prison.)
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 in prison; he was fatally beaten at a West Virginia prison in 2018, just hours after being transferred from a facility in Florida.)
2014 - Lauren Bacall, 89, the slinky, sultry-voiced actress who created on-screen magic with Humphrey Bogart in "To Have and Have Not" and "The Big Sleep" and off-screen magic in one of Hollywood's most storied marriages, died in New York.
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;" Democrats and some Republicans called on him to specifically denounce white supremacy.
Birthdays
23 - Torri Webster (actress)
26 - Imani Hakim (actress)
27 - Cara Delevingne (actress/model)
28 - Khris Middleton (basketball player)
28 - Lakeith Stanfield (actor)
29 - Christina Cimorelli (singer)
31 - Tyson Fury (boxer)
31 - Leah Pipes (actress)
35 - Marian Rivera (actress)
36 - Meryem Uzerli (actress)
39 - Dominique Swain (actress)
39 - Malaysia Pargo (reality star)
39 - Maggie Lawson (actress)
44 - Casey Affleck (actor)
48 - Rebecca Gayheart (actress/model)
48 - Yvette Nicole Brown (actress)
48 - Michael Ian Black (actor/comedian)
48 - Pete Sampras (tennis player)
52 - Brent Sexton (actor)
54 - Peter Krause (actor)
56 - Sir Mix-A-Lot (rapper)
63 - Danny Shirley (country sniger)
63 - Bruce Greenwood (actor)
65 - Sam J. Jones (actor)
69 - Kid Creole (singer)
69 - Jim Beaver (actor)
78 - Jennifer Warren (actress)
78 - Dana Ivey (actress)
80 - George Hamilton (actor)
==================================
Today in Sports History - August 12
1909 - The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the home of 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 in his career.
1969 - The Boston Celtics were sold for $6 million, the highest-price to date paid for a professional basketball team.
1973 - Jack Nicklaus won his 14th major title after winning the PGA Championship, breaking Bobby Jones' record that had stood for 50 years.
1974 - Nolan Ryan of the California Angels strikes out 19 batters and walks only two as the Angels top the Boston Red Sox 4-2.
1974 - Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford of the New York Yankees become the first teammates inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on the same day.
1984 - A game between the Atlanta Braves and San Diego Padres featured two brawls and 19 player ejections. (The Braves won the game 5-3.)
1986 - The California Angels retired Rod Carew's #29.
1988 - The Boston Red Sox beat the Detroit Tigers 9-4 to set an American League record with their 23rd consecutive home victory.
1994 - Major League Baseball players went on strike rather than allow owners to limit their salaries. The strike lasted for 232 days and as a result, the World Series would be canceled for the first time in 90 years.
2007 - Tiger Woods wins his fourth PGA Championship.
2012 - Rory McIlroy wins the PGA Championship.
2014 - Steve Ballmer officially became the new owner of the Los Angeles Clippers; the sale closed after a California court confirmed the authority of Shelly Sterling, on behalf of the Sterling Family Trust, to sell the franchise. (Her husband, Donald Sterling, had unsuccessfully fought the sale of the team he owned since 1981 in court.)
2016 - Katie Ledecky won the 200-meter, 400-meter and 800-meter freestyle at the same Olympics at the Games in Rio de Janeiro. She was the first 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.