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Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 12 August.

1. Issac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine
2. Pres A Johnson defies Congress suspending Sec of War Edwin Stanton
3. Hawaii formally annexed to the US
4. The peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed.
5. Of Human Bondage by William Somerset Maugham published.
6. K Reinmuth discovers 1 000th asteroid names it Giuseppe Piazzi
7. Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park 41 766 on hand
8. diver Marjorie Gestring becomes youngest Olympic gold medalist (13)
9. French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany.
10. Ann Davidson -1st woman to sail solo across Atlantic arrived Miami
11. Soviet Union conducted a secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb.
12. Pres Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour
13. 1st ship firing of a Polaris missile Observation Island
14. Echo 1 1st communications satellite is launched
15. Russia launches Pavel Popovich. He lands safely Aug. 15.
16. 10th time Mantle switch hits HR in a game one goes 502 feet
17. Last American combat ground troops left Vietnam.
18. 1st time 2 teammates elected to Hall of Fame on same day they are Yankees Mickey Mantle & Whitey Ford
19. 1st test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
20. World's worst single aircraft disaster-Japan Boeing 747 (520 die)

These famous people were born on 12 August.

1. 1753 - Thomas Bewick, English artist (British Birds, Aesop's Fables)
2. 1762 - George IV, king of England (1820-30)
3. 1774 - Robert Southey, English poet laureate, biographer of Nelson
4. 1862 - Juluis Rosenwald, philanthropist
5. 1866 - Jacinto Benavente y Mart¡nez, Spanish dramatist (Nobel 1922)
6. 1876 - Mary Roberts Rinehart, mystery writer
7. 1880 - Christy Mathewson, HOF baseball pitcher
8. 1881 - Cecil B deMille, directed God
9. 1887 - Erwin Schrodinger, Austrian physicist (had a cat)
10. 1911 - Mario Moreno, alias Cantinflas, Mexican entertainer
11. 1912 - Jane Wyatt, Mom knows best - Spock's mother in Campgaw NJ
12. 1915 - Alex Wojciechowicz, NFL center (Lions, Eagles)
13. 1919 - Michael Kidd, Choreographer
14. 1921 - Majorie Reynolds, in Buhl Idaho
15. 1925 - Dale Bumpers, (Sen-D-Ark)
16. 1926 - John Derek, Actor-director
17. 1929 - Buck Owens, country singer
18. 1931 - William Goldman, author (Lord of the Flies) (Nobel 1983)
19. 1939 - George Hamilton, Actor
20. 1941 - Deborah Walley, in Bridgeport Ct