Historical Events on July 12

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• 526 St Felix IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• 1109 Crusaders capture Syria's harbor city of Tripoli

• 1542 French troops under Maarten van Rossem occupy Flanders
• 1549 Kett's uprising occupies Norwich, England
• 1561 "Trinity Church" (now Saint Basil's Cathedral) is consecrated in Moscow, Russia
• 1580 Ostrog Bible, the first printed Bible in a Slavic language, is published

• 1630 New Amsterdam's governor buys Gull Island from Indians for cargo, renames it Oyster Island, later known as Ellis Island

• 1690 Battle of Boyne: in Ireland, Protestant King William III defeats English Catholic King James II
• 1691 Antonio Pignatelli elected as Pope Innocentius XII
• 1691 Battle of Aughrim (Aghrim) Ireland, William III beats James II
• 1700 Gelderland accepts Gregorian calendar; yesterday is June 30, 1700


• 1704 Stanislaw Leszcynski becomes king of part of Poland
• 1730 Lorenzo Corsini chosen as Pope Clemens XII
• 1745 Warship Elisabeth joins Bonnie Prince Charlie's frigate Doutelle [NS]

• 1774 Citizens of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, pass a symbolic declaration of independence
• 1774 Cossack leader Emilian Pugachevs army occupies Kazan
• 1776 Captain James Cook departs with Resolution for 3rd trip to Pacific Ocean
• 1785 1st manned flight by gas balloon in Netherlands
• 1790 French Revolution: The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is adopted, putting the Catholic Church in France under the control of the state
• 1801 Second Battle of Algeciras: British fleet beats French and Spanish (six days after losing the 1st Battle of Algeciras)

• 1812 US forces led by General Hull invade Canada (War of 1812)
• 1817 1st flower show held in Dannybrook, County Cork, Ireland
• 1817 Karl Drais von Sauerbronn demonstrates bicycle course

• 1850 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts establishment of Provincial States
• 1859 Paper bag manufacturing machine patents by William Goodale, Massachusetts

• 1862 US Congress authorizes Medal of Honor
• 1862 Federal troops occupy Helena, Arkansas


• 1863 In New Zealand, British forces invade Waikato, home of the Maori King Movement, beginning a new phase of the wars between Maori and Colonial British
• 1874 Ontario Agricultural College founded
• 1878 Fever epidemic in New Orleans begin, it will kill 4,500
• 1879 Agricultural and industrial tariffs are introduced in Germany
• 1882 1st ocean pier in US completed, Washington, D.C.
• 1898 Jean-Baptiste Marchand hoists French flag in Fashoda, Sudan
• 1900 114°F (46°C), Basin, Wyoming (state record)

• 1901 Striking Canadian salmon fishermen on the Pacific coast, resentful of the non-union Japanese who continue to fish, maroon and imprison 47
• 1901 In Germany a group of 104 aristocrats present a deceleration against dueling, though the tradition will go on
• 1902 Australian parliament agrees to female suffrage

• 1905 The British and Japanese renew their alliance (of January 1902) for 10 years and agree to provide mutual support if attacked by other power
• 1906 Alfred Dreyfus found innocent in France
• 1909 16th Amendment was passed by congress (power to tax incomes)
• 1912 1st foreign feature film exhibited in US - "Queen Elizabeth" in NYC
• 1913 150,000 Ulstermen gather and resolve to resist Irish Home Rule by force of arms; since the British Liberals have promised the Irish nationalists Home Rule, civil war appears imminent
• 1916 3rd and 4th of 4 fatal Jersey Shore shark attacks occurs at Matawan Creek when epileptic Lester Stilwell (11) is dragged into a creek and Watson Fisher (24), believing Silwell had a seizure, is bitten while retreiving the body and subsequently bleeds to death
• 1916 Joseph Dunn (14) is attacked by a shark, suffering non-fatal wounds in New Jersey, the final episode in a spate of shark attacks along the Jersey coast where 4 people died over 12 days
• 1917 The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona
• 1918 Japanese battleship explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed
• 1920 Lithuania and USSR sign peace treaty, Lithuania becomes independent republic

• 1921 Indians (9) & Yankees (7) combine for an AL record 16 doubles
• 1926 Guomindangleger draws against warlord Wu Peifu

