History 8/12

Today is Monday, Aug. 12, the 224th day of 2002. There are 141 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On Aug. 12, 1972, the last American combat ground troops left Vietnam.On this date:

In 1851, Isaac Singer was granted a patent on his sewing machine.

In 1867, President Andrew Johnson sparked a move to impeach him as he defied Congress by suspending Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.

In 1898, the peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed.

In 1944, 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.

-- AP