What Happened On Aug 12 Events

The Battle of Ascalon took place on August 12, 1099, and is often considered the last action of the First Crusade. The crusaders had negotiated with the Fatimids of Egypt during their ...

Christian IV of Denmark, encouraged by his successes at Stralsund, assembled another army off the German coast on the Island of Usedom. This landed at the mouth of the Oder and progressed...

Philip's allies began to desert him. By early July, over 400 had surrendered to the colonists, and Philip himself had taken refuge in the Assowamset Swamp, below Providence, Rhode Island,...

On August 12, 1833, the Town of Chicago was incorporated with a population of 350. The first boundaries of the new town were Kinzie, Desplaines, Madison, and State Streets, which included...

August 12, 1877, is the date popularly given for Thomas Alva Edison's completion of the model for the first phonograph, a device that recorded sound onto tinfoil cylinders. It is more lik...

On August 12, 1883, the astronomer José Bonilla reported that he saw more than 300 dark, unidentified objects crossing before the sun while observing sunspot activity at Zacatecas Observa...

The American cavalry pursued the soldiers that had retreated from Coamo, but were not able to reach them until the units had entered Aibonito Pass, a region more commonly known as Asomant...

First Field Battle in Belgium The first field battle of the war in Belgium took place northwest of Liege, on August 12, when a force of 5000 German cavalry, supported by artillery and ...

A circular sent to US consuls throughout Germany giving general instructions with regard to the treatment of Americans "AMERICAN EMBASSY, BERLIN, August 12, 1914 "To the Consu...

Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi, commonly known as Charles Ponzi, was an Italian businessman and con artist in the U.S. and Canada. His aliases include Charles Ponei, Charle...

The main attack upon the RAF's defences was code-named Adlerangriff ("Eagle Attack"). Weather, which proved an important feature of the campaign, delayed Adlertag, ("Eagle Day") until ...

Operation Aphrodite was a series of bombing runs by explosive-laden aircraft piloted by a skeleton crew who would parachute from the aircraft before detonation. After U.S. Army Air Forces...

Various coventions to protect those involved in armed conflict were adopted from the mid-19th century onwards. However, they did not apply to civilian populations. The adoption of the 194...

A Geisha (祇園囃子, Gion Bayashi?), or "Gion Festival Music", is a 1953 Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi centred around life in post-war Gion (Kyoto) through the relationship between...

I first heard about the sighting about two o'clock on the morning of August 11,1953, when Max Futch called me from ATIC. A few minutes before, a wire had come in carrying a priority just ...

The group invited Pete Best to become their drummer on 12 August 1960. Four days after hiring Best, the group left for Hamburg. The Beatles began a 48-night residency in Hamburg at Bruno ...

Some have suggested that Dr. Seuss wrote Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! as a political allegory about Richard Nixon in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal. This is unlikely, ...

Harry and Tonto is a 1974 film directed by Paul Mazursky and starring Art Carney as Harry Coombes, an elderly widower who is forced from his condemned New York City apartment against his ...

Chase's work on a fourth studio album in mid-1974 came to an end on August 9, 1974. While en route to a scheduled performance at the Jackson County Fair, Chase died in a plane crash in Ja...

"For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall neve..." —Ted Kennedy

Japan Airlines Flight 123 was a Japan Airlines domestic flight from Tokyo International Airport (Haneda) to Osaka International Airport (Itami). The Boeing 747-SR46 that made this route, ...

Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist and the first African-American painter to become an international art star. He gained popularity first as...

The Last Temptation of Christ is a 1988 film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is a film adaptation of the controversial 1960 novel of the same name by Nikos Kazantzakis. It stars Willem Da...

The Last Temptation of Christ is a 1988 film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is a film adaptation of the controversial 1960 novel of the same name by Nikos Kazantzakis. It stars Willem Da...

The Moscow Music Peace Festival was a one-time gathering of high-profile hard rock acts for a performance in Moscow, Soviet Union on 12 and 13 August 1989 to promote world peace and estab...

Mental Vortex is the fourth album of the Swiss thrash metal trio Coroner. It is probably their most progressive and mature achievement and marks an improvement in the production compared ...