• 1927 Babe Ruth hits 30th of 60 HRs
• 1928 1st televised tennis match

• 1931 45,715 fans in 35,000 seat Sportsman Park St Louis, help cause many ground ruled doubles, 11 in 1st game & 21 in 2nd game for 32
• 1932 Hedley Verity establishes a first-class cricket record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm
• 1933 Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33 cents per hour)
• 1934 US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned
• 1934 Willy de Supervise swims world record 400m (5:16.0)
• 1935 Belgium recognizes Soviet Union
• 1937 -13) Tupolev ANT-25 non-stop flight Moscow to San Jacinto, California
• 1940 Frederick McKinley Jones receives a patent for an air conditioning unit for trucks, helping to change long-haul carriage of food and blood
• 1943 Battle of Kolombangara (Second Battle of Gulf of Kula)
• 1943 National Committee Freies Deutschland forms
• 1943 Pope Pius XII receives German ambassador baron von Weizsacker
• 1943 Soviet offensive at Orel
• 1943 World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka - Russians defeat German forces in one of the largest ever tank battles
• 1944 Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gased
• 1944 US government recognizes authority of General De Gaulle
• 1945 Cubs stop Braves Tommy Holmes modern-day NL hitting streak at 37 games
• 1946 Benjamin Britten's "Rape of Lucretia" premieres at Glyndebourne Opera Festival
• 1946 Vance Dinges hits only Phillie pinch hit inside-the-park HR
• 1948 1st jets to fly across Atlantic (6 RAF de Havilland Vampires)
• 1949 16th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 11-7 at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn
• 1949 Baseball owners agree to erect warning paths before each fence
• 1949 Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die
• 1949 LA Rams sign Norm Van Brocklin
• 1950 ILTF re-admit Germany and Japan in Davis Cup, Poland & Hungary withdraws
• 1950 Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages, FH Van de Funten and F Fischer to death


• 1951 Mob tries to keep black family from moving into all-white Cicero, Illinois
• 1951 NY Yankees Allie Reynolds no-hits Cleveland Indians, 8-0
• 1952 East German SED decides to form German DR army
• 1953 KTVB TV channel 7 in Boise, ID (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1954 Major League Baseball Players Association founded

• 1954 ANC President Albert Luthuli banned by South African Minister of Justice from attending public gatherings and confined to the magisterial district of Lower Tugela, Natal
• 1955 22nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 in 12 at County Stad, Milw
• 1955 Christian Democratic Party forms in Argentina
• 1957 1st President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower
• 1957 US Surgeon General Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer
• 1958 "Li'l Abner" closes at St James Theater NYC after 693 performances
• 1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
• 1959 NBC uses cameras to show catchers signals during Yankee-Red Sox game
• 1960 Congo, Chad and Central African Republic declare independence
• 1960 USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs
• 1960 XEWT TV channel 12 in Tijuana-San Diego, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
• 1960 Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
• 1962 1st time 2 manned crafts in space (USSR)
• 1962 Rolling Stones 1st performance (Marquee Club, London)

• 1966 10.51" (26.70 cm) of rainfall, Sandusky Ohio (state record)
• 1966 37th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-1 in 10 at Busch Stad, St Louis
• 1966 Baltimore Orioles third baseman Brooks Robinson voted MLB All Star game MVP
• 1966 Start of 3 day race riot in Chicago, looting brings out National Guardsmen
• 1966 US Treasury announces it will buy mutilated silver coins at silver bullion price at Philadelphia and Denver mints
• 1967 5th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-0
• 1967 Race riot in Newark, New Jersey, 26 killed, 1,500 injured & over 1,000 arrested
• 1967 Greek regime deprives 480 Greeks of their citizenship
• 1968 Couve de Murville forms government in France


• 1968 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1969 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Lytham & St Annes GC: Tony Jacklin wins the first of his 2 major titles, 2 strokes ahead of Bob Charles of New Zealand; first Briton to win The Open since 1951
• 1969 As the 'marching season' reaches its height there is serious rioting in Derry, Belfast and Dungiven; many familles in Belfast are forced to move from their homes

• 1970 Tanzania signs contract with China for building Tanzam-railway
• 1971 Juan Corona, indicted for 25 murders
• 1972 Democrats nominated George McGovern for US president in Miami, Florida
• 1972 Twelve years after the banning of the ANC and Pan Africanist Congress, a new political movement, the Black People Convention is formed after a three day long conference in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
• 1973 A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States
• 1974 John Ehrlichman convicted of violating Daniel Ellsberg's rights
• 1975 British Open Men's Golf, Carnoustie: American Tom Watson wins 18-hole playoff by 1 stroke over Jack Newton of Australia; first of 8 major titles; first of 5 Open Championships
• 1975 Bob Taylor catches 7 in an innings, Derbyshire v Yorkshire
• 1975 Sao Tomé e Príncipe gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
• 1976 Ian Dury & Kilburns disband
• 1976 1st "Family Feud" game show debuts on ABC hosted by Richard Dawson
• 1977 John Edrich scores his 100th 100, Surrey v Derbyshire at The Oval
• 1978 Sun Bank Building opens
• 1978 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1979 Ian Paice joins Whitesnake
• 1979 Kiribati (formerly Gilbert Islands) declares independence from UK

