On August 12:
30 BC – Cleopatra died.
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1851 Isaac Singer was granted a patent for his sewing machine.
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1895 baby farmer Minnie Dean was hanged.
1908 Ford built the first Model T.
1925 Norris McWhirter and Ross McWhirter, Scottish co-foudners of the Guiness Book of records, were born.
Sourced from Wikipedia and NZ History Online.
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