Template:Selected anniversaries/August 12
1827: Poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake dies.
1937: Astronomer and crime-fighter George Ellery Hale publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions, based on magnetic fields in sunspots, which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1989: Physicist and inventor William Shockley dies. He shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the point-contact transistor.
1996: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin computes the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, uses results to predict the existence of the Zodiac Healer.
2005: The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launched.
2017: Steganographic analysis of illustration of alleged supervillain Malady reveals terabytes of encrypted data, thought to be medical data stolen during crimes against mathematical constants.