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July 12

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July 12 is the 193rd day of the year(194th inleap years) in theGregorian calendar.There are 172 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

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Up to 1900

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927–Aethelstan,King ofEngland, secures a pledge fromConstantine II of Scotland that he (Constantine) will not ally withViking Kings, beginning the process of unifyingGreat Britain.
1191–Third Crusade:Saladin's garrison surrenders to Philip Augustus, ending the two-yearsiege ofAcre.
1470– TheOttoman Empire captureEuboea.
1493–Hartmann Schedel'sNuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printedbooks, is published.
1543–King Henry VIII of England married his sixth and last wife,Catherine Parr atHampton Court Palace.
1561–Moscow'sSt. Basil's Cathedral isconsecrated.
1562–Diego de Landa, actingBishop ofYucatán, burns the sacred books of theMaya.
1573– Spanish forces under theDuke of Alva captureHaarlem after a seven-month siege.
1580– The Ostrog Bible is published. It is one of the early printed Bibles in aSlavic language.
1690–Williamite War in Ireland:Battle of the Boyne (Gregorian calendar) – The army ofWilliam III of England defeats that of the deposedKing James VII of Scotland and II of England.
1691–Williamite War in Ireland:Battle of Aughrim (Julian calendar) – The decisive victory ofWilliam III's forces in Ireland.
1730– Lorenzo Corsini, in old age and almost blind, becomesPope Clement XII.
1759–Seven Years' War –French and Indian War:British cannon start firing onFrench atQuebec City, from Lévis,Quebec.
1776–James Cook begins his voyage.
1801–French Revolutionary Wars: BritishRoyal Navy ships inflict heavy damage againstSpanish andFrench ships in theSecond Battle of Algeciras.
1806– SixteenGerman imperial states leave theHoly Roman Empire and formed theConfederation of the Rhine. On the same day,Liechtenstein is granted full sovereignty.
1812–War of 1812: TheUnited States invadesCanada atWindsor, Ontario.
1862–Medal of Honor authorized by theUnited States Congress.
1879– The National Guards Unit ofBulgaria is founded.
1892– A hidden lake bursts out of a glacier on the side ofMont Blanc, flooding the valley below and killing around 200 villagers and holidaymakers inSaint Gervais.

1901– 2000

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1906– French military officerAlfred Dreyfus is rehabilitated after his wrongful conviction in the so-called Dreyfus Trial over 12 years earlier.
1913–Second Balkan War:Serbian forces begin their siege of theBulgarian city ofVidin.
1917–World War I: German troops first usemustard gas.
1917– Bisbee Deportation:Vigilantes kidnap and deport near 1,300 strikingminers and others from Bisbee,Arizona.
1918–Imperial Japanese Navy battleshipKawachiblows up at Shunan, WesternHonshu, killing 621 people.
1920– In theSoviet-Lithuanian Peace Treaty, SovietRussia recognizesLithuanian independence.
1924– Themarathon at the1924 Summer Olympics inParis is run in the heat of 45 degreesCelsius. Only 15 out of 38 runners reach the finish line.Paavo Nurmi ofFinland finishes first.
1932– LambethBridge,London, opened by KingGeorge V of the United Kingdom
1932–Hedley Verity establishes afirst-class record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm.
1933–Congress passes the first federalminimum wage law in theUnited States: 33 cents per hour.
1943–World War II:Battle of Kursk –German andSoviet forces engage in largesttank engagement of all time.
1950–René Pleven becomesPrime Minister of France.
1960–Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of theRussian SFSR, is founded.
1961– Due to heavyrain, tworeservoirs in theIndian state ofMaharashtra break, causing heavyflooding in the city ofPune, killing 1,000 to 2,000 people.
1962– TheRolling Stones perform their firstconcert at the Marquee Club inLondon.
1967– Four days ofrace riots begin inNewark, New Jersey that will claim the lives of 27 people.
1970–Fire destroys the wooden home ofNorwegian composer Geir Tveitt. 90 percent of his output is destroyed.
1971– TheAustralian Aboriginal Flag is flown for the first time.
1973– The1973 National ArchivesFire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center.
1975–São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence.
1979– The island nation ofKiribati declares independence.
1979–Reinhold Messner andMichael Dacher climb to the top ofK2 withoutoxygen supplies.
1979–Disco DemolitionNight held atComiskey Park inChicago, Illinois
1993– Amagnitude 7.8earthquake off the shore ofHokkaido,Japan launches a devastatingtsunami, killing 202 on the small island of Okushiri.
1998–KDE 1.0 released.
1998–1998 FIFA World Cup: TheFrance national football team beats theBrazil national football team 3–0, to win theFIFA World Cup for the first time, and in front of their home support. Before the final, there had been controversy over whether Brazil'sRonaldo would play in the game.

