Wednesday 12 July 1944

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

Famous Birthdays:

• Robin Squire
• Delia Ephron: American author playwright and screenwriter.
• Bernard Faivre d'Arcier: French civil administrator, a former theatre/show director for the Ministry of Culture and the Avignon Festival.
• Jean-François Jenny-Clark: French double bass player estimated as one of the most important bass players of European jazz.
• Simon Blackburn: English philosopher and academic.

• Bill McCollum: (Rep-R-Florida, 1981- ).
• Denise Nicholas: American actress screenwriter and activist.
• Pat Woodell: American actress and singer (d. 2015).
• Kent Finell: Swedish radio host (d. 2013).
• Denise Nicholas in Detroit: Michigan, USA; actress (Room 222, Baby I'm Back).

Famous Deaths:

• Theodore Roosevelt: American political and business leader, a veteran of both the world wars, who was awarded the Medal of Honor.

Facts:

• Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gased
• US government recognizes authority of General De Gaulle
• Laurence Olivier's film ''Henry V'', based on Shakespeare's play, opens in London. It is the most acclaimed and the most successful movie version of a Shakespeare play made up to that time, and the first in Technicolor. Olivier both stars and directs, as Kenneth Branagh was to do over forty years later in his successful remake.