08-12-2004, 06:24 AM
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August 12th
1099 ~ First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon - Crusaders defeated Saracens and the Kingdom of Jerusalem is established under Godfrey of Bouillon.
1851 ~ Isaac Singer was granted a patent for his sewing machine.
1859 ~ Birthday of Katherine Lee Bates, poet, author of "America the Beautiful".
1887 ~ Birthday of Erwin Schrödinger, physicist.
1927 ~ Birthday of Mstislav Rostropovich, Cellist.
1928 ~ Death of Leos Janacek, Czech composer.
1953 ~ The Soviet Union detonated its first hydrogen bomb.
1960 ~ “Echo I”, the first communications satellite, launched.
1964 ~ Birthday of Ian Fleming, Novelist.
1981 ~ The IBM PC was introduced.
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