About July 12
July 12, 2024 is the 194th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 172 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 201 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 12
- 1543 –King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace.
- 1562 –Fray Diego de Landa, acting Bishop of Yucatan, burns the sacred books of the Maya.
- 1580 –The Ostrog Bible, one of the early printed Bibles in a Slavic language, is published.
- 1691 –Battle of Aughrim (Julian calendar) – The decisive victory of William III of England’s forces in Ireland.
- 1790 –The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is passed in France by the National Constituent Assembly.
- 1879 –The National Guards Unit of Bulgaria is founded.
- 1913 –Second Balkan War: Serbian forces begin their siege of the Bulgarian city of Vidin; the siege is later called off when the war ends.
- 1917 –The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
- 1920 –The Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty is signed. Soviet Russia recognises independent Lithuania.
- 1932 –Hedley Verity takes a cricket world record 10 wickets for 10 runs in a county match for Yorkshire
- 1943 –World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka – German and Soviet forces engage in the largest tank engagement of all time.
- 1961 –Pune floods due to failure of the Khadakwasla and Panshet dams. Half of Pune is submerged, more than 100,000 families need to be relocated and the death tally exceeds 2,000.
- 1962 –The Rolling Stones perform their first ever concert, at the Marquee Club in London.
- 1970 –A fire consumes the wooden home of Norwegian composer Geirr Tveitt and irretrievably destroys about 90 percent of his output.
- 1973 –A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States.
- 1975 –São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal.
- 1979 –Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park Chicago, IL
- 1979 –The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from Great Britain.
- 2006 –The Hezbollah initiate Operation True Promise.
- 2007 –U.S. Army Apache helicopters perform airstrikes in Baghdad, Iraq; footage from the cockpit is later leaked to the Internet.
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