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12 Jul 1109
Crusaders capture Syrias harbor city of Tripoli
12 Jul 1542
French troops under Maarten van Rossem occupy Flanders
12 Jul 1580
Ostrog Bible the first printed Bible in a Slavic language is published
12 Jul 1627
English fleet under George Villiers lands on the Rhe [NSJune 22]
12 Jul 1630
New Amsterdams governor buys Gull Island from Indians for cargo renames it Oyster Island later known as Ellis Island
12 Jul 1690
Battle of Boyne in Ireland Protestant King William III defeats English Catholic King James II
12 Jul 1691
Antonio Pignatelli elected as Pope Innocentius XII
12 Jul 1691
Battle of Aughrim (Aghrim) Ireland William III beats James II
12 Jul 1700
Gelderland accepts Gregorian calendar yesterday is June 30
12 Jul 1704
Stanislaw Leszcynski becomes king of part of Poland
12 Jul 1745
Warship Elisabeth joins Bonnie Prince Charlies frigate Doutelle [NS]
12 Jul 1774
Citizens of Carlisle Pennsylvania pass a symbolic declaration of independence
12 Jul 1774
Cossack leader Emilian Pugachevs army occupies Kazan
12 Jul 1776
Captain James Cook departs with Resolution for 3rd trip to Pacific Ocean
12 Jul 1785
1st manned flight by gas balloon in Netherlands
12 Jul 1790
French Revolution The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is adopted putting the Catholic Church in France under the control of the state
12 Jul 1801
Second Battle of Algeciras British fleet beats French and Spanish (six days after losing the 1st Battle of Algeciras)
12 Jul 1812
US forces led by General Hull invade Canada (War of )
12 Jul 1817
1st flower show held in Dannybrook County Cork Ireland
12 Jul 1817
Karl Drais von Sauerbronn demonstrates bicycle course
12 Jul 1850
Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts establishment of Provincial States
12 Jul 1859
Paper bag manufacturing machine patents by William Goodale Massachusetts
12 Jul 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
12 Jul 1878
Fever epidemic in New Orleans begin it will kill 4500
12 Jul 1879
Agricultural and industrial tariffs are introduced in Germany
12 Jul 1882
1st ocean pier in US completed Washington D.C.
12 Jul 1898
Jean-Baptiste Marchand hoists French flag in Fashoda Sudan
12 Jul 1900
114F (46C) Basin Wyoming (state record)
12 Jul 1901
Striking Canadian salmon fishermen on the Pacific coast resentful of the non-union Japanese who continue to fish maroon and imprison 47
12 Jul 1901
In Germany a group of 104 aristocrats present a deceleration against dueling though the tradition will go on
12 Jul 1902
Australian parliament agrees to female suffrage
12 Jul 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
12 Jul 1909
16th Amendment was passed by congress (power to tax incomes)
12 Jul 1912
1st foreign feature film exhibited in US - Queen Elizabeth in NYC
12 Jul 1913
150000 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
12 Jul 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
12 Jul 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
12 Jul 1917
The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1300 striking miners and others from Bisbee Arizona
12 Jul 1918
Japanese battleship explodes in Bay of Tokayama 500 killed
12 Jul 1920
Lithuania and USSR sign peace treaty Lithuania becomes independent republic
12 Jul 1921
Indians (9) & Yankees (7) combine for an AL record 16 doubles
12 Jul 1926
Guomindangleger draws against warlord Wu Peifu
12 Jul 1931
45715 fans in 35000 seat Sportsman Park St Louis help cause many ground ruled doubles 11 in 1st game & 21 in 2nd game for 32
12 Jul 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
12 Jul 1933
Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33 cents per hour)
12 Jul 1934
US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned
12 Jul 1934
Willy de Supervise swims world record 400m (516.0)
12 Jul 1937
-13) Tupolev ANT-25 non-stop flight Moscow to San Jacinto California
12 Jul 1940
Frederick McKinley Jones receives a patent for an air conditioning unit for trucks helping to change long-haul carriage of food and blood
12 Jul 1943
Battle of Kolombangara (Second Battle of Gulf of Kula)
12 Jul 1943
Pope Pius XII receives German ambassador baron von Weizsacker
12 Jul 1943
World War II Battle of Prokhorovka - Russians defeat German forces in one of the largest ever tank battles
12 Jul 1944
Theresienstadt Family camp disbands with 4000 people gased
12 Jul 1944
US government recognizes authority of General De Gaulle
12 Jul 1945
Cubs stop Braves Tommy Holmes modern-day NL hitting streak at 37 games
