1915<\/strong> – “Of Human Bondage” by William Somerset Maugham was first published.<\/p>\n 1918<\/strong> – Regular airmail service began between Washington, DC, and New York City.<\/p>\n 1937<\/strong> – Red Skelton appeared on network radio for the first time on the “Rudy Vallee Show” on NBC.<\/p>\n 1939<\/strong> – “The Wizard of Oz” premiered in Oconomowoc, WI. Judy Garland became famous for the movie’s song “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” The movie premiered in Hollywood on August 15th.<\/p>\n 1953<\/strong> – The Soviet Union secretly tested its first hydrogen bomb.<\/p>\n 1960<\/strong> – The balloon satellite Echo One<\/i> was launched by the U.S. from Cape Canaveral, FL. It was the first communications satellite.<\/p>\n 1962<\/strong> – The Soviet Union launched Pavel Popovich into orbit. Popovich and Andrian Nikolayev, who launched a day before, both landed on August 15.<\/p>\n 1964<\/strong> – Mickey Mantle set a major league baseball record when he hit home runs from both the left and ride sides of the plate in the same game.<\/p>\n 1969<\/strong> – The Boston Celtics were sold for $6 million. At the time it was the highest price paid for a pro basketball team.<\/p>\n 1973<\/strong> – Jack Nicklaus won his 14th major golf title. The win broke the record that had been held by Bobby Jones for 50 years.<\/p>\n 1977<\/strong> – The space shuttle Enterprise<\/i> passed its first solo flight test.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – IBM unveiled its first PC.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – It was announced by NASA that they had selected a new rocket design for the space shuttle. The move was made in an effort at correcting the flaws that were believed to have been responsible for the Challenger disaster.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – Rod Carew became the first player in the history of the California Angels franchise to have his uniform (#29) retired.<\/p>\n 1988<\/strong> – The movie “The Last Temptation of Christ” opened.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – The U.S., Canada, and Mexico announced that the North American Free Trade Agreement had been created after 14 months of negotiations.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – U.S. President Clinton lifted the ban on rehiring air traffic controllers that had been fired for going on strike in 1981.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – Major league baseball players went on strike rather than allow team owners to limit their salaries. The strike lasted for 232 days. As a result, the World Series was wiped out for the first time in 90 years.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Swiss banks agreed to pay $1.25 billion as restitution to World War II Holocaust victims.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – Hang Thu Thi Ngyuen shot an arrow from a bow with her feet on “Guinness World Records: Primetime” and hit a target that was 16 feet and 5 inches away.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong> – The Russian nuclear submarine Kursk<\/i> sank and its 118-man crew died during naval exercises in the Barents Sea.<\/p>\n 2004<\/strong> – The California Supreme Court voided the nearly 4,000 same-sex marriages that had been sanctioned in San Francisco earlier in the year.<\/p>\n 2008<\/strong> – Russia halted its five-day assault on Georgia.<\/p>\n 2015<\/strong> \u2013 At least two massive explosions kill 173 people and injure nearly 800 more in Tianjin, China.<\/p>\n 2017<\/strong> \u2013 Violence erupts at the Unite the Right rally between the Alt-right and counter-demonstrators, resulting in the death of one civilian, two police officers, and numerous additional injuries.<\/p>\n 2018<\/strong> \u2013 Thirty-nine civilians, including a dozen children, are killed in an explosion at a weapons depot in a rebel-held town in northwest Syria.<\/sup><\/p>\n History of 12 August 1915 – “Of Human Bondage” by William Somerset Maugham was first published. 1918 – Regular airmail service began between Washington, DC, and New York City. 1937 – Red Skelton appeared on network radio for the first time on the “Rudy Vallee Show” on NBC. 1939 – “The Wizard of Oz” premiered in Oconomowoc, WI. 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