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What Happened on July 12th This Day in History

Year	Name
2013	Six people are killed and 200 injured in a French passenger train derailment in Brétigny-sur-Orge.
2012	Syrian Civil War: Government forces target the homes of rebels and activists in Tremseh and kill anywhere between 68 and 150 people.
2012	A tank truck explosion kills more than 100 people in Okobie, Nigeria.
2007	U.S. Army Apache helicopters engage in airstrikes against armed insurgents in Baghdad, Iraq, where civilians are killed; footage from the cockpit is later leaked to the Internet.
2006	The 2006 Lebanon War begins.
2001	Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-104, carrying the Quest Joint Airlock to the International Space Station.
1998	The Ulster Volunteer Force attacked a house in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland with a petrol bomb, killing the Quinn brothers.
1995	Chinese seismologists successfully predict the 1995 Myanmar–China earthquake, reducing the number of casualties to 11.
1979	The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1975	São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal.
1973	A fire destroys the entire sixth floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States.
1971	The Australian Aboriginal Flag is flown for the first time.
1967	Riots begin in Newark, New Jersey.
1963	Pauline Reade, 16, disappears in Gorton, England, the first victim in the Moors murders.
1962	The Rolling Stones perform for the first time at London's Marquee Club.
1961	Indian city Pune floods due to failure of the Khadakwasla and Panshet dams, killing at least two thousand people.
1961	ČSA Flight 511 crashes at Casablanca–Anfa Airport in Morocco, killing 72.
1960	Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
1948	Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders the expulsion of Palestinians from the towns of Lod and Ramla.
1943	German and Soviet forces engage in the Battle of Prokhorovka, one of the largest armored engagements of all time.
1920	The Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty is signed, by which Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of Lithuania.
1918	The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Kawachi blows up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621.
1917	The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
1913	Serbian forces begin their siege of the Bulgarian city of Vidin; the siege is later called off when the war ends.
1913	The Second Revolution breaks out against the Beiyang government, as Li Liejun proclaims Jiangxi independent from the Republic of China.
1862	The Medal of Honor is authorized by the United States Congress.
1812	The American Army of the Northwest briefly occupies the Upper Canadian settlement at what is now at Windsor, Ontario.
1806	At the insistence of Napoleon, Bavaria, Baden, Württemberg and thirteen minor principalities leave the Holy Roman Empire and form the Confederation of the Rhine.
1801	British ships inflict heavy damage on Spanish and French ships in the Second Battle of Algeciras.
1799	Ranjit Singh conquers Lahore and becomes Maharaja of the Punjab (Sikh Empire).
1790	The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is passed in France by the National Constituent Assembly.
1789	In response to the dismissal of the French finance minister Jacques Necker, the radical journalist Camille Desmoulins gives a speech which results in the storming of the Bastille two days later.
1776	Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.
1691	Battle of Aughrim (Julian calendar): The decisive victory of William III of England's forces in Ireland.
1580	The Ostrog Bible, one of the early printed Bibles in a Slavic language, is published.
1576	Mughal Empire annexes Bengal after defeating the Bengal Sultanate at the Battle of Rajmahal.
1562	Fray Diego de Landa, acting Bishop of Yucatán, burns the sacred idols and books of the Maya.
1543	King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace.
1527	Lê Cung Hoàng ceded the throne to Mạc Đăng Dung, ending the Lê dynasty and starting the Mạc dynasty.
1493	Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, is published.
1488	Joseon Dynasty official Choe Bu returned to Korea after months of shipwrecked travel in China.
1470	The Ottomans capture Euboea.
1191	Third Crusade: Saladin's garrison surrenders to Philip Augustus, ending the two-year siege of Acre.
927	King Constantine II of Scotland, King Hywel Dda of Deheubarth, Ealdred of Bamburgh and King Owain of the Cumbrians accepted the overlordship of King Æthelstan of England, leading to seven years of peace in the north.
70	The armies of Titus attack the walls of Jerusalem after a six-month siege. Three days later they breach the walls, which enables the army to destroy the Second Temple.

Famous People Born on July 12

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Year	Name
1975	Phil Lord, American filmmaker
1911	Evald Mikson, Estonian footballer (d. 1993)
1920	Randolph Quirk, Manx linguist and academic (d. 2017)
1951	Piotr Pustelnik, Polish mountaineer
1920	Bob Fillion, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (d. 2015)
1880	Tod Browning, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1962)
1966	Taiji, Japanese bass player and songwriter (d. 2011)
1986	JP Pietersen, South African rugby player
1909	Fritz Leonhardt, German engineer, designed Fernsehturm Stuttgart (d. 1999)
1955	Timothy Garton Ash, English historian and author

Famous People Deaths On July 12

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Date	Name
1929	Robert Henri, American painter and educator (b. 1865)
2004	Betty Oliphant, English-Canadian ballerina, co-founded the National Ballet School of Canada (b. 1918)
1992	Caroline Pafford Miller, American journalist and author (b. 1903)
2001	Fred Marcellino, American author and illustrator (b. 1939)
1997	François Furet, French historian and author (b. 1927)
1489	Bahlul Lodi, sultan of Delhi
1934	Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor and businessman, invented the outboard motor (b. 1877)
2010	Olga Guillot, Cuban-American singer (b. 1922)
1962	Roger Wolfe Kahn, American composer and bandleader (b. 1907)
524	Viventiolus, archbishop of Lyon (b. 460)