12th August anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1859
  • United States
  • "Birth of Katharine Lee Bates, American writer, poet and teacher who wrote the words of the hymn America the Beautiful"
  • 1881
  • United States
  • "Birth of Cecil B DeMille, film producer"
• event
  • 1833
  • United States
  • Chicago was founded – as a small town with a population of 350 .
  • 1883
  • Netherlands
  • "The last quagga in the world died in an Amsterdam zoo, it was a sort of Zebra and is now extinct." more
  • 1908
  • United States
  • Henry Ford’s first ‘Model T’ rolled off the assembly line .
  • 1978
  • Japan and China signed a Treaty of Peace and Friendship in Beijing .
  • 1981
  • United States
  • IBM launches its PC — starts the general use of personal computers
  • 1994
  • United States
  • "Major League Baseball players in the USA went on strike, forcing the cancellation of the 1994 World Series"
  • 1998
  • Switzerland
  • Swiss banks agreed to pay Holocaust survivors $1.25 billion to settle claims for their assets.
• Death
  • 1715
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Nahum Tate, Poet Laureate"
  • 1827
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of William Blake, poet and artist"
  • 1928
  • Czech Republic
  • "Death of Leo Janacex, composer" more
  • 1955
  • Germany
  • "Death of Thomas Mann, writer and Nobel Laureate"
  • 1964
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Ian Fleming, writer and journalist and the creator of James Bond"
  • 1982
  • United States
  • "Death of Henry Fonda, actor"
  • 1989
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of William Shockley, British-born American physicist and engineer, joint winner of the Nobel Prize for inventing the transistor"