From 2001

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2002–Gay rights: The Superior Court of Ontario ordersOntario to recognizesame-sex marriages.
2004– Anearthquake strikes in Posočje,Slovenia, with 2 dead, and measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale.
2004–Pedro Santana Lopes is officially appointedPrime Minister ofPortugal.
2005–Prince Albert II is enthroned as ruler of thePrincipality of Monaco.
2006–War erupts betweenIsrael andLebanon.
2012– A tank truck explosion in Okogie,Nigeria, kills over 100 people.
2013–Malala Yousafzai speaks at theUN Headquarters on her 16th birthday, in support of education for all.
2013– Atrain crash nearParis kills 6 people.
2014–2014 FIFA World Cup: After being humiliated a few days earlier (7-1) by theGermany national football team in the Semi-Final, theBrazil national football team, hosting the tournament, also loses the Third-Place play-off against theNetherlands national football team, 3–0.
2016– A train collision inApulia, South-easternItaly, kills 27 people.
2017– A massiveiceberg, 5,800 square kilometres (2,200 square miles) large, breaks away from the Larsen C ice shelf inAntarctica.
2017–Malta'sparliament votes to legalisesame-sex marriage.
2018– US PresidentDonald Trump starts a four-day visit to theUnited Kingdom.
2019–Asasey hotel attack: Gunmen storm the Asaseyhotel inKismayo,Somalia, killing 26 people.

Births

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Up to 1850

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100 BC–Gaius Julius Caesar, Roman soldier and politician (d.44 BC)
1394–Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (d.1441)
1468–Juan del Encina, poet and composer
1596–Tsar Michael I of Russia (d.1645)
1607–Jean Petitot, Swiss painter (d.1691)
1675–Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Italiancomposer andviolinist (d.1742)
1730–Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (d.1795)
1784–Juan Mora Fernandez,Costa Rican Head of State (d.1854)
1803–Peter Chanel, Frenchpriest andsaint (d.1841)
1807–Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer (d.1893)
1813–Claude Bernard, Frenchphysiologist (d.1878)
1817–Henry David Thoreau, American writer and philosopher (d.1862)
1819–Charles Kingsley, English writer (d.1875)
1824–Eugène Boudin, French painter (d.1898)
1828–Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russianphilosopher (d.1889)
1849– SirWilliam Osler, Canadian physician, writer, professor of medicine (d.1919)
1850–Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (d.1912)

1851– 1900

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1852–Hipólito Yrigoyen,President of Argentina (d.1933)
1854–George Eastman, American inventor (d.1932)
1854–Juan Gualberto Gómez,Cuban revolutionary leader (d.1933)
1855–Edward 'Ned' Hanlan, rower (d.1908)
1861–Anton Arensky, Russiancomposer,pianist andeducator (d.1906)
1863–Albert Calmette, Frenchphysician (d.1933)
1863–Paul Drude, Germanphysicist (d.1906)
1864–George Washington Carver, American botanist (d.1943)
1868–Stefan George, German poet (d.1933)
1870–Louis II of Monaco (d.1949)
1876–Max Jacob, French poet (d.1944)
1880–Tod Browning, American movie director (d.1962)
1884–Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (d.1920)
1886–Jean Hersholt, Danish movie director and actor (d.1956)
1892–Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (d.1942)
1892–Harry Piel, actor, movie director, and producer (d.1963)
1895–Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegiansoprano (d.1962)
1895– R.Buckminster Fuller, Americanarchitect (d.1983)
1895–Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist (d.1960)

