Today In History

Sat., Aug. 12, 2000

In 1851: Isaac Singer was granted a patent on his sewing machine.

In 1867: President Andrew Johnson sparked a move to impeach him as he defied Congress by suspending Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.

In 1898: The peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed.

In 1898: Hawaii was formally annexed to the United States.

In 1944: Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., eldest son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was killed with his co-pilot when their explosives-laden Navy plane blew up over England.

In 1953: the Soviet Union conducted a secret test of its first hydrogen bomb.

In 1960: The first balloon satellite - the Echo 1 - was launched by the United States from Cape Canaveral.

In 1972: The last American combat ground troops left Vietnam.

In 1998: Swiss banks agreed to pay $1.25 billion as restitution to Holocaust survivors to settle claims for their assets.

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