July 12: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

July 12th marks the 193rd day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 194th in case of leap years). There are 172 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Cancer. Famous birthdays on this day include Malala Yousafzai (1997), Bill Cosby (1937) and Michelle Rodríguez (1978).
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Holidays

Sveti Petar (St. Peter)
Sunset and sunrise occur along Manhattan's street grid centerline
Newfoundland - Orangemen's Day
Northern Ireland - Battle of the Boyne Day (also known as Orangemen's Day or the Twelfth, see Irish calendar).
Mongolia - Naadam Holiday (2nd day)
The "center pivot irrigation day" of Colorado
Kiribati - Independence Day
RainMaker Day - Salem, OR.
Spo TomT and Prfncipe - Independence Day
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Events

2019 Asasey Hotel Attack: At least 26 people, including two journalists and nine foreigners, were killed in a car bombing and gun attack at the hotel in Kismayo (Somalia).
2018 2018 Japan Floods: Heavy rains in Japan cause death tolls of 209 and 28 respectively.
2017 Monkey selfie: A case is being heard by the United States Court of Appeals in San Francisco concerning whether or not a Celebes crested Macaque owns its selfie.
2016 South Sudanese Civil War. After five days of fighting that saw 272 deaths and thousands more displaced in Juba, the President Salva Kiir Maiardit and the Vice-President Riekmachar declare a ceasefire.
2015 Saudi-led military intervention (2015-present). Saudi-led coalition forces bomb Houthi targets across Yemen, killing at most 15 people despite a UN-brokered truce.
2014 Operation Protective Edge: 120 people have been killed in Gaza since the Israeli air strikes began. Since the start of the operation, the IAF has conducted more than 1,300 airstrikes.
2013 Eight civilians were kidnapped by the Moro National Liberation Front in the Philippines Basilan Province. Four of them were later released.
2012 Syrian uprising (2011-present).
2011 A drone attack by the United States in Pakistan's South Waziristan area results in 7 deaths and 3 injuries.
2010 The new cap for the oil well that was destroyed has been installed and will be subject to more than two days of testing.
2009 Chinese Foreign Minister Jiechi Yang said that tranquility in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region can be restored and the perpetrators would be brought to court without any ethnic discrimination in a one hour 15 minute telephone conversation about the recent incidents with Ahmet Davutoglu.
2008 Mid America Auctions in Monterey, California sells a 1915 Cyclone Board Track Racer motorcycle at a record US$520,000 during the Inaugural Monterey Motorcycle Auction.
2007 UN report shows that 20% of the population is in serious food shortage. Lesotho, an African kingdom, declares food crisis.
2006 Operation True Promise is initiated by the Hezbollah
2005 London police have identified four suspects in the London bombings of July 2005. All are British citizens, apparently from Leeds in West Yorkshire. At least one victim is believed to have been killed in the blasts. Raids uncover explosive materials and other forensic evidence.
2004 Montenegro adopts state symbols, including a red flag with King Nikola's coat-of-arms.
2003 According to the intelligence service of the United States, George Tenet, the head of the CIA, has accepted George W. Bush’s January speech, which contained incorrect information about Iraq's plans for buying uranium from Africa.
1998 16th Seniors Players Golf Championship
1997 Cubs play in their 5,000th consecutive gane with out being no-hit
1996 Kirby Puckett, retires from Minn Twins
1995 The House Banking Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy hears from Harvey Stack (New York coin dealer), David Ganz (ANA President), and Alan Stahl (American Numismatic Society curator) on abuses in the commemorative coin programs. Stack suggests the US Mint strike a series of circulating commemorative coins honoring the first 13 states, followed by coins for the remaining states, similar to the Canada 125 program of 25-cent coins for each province.
1994 65th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-8 at 3 Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh
1993 7.8 earthquake hits Hokkaido Japan, 160 killed
1992 13th US Seniors Golf Open: Larry Laoretti
1990 Les Miserables, opens at National Theatre, Washington
