July 12
Pablo Neruda
causes White Sox to forfeit 2nd game of a doubleheader to Tigers
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| 1109 Crusaders capture Syria's 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 | ||
| 1442 King Alfonso V of Aragon becomes king of Naples |
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| 1542 French troops under Maarten van Rossem occupies Flanders | ||
| 1543 England's King Henry VIII weds Catherine Parr (6th & last wife) | ||
| 1549 English boer army occupies Norwich | ||
| 1575 Willem van Orange marries Charlotte de Bourbon | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1689 Orangeman's Day-Battle of Boyne, Protestant victory in Ireland | ||
| 1690 Battle of Boyne - King William III defeats catholic King James II | ||
| 1691 Antonio Pignatelli elected as Pope Innocentius XII | ||
| 1691 Battle of Aughrim (Aghrim) England, William III beats James II | ||
| 1700 Gelderland accepts Gregorian calendar; yesterday is June 30, 1700 | ||
| 1704 Stanislaw Leszcynski becomes King of part of Poland | ||
| 1730 Lorenzo Corsini chosen as Pope Clemens XII | ||
| 1771 James Cook sails Endeavour back to Downs England | ||
| 1774 Citizens of Carlisle Penn, pass a declaration of independence | ||
| 1774 Cossack leader Emilian Pugachevs army occupies Kazan | ||
| 1776 Capt Cook departs with Resolution for 3rd trip to Pacific Ocean | ||
| 1785 1st manned flight by gas balloon in Netherlands | ||
| 1787 The Northwest Ordinance was passed, setting the governance of the territory north of the Ohio River. | ||
| 1801 Battle at Algeciras: British fleet beats French & Spanish | ||
| 1812 US forces led by Gen Hull invade Canada (War of 1812) | ||
| 1817 1st flower show held (Dannybrook, County Cork, Ireland) | ||
| 1854 George Eastman, Waterville NY, inventor (Kodak camera) was born | ||
| 1859 Paper bag manufacturing machine patents by William Goodale (U.S.A.) |
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| 1862 U.S. Congress authorizes Medal of Honor | ||
| 1862 Federal troops occupy Helena Arkansas | ||
| 1863 Mary E. Woolley, the first woman to graduate from Brown University, was born. | ||
| 1874 Ontario Agricultural College founded | ||
| 1878 Fever epidemic in New Orleans begin, it will kill 4,500 | ||
| 1884 Amedeo Modigliani, Italy, painter/sculptor (Reclining Nude) was born | ||
| 1898 Jean-Baptiste Marchand hoists French flag in Fashoda Sudan | ||
| 1902 Australian parliament agrees to female suffrage | ||
| 1904 Pablo Neruda, Chile, poet (Residence on Earth-Nobel 1971) was born | Pablo Neruda |
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| 1906 Alfred Dreyfus found innocent in France | ||
| 1909 U.S. 16th Amendment approved (power to tax incomes) | ||
| 1909 Comedian Curly Joe DeRita of the Three Stooges was born; he joined the comedy team in 1959 after Joe Besser left the group. | ||
| 1918 Japanese battleship explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed | ||
| 1920 Lithuania & USSR sign peace treaty, Lithuania becomes independent republic | ||
| 1920 Panama Canal opens | ||
| 1934 US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned | ||
| 1935 Belgium recognizes Soviet Union | ||
| 1943 Battle of Kolombangara (2nd battle of Gulf of Kula) | ||
| 1943 Russian offensive at Orel | ||
| 1943 Tank battle at Prochorowka - Russians beat Nazis, about 12,000 die | ||
| 1944 Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gased | ||
| 1944 US govt recognizes authority of General De Gaulle | ||
| 1948 1st jets to fly across Atlantic (6 RAF de Havilland Vampires) | ||
| 1949 Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die | ||
| 1955 Christian Democratic Party forms in Argentina | ||
| 1957 1st President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower | ||
| 1960 Congo, Chad & Central African Republic declare independence | ||
| 1960 USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs | ||
| 1966 Race riot in Chicago (U.S.A.) | ||
| 1966 US Treasury announces it will buy mutilated silver coins at silver bullion price at Philadelphia & Denver mints | ||
| 1967 Blacks in Newark, riot, 26 killed, 1500 injured & over 1000 arrested | ||
| 1967 Greek regime deprives 480 Greeks of their citizenship | ||
| 1968 Couve de Murville forms govt in France | ||
| 1970 Tanzania signs contract with China for building Tanzam-railway | ||
| 1970 Arthur Fiedler took the Boston Pops Orchestra to television when PBS began broadcasting the group's concerts. | ||
| 1979
Kiribati (formerly Gilbert Islands) declares independence from UK causes White Sox to forfeit 2nd game of a doubleheader to Tigers |
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| 1985 The two Live Aid concerts were held in London and Philadelphia to benefit African famine relief; nearly $100 million was raised by the televised events. | ||
| 1987 1st time in 20 years a delegation from USSR lands in Israel | ||
| 1993 7.8 earthquake hits Hokkaido Japan, 160 killed | ||
| 1994 Germany's Constitutional Court lifted the ban on use of German troops for combat missions outside of the country. | ||