On this day in history - Today, August, 12

Today in History

• 1990 The largest dinosaur fossil is found

  American palaeontologist Sue Hendrickson found the fossilised remains of a Tyrannosaurus rex in the

• 1981 The IBM Personal Computer is stocked in stores for the first time

  Known as the IBM PC or the IBM 5150, the computer had no disk drives and sold for about $1500.

• 1976 About 3000 refugees are killed during a massacre at a Palestinian refugee camp

  The UN-run Tel al-Zaatar Palestinian refugee camp in the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon had been siege

• 1883 The last quagga dies in captivity at the Natura Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam

  A native of South Africa, quaggas were a kind of zebra that had stripes only in the front part of th

• 1877 Mars' moon Deimos is discovered by American astronomer Asaph Hall

  The discovery took place at the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. Deimos is one of