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Today in History

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783Jul 12Bertha “with the great feet”, wife of French king Pippin III, died.
1096Jul 12Crusaders under Peter the Hermit reach Sofia in Hungary.
1109Jul 12Crusaders captured harbor city of Tripoli.
1191Jul 12Richard Coeur de Lion and Crusaders defeated the Saracens at Acre.
1290Jul 12Jews were expelled from England by order of King Edward I.
1450Jul 12Jack Cade was slain in a revolt against British King Henry VI.
1543Jul 12England’s King Henry VIII married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, who outlived him.
1630Jul 12New Amsterdam’s governor bought Gull Island from Indians for cargo and renamed it Oyster Island. It later became Ellis Island.
1645Jul 12In Russia Michael Romanov (b.1596), the first RomanovTsar (1613-1645), died.
1679Jul 12Britain’s King Charles II ratified Habeas Corpus Act.
1690Jul 12Due to British calendar changes in 1752, the July 1, 1690, Battle of Boyne (in Ireland) was adjusted for celebration on Jul 12.
1691Jul 12William III defeated the allied Irish and French armies at the Battle of Aughrim, Ireland.
1712Jul 12Richard Cromwell (85), English Lord Protector (1658-59), died.
1730Jul 12Josiah Wedgwood, pottery designer, manufacturer (Wedgwood), was born in England.
1771Jul 12James Cook sailed Endeavour back to Downs, England.
1774Jul 12Citizens of Carlisle, Penn., passed a declaration of independence.
1776Jul 12Capt. Cook departed with Resolution for 3rd trip to Pacific Ocean.
1790Jul 12The French Assembly approved a Civil Constitution providing for the election of priests and bishops.
1794Jul 12British Admiral Lord Nelson lost his right eye at the siege of Calvi, in Corsica.
1806Jul 12The Confederation of the Rhine was established in Germany.
1812Jul 12United States forces led by General William Hull entered Canada during the War of 1812 against Britain. However, Hull retreated shortly thereafter to Detroit. Madison had called for 50,000 volunteers to invade Canada but only 5,000 signed up.
1843Jul 12Mormon leader Joseph Smith said God encourages polygamy.
1849Jul 12William Osler (d.1919), physician, author (circulatory system), was born in Canada. “The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.”
1854Jul 12George Eastman (d.1932), inventor of the Kodak camera, was born in Waterville, N.Y.
1859Jul 12William Goodale patented a paper bag manufacturing machine in Mass.
1861Jul 12Anton Stepanovich Arensky, composer, was born.
1862Jul 12Federal troops occupied Helena, Arkansas.
1864Jul 12President Abraham Lincoln became the first standing president to witness a battle as Union forces repelled Jubal Early’s army on the outskirts of Washington, D.C.
1874Jul 12Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure, “Gloria Scott.”
1878Jul 12A Yellow Fever epidemic began in New Orleans. It killed 4,500.
1884Jul 12Amadeo Modigliani, painter and sculptor (Reclining Nude), was born in Italy.
1892Jul 12In France flood waters burst from a lake buried under a glacier on Mt. Blanc killing at least 175 people in the St. Gervais valley.
1895Jul 12Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers, was born in NYC.
1898Jul 12Xenon, an inert substance, was discovered in England by the Scottish chemist William Ramsay and English chemist Morris Travers.
1904Jul 12Pablo Neruda (d.1973), Chilean poet and political activist (Residence on Earth-Nobel 1971), was born as Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto in Parral, Chile.
1908Jul 12Milton Berle (d.2002), comedian, was born as Mendel Berlinger in New York City.
1909Jul 12“Curly” Joe DeRita (Joseph Wardell) (The Three Stooges: The Outlaw is Coming, Snow White and the Three Stooges, Have Rocket, Will Travel; died July 3, 1993), was born.
1913Jul 12The 4-masted schooner J.H. Lunsmann sank on in the San Francisco Bay near Fort Mason following a collision with the steamer Francis H. Leggett. The crew of 12 were rescued.
1918Jul 12A Japanese battleship exploded in the Bay of Tokayama and some 500 people were killed.
1925Jul 12Roger Smith, CEO (General Motors) (“Roger and Me” movie), was born.
1934Jul 12Van Cliburn, American concert pianist, was born.
1935Jul 12Alfred Dreyfus, French officer of Jewish background, died in Paris. His trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most tense political dramas in modern French and European history. It is still known today as the Dreyfus Affair.
1937Jul 12Bill Cosby, comedian, actor, was born.
1940Jul 12Rufus Robinson and Earl Cooley (1911-2009) jumped out of a Travelair plane to fight a forest fire in Idaho’s Nez Perce National Forest. They were the first smoke-jumpers.
1941Jul 12Moscow was bombed by the German Luftwaffe for the first time.
1942Jul 12Richard Stoltzman, clarinetist (Tashi), was born in Omaha, Nebraska.
1943Jul 12Pope Pius XII received Baron von Weizsacker, the German ambassador.
1944Jul 12US government recognized the authority of General De Gaulle.
1946Jul 12Benjamin Britten’s “Rape of Lucretia,” premiered in Glyndebourne.
1948Jul 12The Democratic national convention opened in Philadelphia.