1901– 1950

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1902–Günther Anders,philosopher and writer (d.1992)
1904–Pablo Neruda,Chilean poet,Nobel Prize recipient (d.1973)
1905–Prince John of the United Kingdom (d.1919)
1906–Pietro Tordi, Italian actor (d.1990)
1908–Milton Berle, American comedian (d.2002)
1909–Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (d.1993)
1909–Fritz Leonhardt, Germanengineer (d.1999)
1913–Willis Lamb, Americanphysicist,Nobel Prize laureate (d.2008)
1916–Robert E. Gilka, American photojournalist (d.2013)
1917–Andrew Wyeth, American artist (d.2009)
1920–Beah Richards, American actress (d.2000)
1920–Pierre Berton, Canadian journalist and writer (d.2004)
1922–Mark Hatfield, U.S. Senator andGovernor fromOregon (d.2011)
1922–Michael Ventris, Englisharchitect andphilologist (d.1956)
1923–René Favaloro, Argentineheart surgeon (d.2000)
1923–Jonás Gómez Gallo, Chilean businessman and politician (d.2019)
1925–Roger B. Smith, American automobile executive
1926–Carl Adam Petri, Germanmathematician andcomputer scientist (d.2010)
1926–Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali, spouse ofMalaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad
1927–Conte Candoli, Americantrumpeter (d.2001)
1928–Jo Myong-rok, North Korean politician (d.2010)
1928–Elias James Corey, Americanchemist
1928–Kathy Staff, English actress (d.2008)
1930–Gordon Pinsent, Canadian actor, director, and writer
1932–Otis Davis, American runner
1932–Monte Hellman, Americanmovie director,producer and editor
1932–Eddy Wally, Belgian singer (d.2016)
1933–Brian Cant, English actor, presenter and writer (d.2017)
1933–Donald E. Westlake, American writer (d.2008)
1934–Van Cliburn, American pianist (d.2013)
1935–Roy Barraclough, English actor (d.2017)
1935–Hans Tilkowski, Germanfootballer
1937–Bill Cosby, American comedian and actor
1937–Lionel Jospin, formerPrime Minister of France
1937–Michel Louvin, Canadian singer
1938–Jaishankar, Indian actor (d.2000)
1943–Paul Silas, Americanbasketball player and coach
1943–Christine McVie, singer, musician, and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac)
1944–Delia Ephron, Americanauthor,screenwriter andplaywright
1945–Leopoldo Mastelloni, Italian actor
1946–Valentina Tolkunova, Russian singer (d.2010)
1946–Gareth Edwards, Welsh rugby player
1947–Wilko Johnson, Englishsinger-songwriter,guitarist andactor
1948–Richard Simmons, American fitness trainer, actor, comedian, producer and writer
1948–Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Sufi musician (d.1997)
1948–Jay Thomas, American actor (d.2017)
1948–Ben Burtt, American sound designer
1948–Walter Egan, Americansinger-songwriter andguitarist
1950–Eric Carr, American drummer (Kiss) (d.1991)
1950–Gilles Meloche, Canadianice hockey player

