August 12 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for August 12
In the headlines today:

2004	French cuisine author and TV host, Julia Child, dies in her Santa Barbara, California, home at age 91.
2004	Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, inventor of the CAT scan, dies in England at age 84.
2000	118 Russian sailors aboard the nuclear submarine Kursk are killed when an explosion sends the sub to the bottom of the Barents Sea.
2000	Actress Loretta Young dies of cancer in Los Angeles at age 87.
1998	Swiss bankers agree to pay $1.25 billion to settle claims from Holocaust survivors.
1994	The Woodstock '94 music festival opens in New York.
1992	Experimental music composer John Cage dies of a stroke in Los Angeles at age 79.
1985	A JAL Boeing 747 crashes into a mountain in Japan, killing all 520 people aboard.
1972	The last US ground forces pull out of Vietnam.
1966	The Beatles, jaded with playing in front of thousands of screaming fans, begin their last tour with a performance in Chicago.
1953	The USSR tests its first hydrogen bomb.
1918	Regularly scheduled air mail service begins between Washington, DC, and New York City.
1898	Hawaii is annexed to the US.
1898	The US signs the protocol of peace, an agreement to end the Spanish-American War.