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Today in History ~ July 12
Events1109 - Crusaders capture harbor city of Tripoli
1191 - Richard Coeur de Lion & Crusaders defeat Saracens in Palestine
1290 - Jews are expelled from England by order of King Edward I
1543 - England's King Henry VIII weds Catherine Parr (6th & last wife)
1630 - New Amsterdam's governor buys Gull Island from Indians for cargo, renames it Oyster Island, it is later known as Ellis Island
1679 - Britain's King Charles II ratified Habeas Corpus Act
1690 - Protestant forces led by William of Orange defeated the Roman Catholic army of James II at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
1691 - Battle of Aughrim (Aghrim) England, William III beats James II
1771 - James Cook sails Endeavour back to Downs England
1774 - Citizens of Carlisle Penn, pass a declaration of independence
1776 - Capt Cook departs with Resolution for 3rd trip to Pacific Ocean
1812 - U.S. forces led by Gen. William Hull entered Canada during the War of 1812 against Britain. (However, Hull retreated shortly thereafter to Detroit.)
1817 - Sauerbronn demonstrated his newly invented "Laufmaschine"
1843 - Mormon leader Joseph Smith says God encourages polygamy
1859 - Paper bag manufacturing machine patents by William Goodale, Mass
1861 - Confederacy signs treaties with Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes [H]
1861 - Wild Bill Hickok's first gunfight [H]
1862 - Congress authorizes Medal of Honor
1862 - Federal troops occupy Helena Arkansas
1874 - Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "Gloria Scott"
1878 - Yellow Fever epidemic in New Orleans begins, it will kill 4,500
1906 - Alfred Dreyfus found innocent in France
1918 - Japanese battleship explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed
1920 - Panama Canal opens
1927 - Babe Ruth hits 30th of 60 HRs
1928 - 1st televised tennis match.
1933 - Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33 cents per hour)
1934 - US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned
1943 - Pope Pius XII receives German ambassador Baron von Weizsacker
1943 - Tank battle at Prochorowka - Russians beat Nazis, about 12,000 die
1944 - Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, 4,000 people executed
1944 - US government recognizes authority of General De Gaulle
1946 - Benjamin Britten's "Rape of Lucretia," premieres in Glyndebourne
1951 - Mob tries to keep black family from moving into all-white Cicero Ill
1951 - Yankee Allie Reynolds no hits Indians 1-0
1954 - Pres Eisenhower puts forward a plan for an interstate highway system
1957 - 1st President to fly in helicopter - Dwight Eisenhower
1957 - Sultan Sir Mohammed Shah of Pakistan, known as Aga Khan III, reigned as leader of the Ismaili sect of Muslims for seventy-two years. In choosing his heir he bypassed his own son and picked his grandson, Prince Iman, who was proclaimed Aga Khan IV
1957 - US Surgeon Gen Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer
1960 - Congo, Chad & Central African Republic declare independence
1960 - Echo I 1st passive satellite launched.
1960 - USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs.
1962 - Cosmonaut Popovich in space 1st time 2 manned craft in space
1966 - Race riot in Chicago
1967 - 5th Mayor's Trophy Game Mets beat Yanks 4-0
1967 - Blacks in Newark, riot, 26 killed, 1500 injured & over 1000 arrested
1967 - Greek regime deprives 480 Greeks of their citizenship
1970 - Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atl Ocean in "Ra" docks in Barbados
1971 - Juan Corona, indicted for 25 murders
1972 - Democrats nominated George McGovern for president in Miami Fla
1974 - John Ehrlichman, an ex-aide to President Richard Nixon, and three others were convicted of conspiring to violate the civil rights of Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist.
1975 - Sao Tom‚ e Pr¡ncipe gains independence from Portugal (Nat'l Day).
1977 - 1st free flight test of Enterprise.
1978 - Sun Bank Building opens
1979 - "Disco Demolition Night" at Comiskey Park, causes fans to go wild & causes White Sox to forfeit 2nd game of a doubleheader to Tigers
1979 - Kiribati (Gilbert & Ellice Is.) gains independence from Britain.
1982 - Britain announces it is returning 593 Argentine POWs
1984 - Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale announced that he had chosen U.S. Rep. Geraldine Ferraro of New York to be his running-mate. Ferraro was the first woman to run for vice president on a major-party ticket.
1985 - Doctors discovered what turned out to be a cancerous growth in President Ronald Reagan's large intestine, prompting surgery the following day.
1988 - The international spacecraft Phobos 2 was launched.
1990 - Russian Republic President Boris Yeltsin shocked the 28th congress of the Soviet Communist Party by announcing he was resigning his party membership.
1991 - A 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.
1991 - The 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.
1992 - Axl Rose, lead singer of the rock band Guns N' Roses, was arrested in New York on charges stemming from a riot that erupted at a Missouri concert the previous July.
1993 - 196 people were killed when an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale struck northern Japan.
1993 - Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Sunset Promenade" opens in London
1994 - PLO chief Yasser Arafat and his wife took up permanent residence in the Gaza Strip.
