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July 12 – A Day as Today. Find out what happened a day like today, July 12: Who was born? Who died? What is celebrated? Ephemeris of July 12th in Dorian’s Secrets: The Eternal Youth Magazine!

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Ephemeris of July 12:

Events.
Births.
Deaths.
Celebrations.
Catholic Santoral.
Zodiac Sign.

In the Gregorian Calendar, July 12 is the 193th
(hundredth – ninety third) day of the year.

There are 172 days left until the end of 2021!

Quote of the Day…

Citizen life: millions of beings living together in solitude.

— Henry David Thoreau
American writer, poet, and philosopher (born July 12, 1817)

Events that Happened “A Day as Today”

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July 12 – A Day as Today – Events

927: King Athelstan unifies the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and founds what is now England.
1191: Third Crusade: the siege of Saladin provokes the surrender of Philip Augustus, ending a two-year siege of Acre.
1493: Hartmann Schedel publishes the Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the first books made by the press.
In 1543 at Hampton Court, Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife Catherine Parr.
1553: in Mexico, the first chair of law was taught at the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico.
1561: Saint Basil’s Cathedral is consecrated in Moscow.
1562: in Yucatán (present-day Mexico), Diego de Landa orders the cremation of numerous codices, effigies and sacred objects of the Mayans in Maní’s auto-da-fe.
1690: the army of William III of Orange defeats the men of James II of England at the Battle of the Boyne.
1691: in Ireland, the army of William III of Orange defeats the English forces at the Battle of Aughrim.
1730: Lorenzo Corsini is elected pope and takes the name of Clement XII.
1789: in Paris, the revolutionary journalist Camille Desmoulins makes a speech in response to the resignation of finance minister Jacques Necker the day before. This speech encouraged the people to rise up in arms to begin the Storming of the Bastille two days later.
1790: the Constitutional Assembly of France approves the civil Constitution of the clergy.
1799: Ranjit Singh conquers Lahore and is crowned as Majarás of Panjab (Sikh kingdom).
1801: in the framework of the French Revolutionary Wars, the British Royal Navy inflicts serious damage on Spanish and French ships in the second battle of Algeciras.
1801: In the confusion of the night, the Spanish ships San Hermenegildo and Real Carlos took each other as enemies and fought until both ships exploded. Almost all 1,700 men on board die.
1806: sixteen states – including Liechtenstein, which gains independence – leave the Holy Roman Empire to form the Confederation of the Rhine.
In 1839, in Bolivia, Congress approves that the city of Chuquisaca change its name to Sucre, in homage to the liberator of that country and winner of the battle of Ayacucho, Antonio José de Sucre.
1873: in Cartagena (Spain), a federalist uprising establishes the Canton of Cartagena, which will resist the government siege for six months.
1892: in the Monte Blanco (France) an underground lake formed by the Tête-Rousse glacier is uncovered and devastates the Saint Gervais les Bains village. 175 people die.
1904: in the city of Buenos Aires the neighborhood of La Paternal is founded.
1913: in the province of Neuquén (Argentina) the town of Zapala is founded.
1913: in the framework of the Second Balkan War, Serbian forces begin the siege of the Bulgarian city of Vidi.
1920: Russia recognizes the independence of Lithuania.
1930: in Buenos Aires (Argentina), a tram falls from the Bosch Bridge to the Riachuelo, leaving 56 dead and only 4 survivors.
1937: in the Pavilion of the Spanish Republic, within the framework of the International Exhibition in Paris, the work Guernica by the artist Pablo Picasso (55 years old) is exposed to the public.
1948: Arab-Israeli war: Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders the expulsion of the Palestinians from the cities of Lod and Ramallah.
1958: in Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean), the United States detonates its Poplar atomic bomb, of 9,300 kilotons (the most powerful of the Hardtack I operation). It is the 147th bomb out of 1,054 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
1962: The Rolling Stones band plays for the first time in public at the Marquee Club (London).
1971: the Aboriginal flag is raised in Australia for the first time.
1975: São Tomé and Príncipe becomes independent from Portugal.
1979: Kiribati becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1985: the city of Santiago de Compostela receives the Europa prize awarded by the Council of Europe in recognition of its Europeanism.
1986: Scientists arrive at the site of the shipwreck of the ocean liner Titanic to explore it.
1986: As part of their Magic Tour music tour, British rock band Queen holds the second of two successful concerts before 72,000 people at Wembley Stadium in London.
1993: Hokkaidō was rocked by a 7.7 magnitude earthquake.
1998: the French soccer team is proclaimed champion of the Soccer World Cup for the first time in its own country, France.
2000: launch of the Zvezda module, the first module of the International Space Station.
2001: launch of the Artemis European experimental communications satellite.
2006: Hezbollah incursion into Israeli territory, capturing soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev and killing eight other Israeli soldiers, ushering in the Second Lebanon War.
2011: Resolution 1998 of the United Nations Security Council is adopted.
2014: Shelling by the Ukrainian army in the suburb of Marynka (Donetsk) leaves at least 10 dead during the armed conflict in the east of the country.

