1953
Aug 12, Ann Davidson, the 1st woman to sail solo across Atlantic, arrived Miami.

2000
Aug 12, Loretta Young, film actress, died at age 87. She made nearly 100 movies in over 70 years. She had a daughter, Judy Lewis, by Clark Gable in 1935. Her memoir "The Things I Had to Learn" was published in 1961. In 2000 Joan Wester Anderson authored "Forever Young."

2007
Aug 12, A Canadian woman (35) gave birth to rare identical quadruplets. Karen Jepp of Calgary, Alberta, delivered Autumn, Brooke, Calissa and Dahlia by Caesarian section at Benefis Healthcare in Great Falls, Montana.
2009
Aug 12, In Nigeria US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton encouraged the government to take a firmer line on corruption and offered US help to implement badly needed electoral reforms in Africa's biggest energy producer.

2014
Aug 12, Lauren Bacall (b.1924), American film and theater actress, died. She had starred in over 40 films including “To Have and Have Not" (1940), “The Big Sleep" (1946) and “Key Largo" (1948) with Humphrey Bogart, whom she married in 1945.

2014
Aug 12, In Indonesia the body of Sheila von Wiese-Mack (62), a Chicago-based woman, was found in a bloodied suitcase on the resort island of Bali. Her daughter, Heather Mack (19) and boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer (21) were arrested on Aug 13 and detained as suspects. Schaeffer later confessed to the murder and Heather Mack acknowledged helping him stuff the body into the suitcase.

2014
Aug 12, In Liberia Fatu Sherrif (12) died overnight of Ebola in the village of Ballajah. She had been shunned and locked away with her mother's body for a week after most residents fled to the forest to escape an outbreak of the virus. In Liberia alone, some 599 cases have been diagnosed with 323 deaths.