Today In History - August 12

1332 Battle of Dupplin Moor
1508 Ponce de Leon arrives in Puerto Rico
1553 Pope Julius III orders the confiscation and burning of the Talmud
1676 King Philip's War ends in New England
1851 Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine
1862 General John Hunt Morgan captures Gallatin, TX
1863 The first cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet in Vancouver, BC
1867 President Andrew Johnson defies the Congress by suspending Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
1877 Thomas Edison invents the Edisonphone for recording sound
1879 The first National Archery Association tournament is held in Chicago
1898 Hawaii is formally annexed to the US
1898 Peace protocol ends the Spanish-American War
1915 "Of Human Bondage," by William Somerset Maugham, is published
1928 The 9th Olympic Games close in Amsterdam
1935 Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park
1941 French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany
1953 Ann Davidson, the first woman to sail solo across the Atlantic arrives in Miami
1953 The Soviet Union conducts a secret test of its first hydrogen bomb
1955 President Eisenhower raises the minimum wage from $0.75 to $1.00 an hour
1956 Star Trek's William Shatner marries Gloria Rand
1960 Echo 1, the first communications satellite is launched
1964 Race riot breaks out in Elizabeth, NJ
1965 Race riots in the West Side of Chicago
1969 The Boston Celtics are sold for an NBA record $6 million
1972 The last American combat ground troops leave South Vietnam
1981 IBM introduces the PC and PC-DOS version 1.0
1982 Henry Fonda dies at age 77 from heart disease
1985 A Japanese Boeing 747 crashes and 520 people die
1988 Controversial movie "Last Temptation of Christ" is released
1988 Nelson Mandela is treated for tuberculosis at the hospital
1988 Richard Thornburgh becomes the US Attorney General
1990 Iraq President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve the Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories
1991 Creditors vote to support the Greyhound Bus reorganization plan

1753 Thomas Bewick
1757 ALF (alien life form)
1762 George IV King of England
1774 Robert Southey
1781 Robert Mills
1820 Oliver Mowat
1859 Katharine Lee Bates
1867 Edith Hamilton
1876 Mary Roberts Rinehart
1880 Christy Mathewson
1881 Cecil B. deMille
1884 Frank Swinnerton
1890 Al Goodman
1893 Howard Smith
1904 Frank Ervin
1911 Cantinflas (aka Mario Moreno)
1912 Jane Wyatt
1913 Kurt Kaszner
1915 Alex Wojciechowicz
1919 Michael Kidd (aka Milton Greenwald)
1921 Marjorie Reynolds
1925 Dale Bumpers
1925 Norris McWhirter
1925 Ross McWhirter
1926 John Derek
1927 Ralph Waite
1929 Buck Owens
1931 William Goldman
1932 Porter Wagoner
1936 Hans Haacke
1936 John Poindexter
1939 George Hamilton
1941 Deborah Walley
1941 Jennifer Warren
1949 Mark Knopfler
1951 Charles E. Brady, Jr.
1951 Hector Rodriguez
1954 Pat Metheny
1954 Sam J. Jones
1960 Lonny Chin
1960 Morty Black
1961 Pete De Freitas
1961 Roy Hay