En este día...

ON THIS DAY

On This Day: August 12

Go to Index »

• See larger version »
• Buy a reproduction »

On Aug. 12, 1898, the peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed.

Go to article »

On Aug. 12, 1881, Cecil B. DeMille, a leading American movie producer and director for over 40 years, was born. Following his death on Jan. 21, 1959, his obituary appeared in The Times.

Go to obituary » | Other birthdays »

On This Date

1851	Isaac Singer was granted a patent on his sewing machine.
1880	Baseball Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson was born in Factoryville, Pa.
1898	The peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed.
1898	Hawaii was formally annexed to the United States.
1944	Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., eldest son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was killed when an explosives-laden Navy plane blew up over England during World War II.
1953	The Soviet Union conducted a secret test of its first hydrogen bomb.
1960	The first balloon satellite, Echo 1, was launched by the United States from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
1966	John Lennon apologized at a news conference in Chicago for saying "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus."
1977	The space shuttle Enterprise passed its first solo flight test by taking off atop a Boeing 747, separating and then touching down in California's Mojave Desert.
1981	IBM introduced its first personal computer, the model 5150.
1998	Swiss banks agreed to pay $1.25 billion as restitution to Holocaust survivors to settle claims for their assets.
2000	The Russian nuclear submarine Kursk and its 118-man crew were lost during naval exercises in the Barents Sea.
2004	New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey announced his resignation and proclaimed himself "a gay American."
2004	The California Supreme Court voided the nearly 4,000 same-sex marriages sanctioned in San Francisco earlier in the year.
2008	Russia halted its devastating five-day assault on Georgia that left homes in smoldering ruins and uprooted 100,000 people.

Current Birthdays

New York Jets wide receiver Plaxico Burress turns 34 years old today.

AP Photo/Julio Cortez

Actress Rebecca Gayheart turns 39 years old today.

AP Photo/Dan Steinberg

1925	Dale Bumpers, Former U.S. senator, D-Ark., turns 86
1939	George Hamilton, Actor, turns 72
1941	Dana Ivey, Actress, turns 70
1949	Mark Knopfler, Rock singer, musician (Dire Straits), turns 62
1950	Kid Creole, Singer, turns 61
1954	Pat Metheny, Jazz guitarist, turns 57
1956	Bruce Greenwood, Actor, turns 55
1963	Sir Mix-A-Lot, Rapper, turns 48
1965	Peter Krause, Actor ("Six Feet Under"), turns 46
1971	Michael Ian Black, Actor, comedian ("Ed"), turns 40
1971	Yvette Nicole Brown, Actress ("Community"), turns 40
1971	Pete Sampras, Tennis player, turns 40
1975	Casey Affleck, Actor, turns 36
1980	Maggie Lawson, Actress, turns 31
1980	Dominique Swain, Actress, turns 31