1951– 1975

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1951–Cheryl Ladd, Americanactress andsinger
1952–Voja Antonic,Serbian inventor andjournalist
1952–Irina Bokova, Bulgarian politician, Director-General ofUNESCO
1952–Philip Taylor Kramer, Americanbass player (Iron Butterfly) (d.1995)
1952–Liz Mitchell,Jamaican performer (Boney M)
1953–John Ausonius, Swedish criminal
1954–Wolfgang Dremmler, Germanfootballer
1955–Jimmy LaFave, Americansinger-songwriter and folk musician (d.2017)
1956–Mario Soto,Dominican baseball player
1957–Dave Semenko, Canadianice hockey player (d.2017)
1959– KingTupou VI ofTonga
1959–Charlie Murphy, Americanactor andwriter (d.2016)
1960–Corynne Charby, Frenchmodel,actress andsinger
1961–Masaaki Mori, Japanesefootballer
1961–Shiva Rajkumar, Indianactor,singer andproducer
1962–Luc De Vos, Belgianmusician andwriter (d.2014)
1962–Dean Wilkins, Englishfootballer
1964–Gaby Roslin, English television presenter
1966–Annabel Croft, Englishtennis player
1966–Tamsin Greig, English actress
1966–Ana Torrent, Spanishactress
1967–Richard Herring, English comedian
1967–John Petrucci, Americanguitarist
1967–Bruny Surin,Haitian–Canadian athlete
1969–Jesse Pintado, Americanguitarist (d.2006)
1969–Chantal Jouanno, French politician
1971–Kristi Yamaguchi, American figure skater
1972–Travis Best,NBA player
1973–Magoo, Americanrapper
1973–Christian Vieri, Italianfootballer
1974–Stelios Giannakopoulos, Greekfootballer
1974–Sharon den Adel, Dutchsinger andcomposer
1974–Gregory Helms, Americanprofessional wrestler
1975–Cheyenne Jackson, Americanactor andsinger
1975–Carolina Kasting, Brazilian actress
1975–Anastassia Michaeli, Israeli journalist, television presenter and politician

From 1976

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1976–Anna Friel, English actress
1977–Brock Lesnar, American professional wrestler
1978–Topher Grace, American actor
1978–Michelle Rodriguez, American actress
1980–Tom Price, Welsh actor
1982–Antonio Cassano, Italianfootballer
1984–Gareth Gates, English singer
1984–Michael McGovern, Northern Irishfootballer
1985–Emil Hegle Svendsen, Norwegianbiathlete
1985–Paulo Vitor Barreto,Brazilian footballer
1986–Simone Laudehr, Germanfootballer
1986–Didier Digard, Frenchfootballer
1986–Krystal Forscutt, Australianmodel,actress andsinger
1988–Patrick Beverley, Americanbasketball player
1989–Nick Palmieri, Americanice hockey player
1989–Phoebe Tonkin, Australian actress and model
1991–James Rodríguez,Colombian footballer
1991–Erik Per Sullivan, American actor
1992–Eoghan Quigg, Northern Irish singer
1995–Luke Shaw, Englishfootballer
1995–Jordyn Wieber, American artistic gymnast
1996–Jordan Romero, American mountain climber
1996–Moussa Dembélé, Frenchfootballer
1997–Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist for education

Deaths

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Up to 1900

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783–Bertrada, wife ofPippin III (b.720)
1441–Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (b.1394)
1536–Erasmus, Dutch writer andphilosopher (b. around1466)
1645–Tsar Michael I of Russia (b.1596)
1664–Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (b.1610)
1682–Jean Picard, French astronomer (b.1620)
1712–Richard Cromwell,Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b.1626)
1742–Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Italiancomposer (b.1675)
1773–Johann Joachim Quantz, German flutist and composer (b.1697)
1804–Alexander Hamilton, 1stUnited States Secretary of the Treasury (b.1755)
1838–Ezra Butler, American politician,Governor ofVermont (b.1763)
1845–Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian writer (b.1808)
1845–Ludwig Persius,Prussian architect (b.1803)
1855–Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (b.1802)
1849–Dolley Madison,First Lady of the United States (b.1768)
1892–Alexander Cartwright, Americaninventor ofbaseball (b.1820)

