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This Day in History Aug. 12


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Posted by blue water massey on August 11, 2015 at 21:35:16 from (198.254.227.107):

Aug. 12

1676 King Philip's War (vs Wampanoag Indians) ends in New England
1851 Isaac Singer granted patent for his sewing machine
1862 Gen John Hunt Morgan & his raiders capture Gallatin, TX
1863 1st cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC area)
1867 Pres A Johnson defies Congress suspending Sec. of War Edwin Stanton
1877 Thomas Edison invents the Edisonphone, a sound recording device
1888 Bertha, wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes 1st motor tour
1898 Hawaii formally annexed to US
1898 Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed
1941 French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany
1953 Ann Davidson, 1st woman to sail solo across Atlantic, arrives Miami
1953 Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb
1959 1st ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island
1960 Echo 1, 1st communications satellite, is launched
1960 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 41,600 m
1962 Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely Aug 15
1972 Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam
1976 1st approach & lands test (ALT) of orbiter Enterprise
1977 High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 launched into Earth orbit
1977 Space shuttle Enterprise makes 1st atmospheric flight
1978 ICE is launched
1981 IBM introduces the PC and PC-DOS version 1.0
1985 Japanese Boeing 747 crashes, 520 die (worst in-flight toll)
1988 Nelson Mandela is treated for tuberculosis at the hospital
1988 Richard Thornburgh becomes 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 Greyhound Bus reorganization plan


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