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First Indian War / Singer / T-Rex / IBM PC

On This Day (August 12): Your quick daily trip back in time.

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Fatih Taskiran
August 12, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes

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Good morning. It's Tuesday, Aug. 12, and we're discovering the tragic ending of the First Indian War, the birth of the famous sewing machine, the personal computer, and much more.

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🚀 Time Machine

-1121

The Georgian army was defeated by the Seljuk commander Ilghazi at the Battle of Didgori under King David.

-1480

The Ottoman army conquered Otranto in southern Italy after a 15-day siege, killing 12,000, enslaving 5,000, and beheading 800 Christians.

-1676

Assassinating Metacomet, chief of the Wampanoag tribe, effectively ended King Philip's War in colonial New England.

-1851

American inventor Isaac Singer patents his famous sewing machine.

-1898

Spanish-American War ends with Spain agreeing to U.S. terms: cession of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Manila in the Philippines to the U.S.

-1908

The Ford Motor Company builds its first Model T car, which Henry Ford first tests on a hunting trip to Wisconsin and Michigan.

-1927

'Wings', a silent film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Clara Bow, premieres in New York—the first and one of only two silent films to win an Academy Award.

-1981

Introducing the IBM PC at the Waldorf Hotel in New York, Don Estridge unveils the company's first microcomputer. Priced at USD 1,565 with 16 kilobytes of RAM, it helps bring computing to the masses.

-1990

Sue Hendrickson discovers three massive bones sticking out of a cliff in South Dakota. They are part of the oldest Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found, a 65-million-year-old specimen named Sue.

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Disney created a—totally not frightening!—Mickey Mouse gas mask for children to help them become comfortable wearing it, 1942

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