1121 Battle of Didgori: the Georgian army under King David the Builder wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi
1480 Battle of Otranto – Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam
1851 American inventor Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine
1908 Henry Ford’s company builds the first Model T car
1981 IBM introduces its first Personal Computer (PC & PC-DOS version 1.0)
Aug 12 in Film & TV
1927 “Wings”, one of only two silent films – the other being The Artist in
2011 – to win an Oscar for best picture, opens starring Clara Bow (Outstanding Picture 1929)
Aug 12 in Music
1991 Heavy metal band Metallica release their 5th album “Metallica”; debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 chart
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The last quagga (zebra subspecies with less slashes) dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.
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Self-proclaimed Emperor Joshua Abraham Norton of the USA issues edict abolishing the Democratic and Republican parties