Who was Born “A Day as Today”?

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July 12 – A Day as Today – Births

100 a. C .: Gaius Julius Caesar, Roman politician and military man (f. 44 BC).
1394: Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (d. 1441).
1468: Juan del Encina, Spanish poet and composer (d. 1530).
1573: Pietro Carrera, Italian priest, writer and chess player (d. 1647).
1675: Evaristo Felice dall ’Abaco, Italian composer (d. 1742).
1707: Esteban Terreros, Spanish philologist (d. 1782).
1730 – Josiah Wedgwood, British potter (d. 1795).
1751: Francisco Salvá Campillo, Spanish physician and physicist (d. 1828).
1767: Antonio Sangenís Torres, Spanish military engineer (d. 1809).
1780: Juana Azurduy, guerrilla patriot of Upper Peru (d. 1862).
1784: Juan Mora Fernández, Costa Rican politician, president between 1824 and 1833 (d. 1854).
1794: Agustín Codazzi, Italian military geographer, participated in the Napoleonic wars and moved to Gran Colombia in 1826, under the command of Simón Bolívar.
1803: Pierre Chanel, French missionary (d. 1841).
1813: Claude Bernard, French physiologist (d. 1878).
1817: Henry David Thoreau, American writer and philosopher (d. 1862).
1824: Eugène Boudin, French painter (d. 1898).
1828: Nikolai Chernishevski, Russian philosopher (d. 1889).
1849: William Osler, Canadian physician (d. 1919).
1852: Hipólito Yrigoyen Argentine president (d. 1933).
1854: Juan Gualberto Gómez, Cuban patriot and journalist (d. 1933).
1854: George Eastman, American inventor (d. 1932).
1861: Anton Arensky, Russian composer (d. 1906).
1863: Albert Calmette, French physicist (d. 1933).
1863: Paul Drude, German physicist (d. 1906).
1866: Emiliano Figueroa Larraín, Chilean politician (d. 1931).
1868: Stefan George, German poet and writer (d. 1933).
1870: Louis II of Monaco (d. 1949).
1870: Juan José Gárate, Spanish painter (d. 1939).
1872: Emil Hácha, Czech politician (d. 1945).
1872: Pedro Emilio Coll journalist, writer, political essayist and diplomat. He is recognized as one of the main promoters of literary modernism in Venezuela and for being the founder of the magazine Cosmopolis.
1876: Max Jacob, French poet (d. 1944).
1880: Tod Browning, American filmmaker (d. 1962).
1882: Pánfilo Natera, Mexican military and politician (d. 1951).
1882: Juan Gualberto Guevara, Peruvian bishop (d. 1954).
1884: Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1920).
1884: Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (d. 1957).
1886: Jean Hersholt, Danish director and actor (d. 1956).
1887: Pío García-Escudero and Fernández de Urrutia, Spanish engineer (f. 1977).
1892: Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (d. 1942).
1895: Buckminster Fuller, American architect, designer and writer (d. 1983).
1891: Jetta Goudal, Dutch actress (d. 1985).
1895: Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano (d. 1962).
1895: Oscar Hammerstein II, American composer and producer (d. 1960).
1898: Marie Beatrice Schwarz, Dutch botanist (d. 1969)
1900: Manuel Antonio Pérez Sánchez, Galician poet (d. 1930).
1902: Günther Anders, German philosopher and essayist (d. 1992).
1904: Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971 (d. 1973).
1908: Milton Berle, American actor (f. 2002).
1909: Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (d. 1993).
