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Anniversary on the 12th of August 1954

Anniversary
Date Text
100 years anniversary
12 Aug 1924   Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistani general and politician, 6th President of Pakistan (d. 1988)
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12 Aug 1924   Sándor Bródy, Hungarian author and journalist (b. 1863)
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75 years anniversary
12 Aug 1949   Anthony Akerman: South Africa -- Director
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12 Aug 1949   Fernando Collor de Mello: President of Brazil (1990-92)
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12 Aug 1949   16th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Philadelphia 38, All-Stars 0 (93,780)
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12 Aug 1949   Panagiotis Chinofotis, Greek admiral and politician
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12 Aug 1949   Mark Knopfler, Scottish-English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
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12 Aug 1949   Alex Naumik, Lithuanian-Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2013)
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12 Aug 1949   Rick Ridgeway, American mountaineer
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12 Aug 1949 WW2 USS Baya was redesignated AGSS-318. 
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12 Aug 1949   birth Mark Knopfler British songwriter, guitarist, singer with Dire Straits, (1985 US No.1 single 'Money For Nothing', 1986 UK No.2 single 'Walk Of Life', 1985 world-wide No.1 album 'Brothers In Arms'). Knopfler has recorded and performed with many prominent musicians, including Chet Atkins, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Bryan Ferry, Emmylou Harris, Van Morrison, Steely Dan, Sting, and James Taylor.
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12 Aug 1949   Mark Knopfler guitar/vocals (Dire Straits-Sultans of Swing)
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50 years anniversary
12 Aug 1974   Peter Pucher: Hockey forward (Team Slovakia 1998)
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12 Aug 1974   Wendy Palmer: WNBA forward (Utah Starzz)
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12 Aug 1974   Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 and walks only 2 as Angels top Red Sox, 4-2
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12 Aug 1974   Yankees Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford become 1st teammates elected to hall of fame on same day
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12 Aug 1974   Matt Clement, American baseball player and coach
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12 Aug 1974   Nolan Ryan strikes-out 19 Red Sox
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12 Aug 1974   Yankees Mickey Mantle & Whitey Ford become 1st teammates elected to hall of fame on the same day
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25 years anniversary
12 Aug 1999   Jean Drapeau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 37th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1916)
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20 years anniversary
12 Aug 2004   Godfrey Hounsfield, English biophysicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919)
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12 Aug 2004   Peter Woodthorpe, English actor (b. 1931)
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12 Aug 2004   Mr. Lee Hsien Loong is sworn in as Singapore's third Prime Minister.
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12 Aug 2004   death
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield
Died 12 Aug 2004 at age 84 (born 28 Aug 1919).
English electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (with Allan Cormack) for creation of computerised axial tomography (CAT) scanners. He originated the idea during a country walk in 1967 when he realized that the contents of a box could be reconstructed by taking readings at all angles through it. He applied the concept for scanning the brain using hundreds of X-ray beams imaging cross-sections that were reconstructed as high-resolution graphics by a computer program handling complex algebraic calculations. By 1973 his CAT scanner could produce cross-section images of a brain in 4-1/2-min, invaluable for the diagnosis of brain diseases. He later built larger machines able to make a full body scan.
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12 Aug 2004   death
John Clark
Died 12 Aug 2004 at age 52 (born 18 Sep 1951).
Anthony John Clark was an English molecular biologist who was a pioneer in the application of molecular technology to farm animals. In 1985, he began work in genetic modification (at what is now the Roslin Institute) to produce a sheep giving milk with human proteins. He was successful within five years. Tracy* (born 1990) in each litre of her milk, produced 35g of alpha-1-antitrypsin (used in treatment of cystic fibrosis). During the 1990's, Clark continued to develop transgenic techniques on large animals. With his colleagues, he a produced a sheep from which a prion protein gene had been removed. Clark's work set the stage for Ian Wilmut's team at Roslin to clone a sheep, Dolly (1996), the result of transplanted the DNA of an adult sheep to an unfertilised egg cell. Clark died at age 52, suffering from depression, was found hanged in his holiday home.
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John Clark   John Clark (b. 1951), head of the Roslin Institute and part of the team that cloned Dolly the Sheep.
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15 years anniversary
12 Aug 2009   Les Paul, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1915)
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10 years anniversary
12 Aug 2014   Lauren Bacall, American actress and singer (b. 1924)
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12 Aug 2014   Futatsuryū Jun'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1950)
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12 Aug 2014   Abel Laudonio, Argentinian boxer and actor (b. 1938)
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