Non-musical history for today: 1865 – Joseph Lister, British surgeon and scientist, performed the first antiseptic surgery. In 1879, Joseph Lawrence, the American inventor of Listerine antiseptic, developed it as a surgical antiseptic (nowadays it is best known as a mouthwash), and named it after Lister. I keep a bottle in my lavatory, the original yellow, by the way.

Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for August 12.

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