Notable Historical Events on July 12th
July 12th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
526 |
St Felix IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
1109 |
Crusaders capture Syria's harbor city of Tripoli |
1191 |
English King Richard I / the Lionheart & Crusaders defeat Saracens in Palestine |
1290 |
Jews are expelled from England by order of King Edward I |
1442 |
King Alfonso V of Aragon becomes king of Naples |
1537 |
Battle of Albancay: Diego de Almagro defeated by army led by Alonso de Alvarado on behalf of Francisco Pizarro |
1542 |
French troops under Maarten van Rossem occupies Flanders |
1549 |
Kett's uprising occupies Norwich, England |
1580 |
Ostrog Bible, the first printed Bible in a Slavic language, is published. |
1627 |
English fleet under George Villiers lands on the Rhe [NS=June 22] |
1630 |
New Amsterdam's governor buys Gull Island from Indians for cargo, renames it Oyster Island, it is later known as Ellis Island |
1679 |
Britain's King Charles II ratifies Habeas Corpus Act allowing prisoners right to be imprisoned to be examined |
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] |
1771 |
James Cook sails Endeavour back to Downs England |
1774 |
Citizens of Carlisle Penn, pass a declaration of independence |
1774 |
Cossack leader Emilian Pugachevs army occupies Kazan |
1776 |
Captain Cook departs with Resolution for 3rd trip to Pacific Ocean |
1785 |
1st manned flight by gas balloon in Netherlands |
1801 |
Battle at Algeciras: British fleet beats French & Spanish |
1804 |
Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot in a duel. |
1812 |
US forces led by Gen Hull invade Canada (War of 1812) |
1817 |
1st flower show held (Dannybrook, County Cork, Ireland) |
1817 |
Karl Drais von Sauerbronn demonstrates bicycle course |
1843 |
Mormon leader Joseph Smith says God allows polygamy |
1850 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts establishment of Provincial States |
1859 |
Paper bag manufacturing machine patents by William Goodale, Mass |
1862 |
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 |
1874 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "Gloria Scott" (BG) |
1878 |
Fever epidemic in New Orleans begin, it will kill 4,500 |
1882 |
1st ocean pier in US completed, Washington, DC |
1898 |
Jean-Baptiste Marchand hoists French flag in Fashoda Sudan |
1900 |
114°F (46°C), Basin, Wyoming (state record) |
1901 |
Cy Young wins his 300th game |
1901 |
Striking Canadian salmon fishermen on the Pacific coast, resentful of the nonunion 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 |
1902 |
Arthur Balfour succeeds Lord Salisbury, who retired as Prime Minister on 11 July |
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 approved (power to tax incomes) |
1912 |
1st foreign feature film exhibited in US-"Queen Elizabeth"-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 |
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 & USSR sign peace treaty, Lithuania becomes independent republic |
1921 |
Babe Ruth sets record of 137 career home runs |
1921 |
Indians (9) & Yankees (7) combine for an AL record 16 doubles |
1926 |
Guomindangleger draws against warlord Wu Peifu |
1926 |
Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:26.2) |
1927 |
Babe Ruth hits 30th of 60 HRs |
1928 |
1st televised tennis match |
1930 |
34th US Golf Open: Robert T "Bobby" Jones wins |
1930 |
Bradman out for 334 in Test Cricket at Headingley, 383 mins, 46 fours |
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 Calif |
1943 |
Battle of Kolombangara (2nd battle of Gulf of Kula) |
1943 |
National Committee Freies Deutschland forms |
1943 |
Pope Pius XII receives German ambassador baron von Weizsacker |
1943 |
Russian offensive at Orel |
1943 |
WWII: 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 in Glyndebourne |
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 & Japan in Davis Cup, Poland & Hungary withdraws |
1950 |
Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages, FH Van de Funten & F Fischer to death |
1951 |
Mob tries to keep black family from moving into all-white Cicero Ill |
1951 |
NY Yankees Allie Reynolds no-hits Cleve 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 |
Pres Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate highway system |
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 Gen 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 ankee-Red Sox game |
1960 |