1909: Fritz Leonhardt, German engineer (d. 1999).
1912: Nicolae Steinhardt, Romanian writer (d. 1989).
1913: Willis Eugene Lamb, American physicist (d. 2008).
1913: Mildred Cohn, American biochemist (d. 2009)
1914: Jacinto Pebe, Peruvian folk musician (f. 2003).
1915: Otto Steinert, German photographer (d. 1978).
1916: Liudmila Pavlichenko, Soviet sniper and historian (d. 1974).
1917: Andrew Wyeth, American painter (d. 2009).
1920: Keith Andes, American actor (d. 2005).
1923: James E. Gunn, American science fiction writer (d. 2020).
1923: Miguel Artola Gallego, Spanish historian.
1923: René Favaloro, Argentine cardiovascular surgeon (d. 2000).
1925: Juan Emilio Salinas, Peruvian soccer player (d. 2009).
1926: Carl Adam Petri, German mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2010).
1926: Oswald Mathias Ungers, German architect (d. 2007).
1927: Paixão Côrtes, Brazilian folklorist, composer, radio host and agricultural engineer.
1928: Elias James Corey, American chemist and professor.
1928: Jo Myong-Rok, North Korean military man (d. 2010).
1932: Otis Davis, American athlete.
1933: Donald Westlake, American writer (d. 2008).
1933: Victor Poor, American computer scientist (d. 2012).
1934: Gualberto Castro Mexican actor and singer (f. 2019).
1934: Van Cliburn, American musician.
1935: Hans Tilkowski, German footballer.
1935: Satoshi Ōmura, Japanese biochemist.
1936: Ana María Cassán (Anne-Marie Paillard), French actress and model with a career in Argentina (d. 1960).
1937: Bill Cosby, American actor.
1937: Lionel Jospin, French politician and prime minister.
1937: Robert McFarlane, American admiral.
1938: Eduardo Iriarte Jiménez, Peruvian businessman.
1938: Rafael Ortega Porras, Spanish potter and ceramist (d. 2007).
1939: Phillip Adams, Australian periosite.
1940: Carlos Eugenio Jorquier, lawyer and Chilean union leader.
1943: Walter Murch, editor and American sound designer.
1943: Paul Silas, American basketball player and coach.
1946: Robert Fisk, British writer and journalist.
1947: Mari Trini, Spanish singer-songwriter (d. 2009).
1947: Gualberto Ibarreto, Venezuelan popular music singer, specialized in rhythms from the eastern Caribbean coast of his country such as galerón, malagueña, jota and polo. He is also a bolero player and bastion of national folklore.
1948: Ben Burtt, American director and screenwriter.
1948: Alfredo Ruiz de Luna, Spanish ceramist (d. 2013).
1948 – Richard Simmons, American aerobics and fitness expert.
1949: Carlos Reynoso, Argentine anthropologist.
1950: Eric Carr, American musician of the band Kiss (d. 1991).
1951: Brian Grazer, American film producer.
1951: Cheryl Ladd, American actress and singer.
1951: Jaime Mayor Oreja, Spanish politician.
1951: Sylvia Sass, Hungarian soprano.
1951: Jamey Sheridan, American actor.
1954: Eric Adams, American singer, of the band Manowar.
1954: Wolfgang Dremmler, German footballer.
1954: Sulakshana Pandit, Indian actress and singer.
1955: Chuck Loeb, American guitarist.
1956: Mario Soto, Dominican baseball player.
1957: Rick Husband, military man and American astronaut (d. 2003).
1958: Michael Robinson, British footballer and sportscaster.
1959: Charlie Murphy, American actor and writer (d. 2017).
1959: Tupou VI, King of Tonga since 2012.