12 Jul 1946
Benjamin Brittens Rape of Lucretia premieres at Glyndebourne Opera Festival
12 Jul 1946
Vance Dinges hits only Phillie pinch hit inside-the-park HR
12 Jul 1948
1st jets to fly across Atlantic (6 RAF de Havilland Vampires)
12 Jul 1949
16th All Star Baseball Game AL wins 11-7 at Ebbets Field Brooklyn
12 Jul 1949
Baseball owners agree to erect warning paths before each fence
12 Jul 1949
Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay 45 die
12 Jul 1950
ILTF re-admit Germany and Japan in Davis Cup Poland & Hungary withdraws
12 Jul 1950
Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages FH Van de Funten and F Fischer to death
12 Jul 1951
Mob tries to keep black family from moving into all-white Cicero Illinois
12 Jul 1951
NY Yankees Allie Reynolds no-hits Cleveland Indians 8-0
12 Jul 1952
East German SED decides to form German DR army
12 Jul 1953
KTVB TV channel 7 in Boise ID (NBCABC) begins broadcasting
12 Jul 1954
Major League Baseball Players Association founded
12 Jul 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
12 Jul 1955
22nd All Star Baseball Game NL wins 6-5 in 12 at County Stad Milw
12 Jul 1957
1st President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower
12 Jul 1957
US Surgeon General Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer
12 Jul 1958
Lil Abner closes at St James Theater NYC after 693 performances
12 Jul 1959
NBC uses cameras to show catchers signals during Yankee-Red Sox game
12 Jul 1960
Congo Chad and Central African Republic declare independence
12 Jul 1960
XEWT TV channel 12 in Tijuana-San Diego CA (IND) begins broadcasting
12 Jul 1960
Orlyonok the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR is founded.
12 Jul 1962
Rolling Stones 1st performance (Marquee Club London)
12 Jul 1966
10.51 (26.70 cm) of rainfall Sandusky Ohio (state record)
12 Jul 1966
37th All Star Baseball Game NL wins 2-1 in 10 at Busch Stad St Louis
12 Jul 1966
All star MVP Brooks Robinson (Baltimore Orioles)
12 Jul 1966
Start of 3 day race riot in Chicago looting brings out National Guardsmen
12 Jul 1967
Greek regime deprives 480 Greeks of their citizenship
12 Jul 1969
British Open 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
12 Jul 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
12 Jul 1970
Tanzania signs contract with China for building Tanzam-railway
12 Jul 1966
US Treasury announces it will buy mutilated silver coins at silver bullion price at Philadelphia and Denver mints
12 Jul 1967
Race riot in Newark New Jersey 26 killed 1500 injured & over 1000 arrested
12 Jul 1972
Democrats nominated George McGovern for US president in Miami Florida
12 Jul 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
12 Jul 1973
A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States
12 Jul 1974
John Ehrlichman convicted of violating Daniel Ellsbergs rights
12 Jul 1975
British Open 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
12 Jul 1975
Bob Taylor catches 7 in an innings Derbyshire v Yorkshire
12 Jul 1975
Sao Tom e Prncipe gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
12 Jul 1976
1st Family Feud game show debuts on ABC hosted by Richard Dawson
12 Jul 1977
John Edrich scores his 100th 100 Surrey v Derbyshire at The Oval
12 Jul 1979
Kiribati (formerly Gilbert Islands) declares independence from UK
12 Jul 1982
Britain announces it is returning 593 Argentine POWs
12 Jul 1982
FEMA promises survivors of a nuclear war will get their mail
12 Jul 1984
Geraldine Ferraro becomes 1st US female major-party VP candidate
12 Jul 1984
A car bomb set off by the military wing of the ANC explodes in Durban South Africa killing 5 and injuring 27 people
12 Jul 1985
Singin in the Rain opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 367 performances
12 Jul 1985
STS 51-F launch scrubbed at T -3s because of main engine shutdown
12 Jul 1986
Steven McDonald New York City Police Department patrolman is shot and paralyzed by Shavod Jones
12 Jul 1987
Canadian Open Womens Golf (du Maurier Classic) Islesmere GC Jody Rosenthal wins by 2 from Ayako Okamoto of Japan
12 Jul 1987
1st time in 20 years a delegation from USSR lands in Israel
12 Jul 1987
Phillies Kent Tekulve pitches his 900th game in relief
12 Jul 1988
59th All Star Baseball Game AL wins 2-1 at Riverfront Stadium Cin
12 Jul 1988
Margo Adams alleges Red Sox Wade Boggs had an affair with her
12 Jul 1989
NY Yankee pitching great Ron Guidry retires (170-91 .651 3.29 ERA)
12 Jul 1990
Les Miserables opens at National Theatre Washington
12 Jul 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 )
