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July 12

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

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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 Lévis, 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 - René 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.
• 1975 - São Tomé and Príncipe 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)
• 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 - 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 - Günther 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
• 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
• 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).
• São Tomé and Príncipe - Independence Day
• Sunset and sunrise occur along Manhattan's street grid centerline

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