AUGUST 12
1990:Paleontologist Susan Hendrickson discovers the largest and most complete skeleton of a 65 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex, nicknamed Sue, while excavating a cliff near Faith, S.D.
30 B.C.: Cleopatra VII, last Ptolemaic pharaoh of Egypt and lover of both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, commits suicide after she and Antony are defeated at the Battle of Actium. She allegedly dies from the bite of an asp.
1851: Isaac Singer is granted a patent for the first practical home sewing machine.
30 B.C.: Cleopatra VII, last Ptolemaic pharaoh of Egypt and lover of both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, commits suicide after she and Antony are defeated at the Battle of Actium. She allegedly dies from the bite of an asp.
1851: Isaac Singer is granted a patent for the first practical home sewing machine.
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