Friday, August 12, 2022

On This Day in History

August 12, 2022

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)

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