1995 - President Bill Clinton spelled out school-prayer guidelines, asserting the First Amendment already guaranteed adequate freedom of religion.
1996 - Hurricane Bertha slapped North Carolina's Cape Fear, then moved on to batter a string of coastal towns.
1996 - Kirby Puckett, retires from Minn Twins
1996 - Details surfaced on the divorce of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. Among other things, she kept the princess title but not Her Royal Highness, and received about $25 million in a lump sum followed by an income of $600,000 a year.
1997 - In Spain, kidnapped Basque politician Miguel Angel Blanco was found mortally wounded shortly after a deadline set by his militant Basque captors.
1999 - President Clinton and Republican congressional leaders held their first face-to-face budget meeting of the year. The talk was described afterward as positive.
2000 - In Philadelphia, a WPVI-TV news helicopter videotaped about a dozen police officers kicking and punching Thomas Jones, a black carjacking suspect. (Jones later pleaded guilty to carjacking and other crimes, and was sentenced to 18 to 36 years in prison; however, the circumstances of the beating are still under investigation.)
2000 - New Hampshire Chief Justice David Brock was impeached by the Legislature, the first such action against an official in the state since 1790. (He was later acquitted in a state Senate trial.)
Birthdays Today
0100 B.C.- Julius Caesar, Roman Emperor
1730 - Josiah Wedgwood, England, pottery designer/manufacturer (Wedgwood)
1817 - Henry David Thoreau, Concord Mass, naturalist/pacifist (Walden Pond)
1849 - Sir William Osler, Canada, physician/author (circulatory system)
1854 - George Eastman, Waterville NY, inventor (Kodak camera)
1861 - Anton Stepanovich Arensky, composer
1861 - George Washington Carver (botanist: developed multiple uses for peanuts and sweet potatoes)
1884 - Amedeo Modigliani, Italy, painter/sculptor (Reclining Nude)
1895 - Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano (Wagner)
1895 - Oscar Hammerstein II (lyricist, songwriter w/Richard Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, Flower Drum Song, Sound of Music)
1895 - R Buckminster Fuller, architect/inventor (geodesic dome)
1904 - Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet (Residence on Earth) (Nobel 1971).
1908 - Milton Berle (Berlinger) (comedian: Uncle Miltie, Mr. Television: The Milton Berle Show, Texaco Star Theatre; actor: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Oscar, Side by Side)
1909 - "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)
1917 - Andrew Wyeth (artist: the Helga pictures, Christina's World)
1922 - Mark Hatfield, (R-Ore-Sen)
1925 - Roger Smith, CEO (General Motors) ("Roger and Me" movie)
1927 - Conte (Secondo) Candoli (musician: trumpet: bandleader; toured with Stan Kenton et al.; with brother Pete in film: Bell Book and Candle)
1932 - Otis Davis (track)
1934 - Van (Harvey Lavan) Cliburn (piano virtuoso) (Tchaikovsky 1958)
1937 - Bill Cosby (Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor: I Spy [1965-66; 1966-67, 1967-68], The Bill Cosby Special [1968-69]; The Cosby Show, Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids, Leonard VI, California Suite)
1942 - Richard Stoltzman, Omaha Nebraska, clarinetist (Tashi)
1943 - Christine Perfect McVie (musician, singer: group: Fleetwood Mac: Got a Hold on Me, Dreams, Don't Stop Thinking about Tomorrow)
1944 - Denise Nicholas (actress: Room 222, In the Heat of the Night, Ghost Dad)
1948 - Richard Simmons (weight loss expert, entertainer: Sweatin' to the Oldies)
1949 - Charlie Weaver (football)
1949 - Donnie Green (football)
1949 - John Wetton (musician: bassist, singer: group: Asia: Heat of the Moment, Only Time Will Tell)
1950 - Gilles Meloche (hockey)
1971 - Kristi Yamaguchi (Olympic gold medalist: figure skater [1992]; U.S. and world champion [1992])
Famous deaths
0783 - Bertha "with the great feet", wife of French king Pippin III,
1450 - Jack Cade, slain in a revolt against British King Henry VI
1536 - Desiderius Erasmus, humanist/priest (Novum instrumentum omne),
1712 - Richard Cromwell, English Lord Protector (1658-59), dies at 85
1804 - Alexander Hamilton, Sect of Treasury, dies of wounds inflicted a day earlier in a pistol duel with VP Aaron Burr [H]
1861 - Dave McCanles, first to fall from Wild Bill Hickok's gun fire [H]
1935 - Alfred Dreyfus, French officer (Dreyfus Affair)
1966 - D T Suzuki, Zen Buddhism scholar, dies in Tokyo Japan at 96
1979 - Minnie Ripperton dies of cancer at 30
1992 - Albert Pierrepont, last British hangman (433 men/17 women)
1996 - Gottfried von Einem, composer, dies at 78
1996 - John William Chancellor, news anchor (VOA, NBC), dies at 68
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