1962: Julio César Chávez, Mexican boxer.
1964: Carles Campuzano, Spanish politician.
1964: Tim Gane, British guitarist, of the bands Stereolab and McCarthy.
1967: Luis Abinader, Dominican economist, president of the Dominican Republic since 2020.
1967: John Petrucci, American guitarist of the band Dream Theater.
1967: Bruny Surin, Canadian athlete.
1969: Lisa Nicole Carson, American actress.
1969: Anne-Sophie Pic, French chef.
1969: Jesse Pintado, Mexican-American guitarist for the band Napalm Death.
1970: Lee Byung Hun, South Korean actor.
1971: Joel Casamayor, Cuban boxer.
1971: Andrea Legarreta, Mexican actress and host.
1972: Travis Best, American basketball player.
1972: Celia Blanco Rodríguez, Spanish journalist.
1972: Álvaro Iglesias Quintana, Spanish footballer.
1972: Brett Reed, American musician of the band Rancid.
1972: Jake Wood, British actor.
1973: Magoo, American rapper.
1973: Juan Luis Mora, Spanish footballer.
1973: Christian Vieri, Italian footballer.
1974: Olivier Adam, French writer.
1974: Sharon den Adel, Dutch singer of the band Within Temptation.
1974: Stelios Giannakopoulos, Greek footballer.
1974: Gregory Helms, American professional wrestler.
1976: Abasse Ba, Senegalese footballer.
1976: Anna Friel, British actress.
1977: Steve Howey, American actor.
1977: Brock Lesnar, American professional wrestler.
1977: Masahiro Fukazawa, Japanese footballer.
1978: Topher Grace, American actor.
1978: Ziad Jaziri, Tunisian footballer.
1978: Michelle Rodríguez, American actress.
1979: Tōru Araiba, Japanese footballer.
1980: Kristen Connolly, American actress.
1980: Luis Ortega, Argentine screenwriter and filmmaker.
1982: Antonio Cassano, Italian footballer.
1983: Sandi Gbandi, Liberian footballer.
1983: Libania Grenot, Italian athlete of Cuban origin.
1983: Ghasem Hadadifar, Iranian footballer.
1983: Reiichi Ikegami, Japanese footballer.
1983: Mirsad Terzić, Bosnian handball player.
1984: Gareth Gates, British singer.
1984: Sami Zayn, Canadian professional wrestler.
1985: Paulo Vitor Barreto, Brazilian soccer player.
1985: Gianluca Curci, Italian footballer.
1985: Luiz Ejlli, Albanian singer.
1985: Ian Joyce, American footballer.
1985: Luis Méndez, Bolivian soccer player.
1986: Yuki Kotera, Japanese footballer.
1987: Matthew “Mdot” Finley, American actor and musician.
1987: José Manuel López Gaspar, Spanish footballer.
1987: Yoshihiro Masuko, Japanese footballer.
1989: Phoebe Tonkin, Australian actress and model.
1990: Tiago Dias Correia, Portuguese soccer player.
1990: Miguel Ángel Chávez Meléndrez, allergist palynologist.
1991: Dmitri Poloz, Russian footballer.
1991: James Rodríguez, Colombian soccer player.
1991: Erik Per Sullivan, American actor.
1992: Simone Verdi, Italian footballer.
1993: Lukas Lerager, Danish footballer.
1993: Marius Müller, German footballer.
1994: Pavel Savitskiy, Belarusian footballer.
1995: Luke Shaw, English footballer.
1995: Jordyn Wieber, American gymnast.
1996: Adam Buksa, Polish footballer.
1996: Moussa Dembélé, French footballer.
1997: Jean-Kévin Duverne, French footballer.
1997: Pablo Maffeo, Spanish footballer.
1997: Ander Vidorreta, Spanish footballer.
1997: Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2014.
2000: Vinícius Júnior, Brazilian soccer player.
2014: Halaevalu Mataʻaho Tukuʻaho, princess of Tonga.

