August 12<\/p>\n
30BC \u2013 Cleopatra Philopator Antoninus commits suicide purportedly by being bit by an asp.<\/p>\n
1099 \u2013 The last battle of the First Crusade near Ascalon is a victory for Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon over the army of Al-Afdal Shahanshah<\/p>\n
1121 \u2013 The last battle of the Georgian Crusade near Didgori is a victory for the Georgian army of King David IV over the Seljuk army of Najm ad-Din Ilghazi<\/p>\n
1164 \u2013 Near Harim Syria, the army of Nur ad-Din Zangi defeats the combined Crusader armies of the County of Tripoli, the Principality of Antioch, the Byzantine Empire, and Armenia.<\/p>\n
1492 \u2013 Christopher Columbus arrives in the Canary Islands to rest and restock supplies before continuing on his first voyage to the new world.<\/p>\n
1499 \u2013 The first naval engagement of the Battle of Zanchio begins between Venetian and Ottoman fleets.<\/p>\n
1687 \u2013 The army of the Holy Roman empire, commanded by Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottoman army of Sultan Mehmed IV commanded by Sari S\u00fcleyman Pa\u015fa near Nagyhars\u00e1ny Hill between Moh\u00e1cs and Sikl\u00f3s castle, Hungary.<\/p>\n
1851 \u2013 Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.<\/p>\n
1861 \u2013 Eliphalet Remington dies at home in Ilion New York.<\/p>\n
1865 \u2013 Joseph Lister performs the first surgery under his antiseptic protocols<\/p>\n
1881 \u2013 Cecil B. DeMille is born in Ashfield, Massachusetts<\/p>\n
1898 \u2013 The Republic of Hawaii is formally annexed by the United States<\/p>\n
1914 \u2013 The United Kingdom, and the rest of the British Empire, declares war on Austria-Hungary<\/p>\n
1944 \u2013 In retaliation for Italian Resistance operations, Waffen SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant’Anna di Stazzema, Italy<\/p>\n
1945 \u2013 Several officers of the Japanese Imperial Army meet with War Minister Korechika Anami requesting he do whatever he can to prevent acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration. Refusing to confirm he would do so, the officers decide they have no choice but to attempt a coup d’\u00e9tat.<\/em> 1950 \u2013 North Korean Army troops massacre 75 American POWs west of Masan, South Korea<\/p>\n 1960 \u2013 Echo 1A<\/em>, manufactured by Bell Labs, NASA’s first successful communications satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral.<\/p>\n 1977 \u2013\u00a0 Shuttle Enterprise, <\/em>an unpowered test version, piloted by former astronaut Fred Haise and future astronaut Gordon Fullerton, is separated in flight from the 747 jet carrying it aloft, and is flown on its own for the first time.<\/p>\n 1981 \u2013 The IBM Personal Computer is released.<\/p>\n 1990 \u2013 \u00a0Air Force SSG John Campisi of the 55th Organizational Maintenance Squadron is struck and killed by a vehicle, becoming the first U.S. service member to die in Operation Desert Shield.<\/p>\n 1992 \u2013 Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).<\/p>\n 1994 \u2013 Major League Baseball players go on strike, forcing the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.<\/p>\n 2014 \u2013 American actress Betty “Lauren Bacall” Bogart, dies at her apartment in New York City, age 89<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 12 30BC \u2013 Cleopatra Philopator Antoninus commits suicide purportedly by being bit by an asp. 1099 \u2013 The last battle of the First Crusade near Ascalon is a victory for Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon over the army of Al-Afdal Shahanshah 1121 \u2013 The last battle of the Georgian Crusade near … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58034"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95121,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58034\/revisions\/95121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe U.S. announces that it would accept the Japanese surrender, making clear that Hirohito could remain emperor only in a purely ceremonial capacity.<\/p>\n