The IBM Personal Computer is released. The IBM Personal Computer, officially released on August 12, 1981, marked a turning point in the history of computing….
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12 August 1952
The Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. The Night of the Murdered Poets refers to…
12 August 1994
Major League Baseball players go on strike, eventually forcing the cancellation of the 1994 World Series. The 1994 Major League Baseball (MLB) strike was a…
12 August 1964
South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country’s racist policies.
12 August 1964
South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country’s racist policies.
12 August 1851
Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Singer’]
12 August 1865
Joseph Lister performs 1st antiseptic surgery. On the 12th August 1865 Joseph Lister carried out the world’s first antiseptic surgery using the chemical phenol, otherwise…
12 August 1944
Waffen-SS troops massacre over 560 people in Sant’Anna di Stazzema. On that day in 1944, four columns of Hitler’s crack 16th SS Panzer Grenadier Division,…
12 August 1976
Over 3000 Palestinians are killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre during the Lebanese Civil War.