{"id":3659,"date":"2026-08-12T10:05:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=3659"},"modified":"2026-08-12T10:05:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:05:52","slug":"today-in-history-august-12-japan-airlines-flight-crashes-into-mountain-killing-520","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=3659","title":{"rendered":"Today in History: August 12, Japan Airlines flight crashes into mountain, killing 520"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><strong>Getting your Trinity Audio player ready&#8230;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Today is Wednesday, Aug. 12, the 224th day of 2026. There are 141 days left in the year.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=3657\">Affordable housing, lured bears, bank scams: Scores of new Colorado laws take effect<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Today in history:<\/h4>\n<p>On Aug. 12, 1985, the world\u2019s worst single-aircraft disaster occurred as a crippled Japan Airlines Boeing 747 on a domestic flight crashed into a mountain, killing 520 people. Four passengers survived.<\/p>\n<h4>Also on this date:<\/h4>\n<p>In 1867, President Andrew Johnson sparked a move to impeach him as he defied Congress by suspending Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, with whom he had clashed over Reconstruction policies. (Johnson was acquitted by the Senate.)<\/p>\n<p>In 1898, fighting in the Spanish-American War came to an end.<\/p>\n<p>In 1909, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, home to the Indianapolis 500, first opened.<\/p>\n<p>In 1944, during World War II, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., eldest son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was killed with his co-pilot when their explosives-laden Navy plane blew up over England.<\/p>\n<p>In 1953, the Soviet Union conducted a secret test of its first hydrogen bomb.<\/p>\n<p>In 1960, the first balloon communications satellite \u2014 the Echo 1 \u2014 was launched by the United States from Cape Canaveral.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In 1981, IBM introduced its first personal computer, the model 5150, at a press conference in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=3655\">Think you\u2019ve had Vietnamese coffee? The owner of C\u00e0 Ph\u00ea wants you to think again.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1990, fossil collector Sue Hendrickson found one of the largest and best preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex skeletons ever discovered; nicknamed \u201cSue\u201d after Hendrickson, the skeleton, found in South Dakota, is now on display at Chicago\u2019s Field Museum.<\/p>\n<p>In 1994, in baseball\u2019s eighth work stoppage since 1972, players went on strike rather than allow team owners to limit their salaries.<\/p>\n<p>In 2000, the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk and its 118-man crew were lost during naval exercises in the Barents Sea.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In 2013, James \u201cWhitey\u201d Bulger, the feared Boston mob boss who became one of the nation\u2019s 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.)<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, a driver sped 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 injuring 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.)<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and stabbed in the neck by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=3654\">ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Today\u2019s Birthdays:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Investor and philanthropist George Soros is 96.<\/li>\n<li>Actor George Hamilton is 87.<\/li>\n<li>Singer-musician Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) is 77.<\/li>\n<li>Singer Kid Creole (Kid Creole and the Coconuts) is 76.<\/li>\n<li>Film director Chen Kaige is 74.<\/li>\n<li>Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny is 72.<\/li>\n<li>Actor Bruce Greenwood is 70.<\/li>\n<li>Basketball Hall of Famer Lynette Woodard is 67.<\/li>\n<li>Rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot is 63.<\/li>\n<li>Actor Peter Krause (KROW\u2019-zuh) is 61.<\/li>\n<li>Tennis Hall of Famer Pete Sampras is 55.<\/li>\n<li>Actor-comedian Michael Ian Black is 55.<\/li>\n<li>Actor Yvette Nicole Brown is 55.<\/li>\n<li>Actor Casey Affleck is 51.<\/li>\n<li>Boxer Tyson Fury is 38.<\/li>\n<li>Actor Lakeith Stanfield is 35.<\/li>\n<li>NBA All-Star Khris Middleton is 35.<\/li>\n<li>Actor Cara Delevingne (DEHL\u2019-eh-veen) is 34.<\/li>\n<li>Tennis player Stefanos Tsitsipas is 28.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s worst single-aircraft disaster occurred as a crippled Japan Airlines Boeing 747 on a domestic flight crashed into a mountain, killing 520 people. 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