Major Events
- 1192 Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Taishōgun, the first ruling shogun in the history of Japan and de facto ruler
- 1679 Britain’s King Charles II ratifies Habeas Corpus Act allowing prisoners’ right to a court review of the justification for their imprisonment
- 1790 French Revolution: The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is adopted, putting the Catholic Church in France under the control of the state
- 1804 Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot in a pistol duel the previous day by Vice President Aaron Burr, near Weehaken, New Jersey
- 1863 British forces invade the Waikato In New Zealand, home of the Māori King Movement, beginning a new phase of the New Zealand Wars between the colonial government and allied Māori tribes on one side and Māori on the other [1]
- 1913 150,000 Ulstermen gather and resolve to resist Irish Home Rule by force of arms; since the British Liberals have promised the Irish nationalists Home Rule, civil war appears imminent
- 1943 World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka – Russia defeats German forces in one of the largest ever tank battles
- 1957 US Surgeon General Leroy Burney links smoking to lung cancer
Jul 12 in Film & TV
- 1976 1st “Family Feud” game show debuts on ABC hosted by Richard Dawson
Jul 12 in Music
- 1962 Rolling Stones’ first performance at the Marquee Club in London
Jul 12 in Sport
- 1979 “Disco Demolition Night” at Comiskey Park: fans go wild destroying disco records and cause the White Sox to forfeit second game of a doubleheader to the Detroit Tigers
- 1998 FIFA World Cup Final, Stade de France, Saint-Denis: Zinedine Zidane scores twice as France wins first World Cup beating Brazil, 3-0
Fun Fact About July 12
Joseph Dunn (14) is attacked by a shark, suffering non-fatal wounds in New Jersey, the final episode in a spate of shark attacks along the Jersey coast where 4 people died over 12 days
Famous Weddings
- 1472 Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester and later King of England, marries Anne Neville, daughter of the Earl of Warwick, in Westminster Abbey.
- 1543 King of England Henry VIII (52) weds twice-widowed Catherine Parr (30) at Hampton Court Palace, his sixth and final wife
- 1890 Welsh-American explorer Henry Morton Stanley (59) marries English artist Dorothy Tennant (46) at Westminster Abbey
Famous Divorces
- 2024 American “Charmed” actress Shannen Doherty (53) finalizes divorce from third husband, photographer Kurt Iswarienko (50) after 12 years of marriage
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