This Day in History – August 12

August 12th is the 224th day of 2022. 141 days remain this year.

Today doubles as World Elephant Day, National Middle Child Day, National Vinyl Record Day and Milkman Day

24 days until Labor Day, 80 to Halloween, 86 days in Daylight Saving Time.

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The sewing machine is invented.

Ian Fleming, English spy, journalist, and author who wrote the James Bond novels, died in Canterbury, England (b. 1908)

Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham played together for the first time when they rehearsed at a studio in London's West End. They would go on to form the Legendary band, Led Zeppelin!

Singer Janis Joplin performed the last concert before she died.

The Commodores' Three Times a Lady is the top song and recording in the land.

IBM introduced the personal computer - with Bill Gates' new operating system - MS-DOS version 1.0.

IBM introduced the personal computer - with Bill Gates' new operating system - MS-DOS version 1.0

Henry Fonda left us.

Lionel Richie performs his hit song "All Night Long," at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Special lyrics were written and performed for the closing ceremony.

Right Here Waiting by Richard Marx is #1 on Billboard's Hot 100.

Woodstock 2 - officially titled "Woodstock '94" starts in Saugerties, New York, with Sheryl Crow, Todd Rundgren and Violent Femmes performing on opening night. The festival is a success, drawing a crowd of about 350,000.

Merv Griffin died. His estate still draws royalties from his syndicated TV-show creations, "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy."

Boston mobster Whitey Bulger was found guilty of 11 killings and 30 other criminal offenses.

The Chicago White Sox beat the New York Yankees 9-8 in the first Major League Baseball game ever played in Iowa; the teams hit a combined total of eight home runs into the cornstalks, near the site used for the 1989 movie “Field of Dreams.”