Metallica (also referred to as The Black Album) is the fifth album by the American heavy metal band Metallica, released August 12, 1991 through Elektra Records. The album features songs t...

"The Trip" is a two-part story (the forty-first and forty-second episodes to air) of NBC's popular sitcom, Seinfeld. Airing on August 12, 1992 and August 19, 1992, it kicked off the fourt...

The 1993 PGA Championship was the 75th PGA Championship held from August 12-15, 1993 at Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio. Paul Azinger won his first major championship on the second hole of...

Phobos was the ninth album released by Canadian thrash metal/progressive metal band Voivod. It was released on Slipdisc/Hypnotic Records in 1997.

Tiger Woods won his first PGA Championship and second overall major by one stroke over 19-year old Sergio García. At the time, many (including noted commentator Gary McCord) thought th...

It was a year ago that the Russian nuclear powered submarine, the Kursk, sank with all of its 118 crew. The cause of the accident has yet to be established and amidst the controversy w...

Crestor is in a group of drugs called HMG CoA reductase inhibitors, or "statins." Rosuvastatin reduces levels of "bad" cholesterol (low-density lipoprotein, or LDL) and triglycerides in t...

"Gangstaz Roll" was a 2003 single by hip-hop group Mobb Deep. It was the group's debut on Jive Records having left their previous label Loud Records. However, the single did not chart and...

Lots of laughs last night at the Comedy Connection. Lots of fun as Tim Wakefield and Johnny Damon hosted the kickoff party for their charity golf tournament. And why not? The Red Sox a...

It was the first PGA Championship held at Whistling Straits. Vijay Singh earned his third major win in a three hole playoff defeating Justin Leonard and Chris DiMarco. The purse was $6.25...

The Red Sox are a special team at Fenway Park, and not even White Sox ace Mark Buehrle could prevent the local nine from winning its 12th in a row at home. The Chicago lefthander came ...

Now a new twist to an old story line: the walkoff error. And another sleepless night for Dominic DiMaggio. Sometime next winter, when you crack open the Whitman's Sampler of Red Sox...

Hannah Montana becomes the "poster child" for Magic Glo skin care. But when she catches a glimpse of the billboard, there's a tomato sized zit on her forehead. Lilly's dog eats her contac...

BALTIMORE -- Mayday. In this case, that is not a distress signal, even though you could almost imagine dozens of red flares firing over Boston Harbor as the Red Sox landed at Logan Air...

Eric gets in a fender bender with Anna Faris and while he believes they shared "a little moment," he finds his career about to change. Turtle goes shopping for provisions (and girls) for ...

A Little Bit Longer is the third studio album by the American pop-rock band the Jonas Brothers, and their second album released under Hollywood Records and managed under Sony/ATV Music Pu...

There was still hope in the frayed voices of the Fenway faithful. Too much, perhaps. As Jacoby Ellsbury walked to the plate in the eighth, they cheered. As J.D. Drew lifted a fly ball to ...

CLEVELAND - A night earlier, Orioles manager Dave Trembley kept Jim Johnson in the bullpen, rather than giving his most effective reliever the ball in the seventh inning after his team ra...

Saudades de Rock (which roughly translates from Portuguese as "Nostalgic Yearnings of Rock") is Extreme's fifth studio album, released on August 12, 2008. It was the band's first album of...

For most of us, the experience of waking up in a strange motel room, alone and disoriented, means that you were the victim of Chinese Organ Thieves. Inconvenient, sure, but kidneys are r...

BBC Sessions and Other Polished Turds is a compilation album by The Vandals, released August 12, 2008 by Kung Fu Records. It was released as a digital download through iTunes and the band...

For months now, the agony has outweighed that long-ago memory of the ecstasy. It has been strikeouts, and fly balls, and ground outs. Hits have been few. Home runs and RBIs have been fewe...

The show at the Double Door was the best of the tour. The band was energized by the enthusiasm of family members and friends of promoter Patrick Hand

Francisco Liriano was on the mound Wednesday. The Twins had used four relievers the night before. That called for contingency plans. Given the way Liriano's season has gone and how ...