{"id":11030,"date":"2023-07-12T00:51:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T19:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=11030"},"modified":"2023-07-13T16:03:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T10:33:06","slug":"history-of-12-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-12-july\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 12 July"},"content":{"rendered":"

History of 12 July<\/h2>\n

1912 –<\/strong> The first foreign-made film to premiere in America, “Queen Elizabeth”, was shown.<\/p>\n

1931 –<\/strong> A\u00a0major league baseball\u00a0record for doubles was set as the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs combined for a total of 23.<\/p>\n

1933 –<\/strong> A minimum wage of 40 cents an hour was established in the U.S.<\/p>\n

1941 –<\/strong> Moscow was bombed by the German\u00a0Luftwaffe<\/i>\u00a0for the first time.<\/p>\n

1946 –<\/strong> “The Adventures of Sam Spade” was heard on ABC radio for the first time.<\/p>\n

1954 –<\/strong> U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed a highway modernization program, with costs to be shared by federal and state governments.<\/p>\n

1954 –<\/strong> The Major League Baseball Players Association was organized in Cleveland, OH.<\/p>\n

1957 –<\/strong> The U.S. surgeon general, Leroy E. Burney, reported that there was a direct link between smoking and lung cancer.<\/p>\n

1960 –<\/strong> Manufacturing began for the\u00a0Etch A Sketch\u00ae.<\/p>\n

1974 –<\/strong> John Ehrlichman, a former aide to U.S. President Nixon, and three others were convicted of conspiring to violate the civil rights of Daniel Ellsberg’s former psychiatrist.<\/p>\n

1982 –<\/strong> “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial” broke all box-office records by surpassing the $100-million mark of ticket sales in the first 31 days of its opening.<\/p>\n

1982 –<\/strong> The last of the distinctive-looking Checker taxicabs rolled off the assembly line in Kalamazoo,\u00a0MI.<\/p>\n

1984 –<\/strong> Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale named U.S. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York to be his running mate. Ferraro was the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket.<\/p>\n

1990 –<\/strong> Russian republic president Boris N. Yeltsin announced his resignation from the Soviet Communist Party.<\/p>\n

1998 –<\/strong> 1.7 billion people watched soccer’s World Cup finals between France and Brazil. France won 3-0.<\/p>\n

1999 –<\/strong> Walt Disney Co. announced that it was merging all of its Internet operations together with Infoseek into Go.com.
\nDisney movies, music, and books<\/p>\n

2000 –<\/strong> Russia launched the\u00a0Zvezda<\/i>\u00a0after two years of delays. The module was built to be the living quarters for the International Space Station (ISS.)<\/p>\n

2000 –<\/strong> The movie “X-Men” premiered in New York.<\/p>\n

2006\u00a0\u2013<\/strong> The\u00a02006 Lebanon War\u00a0begins.<\/p>\n

2007\u00a0\u2013<\/strong>\u00a0U.S. Army\u00a0Apache helicopters\u00a0perform\u00a0airstrikes\u00a0in\u00a0Baghdad,\u00a0Iraq; footage from the cockpit is later leaked to the Internet.<\/p>\n

2012\u00a0\u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Syrian Civil War: Government forces\u00a0target the homes of rebels and activists\u00a0in\u00a0Tremseh\u00a0and kill anywhere between 68 and 150 people.<\/sup><\/p>\n

2012 \u2013<\/strong> A\u00a0tank truck explosion\u00a0kills more than 100 people in\u00a0Okobie,\u00a0Nigeria.<\/p>\n

2013\u00a0\u2013<\/strong> Six people are killed and 200 injured in a French passenger train derailment in Br\u00e9tigny-Sur-Orge.<\/p>\n

Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
    \n
  • 1981\u00a0\u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Adrienne Camp, South African singer-songwriter<\/li>\n
  • 1981 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Pradeepan Raveendran, Sri Lankan director, producer, and screenwriter<\/li>\n
  • 1982\u00a0\u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Antonio Cassano, Italian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1984\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Gareth Gates, English singer-songwriter<\/li>\n
  • 1984 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Jonathan Lewis, American football player<\/li>\n
  • 1984 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Natalie Martinez, American actress<\/li>\n
  • 1984 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Michael McGovern, Irish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1984 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Sami Zayn, Canadian professional wrestler<\/li>\n
  • 1985\u00a0\u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Paulo Vitor Barreto, Brazilian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1985 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Gianluca Curci, Italian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1985 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Keven Lacombe, Canadian cyclist<\/li>\n
  • 1985 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Ismael Londt, Surinamese-Dutch kickboxer<\/li>\n
  • 1986\u00a0\u2013<\/strong>\u00a0360, Australian rapper<\/li>\n
  • 1986 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Didier Digard, French footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1986 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Hannaliis Jaadla, Estonian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1986 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0JP Pietersen, South African rugby player<\/li>\n
  • 1986 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Simone Laudehr, German footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1988\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>LeSean McCoy, American football player<\/li>\n
  • 1988 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Inbee Park, South Korean golfer<\/li>\n
  • 1989\u00a0\u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Nick Palmieri, American ice hockey player<\/li>\n
  • 1990\u00a0\u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Beb\u00e9, Portuguese footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1990 \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Chasen Shreve, American baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1991\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Salih Dursun, Turkish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1991 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0James Rodr\u00edguez, Colombian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1992\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Bartosz Bereszy\u0144ski, Polish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1993\u00a0\u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Kurt Capewell, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n
  • 1994\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Kanako Momota, Japanese singer-songwriter<\/li>\n
  • 1995\u00a0\u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Luke Shaw, English footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1995 \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Jordyn Wieber, American gymnast<\/li>\n
  • 1996\u00a0\u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Moussa Demb\u00e9l\u00e9, French footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1996 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Jordan Romero, American mountaineer<\/li>\n
  • 1997\u00a0\u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Daniel Lawrence, English cricketer<\/li>\n
  • 1997 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani-English activist,\u00a0Nobel Prize\u00a0laureate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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