This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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Births:  
 
07/12/ 100 -BC- [Gaius] Julius C‘sar, Roman Emperor 
07/12/1644 Arnold Moonen, vicar/literature (David's saint graduals) 
07/12/1675 Evaristo E Felice dall' Abaco, Italian cellist/composer 
07/12/1730 Josiah Wedgwood, England, pottery designer/manufacturer (Wedgwood) 
07/12/1757 Christian Danner, composer 
07/12/1801 John Hill Hewitt, composer 
07/12/1802 Charles-Louis Hanssens, composer 
07/12/1807 Silas Casey, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1882 
07/12/1817 Henry David Thoreau, Concord Mass, naturalist/pacifist (Walden Pond)

07/12/1821 Cesare Dominiceti, composer 
07/12/1821 Daniel Harvey Hill, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1889 
07/12/1832 Otis Crandell Davis, Ala, 400m/4X400m relayer (Olympic-gold-1960) 
07/12/1840 Abraham Goldfaden, Eastern European Yiddish dramatist 
07/12/1849 William Osler, Canada, physician/author (circulatory system) 
07/12/1854 George Eastman, Waterville NY, inventor (Kodak camera) 
07/12/1864 George Washington Carver, studied the peanut 
07/12/1868 Stefan George, Germany, lyric poet (Algabal) 
07/12/1884 Amedeo Modigliani, Italy, painter/sculptor (Reclining Nude) 
07/12/1885 George Butterworth, composer 
07/12/1886 Jean Hersholt, Danish/US actor (One in White, Aryan) 
07/12/1888 Tojohiko Kagawa, Japan, Christian-social reformer (Grain of Wheat) 
07/12/1895 Kirsten Flagstead, Norse soprano (Wagner) 
07/12/1895 Oscar Hammerstein II, NYC, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers 
07/12/1895 R Buckminster Fuller, architect/inventor (geodesic dome) 
07/12/1900 Fjodor Godunov-Tcherdynchev, Russian poet (Life of Tchernyshevsky) 
07/12/1904 Pablo Neruda, Chile, poet (Residence on Earth-Nobel 1971) 
07/12/1905 John CF, under English king George V 
07/12/1908 Ernest Burnelle, Belgian politician 
07/12/1908 Johan Franco, composer 
07/12/1908 Milton Berle, Harlem NYC, comedian (Uncle Miltie, Mr Television) 
07/12/1909 Joey Faye, NYC, comedian (Joey Faye's Follies) 
07/12/1912 Souphanouvong, prince/president Laos 
07/12/1917 Andrew Wyeth, US, painter (Christina's World) 
07/12/1920 Keith Andes, Ocean City NJ, actor (Farmer's Daughter, Away All Boats

07/12/1922 Clark MacGregor, politician (involved in Watergate) 
07/12/1922 James E[dwin] Gunn, US, sci-fi author (Station in Space, Immortal) 
07/12/1922 Mark O Hatfield, (Sen-R Oregon, 1967-  ) 
07/12/1923 James E Gunn, US, sci-fi writer (New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

07/12/1924 Jaap Geraedts, composer 
07/12/1927 Gualberto T Hernandez, perfect minister Neth Antilles 
07/12/1929 Pavle Merku, composer 
07/12/1931 Andr‚ Laporte, Flemish composer 
07/12/1931 Bob Traxler, (Rep-D-MI, 1974-  ) 
07/12/1934 Van Cliburn Jr, [Harvey Lavan], La, pianist (Tchaikovsky 1958) 
07/12/1936 Jan Nemec, Prague Czech, director (Diamonds of the Night) 
07/12/1937 Bill Cosby, Phila, actor/comedian (I Spy, Cosby, Leonard Part 6) 
07/12/1937 Mickey Edwards, (Rep-R-OK, 1977-  ) 
07/12/1938 Mickey Stratton, Meriden Ct, softball catcher (Hall of Fame 1969) 
07/12/1942 Richard Stoltzman, Omaha Nebraska, clarinetist (Tashi) 
07/12/1943 Christie McVie, rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Got A Hold on Me) 
07/12/1943 Ernie Anastos, Nashua NH, news anchor (WCBS, WABC) 
07/12/1943 Paul Silas, NBAer (Boston Celtic, Seattle SuperSonic) 
07/12/1944 Bill McCollum, (Rep-R-Florida, 1981-  ) 
07/12/1944 Denise Nicholas, Detroit Mich, actress (Room 222, Baby I'm Back) 
07/12/1948 Richard Simmons, exercise guru (Deal-a-Meal) 
07/12/1948 Walter Egan, rocker (Not Shy, Fundamental Roll) 
07/12/1949 Jay Thomas, Kermit Tx, DJ/actor (Mork & Mindy, Cheers, Murphy Brown)

