NewsAugust 12, 2002
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Today is Monday, Aug. 12, the 224th day of 2002. There are 141 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Aug. 12, 1972, the last American combat ground troops left Vietnam.On this date: In 1851, Isaac Singer was granted a patent on his sewing machine...
Today is Monday, Aug. 12, the 224th day of 2002. There are 141 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Aug. 12, 1972, the last American combat ground troops left Vietnam.On this date:
In 1851, Isaac Singer was granted a patent on his sewing machine.
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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 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.
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