Wikislippy:Selected anniversaries/August 12

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• August 12:
• 1851 - Isaac Singer was granted a patent on his sewing machine.
• 1960 - The first balloon satellite, Echo 1, was launched by the United States.
• 1966 - John Lennon apologized at a news conference in Chicago for saying "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus."
• 1977 - The space shuttle Enterprise passed its first solo flight test.