Congo, Chad & Central African Republic declare independence |
1960 |
Echo I, 1st passive satellite launched |
1960 |
Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Hoosier Celebrity Golf Tournament |
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) |
1964 |
19th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright |
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 |
All star MVP: Brooks Robinson (Balt Orioles) |
1966 |
Race riot in Chicago |
1966 |
US Treasury announces it will buy mutilated silver coins at silver bullion price at Philadelphia & Denver mints |
1967 |
23 die in Newark race riot |
1967 |
5th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-0 |
1967 |
Blacks in Newark, riot, 26 killed, 1500 injured & over 1000 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 |
98th British Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 280 at Royal Lytham |
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 |
Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atlantic on raft Ra II, arrives in Barbados from Morocco in 57 days |
1970 |
99th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at St Andrews |
1970 |
Blues-Rock singer Janis Joplin debuts in Kentucky |
1970 |
Tanzania signs contract with China for building Tanzam-railway |
1971 |
Juan Corona, indicted for 25 murders |
1972 |
Democrats nominated George McGovern for president in Miami Fla |
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 |
104th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 279 at Carnoustie |
1975 |
Bob Taylor catches 7 in an innings, Derbyshire v Yorkshire |
1975 |
Sao Tomé e Príncipe gains independence from Portugal (Natl Day) |
1976 |
Ian Dury & Kilburns disband |
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 Palce joins Whitesnake |
1979 |
Kiribati (formerly Gilbert Islands) declares independence from UK |
1979 |
"Disco Demolition Night" at Comiskey Park, causes fans to go wild & causes White Sox to forfeit 2nd game of a doubleheader to Tigers |
1981 |
Debbie Austin wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
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, NY becomes 1st woman 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 perfs |
1985 |
Doctors discover a cancerous growth in President Reagan's colon |
1985 |
STS 51-F launch scrubbed at T -3s because of main engine shutdown |
1987 |
15th du Maurier Golf Classic: Jody Rosenthal |
1987 |
1st time in 20 years a delegation from USSR lands in Israel |
1987 |
50 white South Africans meets ANCers in Dakar |
1987 |
8th US Seniors Golf Open: Gary Player |
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 |
Boris Yeltsin quits Soviet Communist Party |
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 |
13th US Seniors Golf Open: Larry Laoretti |
1992 |
Axl Rose arrested on riot charges in St Louis of Jul 2, 1991 concert |
1992 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament |
1993 |
7.8 earthquake hits Hokkaido Japan, 160 killed |
1993 |
Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Sunset Promenade" opens in London |
1993 |
Don Imus begins broadcasting to Boston on WEEI (590 AM) |
1994 |
65th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-8 at 3 Rivers Stad, Pitts |
1994 |
All star MVP: Fred McGriff (Atlanta Braves) |
1994 |
Nomination hearings for Steven Breyer for supreme court justice begins |
1995 |
Enrique Iglesias releases his first album, "Enrique Iglesias" |
1996 |
Kirby Puckett retires from Minnesota Twins |
1996 |
Michael Jordan signs a NBA contract for 1 year for $25 million |
1996 |
Start of 1st "Super 8's" tournament in Kuala Lumpur |
1997 |
Cubs play in their 5,000th consecutive gane with out being no-hit |
1997 |
Pirates Francisco Cordova & Ricardo Rincon no-hit Astros 3-0 in 10 inn |
1998 |
16th Seniors Players Golf Championship: |
1998 |
Jamie Farr Kroger Golf Classic |
1998 |
France beats Brazil 3-0 for soccer's 16th World Cup (1st title) |
1998 |
Pres. Nelson Mandela accompanies Queen Elizabeth II on a coach drive through the streets of London |
2005 |
76th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-5 at Comerica Park, Detroit |
2006 |
Hezbollah initiates Operation True Promise. |
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 |
2013 |
8 people are killed after a commuter train derails in Paris |
2016 |
2 Bailiffs Shot to Death at Michigan Courthouse |
2018 |
Croatia reaches World Cup for 1st time, beats England 2-1 |
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