July 12, 2006 Israel invades Lebanon in response to Hezbollah's kidnapping of Israeli soldiers

July 12, 1996 Nick Dean Lawrence was born

July 12, 1994 Nomination hearings for Steven Breyer for supreme court justice begins

July 12, 1993 7.8 earthquake hits Hokkaido Japan, 160 killed

July 12, 1990 Boris Yeltsin quits Soviet Communist Party

July 12, 1988 U.S.S.R. launches Phobos II for Martian orbit

July 12, 1987 15th du Maurier Golf Classic: Jody Rosenthal

July 12, 1987 1st time in 20 years a delegation from U.S.S.R. lands in Israel

July 12, 1987 50 white South Africans meets ANCers in Dakar

July 12, 1985 Doctors discover a cancerous growth in President Reagan's colon

July 12, 1985 STS 51-F launch scrubbed at T -3s because of main engine shutdown

July 12, 1984 Geraldine Ferraro, New York becomes 1st woman major-party VP candidate

July 12, 1983 Chad government troops reconquer Abeche

July 12, 1982 Britain announces it is returning 593 Argentine POWs

July 12, 1979 Kiribati (formerly Gilbert Islands) declares independence from U.K.

July 12, 1978 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

July 12, 1977 1st free flight test of space shuttle Enterprise

July 12, 1975 Sao Tome e Principe gains independence from Portugal (Natl Day)

July 12, 1974 John Ehrlichman convicted of violating Daniel Ellsberg's rights

July 12, 1971 Juan Corona, indicted for 25 murders

July 12, 1970 Tanzania signs contract with China for building Tanzam-railway

July 12, 1968 Couve de Murville forms government in France

July 12, 1968 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.

July 12, 1967 23 die in Newark race riot

July 12, 1967 Blacks in Newark, riot, 26 killed, 1500 injured and over 1000 arrested

July 12, 1967 Greek regime deprives 480 Greeks of their citizenship

July 12, 1966 10.51" (26.70 cm) of rainfall, Sandusky Ohio (state record)

July 12, 1966 Race riot in Chicago

July 12, 1966 U.S. Treasury announces it will buy mutilated silver coins at silver bullion price at Philadelphia and Denver mints

July 12, 1962 1st time 2 manned crafts in space (U.S.S.R.)

July 12, 1960 Congo, Chad and Central African Republic declare independence

July 12, 1960 Echo I, 1st passive satellite launched

July 12, 1960 U.S.S.R.'s Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs

July 12, 1960 XEWT TV channel 12 in Tijuana-San Diego, California (IND) begins broadcasting

July 12, 1958 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island

July 12, 1957 1st President to fly in helicopter - Dwight Eisenhower

July 12, 1957 U.S. Surgeon Gen Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer

July 12, 1954 Major League Baseball Players Association founded

July 12, 1954 President Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate highway system

July 12, 1952 East German SED decides to form German DR army

July 12, 1950 ILTF re-admit Germany and Japan in Davis Cup, Poland and Hungary withdraws

July 12, 1950 Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages, FH Van de Funten and F Fischer to death

July 12, 1949 Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die

July 12, 1948 1st jets to fly across Atlantic, 6 RAF de Havilland Vampires

July 12, 1944 Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gased

July 12, 1944 U.S. government recognizes authority of General De Gaulle

July 12, 1943 Battle of Kolombangara (2nd battle of Gulf of Kula)

July 12, 1943 National Committee Freies Deutschland forms

July 12, 1943 Pope Pius XII receives German ambassador baron von Weizsacker

July 12, 1943 Russian offensive at Orel

July 12, 1943 Tank battle at Prochorowka - Russians beat Nazis, about 12,000 die

July 12, 1935 Belgium recognizes Soviet Union

July 12, 1934 U.S. Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned

July 12, 1933 Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33 cents per hour)

July 12, 1928 1st televised tennis match

July 12, 1926 Guomindangleger draws against warlord Wu Peifu

July 12, 1920 Lithuania and U.S.S.R. sign peace treaty, Lithuania becomes independent rep

July 12, 1918 Japanese battleship explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed

July 12, 1912 1st foreign feature film exhibited in U.S. - "Queen Elizabeth" - New York City

July 12, 1909 16th Amendment approved, power to tax incomes

July 12, 1906 Alfred Dreyfus found innocent in France

July 12, 1902 Australian parliament agrees to female suffrage

July 12, 1898 Jean-Baptiste Marchand hoists French flag in Fashoda, Sudan

July 12, 1882 1st ocean pier in U.S. completed, Washington, D.C.

July 12, 1878 Fever epidemic in New Orleans begin, it will kill 4,500

July 12, 1874 Ontario Agricultural College founded

July 12, 1874 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "Gloria Scott"

July 12, 1862 Congress authorizes Medal of Honor

July 12, 1862 Federal troops occupy Helena, Arkansas

July 12, 1850 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts establishment of Provincial States

July 12, 1812 U.S. forces led by Gen Hull invade Canada, War of 1812

July 12, 1801 Battle at Algeciras: British fleet beats French and Spanish

July 12, 1785 1st manned flight by gas balloon in Netherlands

July 12, 1776 Capt Cook departs with Resolution for 3rd trip to Pacific Ocean

July 12, 1774 Citizens of Carlisle Penn, pass a declaration of independence

July 12, 1774 Cossack leader Emilian Pugachevs army occupies Kazan

July 12, 1771 James Cook sails Endeavour back to Downs England

July 12, 1745 Warship Elisabeth joins Bonnie Prince Charlies frigate Doutelle

July 12, 1730 Lorenzo Corsini chosen as Pope Clemens XII

July 12, 1704 Stanislaw Leszcynski becomes king of part of Poland

July 12, 1700 Gelderland accepts Gregorian calendar; yesterday is June 30, 1700

July 12, 1691 Antonio Pignatelli elected as Pope Innocentius XII

July 12, 1691 Battle of Aughrim (Aghrim) England, William III beats James II

July 12, 1690 Battle of Boyne-King William III defeats catholic king James II

July 12, 1689 Orangeman's Day-Battle of Boyne, Protestant victory in Ireland

July 12, 1679 Britain's King Charles II ratified Habeas Corpus Act

July 12, 1630 New Amsterdam's governor buys Gull Island from Indians for cargo, renames it Oyster Island, it is later known as Ellis Island

July 12, 1575 Willem van Orange marries Charlotte de Bourbon

July 12, 1549 English boer army occupies Norwich

July 12, 1543 England's King Henry VIII weds Catherine Parr (6th and last wife)

July 12, 1542 French troops under Maarten van Rossem occupies Flanders

July 12, 1442 King Alfonso V of Aragon becomes king of Naples

July 12, 1290 Jews are expelled from England by order of King Edward I

July 12, 1191 Richard Coeur de Lion and Crusaders defeat Saracens in Palestine

July 12, 1109 Crusaders capture Syria's harbor city of Tripoli

July 12, 526 St. Felix IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope

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