What happened on August 12th?
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| 1417 | Henry V starts using English (rather than French) in his correspondence. Learn more.. |
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| 1676 | King Philip's War ended with the assassination of Metacom, leader of the Pokanokets, a tribe within the Wampanoag Indian Federation. Learn more.. |
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| 1851 | Isaac Singer is granted Patent No. 8,294, for the first practical sewing machine Learn more.. |
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| 1881 | Film pioneer Cecil B. DeMille was born in Ashfield, Massachusetts. Learn more.. |
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| 1914 | Britain declares war on Austro-Hungarian Empire Learn more.. |
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| 1953 | The USSR explodes a Hydrogen Bomb for the first time Learn more.. |
| 1960 | Echo 1A, the first communications satellite, was successfully put into an orbit Learn more.. |
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| 1981 | Phillip "Don" Estridge announced the IBM Personal Computer (IBM 5150) with a price tag of $1565 Learn more.. |
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| 2025 | Today |