July 12th...

Coolness.

July 12
100 -BC- birth of Julius C‘sar Roman Emperor
526 St Felix IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1109 Crusaders capture Syria's harbor city of Tripoli
1191 The armies of the Third Crusade (1189-92), led by England's King Richard ('The Lionhearted'), captured the Syrian seaport of Acre.
1290 Jews are expelled from England by order of King Edward I
1543 England's King Henry VIII weds Catherine Parr (6th & last wife)
1690 Battle of Boyne-King William III defeats catholic king James II (or 1689)
1730 Lorenzo Corsini chosen as Pope Clemens XII
1779 Coshocton Council (Indians), led by Killbuck, pledges to ally with US
1780 Huck's Defeat at Williamson plantation - Brit's lose in South Carolina to partisans - a turning point in the war down there
1780 partisans win engagement At Stallions against British in South Carolina
1801 Battle at Algeciras: British fleet beats French & Spanish
1804 Alexander Hamilton dies due to wounds suffered the day before in duel with Aaron Burr
1812 US forces led by General Hull invade Canada (War of 1812)
1817 birth of Henry David Thoreau Concord Mass, naturalist/author/pacifist
1824 fights break out in New York City & Lockport due to Protestants celebrating William of Orange's victory at the Battle of the Boyne verus the Irish.
1843 Mormon church founder Joseph Smith announced that a divine revelation had beengiven him sanctioning polygamy among his newly-organized religious followers.
1862 Congress authorizes Congressional Medal of Honor
1862 "Forrest rested here" at Woodbury, TN. A historical marker would later be set up for this rather unimportant event in the Civl War. It's one of the most unimportant markers you will find.
1864 birth of George Washington Carver, studied the peanut
1875 jury selection for 1st trial of John D. Lee about his involvement in the Mountain Meadows Massacre beings in Utah
1889 Prince Luster, black, lynched in Iuka, MS for rape
1889 Felix Keyes, black, lynched in Lafayette, LA for murder
1892 J. R. Redferin, white, lynched in Franklin, KY for murder
1893 Henry Flemming, black, lynched in Columbus, MS for murder
1893 Robert Larkins, black, lynched in Ocala, FL for rape
1898 John H. James, black, lynched in Charlottesville, VA for rape
1898 Wesley Gould, black, lynched in Leland, MS in case of mistaken identity
1898 Sidney Johnson, black, lynched in Coaling, AL for rape
1898 Jean-Baptiste Marchand hoists French flag in Fashoda Sudan
1902 Australian parliament agrees to female suffrage
1906 black man, identity unknown, lynched near Junction City, Ak for attempted rape
1906 Alfred Dreyfus found innocent in France
1908 birth of Milton Berle Harlem NYC, comedian/possessor of large penis (Uncle Miltie, Mr Television)
1909 16th Amendment approved by Congress & submitted to the states(power to tax income)
1910 Henry Gentry, white, lynched in Belton, TX for murder & alleged rape
1914 Babe Ruth makes his major league baseball debut, pitches for the Red Sox
1917 Bisbee's Citizens Protective League rounds up strikers and ships them out of town
1920 Panama Canal opens
1920 Lithuania & USSR sign peace treaty, Lithuuania becomes independent rep
1933 Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33 cents per hour)
1935 Belgium recognizes Soviet Union 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 first jet to cross the Atlantic
1951 Mob tries to keep black family from moving into all-white Cicero, Illinois
1954 Pres Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate highway system
1954 Major League Baseball Players Association founded
1957 1st President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower
1960 Congo, Chad & Central African Republic declare independence
1962 1st time 2 manned crafts in space (USSR)
1962 Rolling Stones 1st performance (Marquee Club, London)
1966 Race riot in Chicago
1967 Greek regime deprives 480 Greeks of their citizenship
1967 Blacks in Newark, riot, 26 killed, 1500 injured & over 1000 arrested over several days. Ends July 17.
1971 Juan Corona, indicted for 25 murders
1974 John Ehrlichman & 3 "plumbers" convicted of violating Daniel Ellsberg's rights
1975 Sao Tome & Principe gains independence from Portugal (Nat'l Day)
1977 The Onion reports that Ugandian dictator Idi Amin praises former defense minister as "delicious"
1977 1st free flight test of space shuttle Enterprise
1978 Afghan Revolutionary Council has its Decree #6 - reduce debt on small farmers. This greatly angers the nation's landowners
1979 Kiribati (Gilbert & Ellice Is) gains independence from Britain
1979 This Cubs-Reds game.
1979 "Disco Demolition Night" at Comiskey Park, causes fans to go wild & causes White Sox to forfeit 2nd game of a doubleheader to the Tigers
1982 UN Resolution 514 calls for ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War
1984 I WAS BORN!!
1985 Doctors discover a cancerous growth in President Reagan's colon
1989 in supposed meeting between Iranians & Kurds, Iranians pull guns & kill all 3 Kurdish leaders present
1990 Boris Yeltsin quits Soviet Communist Party
1992 Axl Rose arrested on riot charges in St Louis of Jul 2, 1991 concert
1993 7.8 earthquake hits Hokkaido Japan, 160 killed
1994 Nomination hearings for Steven Breyer for supreme court justice begins
1994 German high court rules that the nation's military can take part in international missions
1997 Cubs play in their 5,000th consecutive gane with out being no-hit
1998 in presidential run-off election, Jamil Mahausd Witt, mayor of Quito, becomes new president of Ecuador
1998 LDP suffer a sharp rebuke in elections for parliament's upper house in Japan due to economic problems
1999 Revolutionary Guards give a blunt letter to Iran's Presidetn Khatami (reformer) that causes him to pull away from student protesters.

What happened on YOUR birthday?