07/12/1950 Eric Carr, drummer (Kiss-Beth) 
07/12/1951 Cheryl Ladd, Huron SD, actress (Charlie's Angels, Purple Hearts) 
07/12/1951 Jamey Sheridan, Pasadena Calif, actor (Another World) 
07/12/1956 Mel Harris, [Mary Ellen], Bethlehm Pa, actress (Hope-30 Something) 
07/12/1957 Buddy Foster, actor (Hondo, Mayberry RFD) 
07/12/1962 Grecia Colmenares, Venezuela, actress 
07/12/1964 Judi Evans, Cal, actress (Guiding Light, Adrienne-Days of our Life) 
07/12/1971 Kristi Yamaguchi, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1992) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
07/12/ 783 Bertha 'with the great feet', wife of French king Pippin III, dies 
07/12/1073 Johannes Gualbertus, Italian monk/saint, dies 
07/12/1429 John [Jean C] Gerson, Fren theologist (Theologica mystic), dies at 6

07/12/1450 Jack Cade, slain in a revolt against British King Henry VI 
07/12/1536 Desiderius Erasmus, humanist/priest (Novum instrumentum omne), dies 
07/12/1575 Ren‚e/Renata de France, duchess of Ferara/daughter of Louis XII, die

07/12/1633 Simon Besler, composer, dies at 49 
07/12/1640 Henry Casimir I, count of Nassau-Dietz, dies 
07/12/1733 Ann-Th‚rŠse de Marguent de Lambert, French marquess/author, dies at 

07/12/1742 Evaristo EF dall' Abaco, Ital cellist/composer, dies on 67th birthda

07/12/1773 Johann Joachim Quantz, German royal flautist/composer, dies at 76 
07/12/1839 Christian Traugott Tag, composer, dies at 62 
07/12/1882 Alfred Humphreys Pease, composer, dies at 44 
07/12/1883 Hermann Zopff, composer, dies at 57 
07/12/1897 Felix Godefroid, composer, dies at 78 
07/12/1898 Paul Voulet, French captain/mass murderer in Senegal, dies 
07/12/1899 Esquire Mauritius A de Savornin Lohman, gov of Suriname, dies at 67 
07/12/1902 Pieter Caland, Dutch hydraulic engineer (New Waterway), dies at 74 
07/12/1906 Henrique Alves de Mesquita, composer, dies at 70 
07/12/1916 Aritius S Talma, Dutch minister of Agriculture, dies at 52 
07/12/1917 Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp merchant/forger, dies 
07/12/1926 Charles Wood, composer, dies at 40 
07/12/1933 Willem H Drucker, lawyer, dies at 45 
07/12/1935 Alfred Dreyfus, French officier (Dreyfus Affair), dies 
07/12/1953 Joseph Jongen, composer, dies at 79 
07/12/1956 Maurice Lippens, Belgian governor of Congo (1921-23), dies at 80 
07/12/1966 D T Suzuki, Zen Buddhism scholar, dies in Tokyo Japan at 96 
07/12/1976 Ted Mack, TV host (Original Amateur Hour), dies at 72 
07/12/1977 Ed Holmes, actor (Growing Paynes, Once Upon a Tune), dies at 66 
07/12/1977 Frantisek Suchy, composer, dies at 75 
07/12/1979 Kalervo Tuukkanen, composer, dies at 69 
07/12/1979 Minnie Ripperton, [Andrea Davis], singer (Lovin' You), dies at 30 
07/12/1980 John W Davis, Pres (WV State college), dies at 92 
07/12/1981 Ben Se˜es, historian (WW II), dies at 73 
07/12/1982 Kenneth More, Brit actor (Genevieve), dies of Parkinson disease at 6

07/12/1988 Joshua Logan, Broadway producer, dies at 79 of palsy 
07/12/1988 Raymond W Goldsmith, US economist, dies at 83 
07/12/1992 Albert Pierrepont, last British executioner (433 men/17 women), dies