1901– 2000

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1901–Richard B. Hubbard, 17thGovernor ofTexas (b.1832)
1910–Charles Stewart Rolls, British engineer and aviator (b.1887)
1918–Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (b.1864)
1923–William P. Dillingham,Governor ofVermont (b.1843)
1926–Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator (b.1868)
1931–Nathan Söderblom, Swedish clergyman,Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b.1866)
1934–Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor (b.1877)
1935–Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (b.1859)
1944–Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., American general and politician (b.1887)
1945–Boris Galerkin, Russianmathematician andengineer (b.1871)
1945–Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, German field marshal (b.1895)
1947–Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (b.1902)
1949–Douglas Hyde, firstPresident of Ireland (b.1860)
1950–Elsie De Wolfe, actress and interior decorator (b.1865)
1960–Buddy Adler, Americanmovie producer (b.1909)
1962–Roger Wolfe Kahn, American band leader (b.1907)
1969–Henry George Lamond, Australiannovelist (b.1885)
1978–Esmond Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere, English politician and media magnate (b.1898)
1979–Minnie Riperton, American singer (b.1947)
1982–Kenneth More, English actor (b.1914)
1988–Josh Logan, movie director and writer
1990–Joao Saldanha,Brazilian footballer, manager andjournalist (b.1917)
1996–John Chancellor, American television journalist (b.1927)
1996–Jonathan Melvoin, musician and keyboardist (The Smashing Pumpkins) (b.1961)
1998–Jimmy Driftwood, Americansinger-songwriter andbanjo player (b.1907)
1999–Bill Owen, British actor (b.1914)
1999–Rajendra Kumar, Indian actor (b.1929)

From 2001

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2003–Benny Carter, American musician (b.1907)
2007–Kesha Wizzart, British singer (b.1988)
2008–Tony Snow, Americanjournalist (b.1955)
2010–Günter Behnisch, Germanarchitect (b.1922)
2010–Harvey Pekar, American comic book writer and artist (b.1939)
2011–Sherwood Schwartz, Americanscreenwriter andproducer (b.1916)
2012–Dara Singh, Indian wrestler and actor (b.1928)
2013–Pran, Indian actor (b.1920)
2013–Amar Bose, American sound engineer andentrepreneur (b.1929)
2013–Alan Whicker, English broadcaster (b.1925)
2014–Nestor Basterretxea,Basque artist (b.1924)
2014–Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Russian liberal politician (b.1950)
2014–Emil Bobu, Romanian politician (b.1927)
2014–Kenneth J. Gray, American politician (b.1924)
2014–Alberto Cassano, Argentine engineer and academic (b.1935)
2015–Chenjerai Hove, Zimbabwean writer (b.1956)
2015–Cheng Siwei, Chinese economist (b.1935)
2015–Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, Tibetan Buddhist monk (b.1950)
2015–Javier Krahe, Spanishsinger-songwriter (b.1944)
2016–Zygmunt Zimowski, Polish Roman Catholic prelate (b.1949)
2017–Chuck Blazer, Americansoccer administrator (b.1945)
2017–Gerrit Braks, Dutch politician (b.1933)
2017–Sam Glanzman, American comic artist (b.1924)
2017–Tamara Miansarova, Russian pop singer (b.1931)
2017–Ray Phiri, South Africanjazz musician (b.1947)
2017–Tod Sloan, Canadianice hockey player (b.1927)
2018–Abbas Amir-Entezam, Iranian politician and political prisoner (b.1932)
2018–Alain Fauré, French politician (b.1962)
2018–Roger Perry, American actor (b.1933)
2018–Dada Vaswani, Indian spiritual leader and writer (b.1918)
2018–Robert Wolders, Dutch actor (b.1936)
2018–Xerardo Fernández Albor, Spanish politician,President ofGalicia (b.1917)
2019–Fernando J. Corbató, American computer scientist (b.1926)
2019–Hodan Nalayeh, Somali-Canadian journalist (b.1976)
2019–Claudio Naranjo, Chileanpsychiatrist (b.1932)
2019–M. J. Radhakrishnan, Indian cinematographer (b.1957/1958)
2019–Jean-Pierre Worms, French sociologist and politician (b.1934)

Observances

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Independence Day inKiribati andSão Tomé and Príncipe
Second Day ofNaadam (Mongolia)
The Twelfth, orOrangeman's Day, commemorating theBattle of the Boyne (Northern Ireland)

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