• 1982 Britain announces it is returning 593 Argentine POWs
• 1982 FEMA promises survivors of a nuclear war will get their mail
• 1983 Chad government troops reconquer Abéché
• 1984 Geraldine Ferraro becomes 1st US female major-party VP candidate
• 1984 A car bomb set off by the military wing of the ANC, explodes in Durban South Africa killing 5 and injuring 27 people
• 1985 "Singin' in the Rain" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 367 performances

• 1985 STS 51-F launch scrubbed at T -3s because of main engine shutdown
• 1986 Steven McDonald, New York City Police Department patrolman, is shot and paralyzed by Shavod Jones
• 1987 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Islesmere GC: Jody Rosenthal wins by 2 from Ayako Okamoto of Japan
• 1987 1st time in 20 years a delegation from USSR lands in Israel
• 1987 50 white South Africans meets ANCers in Dakar

• 1987 Phillies Kent Tekulve pitches his 900th game in relief
• 1988 59th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-1 at Riverfront Stadium, Cin
• 1988 All star MVP: Terry Steinbach (Oakland A's)
• 1988 Margo Adams alleges Red Sox Wade Bogg's had an affair with her
• 1988 USSR launches Phobos II for Martian orbit
• 1989 NY Yankee pitching great Ron Guidry retires (170-91 .651, 3.29 ERA)
• 1990 "Les Miserables," opens at National Theatre, Washington

• 1990 Chicago White Sox Melido Perez no-hits Yankees 8-0 in a rain shortened 6 inning game at Yankee Stadium (7th no-hitter of 1990)
• 1990 In Soweto, South Africa, Shanty town women strip to the waist and confront bulldozers sent by authorities to demolish their homes
• 1992 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Saucon Valley CC: Larry Laoretti wins by 4 strokes ahead of Jim Colbert for his lone professional victory
• 1992 Axl Rose arrested on riot charges in St Louis of Jul 2, 1991 concert
• 1993 7.8 earthquake hits Hokkaido Japan, 160 killed

• 1993 Don Imus begins broadcasting to Boston on WEEI (590 AM)
• 1994 65th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-8 at Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh
• 1994 All star MVP: Fred McGriff (Atlanta Braves)
• 1994 Nomination hearings for Steven Breyer for supreme court justice begins

• 1996 Start of 1st "Super 8's" tournament in Kuala Lumpur
• 1997 Cubs play in their 5,000th consecutive game without being no-hit
• 1997 Pirates Francisco Cordova & Ricardo Rincon no-hit Astros 3-0 in 10 inn


• 1998 FIFA World Cup Final, Stade de France, Saint-Denis: Zinadine Zidane scores twice as France wins first World Cup beating Brazil, 3-0

• 1998 Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, TPC of Michigan: Gil Morgan wins his 3rd Champions Tour major title by 3 strokes from Hale Irwin

• 2005 76th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-5 at Comerica Park, Detroit
• 2006 Hezbollah initiates Operation True Promise.
• 2009 US Open Women's Golf, Saucon Valley CC: Eun-Hee Ji of South Korea wins her lone major title, 1 stroke ahead of American runner-up Candie Kung
• 2011 82nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-1 at Chase Field, Phoenix
• 2012 200 people are killed by the Syrian army in Tremseh
• 2012 90-155 people are killed after an oil tanker crashes and explodes in Okogbe, Rivers State, Nigeria
• 2012 45th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
• 2013 8 people are killed after a commuter train derails in Paris

• 2015 US Open Women's Golf, Lancaster CC: Chun In-gee of South Korea wins her first major title by 1 stroke from compatriot Amy Yang

• 2017 Giant iceberg breaks away from Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica, about 6,000 sq km in length
• 2018 World's longest fingernails cut off; Shridhar Chillal's nails measured 909.6cm after growing for 66 years
• 2018 Sandra Oh is the first woman to be nominated for an Emmy award in a leading role for "Killing Eve"

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