1951Jul 12A mob tried to keep a black family from moving into all-white Cicero, Ill.
1954Jul 12President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed a highway modernization program, with costs to be shared by federal and state governments.
1962Jul 12Mick Jagger (18), Keith Richards (18) and Brian Jones (20) played The Marquee Club with three others, the first time they performed under the Rolling Stones band name which later became synonymous worldwide with excess and musical flair.
1966Jul 12There were race riots in Chicago.
1967Jul 12Blacks in Newark rioted. 26 were killed, 1500 injured and over 1000 arrested.
1974Jul 12President Richard Nixon’s aides G. Gordon Liddy, John Ehrlichman and two others were convicted of conspiracy and perjury in connection with the Watergate scandal. They were convicted of conspiring to violate the civil rights of Daniel Ellsberg’s former psychiatrist.
1975Jul 12The islands of Sao Tome and Principe achieved independence from Portugal.
1977Jul 12President Carter defended Supreme Court decisions limiting government payments for poor women’s abortions, saying, “There are many things in life that are not fair.”
1984Jul 12Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” video premiered on MTV and became an instant hit.
1985Jul 12Doctors discovered what turned out to be a cancerous growth in President Reagan’s large intestine, prompting surgery the following day.
1987Jul 12For the first time in 20 years, a delegation of Soviet diplomats arrived in Israel for what was described as a “technical mission” to document Soviet citizens and make an inventory of Soviet property.
1988Jul 12The American League beat the National League 2-1 in the All-Star game played in Cincinnati.
1989Jul 12A farmer in eastern France went on a shooting rampage, killing 14 people before being captured.
1990Jul 12CBS introduced the TV saga “Northern Exposure.” The show ran to 1995. Margaret Phillips (d.2002) played general-store owner Ruth-Anne Miller.
1991Jul 12A Japanese professor who had translated Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses” was found stabbed to death, nine days after the novel’s Italian translator was attacked in Milan.
1992Jul 12In an emotional farewell speech, Benjamin Hooks, outgoing executive director of the NAACP, urged the group’s convention in Nashville, Tenn., to show the world that it remained vital.
1993Jul 12Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “Sunset Boulevard” opened in London.
1994Jul 12The National League won the US baseball All-Star Game, defeating the American League 8-7.
1995Jul 12President Clinton spelled out school-prayer guidelines, asserting the First Amendment already guaranteed adequate freedom of religion.
1996Jul 12The House voted overwhelmingly to define marriage in federal law as a legal union of one man and one woman, no matter what states might say.
1997Jul 12In Copenhagen, the last stop of an eight-day European tour, President Clinton said political divisions in Europe were closing.
1998Jul 12In Afghanistan Taliban forces captured Maimana, the provincial capital of the Faryab province from forces under Gen’l. Rashid Dostum.
1999Jul 12President Clinton and Republican congressional leaders held their first face-to-face budget meeting of the year; the talk was described afterward as positive.
2000Jul 12Israel cancelled plans to sell an AWACS-equipped plane to China.
2001Jul 12Abner Louima, the Haitian immigrant tortured in a New York City police station, agreed to an $8.7 million settlement.
2002Jul 12The Bush administration expected a $165 billion deficit mainly due to a falloff in tax revenues from stock market capital gains.
2003Jul 12Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer leaked the identity of a CIA operative (Valerie Plame) to Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus during a phone call. Pincus testified to this in 2007 as the first defense witness in the CIA leak trial.
2004Jul 12President Bush defended the Iraq war during a visit to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, saying the invasion had made America safer.
2005Jul 12Miguel Tejada and Mark Teixeira led the American League to a 7-5 win over the National League in Detroit for the AL’s eighth straight All-Star victory.
2006Jul 12The US government announced a five-year, 547-million-dollar aid package to Ghana to help the African nation develop agriculture and alleviate poverty.
2007Jul 12A Bush administration assessment said Iraq had achieved only limited military and political progress toward a democratic society; Iraqi leaders responded by insisting they were making progress.
2008Jul 12Les Crane, pioneer talk radio and TV host, died in Marin, California. In 1964 he hosted the “The Les Crane Show,” a late night TV talk show on ABC that ran for 4 months.
2009Jul 12Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe delivered reparations totaling nearly $1 million to 279 victims of Colombia’s long-running conflict.
2010Jul 12Shahram Amiri, a missing Iranian nuclear scientist who Tehran claims was abducted by the US, took refuge at the Pakistani embassy in Washington and asked to return to his homeland. Amiri (32) disappeared while on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia in June 2009.
2011Jul 12Pedro Pimentel Rios (54), a former member of an elite Guatemalan military force suspected of carrying out a 1982 massacre, was extradited from the United States and was flown on a government-chartered plane to Guatemala and turned over to authorities.
2012Jul 12The US Treasury reported that the US budget deficit grew by nearly $60 billion in June, remaining on track to exceed $1 trillion for the fourth straight year.
2013Jul 12The US military said most prisoners on the hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay have resumed eating, suggesting a possible end, or at least a pause, to a protest that brought renewed attention to their indefinite detention at the base in Cuba.
2014Jul 12In southern California 3 people were killed and two wounded in a late night shooting in a working class neighborhood in Pasadena. The shooter (35) was talked into surrendering.

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