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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1851 Isaac Singer was granted a patent on his sewing machine.
1880 Baseball hall-of-famer Christy Mathewson was born in Factoryville, Pa.
On Aug. 12, 1898, the peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed. Also on this day in 1898 Hawaii was formally annexed to the United States.
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 during World War II.
1953 The Soviet Union conducted a secret test of its first hydrogen bomb.
1960 The first balloon satellite, Echo 1, was launched by the United States from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
1966 John Lennon apologized at a news conference in Chicago for remarking ''the Beatles are more popular than Jesus.''
1972 The last American combat ground troops left Vietnam.
1977 The space shuttle Enterprise passed its first solo flight test by taking off atop a Boeing 747, separating and then touching down in California's Mojave Desert.
1985 A crippled Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 on a domestic flight crashed into a mountain, killing 520 people.
1994 Woodstock '94 opened in Saugerties, N.Y.
1998 Swiss banks agreed to pay $1.25 billion as restitution to Holocaust survivors to settle claims for their assets.
2000 The Russian nuclear submarine Kursk and its 118-man crew were lost during naval exercises in the Barents Sea.
2004 New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey announced his resignation and acknowledged that he had had an extramarital affair with a man.
2004 The California Supreme Court voided the nearly 4,000 same-sex marriages sanctioned in San Francisco earlier in the year.
Actor Peter Krause (''Six Feet Under'') turns 40 years old today.
76 Buck Owens
Singer-musician
66 George Hamilton
Actor
64 Jennifer Warren
Actress
56 Mark Knopfler
Rock singer-musician (Dire Straits)
51 Pat Metheny
Jazz guitarist
34 Michael Ian Black
Actor (TV show ''Ed'')
34 Pete Sampras
Tennis player
33 Rebecca Gayheart
Actress
Have a great day and a great weekend everyone :D
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