Historical Events for 12th August 2018

1588 – Commander of the English fleet Lord Howard of Effingham calls off chase of the Spanish Armada off coast of Scotland
1759 – Battle of Kunersdorf – Russian-Austrian army overpowers Prussians
1908 – Henry Ford’s company builds the first Model T car
1948 – Cleveland Indians get 29 hits in a 9 inning game
1951 – Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship
1952 – Hussein ibn Talal proclaimed King of Jordan
1978 – International Cometary Explorer (ICE) spacecraft launched – to study solar wind
1985 – 520 people die when Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes in Ueno, Japan, the second-deadliest aviation disaster of all time
1994 – Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association strike
2013 – 30 people are killed by gunmen in northeast Nigeria

More Historical Events »

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *