Major Events
- 1679 Britain's King Charles II ratifies Habeas Corpus Act allowing prisoners right to be imprisoned to be examined by a court
- 1690 Battle of Boyne: in Ireland, Protestant King William III defeats English Catholic King James II
- 1790 French Revolution: The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is adopted, putting the Catholic Church in France under the control of the state
- 1804 Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot in a pistol duel the previous day by Vice President Aaron Burr
- 1863 In New Zealand, British forces invade the Waikato, home of the Māori King Movement, beginning a new phase of the New Zealand Wars between the colonial government and allied Māori tribes on one side and Māori on the other
- 1913 150,000 Ulstermen gather and resolve to resist Irish Home Rule by force of arms; since the British Liberals have promised the Irish nationalists Home Rule, civil war appears imminent
- 1943 World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka - Russia defeats German forces in one of the largest ever tank battles
- 1957 US Surgeon General Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer
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Jul 12 in Film & TV
- 1976 1st "Family Feud" game show debuts on ABC hosted by Richard Dawson
Jul 12 in Music
- 1962 Rolling Stones 1st performance (Marquee Club, London)
Jul 12 in Sport
- 1979 "Disco Demolition Night" at Comiskey Park: fans go wild destroying disco records and cause the White Sox to forfeit second game of a doubleheader to the Detroit Tigers
- 1998 FIFA World Cup Final, Stade de France, Saint-Denis: Zinedine Zidane scores twice as France wins first World Cup beating Brazil, 3-0
Did You Know?
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Fun Fact About July 12
Joseph Dunn (14) is attacked by a shark, suffering non-fatal wounds in New Jersey, the final episode in a spate of shark attacks along the Jersey coast where 4 people died over 12 days
Famous Weddings
- 1472 Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester and later King of England, marries Anne Neville, daughter of the Earl of Warwick, in Westminster Abbey.
- 1543 England's King Henry VIII weds Catherine Parr (6th & last wife)
- 1890 Welsh-American explorer Henry Morton Stanley (59) marries English artist Dorothy Tennant (46) at Westminster Abbey
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Killing Spree of Lady Death
Soviet sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko is the most successful female sniper in history, having killed 309 German soldiers during the Second World War.
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Down With Disco!
Anti-disco baseball fans hold a 'Disco Sucks' sign during Disco Demolition Night in Chicago, 1979
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