July 12

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July 12 is the 193rd day (194th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 172 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

Events

1690 - William of Orange's army wins the Battle of the Boyne as reckoned under Gregorian calendar.
1759 - British cannon start firing on French at Quebec, from L�vis, Quebec.
1812 - Americans invade Canada at Windsor, Ontario.
1862 - Medal of Honor authorized by the U.S. Congress.
1932 - Lambeth Bridge, London, opened by King George V of the United Kingdom
1933 - Congress passes the first federal minimum wage law in the United States: 33 cents per hour.
1950 - Ren� Pleven becomes Prime Minister of France
1967 - Four days of race riots begin in Newark, New Jersey that will claim the lives of 27 people.
1973 - The 1973 National Archives Fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center
1975 - S�o Tom� and Pr�ncipe declare independence
1979 - The island nation of Kiribati declares independence
1993 - A magnitude 7.8 earthquake off the shore of Hokkaido, Japan launches a devastating tsunami, killing 202 on the small island of Okushiri
1998 - KDE 1.0 released.
2002 - Gay rights: The Superior Court of Ontario orders Ontario to recognize same-sex marriages.
2004 - Pedro Santana Lopes is officially appointed Prime Minister of Portugal.

Births

100 BC - Gaius Julius Caesar, soldier and politician
1468 - Juan del Encina, poet and composer
1730 - Josiah Wedgwood, potter
1807 - Thomas Hawksley, civil engineer (d. 1893)
1817 - Henry David Thoreau, writer, Transcendentalist philosopher (d. 1862)
1819 - Charles Kingsley, writer
1849 - Sir William Osler, physician, author, professor of medicine (d. 1919)
1852 - Hip�lito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (1916-1922, 1928-1930; d. 3 July 1933).
1854 - George Eastman, inventor of the Kodak camera (d. 1932)
1855 - Edward 'Ned' Hanlan, world champion rower (d. 1908)
1861 - George Washington Carver, botanist who discovered many uses for peanuts
1868 - Stefan George, poet (d. 1933)
1870 - Louis II of Monaco (d. 1949)
1882 - Tod Browning, film director (d. 1962)
1884 - Amedeo Modigliani, painter and sculptor (d. 1920)
1886 - Jean Hersholt, film director, actor (d. 1956)
1892 - Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (d. 1942)
1892 - Harry Piel, actor, film director and producer (d. 1963)
1895 - Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist known for his work with Richard Rodgers on various musicals (d. 1960)
1895 - R. Buckminster Fuller, American architect, (d. 1983)
1902 - G�nther Anders, philosopher and writer (d. 1992)
1904 - Deng Xiaoping, Chinese politician and leader (d. 1997)
1904 - Pablo Neruda, author, won Nobel Prize for literature in 1971, (d. 1973)
1908 - Milton Berle, comedian (d. 2002)
1909 - Joe DeRita, AKA "Curly Joe", former member of the Three Stooges (d. 1993)
1917 - Andrew Wyeth,artist
1920 - Beah Richards, actress (d. 2000)
1922 - Mark Hatfield, former US Senator from Oregon
1930 - Gordon Pinsent, actor, director, writer
1932 - Otis Davis, American runner
1933 - Donald E. Westlake, author
1934 - Van Cliburn, pianist
1937 - Bill Cosby, comedian, actor
1937 - Lionel Jospin, Prime Minister of France
1943 - Christine McVie, rock singer
1947 - Gareth Edwards, former rugby player
1948 - Richard Simmons, fitness trainer
1948 - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, musician (d. 1997)
1964 - Gaby Roslin, TV presenter
1967 - Richard Herring, comedian
1971 - Kristi Yamaguchi, figure skater
1976 - Anna Friel, British actress
1977 - Seann William Scott, actor
1984 - Gareth Gates, British Singer
1991 - Erik Per Sullivan, actor, Malcolm in the Middle

Deaths

1536 - Erasmus of Rotterdam, Dutch writer and philosopher
1845 - Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian author
1918 - Dragutin Lerman, Croatian Africa explorer (b. 1864)
1919 - Charles Rock, actor
1921 - Ralph Herz, actor
1923 - Harry Lonsdale, actor
1926 - Gertrude Bell, archaeologist, writer, spy and administrator known as the "Uncrowned Queen of Iraq"
1935 - Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer
1962 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, band leader (b. 1907)
1988 - Josh Logan, film director, writer
1996 - John Chancellor, news anchor (NBC Nightly News) (b. 1927)
2003 - Benny Carter, musician

Holidays and observances

Kiribati - Independence Day
Mongolia - Naadam Holiday (2nd day)
Northern Ireland - Battle of the Boyne Day (see Irish calendar).
S�o Tom� and Pr�ncipe - Independence Day
Sunset and sunrise occur along Manhattan's street grid centerline

July 11 - July 13 - June 12 - August 12 -- listing of all days

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