12 Jul 1990
In Soweto South Africa Shanty town women strip to the waist and confront bulldozers sent by authorities to demolish their homes
12 Jul 1992
US Senior Open Mens Golf Saucon Valley CC Larry Laoretti wins by 4 strokes ahead of Jim Colbert for his lone professional victory
12 Jul 1992
Axl Rose arrested on riot charges in St Louis of Jul 2 1991 concert
12 Jul 1993
7.8 earthquake hits Hokkaido Japan 160 killed
12 Jul 1993
Don Imus begins broadcasting to Boston on WEEI (590 AM)
12 Jul 1994
65th All Star Baseball Game AL wins 7-8 at Three Rivers Stadium Pittsburgh
12 Jul 1994
Nomination hearings for Steven Breyer for supreme court justice begins
12 Jul 1996
Start of 1st Super 8s tournament in Kuala Lumpur
12 Jul 1997
Cubs play in their 5000th consecutive game without being no-hit
12 Jul 1997
Pirates Francisco Cordova & Ricardo Rincon no-hit Astros 3-0 in 10 inn
12 Jul 1998
FIFA World Cup Final Stade de France Saint-Denis Zinadine Zidane scores twice as France wins first World Cup beating Brazil 3-0
12 Jul 2005
76th All Star Baseball Game AL wins 7-5 at Comerica Park Detroit
12 Jul 2009
US Open Womens Golf Saucon Valley CC Eun-Hee Ji of South Korea wins her lone major title 1 stroke ahead of American runner-up Candie Kung
12 Jul 2011
82nd All Star Baseball Game NL wins 5-1 at Chase Field Phoenix
12 Jul 2012
200 people are killed by the Syrian army in Tremseh
12 Jul 2012
90-155 people are killed after an oil tanker crashes and explodes in Okogbe Rivers State Nigeria
12 Jul 2012
45th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
12 Jul 2013
8 people are killed after a commuter train derails in Paris
12 Jul 2015
US Open Womens Golf Lancaster CC Chun In-gee of South Korea wins her first major title by 1 stroke from compatriot Amy Yang
12 Jul 2017
Giant iceberg breaks away from Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica about 6000 sq km in length
12 Jul 2018
Worlds longest fingernails cut off Shridhar Chillals nails measured 909.6cm after growing for 66 years
12 Jul 2018
Sandra Oh is the first woman to be nominated for an Emmy award in a leading role for Killing Eve
12 Jul 2018
Republic of Ireland will be the first country to sell off its investments in fossil fuel companies after passing legislation in parliament
12 Jul 1561
Trinity Church (now Saint Basils Cathedral) is consecrated in Moscow Russia
12 Jul 1966
Baltimore Orioles third baseman Brooks Robinson voted MLB All Star game MVP
12 Jul 1969
British Open Mens 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
12 Jul 1975
British Open Mens 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
12 Jul 1998
Senior Players Championship Mens Golf TPC of Michigan Gil Morgan wins his 3rd Champions Tour major title by 3 strokes from Hale Irwin
12 Jul 2008
Canadian harness racer John Campbell wins his 10000th race as a driver by guiding Share the Delight to victory in the 6th race at Meadowlands Racetrack
12 Jul 2017
Worlds largest iceberg (later christened A68) breaks away from Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica about 6000 sq km in length
12 Jul 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 retrieving the body and subsequently bleeds to death
12 Jul 1927
Yankees slugger Babe Ruth half way to his MLB record of 60 home runs smacks 30 of Joe Shaute in 9th inning in New Yorks 7-0 win over Cleveland Indians at Dunn Field
12 Jul 1945
Chicago Cubs beat Boston 6-1 to halt Braves outfielder Tommy Holmes modern-day record NL hitting streak at 37 games
12 Jul 1966
37th All-Star Baseball Game NL wins 2-1 in 10 inninngs at Busch Memorial Stadium St Louis
12 Jul 1969
As the marching season reaches its height there is serious rioting in Derry Belfast and Dungiven many families in Belfast are forced to move from their homes
12 Jul 1561
Trinity Church (now Saint Basils Cathedral) is consecrated in Moscow Russia built to commemorate defeat of the Mongols at battle of Kazan
12 Jul 1705
Ottoman army officer Al-usayn ibn Al proclaims himself Bey of Tunis founding the Husainid Dynasty (dynasty rules till 1957)
12 Jul 1776
Captain James Cook departs Plymouth England helming HMS Resolution beginning his 3rd and final trip to the Pacific
12 Jul 1951
NY Yankees pitcher Allie Reynolds throws no-hitter in Cleveland against the Indians his former team in a 1-0 win
12 Jul 1958
Lil Abner closes at St James Theater NYC after 693 performances
12 Jul 1985
Singin in the Rain musical adaptation of the 1952 film opens at Gershwin Theater NYC runs for 367 performances
12 Jul 1990
Les Miserables opens at National Theatre Washington DC
