On This Day:
Tuesday August 12, 2014 This is the 224th day of the year, with 141 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: prism Isaac Newton discovered that a prism could break up white light into the spectrum of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet - and that recombination of these re-created white light.
Holidays Feast day of St. Porcarius and his Companions, St. Jambert, archbishop of Canterbury, St. Euplus, and St. Murtagh or Muredach.
Thailand: Birthday of the Queen.
United Nations: International Youth Day.
Events 1676 - In colonial New England, King Philip's War effectively ended when Philip, chief of the Wampanoag Indians, was assassinated by a Native American working for the English.
1851 - Isaac Singer was granted a patent on his sewing machine.
1877 - Thomas Alva Edison completed the model for the first phonograph.
1896 - Gold was discovered near Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada.
1898 - Hawaii was formally annexed to the United States.
1898 - An armistice ended the Spanish-American War.
1908 - Henry Ford's first Model T rolled off the assembly line.
1935 - President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Social Security Bill.
1944 - Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., eldest son of Joseph Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was killed with his co-pilot when their explosives-laden Navy plane blew up over England.
1960 - The first successful communications satellite, Echo I, was put into Earth's orbit to relay voice and TV signals.
1966 - The last tour for the Beatles began in Chicago; and John Lennon apologized for boasting that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ.
1972 - The last American combat ground troops left Vietnam.
1992 - The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was concluded between the United States, Canada, and Mexico, creating the world's wealthiest trade bloc.
2000 - The Russian nuclear submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea after the hull was damaged by a series of explosions; all 118 crew members died.
Births 1781 - Robert Mills, American architect of Washington Monument, National Portrait Gallery, U.S. Treasury Building.
1881 - Cecil B. DeMille, American movie producer and director.
1911 - Cantinflas, Mexican circus clown, acrobat and actor.
1930 - Porter Waggoner, American country music singer, songwriter.
Deaths 1827 - William Blake, English poet and painter.
1964 - Ian Fleming, English novelist who created the character James Bond.
1982 - Henry Fonda, American stage and film actor.
2007 - Merv Griffin, television host and businessman.
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