The 224th day of 2025 is today, Tuesday, August 12. The year has 141 days remaining.
Heather Heyer, 32, was killed and over a dozen others were injured when a car in the Virginia college town of Charlottesville, Virginia, plowed into a crowd of people peacefully protesting a white nationalist gathering on August 12, 2017. (On 29 federal hate crime counts, the assailant, James Alex Fields, received a life sentence; on state charges, he received a life sentence plus 419 years.)
President Andrew Johnson, who had argued with Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton over Reconstruction policy, defied Congress in 1867 by suspending Stanton, which led to an impeachment attempt. (The Senate cleared Johnson on all charges.)
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The Spanish-American War ceased hostilities in 1898.
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the site of the Indianapolis 500, debuted for business in 1909.
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., the eldest son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was murdered along with his co-pilot in 1944 during World War II when their Navy plane carrying bombs exploded over England.
The Soviet Union tested its first hydrogen bomb in secret in 1953.
The United States launched the first balloon communications satellite, Echo 1, from Cape Canaveral in 1960.
At a press conference in New York in 1981, IBM unveiled the model 5150, their first personal computer.
A crippled Japan Airlines Boeing 747 on a domestic trip crashed into a mountain in 1985, killing 520 people, making it the deadliest single-aircraft catastrophe in history. There were four people who made it out alive.
One of the largest and finest preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex skeletons ever found was uncovered in 1990 by fossil collector Sue Hendrickson. The skeleton, which Hendrickson called Sue, is currently on exhibit at the Chicago Field Museum.
Baseball’s eighth strike since 1972 took place in 1994 when players refused to let team owners set salary caps.
During naval drills in the Barents Sea in 2000, the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk and its 118-member crew perished.
James Whitey Bulger, the notorious Boston mafia boss who rose to prominence as one of the country’s most wanted fugitives, was found guilty in 2013 of a series of 11 murders and dozens of other gangland crimes, many of which were carried out while he was allegedly an FBI informant. (Bulger received a life sentence; hours after being moved from a facility in Florida, he was fatally beaten in a jail in West Virginia in 2018.)
Salman Rushdie, the author whose work prompted death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was preparing to give a lecture in western New York in 2022 when a guy stormed the stage and stabbed him in the neck.
- Investor and philanthropist George Soros is 95.
- Actor George Hamilton is 86.
- Singer-musician Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) is 76.
- Singer Kid Creole (Kid Creole and the Coconuts) is 75.
- Film director Chen Kaige is 73.
- Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny is 71.
- Actor Bruce Greenwood is 69.
- Basketball Hall of Famer Lynette Woodard is 66.
- Rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot is 62.
- Actor Peter Krause (KROW -zuh) is 60.
- Tennis Hall of Famer Pete Sampras is 54.
- Actor-comedian Michael Ian Black is 54.
- Actor Yvette Nicole Brown is 54.
- Actor Casey Affleck is 50.
- Boxer Tyson Fury is 37.
- Actor Lakeith Stanfield is 34.
- NBA All-Star Khris Middleton is 34.
- Actor Cara Delevingne (DEHL -eh-veen) is 33.
- Tennis player Stefanos Tsitsipas is 27.