12 Jul 1993
Talk radio host Don Imus begins broadcasting to Boston on WEEI (590 AM)
12 Jul 1997
Pittsburgh Pirates duo Francisco Cordova & Ricardo Rincon no-hit Houston Astros 3-0 in 10 innings at Three Rivers Stadium
12 Jul 1921
Cleveland Indians (9) & New York Yankees (7) combine for an AL record 16 doubles
12 Jul 1943
8th day of Battle of Kursk USSR Operation Kutuzov (Soviet counter-offensive begins
12 Jul 1970
British Open Mens Golf St Andrews Jack Nicklaus beats Doug Sanders by 1 stroke in events first 18-hole playoff to win the 2nd of his 3 Open Championships
12 Jul 1987
US Senior Open Mens Golf Brooklawn CC South African Gary Player wins by a record 6 strokes ahead of Doug Sanders
12 Jul 2018
Chemical plant explosion in Jiangan County Sichuan Province China kills at least 19
12 Jul 1561
Diego de Lando Bishop of Yucatan burns on a large pyre Maya religious objects and most of the last surviving books of bark outside the Franciscan convent of Man
12 Jul 1863
British forces invade the Waikato In New Zealand home of the Mori King Movement beginning a new phase of the New Zealand Wars between the colonial government and allied Mori tribes on one side and Mori on the other [1]
12 Jul 1943
World War II Battle of Prokhorovka - Russia defeats German forces in one of the largest ever tank battles
12 Jul 1966
10.51 (26.70 cm) of rainfall in SanduskyOhio (state record until broken in 1995)
12 Jul 1975
England cricket wicketkeeper Bob Taylor catches 7 in an innings for Derbyshire v Yorkshire at Queens Park Chesterfield
12 Jul 1979
Kiribati (formerly Gilbert Islands) declares independence from the United Kingdom
12 Jul 2021
At least 92 people die in a fire in a COVID-19 hospital ward in Iraqi city of Nasiriya
12 Jul 2022
Netflixs South Korean drama Squid Game is the first non-English series to be nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Drama [1]
12 Jul 2023
NATO summit ends in Vilnius Lithuania with Turkey agreeing to Swedens membership and Ukraine membership when allies agree and conditions are met [1]
12 Jul 1192
Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Taishgun the first ruling shogun in the history of Japan and de facto ruler
12 Jul 1493
The Nuremburg Chronicle an illustrated history of the world is first published in Latin in Nuremburg compiled by Hartmann Schedel and published by Anton Koberger [1]
12 Jul 1673
Second Battle of the James River Dutch fleet led by admirals Cornelis Evertsen the Youngest and Jacob Binckes wins a tactical victory against an improvised English squadron led by Thomas Gardiner and captures four English ships
12 Jul 1785
First manned flight in Netherlands Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard lifts off in his gas balloon from Noordeinde Palace in The Hague
12 Jul 1933
Screen Actors Guild incorporates in Hollywood with Ralph Morgan as their first president
12 Jul 1937
Tupolev ANT-25 non-stop flight from Moscow to San Jacinto California
12 Jul 1948
First jets to fly across Atlantic (six RAF de Havilland Vampires)
12 Jul 1957
Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the first President to fly by helicopter
12 Jul 1957
US Surgeon General Leroy Burney links smoking to lung cancer
12 Jul 1962
Rolling Stones first performance at the Marquee Club in London
12 Jul 1970
Tanzania signs contract with China for building Tanzam-railway between Tanzania and Zambia
12 Jul 1979
Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice joins Whitesnake
12 Jul 1979
Mafia head of the Bonanno family Carmine Galante dies with a cigar in his mouth assassinated by the Mafia commission after he declared himself boss of bosses of the New York underworld [1]
12 Jul 1982
FEMA promises survivors of a nuclear war will receive their mail
12 Jul 1987
Fifty white South Africans meet ANCers in Dakar
12 Jul 1987
First time in 20 years a delegation from USSR lands in Israel
12 Jul 2014
World premiere of Richard Blackford and Bernie Krauses The Great Animal Orchestra Symphony combining natural recordings of animals including gibbons whales birds and frogs with a traditional classical orchestra by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales led by Martyn Brabbins at the Cheltenham Festival in England
12 Jul 2018
Republic of Ireland will be the first country to sell its investments in fossil fuel companies after passing legislation in parliament
12 Jul 2018
Worlds longest fingernails are cut off Indian man Shridhar Chillals left-hand nails measured a combined total of 909.6 cm (358.1 inches) after growing for 66 years