On This Day in History August 12, 2019

Historical Events 1121  Battle of Didgori: the Georgian army under King David the Builder wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi 1480  Battle of Otranto - Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam 1851  American inventor Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine 1908  Henry Ford's company builds the first Model T car 1981  IBM introduces its first Personal Computer (PC & PC-DOS version 1.0) More Historical Events Famous Birthdays Alexei Nikolaevich (1904 - 1918) Erwin Schrödinger (1887 - 1961) Guy Gibson (1918 - 1944) Pete Sampras 48th Birthday More Famous Birthdays Famous Deaths Cleopatra ( - 30 BC) George Stephenson (1781 - 1848) More Famous Deaths