07/12/1992 Reginald Beck, England, director, dies 
07/12/1993 Lily van Lugt Melsert, actress (Tomorrow will be better), dies at 91

 
 
Significant Events:  
 
07/12/ 526 St Felix IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope 
07/12/1109 Crusaders capture Syria's harbor city of Tripoli 
07/12/1290 Jews are expelled from England by order of King Edward I 
07/12/1442 King Alfonso V of Arag¢n becomes king of Naples 
07/12/1543 England's King Henry VIII weds Catherine Parr (6th & last wife) 
07/12/1575 Willem van Orange marries Charlotte de Bourbon 
07/12/1689 Orangeman's Day-Battle of Boyne, Protestant victory in Ireland 
07/12/1690 Battle of Boyne-King William III defeats catholic king James II 
07/12/1691 Antonio Pignatelli elected as Pope Innocentius XII 
07/12/1691 Battle of Aughrim (Aghrim) England, William III beats James II 
07/12/1700 Gelderland accepts Gregorian calendar; yesterday was June 30, 1700 
07/12/1771 James Cook sails Endeavour back to Downs England 
07/12/1774 Citizens of Carlisle, Penn. pass a declaration of independence 
07/12/1776 Capt Cook departs with Resolution for 3rd trip to Pacific Ocean 
07/12/1785 1st manned flight by gas balloon in Netherlands 
07/12/1801 Battle at Algeciras: British fleet beats French & Spanish 
07/12/1812 US forces led by Gen Hull invade Canada (War of 1812) 
07/12/1817 1st flower show held (Dannybrook, County Cork, Ireland) 
07/12/1817 Karl Drais von Sauerbronn demonstrates bicycle course 
07/12/1843 Mormon leader Joseph Smith say God OKs polygamy 
07/12/1850 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts establishment of Provincial States 
07/12/1859 Paper bag manufacturing machine patented by William Goodale, Mass 
07/12/1862 Congress authorizes Medal of Honor 
07/12/1862 Federal troops occupy Helena Arkansas 
07/12/1874 Ontario Agricultural College founded 
07/12/1874 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure, 'Gloria Scott' (BG) 
07/12/1876 Paul Henry discovers asteroid #164 Eva 
07/12/1878 Fever epidemic in New Orleans begin, it will kill 4,500 
07/12/1882 1st ocean pier in US completed, Washington, DC 
07/12/1900 114øF (46øC), Basin, Wyoming (state record) 
07/12/1902 Australian parliament agrees to female suffrage 
07/12/1906 Alfred Dreyfus found innocent in France 
07/12/1909 16th Amendment approved (power to tax incomes) 
07/12/1910 J Helffrich discovers asteroid #701 Oriola 
07/12/1912 1st foreign feature film exhibited in US-'Queen Elizabeth'-NYC 
07/12/1914 Babe Ruth makes his baseball debut, pitches for Red Sox 
07/12/1918 Japanese battleship explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed 
07/12/1920 Lithuania & USSR sign peace treaty, Lithuania becomes independent re

07/12/1923 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #997 Priska & #3682 
07/12/1926 Guomindangleger draws against warlord Wu Peifu 
07/12/1926 Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:26.2) 
07/12/1927 Babe Ruth hits 30th of 60 HRs 
07/12/1928 1st televised tennis match 
07/12/1930 Robert T 'Bobby' Jones wins US Open golf tournament 
07/12/1931 Cubs & Cards hit a record 23 doubles in a game (2nd game of DH) 
07/12/1933 Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33› per hour) 
07/12/1934 US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned 
07/12/1934 Willy de Supervise swims world record 400m (5:16.0) 
07/12/1935 Belgium recognizes Soviet Union 
07/12/1937 -13) Tupolev ANT-25 non-stop flight Moscow to San Jacinto Calif 
07/12/1943 Battle of Kolombangara (2nd battle of Gulf of Kula) 
07/12/1943 National Committee Freies Deutschland forms 
07/12/1943 Russian offensive at Orel 
07/12/1943 Tank battle at Prochorowka (Russians beat Nazi, about 12,000 die 
07/12/1944 Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gased 
07/12/1944 US government recognizes authority of General De Gaulle 
07/12/1946 Vance Dinges hits only Phillie pinch hit inside-the-park HR 
07/12/1948 1st jets to fly across Atlantic (6 RAF de Havilland Vampires) 
07/12/1949 AL beats NL 11-7 in 16th All Star Game, NL makes a record 5 errors 
07/12/1949 Baseball owners agree to erect warning paths before each fence 
07/12/1949 Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die 
07/12/1949 LA Rams sign Norm Van Brocklin 
07/12/1951 Mob tries to keep black family from moving into all-white Cicero Ill