1989 New York Yankees' pitching great Ron Guidry retires (170-91 .651, 3.29 ERA).
1988 59th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-1 at Riverfront Stadium, Cin
1987 15th du Maurier Golf Classic: Jody Rosenthal
1985 STS 51-F launch scrubbed at T -3s because of main engine shutdown
1984 Geraldine Ferraro, New York becomes 1st woman major-party VP candidate
1982 Britain announces it is returning 593 Argentine POWs
1981 Debbie Austin wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1979 Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park, causes fans to go wild and causes White Sox to forfeit 2nd game of a doubleheader to Tigers
1978 Sun Bank Building opens
1977 1st free flight test of space shuttle Enterprise
1976 Ian Dury and Kilburns disband
1975 104th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 279 at Carnoustie
1973 A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States.
1972 Democrats nominated George McGovern for President in Miami Florida
1971 Juan Corona, indicted for 25 murders
1970 99th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at St. Andrews
1969 98th British Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 280 at Royal Lytham
1968 Couve de Murville forms government in France
1967 23 die in Newark race riot
1966 10.51 (26.70 cm) of rainfall, Sandusky Ohio (state record)
1963 Pauline Reade, 16, is abducted by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady in Manchester, England. Her remains would be found in July 1987.
1962 The Rolling Stones perform their first ever concert, at the Marquee Club in London.
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.
1960 Congo, Chad and Central African Republic declare independence
1959 NBC uses cameras to show catchers signals during ankee-Red Sox game
1958 Henri Cornelis becomes Governor-General of the Belgian Congo. He was the last Belgian governor of the Congo prior to independence.
1957 US Surgeon General Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer
1955 22nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 in 12 at County Stadium, Milwaukee
1954 President Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate highway system
1953 KTVB TV channel 7 in Boise, ID (NBC / ABC) begins broadcasting
1952 East German SED decides to form German DR army
1951 Mob tries to keep black family from moving into all-white Cicero, Illinois
1950 ILTF re-admits Germany and Japan in Davis Cup, Poland and Hungary withdraw.
1949 16th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 11-7 at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn
1946 Vance Dinges hits the only Philadelphia Phillies' pinch hit inside-the-park home run.
1945 Cubs stop Braves Tommy Holmes modern-day NL hitting streak at 37 games
1944 Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gased
1943 Battle of Kolombangara (2nd battle of Gulf of Kula)
1935 Belgium recognizes Soviet Union
1934 Willy de Supervise swims world record 400m
1933 US Congress establishes the first minimum wage law at 33 cents per hour.
1931 45,715 fans in 35,000 seat Sportsman Park St. Louis, help cause many ground ruled doubles, 11 in 1st game and 21 in 2nd game for 32
1930 34th US Golf Open: Robert T Bobby Jones wins
1928 Mexican aviator Emilio Carranza dies in a solo plane crash in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, while returning from a goodwill flight to New York City.
1927 Babe Ruth hits 30th of 60 HRs
1926 Guomindangleger draws against warlord Wu Peifu
1921 Babe Ruth sets record of 137 career home runs
1920 Lithuania and the USSR sign peace treaty, Lithuania becomes independent rep
1918 Japanese battleship explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed
1917 The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
1914 Babe Ruth makes his baseball debut, pitches for the Boston Red Sox.
1912 United States release of Sarah Bernhardt's film ''Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth'' is influential on the development of the movie feature. Adolf Zukor, who incorporates Paramount Pictures on May 8, 1914, launches his company as the distributor. Paramount celebrates its centennial in 2012.
1909 16th Amendment approved (power to tax incomes).
1906 Alfred Dreyfus found innocent in France.
1902 Australian parliament agrees to female suffrage
1901 Cy Young wins his 300th game
1900 114 degrees F (46 degrees C), Basin, Wyoming (state record).
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