Daily Calendar for Wednesday, August 12, 2026

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William Blake (poet) – 1827
The Viscount Willingdon (Canadian Governor General 1926-1931) – 1941
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (oldest child of Rose and Joseph P. Kennedy; brother of President John F. Kennedy) – 1944
Ian Fleming (writer, creator of Agent 007 James Bond) – 1964
Henry Fonda (actor) – 1982
Loretta Young (actress) – 2000
Enos "Country" Slaughter (baseball player) – 2002
Ed Headrick (designed the frisbee) – 2002
Merv Griffin (entertainer) – 2007
Lauren Bacall (actress) – 2014

Christy Mathewson (baseball hall-of-famer) – 1880
Cecil B. DeMille (director) – 1881
Cantinflas (aka Mario Moreno Reyes [actor]) – 1911
George Hamilton (actor) – 1939
Ann M. Martin (author) – 1955
Bruce Greenwood (actor) – 1956
Peter Krause (actor) – 1965
Pete Sampras (tennis player) – 1971
Michael Ian Black (comedian & actor) – 1971
Matt Clement (baseball player) – 1974
Casey Affleck (actor) – 1975
Cindy Klassen (Olympic speed skater; only Canadian Olympian to win five medals in a single Olympic games) – 1979

Philip, chief of the Wampanog tribe, was killed by a renegade Indian of his own tribe, bringing to an end the first and bloodiest war between American Indians and white settlers of New England, a war that had raged for nearly two years and was known as King Philip’s War – 1676
Isaac Singer received a patent for the continuous-stitch sewing machine – 1851
Thomas Edison received a patent for his phonograph – 1877
Marjorie Gestring, at age 13, won an Olympic gold medal for springboard diving – 1936
Actor William Shatner married Gloria Rand – 1956
The first successful communications satellite, Echo I, was launched – 1960
Space shuttle Enterprise completed its first free-flight test – 1977
The IBM PC was introduced – 1981
Patent issued for therapeutic horseshoe – 1986
Cathy Gerring won the Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic, in Vermont – 1990
Fossil hunter Susan Hendrickson found Tyrannosaurus rex bones near Faith, South Dakota – 1990
232-day baseball strike began, causing World Series to be canceled – 1994