Today in History - History - August 12th

1942British premier Churchill arrives in Moscow, meets Stalin

1877Thomas Edison invents Edisonphone, a sound recording device

1984Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic

1964Mickey Mantle switch-hits HR record 10th & final time in a game

1336English King Edward III ends wool export to Flanders

1916Picasso, Max Jacob, Kisling, Ortiz & Paquerette photographed in Paris

200789th PGA Championship: Tiger Woods shoots a 272 at Southern Hills Country Club

1492Christopher Columbus arrives in the Canary Islands on his first voyage to the New World

1990Iraqi President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories

1908Henry Ford's company builds the first Model T car

1918Guy Gibson, British aviator, awarded Victoria Cross (d. 1944)

1977Iva Majoli, Zagreb Croatia, tennis star (1996 Pan Pacific)

1887Erwin Schrodinger, Vienna Austria, physicist and Nobel Prize Laureate, (d. 1961)

1910Jane Wyatt, Mahwah, New Jersey, American actress (Father Knows Best, Star Trek), (d. 2006)

1940PGA golfer Sam Snead (28) weds high school sweetheart Audrey Karnes

1956Canadain actor William Shatner (Star Trek) marries Gloria Rand

1806Frontiersman Davy Crockett (20) weds Polly Finley in Tennessee

1988Country singer John Denver (44) weds actress Cassandra Delaney

1827William Blake, English poet/painter, dies at 69

30 BCCleopatra VII Philopator, the last ruler of the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty, commits suicide allegedly by inducing an asp (Egyptian cobra) to bite her

1955Thomas Mann, German writer (Dr Faustus, Nobel 1929), dies at 80

1989William Shockley, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)

1973Karl Ziegler, German chemist and Nobel Laureate, dies at 74

1914John Philip Holland, submarine designer, dies at 74