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Highlights from history: Aug. 12
Highlights from major events that happened around the world on this day in history.
1937: Hugo Black
In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated Hugo Black to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Charles Gorry
1953: Soviet Union H-Bomb
In 1953, the Soviet Union conducted a secret test of its first hydrogen bomb.
1981: IBM personal computer
In 1981, IBM introduced its first personal computer, the model 5150, at a press conference in New York.
BOB JORDAN
1985: Japan Airline Crash
In 1985, the world's worst single-aircraft disaster occurred as a crippled Japan Airlines Boeing 747 on a domestic flight crashed into a mountain, killing 520 people. (Four people survived.)
Katsumi Kasahara
1992: John Cage
In 1992, avant-garde composer John Cage died in New York at age 79.
Julia Malakie
2000: Kursk
In 2000, the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk and its 118-man crew were lost during naval exercises in the Barents Sea.
2004: James E. McGreevey
In 2004, New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey announced his resignation and acknowledged that he'd had an extramarital affair with another man.
TONY KURDZUK
2009: Les Paul
Ten years ago: Guitar virtuoso Les Paul died in White Plains, New York, at 94.
2013: Whitey Bulger
In 2013, James "Whitey" Bulger, the feared Boston mob boss who became one of the nation's most-wanted fugitives, was convicted in a string of 11 killings and dozens of other gangland crimes, many of them committed while he was said to be an FBI informant. (Bulger was sentenced to life; he was fatally beaten at a West Virginia prison in 2018, hours after being transferred from a facility in Florida.)
Jane Flavell Collins
2014: Lauren Bacall
Five years ago: Lauren Bacall, 89, the slinky, sultry-voiced actress who created on-screen magic with Humphrey Bogart in "To Have and Have Not" and "The Big Sleep" and off-screen magic in one of Hollywood's most storied marriages, died in New York.
Vince Bucci
2014: Los Angeles Clippers
Five years ago: Steve Ballmer officially became the new owner of the Los Angeles Clippers; the sale closed after a California court confirmed the authority of Shelly Sterling, on behalf of the Sterling Family Trust, to sell the franchise. (Her husband, Donald Sterling, had unsuccessfully fought the sale of the team he owned since 1981 in court.)
Jae C. Hong
2017: Heather Heyer
On August 12, 2017, a car plowed into a crowd of people peacefully protesting a white nationalist rally in the Virginia college town of Charlottesville, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and hurting more than a dozen others. (The attacker, James Alex Fields, was sentenced to life in prison on 29 federal hate crime charges, and life plus 419 years on state charges.) President Donald Trump condemned what he called an "egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides;" Democrats and some Republicans called on him to specifically denounce white supremacy. Two Virginia state policemen were killed in a helicopter crash while monitoring the Charlottesville protests.
Steve Helber
2018: Charlottesville White House Rally
One year ago: Fewer than two dozen white nationalists showed up for a rally near the White House, where thousands of counter-demonstrators had gathered to send a message that racism is unwelcome.
Jacquelyn Martin
2018: Parker Solar Probe
One year ago: A NASA spacecraft, the Parker Solar Probe, lifted off on a mission intended to bring it within 3.8 million miles of the surface of the sun. (The craft made its first close approach, to within 15 million miles, just two and a-half months after liftoff.)
Steve Gribben
2018: PGA Championship
One year ago: Brooks Koepka wins the PGA Championship in St. Louis; Tiger Woods finished second after a final-round score of 64.
Jeff Roberson
Danville man pleads guilty to 50 counts of possession of child pornography
$460,000 in fake Air Jordans, UGGs, Rolexes and more seized in Greensboro; Danville suspect among five charged
Warrants show Danville gangs use social media to recruit, give orders, hand out violations
Police arrest three suspects in string of Danville robberies
Danville police seek suspects in Saturday night convenience store robbery
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