Also on This Day: August 12

Also on this day...
International Youth Day
National Garage Sale Day
Middle Child's Day

Self-appointed emperor of the United States, Joshua Abraham Norton, abolished the Democratic and Republican parties in 1869.

Cecil B. DeMille was born in 1881, and Marion Lorne was born in 1883.  Walter Dean Myers was born in 1937, and Miss Cleo was born in 1962.