08-12-2006, 12:46 PM
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... also on August 12th
1851 ~ Isaac Singer was granted a patent for his sewing machine.
1859 ~ Birthday of Katherine Lee Bates, Poet (America the Beautiful).
1887 ~ Birthday of Erwin Schrödinger, Physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1933.
1927 ~ Birthday of Mstislav Rostropovich, Cellist.
1928 ~ Death of Leos Janacek, Czech Composer.
1953 ~ The Soviet Union detonated its first hydrogen bomb.
1960 ~ The first communications satellite, Echo I, was launched.
1964 ~ Death of Ian Fleming, Novelist.
1981 ~ The IBM PC was introduced.
2002 ~ Russian submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea.
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