Who Left Us “A Day as Today”?

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July 12 – A Day as Today – Deaths

783: Bertrada de Laon (b. 720).
1441: Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (b.1394).
1533: Chaitania, Indian Hindu holy man, founder of Bengali Krishnaism (b. 1486).
1536: Erasmus of Rotterdam, Dutch writer and philosopher (b.1466).
1537: Robert Aske, English lawyer (born 1500).
1584: Stephen Borough, English explorer (b. 1525).
1628: Jean Curtius, Belgian industrialist (b. 1551).
1664: Stefano della Bella, Italian engraver (b.1610).
1675: Carlos Manuel II, Savoyard aristocrat (b. 1634).
1682: Jean Picard, French astronomer (b.1620).
1712: Richard Cromwell, British son of Oliver Cromwell (b.1626).
1742: Evaristo Felice dall ’Abaco, Italian composer (b. 1675).
1773: Johann Joachim Quantz, German composer and flute player (b.1697).
1804: Alexander Hamilton, American economist and politician (b. 1755).
1845: Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian writer and poet (b.1808).
1849: Dolley Madison, First Lady of the United States, wife of President James Madison (b. 1768).
1855: Pavel Najimov, Russian military and admiral (b.1802).
1881: Cecilio Acosta, was a Venezuelan writer, as well as a journalist, lawyer, philosopher and humanist. (n.1818).
1886: Tomás Villalba, Uruguayan president in 1865 (b.1805).
1892 – Alexander Cartwright, inventor of baseball (b.1820).
1904: Samuel Golden Rule Jones, American politician and businessman (b. 1846).
1906: Pascual Veiga, Spanish musician (b. 1842).
1911: Julia María da Costa, Brazilian short story writer and poet (b. 1844).
1926 – Gertrude Bell, British archaeologist and spy (b. 1868).
1928: Emilio Carranza, Mexican aviator pilot (b.1905).
1931: Nathan Söderblom, Swedish ecclesiastic, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1930 (b. 1866).
1935: Alfred Dreyfus, French military man (b.1859).
1936: José del Castillo Sáenz de Tejada, Spanish military man (b.1901).
1944: Sergei Bulgakov, Russian theologian, philosopher and economist (b. 1871).
1944: Betty Compton, American actress (b.1904).
1944: Theodore Roosevelt Jr., American general (b. 1887).
1945 – Wolfram von Richthofen, German general and field marshal (b. 1895).
1947 – Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist (b.1902).
1949: Douglas Hyde, Irish politician and president between 1938 and 1945 (b. 1860).
1950: Elsie de Wolfe, American actress, author and interior designer (b. 1865).
1959: Carles Riba, Spanish writer (b. 1893).
1951: Juan Alcaide, Spanish poet (b.1907).
1961: Mazo de la Roche, Canadian writer and author (b. 1879).
1966: Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki, Japanese philosopher (b. 1870).
1971: Secundino Zuazo, Spanish architect (b. 1887).
1973: Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (b.1906).
1977: Osmín Aguirre y Salinas, Salvadoran military man (b. 1889).
1979: Minnie Riperton, American singer (b.1947).
1979: Carmine Galante, head of the Bonanno crime family of New York (b. 1910).
1982: Kenneth More, British actor (b.1914).
1987: Amelia de la Torre, Spanish actress (b.1905).
1989: Carlos Puebla, Cuban singer-songwriter (b.1917).
1990: João Saldanha, Brazilian soccer coach (b.1917).
1996: Jonathan Melvoin, American keyboardist, of the band The Smashing Pumpkins (b. 1961).
1997: David Stitchkin, Chilean educator and lawyer (b. 1912).
1998: Jimmy Driftwood, American composer, singer and musician (b.1907).
1999: Bill Owen, British actor (b.1914).
2000: Edmundo Chacour, Argentine playwright and theater director (b. 1933).
2002: Josefina de la Torre, Spanish writer and actress (b.1907).
2003: Benny Carter, American musician (b.1907).
2006: Hubert Lampo, Belgian writer (b.1920).
2007: Joseíto (José Iglesias Fernández), Spanish footballer (b.1926).
2010: Olga Guillot, Cuban singer (b.1922).
2010: Günter Behnisch, German architect (b.1922).
2010: Harvey Pekar, American cartoonist (b.1939).
2014: Néstor Basterretxea, Spanish sculptor and painter (b.1924).
2014: Dave Legeno, English actor, boxer and mixed martial arts fighter. (b. 1963).
2015: Javier Krahe, Spanish satirical singer-songwriter (b.1944).
2016: Agustín Fernández Paz, Spanish writer (b.1947).
2020: Raymundo Capetillo, Mexican actor (b.1943).

What is Celebrated “A Day as Today”?

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July 12 – A Day as Today – Celebration

Belfast (Northern Ireland): Day of the March of the Orangemen.
Mexico: Lawyer’s Day.
Argentina: Social Medicine Day law 25,598 of the year 2002, in honor of the birth of Dr. René Favaloro.
Argentina: La Paternal Neighborhood Day (Buenos Aires).
Bolivia: Anniversary of Camiri (Cordil province / Santa Cruz department).
Colombia: Day of the Internist Doctor.
Peru: Official Tourism Guide Day.
Sao Tome and Principe
- Independence Day.