August 12, 1833, the town of Chicago is incorporated. (Population 350.)
On August 12, 1867, President Andrew Johnson defied Congress, suspending Secretary of War Edwin Stanton.
And, on August 12, 1908, Henry Ford’s company built the first Model T car.
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