Today in History: August 12, Charlottesville car attack

Today is Wednesday, Aug. 12, the 224th day of 2026. There are 141 days left in the year.Today in history:On Aug. 12, 2017, a driver sped into a crowd of people peacefully protesting a white nationalist rally in the Virginia college town of Charlottesville, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring more than a dozen others. (The attacker, James Alex Fields, was sentenced to life in prison on 29 federal hate crime charges, and life plus 419 years on state charges.)Also on this date:In 1867, President Andrew Johnson sparked a move to impeach him as he defied Congress by suspending Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, with whom he had clashed over Reconstruction policies. (Johnson was acquitted by the Senate.)In 1898, fighting in the Spanish-American War came to an end.In 1909, the Indianap