12 August 1851: Issac Singer patented the sewing machine.
12 August 1865: British surgeon Joseph Lister became the first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery.
12 August 1877: Phonograph invented by Thomas Alva Edison
12 August 1883: Last Quagga Dies at Amsterdam’s Artis Magistra Zoo
12 August 1985: In the world’s worst single-aircraft disaster, a Japan Air Lines 747 crashed into Mount Osutaka, killing 520 of the 524 aboard.
I don’t really trust a sane person.
- Lyle Alzado
The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
- W.C. Fields
