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Notable anniversaries in history for today: August 12
- 250th: 1774 - Birth of Robert Southey English poet laureate, biographer of Nelson.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Pat Metheny; jazz guitarist ("As Wichita Falls").
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Sam J Jones in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Chris - Code Red, The Highway Man, Hollywood Safari).
- 60th: 1964 - 10th time Mickey Mantle switch-hits home run in a game, one goes 502 feet.
- 60th: 1964 - Race riot in Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA.
- 50th: 1974 - Nolan Ryan strikes-out 19 Boston Red Sox players.
- 50th: 1974 - New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford become first teammates elected to Baseball Hall of Fame on the same day.
- 40th: 1984 - Don Drysdale, Harmon Killebrew, Rick Ferrell, Luis Aparicio and Pee Wee Reese are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
- 30th: 1994 - Woodstock 1994 begins in Saugerties, New York. It is the 25-year anniversary of Woodstock in 1969.
- 30th: 1994 - Major League Baseball players go on strike, eventually causing the cancellation of the World Series and delaying opening of the 1995 season.
- 20th: 2004 - Singapore's prime minister Goh Chok Tong hands over his position to Lee Hsien Loong.
- 20th: 2004 - New Jersey Governor James McGreevey announces that he is "a gay American" and will resign effective November 15, 2004.
- 20th: 2004 - Death of Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer and inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1919).
- 15th: 2009 - Death of Les Paul at age 94 from complications of pneumonia in New York, USA; guitarist ("Mockin' Bird Hill", "How High the Moon", "The World is Waiting for the Sunrise"). guitar designer (marketed by the Gibson company), built the first eight-track tape recorder, invented "sound-on-sound" recording or overdubbing, inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame (1978) and the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame (1988).
- 5th: 2019 - Hong Kong International Airport is closed due to protests.
- 5th: 2019 - South Korea announces the removal of Japan from its list of most trusted trading partners, effective on September 18.
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