07/12/1951 NY Yankees Allie Reynolds no-hits Cleve Indians, 8-0 
07/12/1952 East German SED decides to form German DR army 
07/12/1953 KTVB TV channel 7 in Boise, ID (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting 
07/12/1954 Major League Baseball Players Assn founded 
07/12/1955 NL beats AL 6-5 (12 innings) in 22nd All Star Game (Milwaukee) 
07/12/1957 1st President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower 
07/12/1957 US surgeon gen Leroy Burney reports connection smoking & lung cancer

07/12/1960 Congo, Chad & Central African Republic declare independence 
07/12/1960 Echo I, 1st passive satellite launched 
07/12/1960 USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs 
07/12/1960 XEWT TV channel 12 in Tijuana-San Diego, CA (IND) begins broadcastin

07/12/1962 1st time 2 manned crafts in space (USSR) 
07/12/1962 Rolling Stones 1st performance (Marquee Club, London) 
07/12/1966 10.51' (26.70 cm) of rainfall, Sandusky Ohio (state record) 
07/12/1966 Most rain fell in 1 day in Ohio, 10.5' in Sandusky 
07/12/1966 NL beats AL 2-1 (10 innings) in 37th All Star Game (Busch, St Louis)

07/12/1966 Race riot in Chicago 
07/12/1967 23 die in Newark race riot 
07/12/1967 5th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-0 
07/12/1967 Blacks in Newark, riot, 26 killed, 1500 injured & over 1000 arrested

07/12/1967 Greek regime deprives 480 Greeks of their citizenship 
07/12/1968 Couve de Murville forms govt in France 
07/12/1970 Blues-Rock singer Janis Joplin debuts in Kentucky 
07/12/1970 Tanzania signs contract with China for building Tanzam-railway 
07/12/1970 Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atl Ocean in 'Ra' docks in Barbados 
07/12/1971 Juan Corona, indicted for 25 murders 
07/12/1972 Democrats nominated George McGovern for president in Miami Fla 
07/12/1974 John Erhlichman convicted of violating Daniel Ellsberg's rights 
07/12/1975 Sao Tom‚ e Pr¡ncipe gains independence from Portugal (Nat'l Day) 
07/12/1977 1st free flight test of space shuttle Enterprise 
07/12/1978 Sun Bank Building opens 
07/12/1979 Kiribati (formerly Gilbert Islands) declares independence from UK 
07/12/1982 Britain announces it was returning 593 Argentine POWs 
07/12/1982 FEMA promises survivors of a nuclear war will get their mail 
07/12/1983 Chad govt troops reconquer Ab‚ch‚ 
07/12/1984 Geraldine Ferraro, NY becomes 1st woman major-party VP candidate 
07/12/1985 Doctors discover a cancerous growth in Pres Reagan's colon 
07/12/1985 STS 51-F launch scrubbed at T -3s because of main engine shutdown 
07/12/1987 1st time in 20 years a delegation from USSR lands in Israel 
07/12/1987 50 white South Africans meets ANCers in Dakar 
07/12/1987 Phillies Kent Tekulve pitches his 900th game in relief 
07/12/1988 Margo Adams alleges Red Sox Wade Bogg's 'Delta Force' revenge plan 
07/12/1988 USSR launches Phobos II for Martian orbit 
07/12/1989 NY Yankee pitching great Ron Guidry retires (170-91 .651, 3.29 ERA) 
07/12/1990 Chicago White Sox Melido Perez no-hits Yankees 8-0 in a rain 
07/12/1990 shortened 6 inning game at Yankee Stadium (7th no-hitter of 1990) 
07/12/1992 Axl Rose arrested on riot charges in St Louis of Jul 2, 1991 concert

07/12/1993 7.8 earthquake hits Hokkaido Japan, 160 killed 
07/12/1993 Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical 'Sunset Promenade' opens in London 
07/12/1993 Don Imus begins broadcasting to Boston on WEEI (590 AM) 
07/12/1994 65th All Star Game, NL Beats AL at 3 Rivers Stadium, Pitts 
07/12/1994 Nomination hearings for Steven Breyer for supreme court justice begi

  
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