Post by farmgal on Jul 11, 2012 22:33:05 GMT -5
July 12 is the 194th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 172 days remaining until the end of the year.
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The Siege of Acre was the first major confrontation of the Third Crusade
1191 Third Crusade: Saladin's garrison surrenders to Philip Augustus, ending the two-year siege of Acre.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Crusade#Siege_of_Acre
1493 Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, is published. The Chronicle is an illustrated world history, in which the contents are divided into seven ages:
First age: from creation to the Deluge
Second age: up to the birth of Abraham
Third age: up to King David
Fourth age: up to the Babylonian captivity
Fifth age: up to the birth of Jesus Christ
Sixth age: up to the present time (the largest part)
Seventh age: outlook on the end of the world and the Last Judgement en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Chronicle
1543 King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Parr
1561 Saint Basil's Cathedral, located at the geographic center of Moscow, was consecrated.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Basil%27s_Cathedral
1562 Fray Diego de Landa, acting Bishop of Yucatan, burns the sacred books of the Maya.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_de_Landa#Suppression_of_the_Maya
The Ostrog Bible on Commons
1580 The Ostrog Bible, one of the early printed Bibles in a Slavic language, is published.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrog_Bible
1739 Conversion of David Brainerd. David Brainerd lived only 29 years but the account of those years inspired many to follow Christ. Some, like William Carey and Henry Martyn, followed his footsteps onto the mission field.
At the age of seven David began to seek the Lord. His journal shows that he struggled greatly in coming to Christ. To replace self-righteous works by faith seemed to him very difficult to do. He found it hard to prefer God's glory over his own salvation. Exceedingly scrupulous, depressive, and tubercular his physical health might well have aggravated his spiritual struggles.
David Brainerd found peace at last. It began with an utter sense of lostness. "One morning while I was walking in a solitary place (as usual) and came near a thick bunch of hazels, I felt at once unusually lost and at the greatest stand and felt that all my contrivances and projections respecting my deliverance and salvation were brought to a final issue." From Friday morning through Sunday evening he was in the greatest agony of spirit, eventually feeling that the Spirit of God had quite left him. Here is his own account of his subsequent conversion on this day July 12, 1739:
"By this time the sun was scarce half an hour high, as I remember, as I was walking in a dark thick grove, "unspeakable glory" seemed to open to the view and apprehension of my soul. By the glory I saw I don't mean any external brightness, for I saw no such thing, nor do I intend any imagination of a body of light or splendor somewhere away in the third heaven, or anything of that nature. But it was a new inward apprehension or view that I had of God; such as I never had before, nor anything that I had the least remembrance of it. I stood still and wondered and admired." He came to want to exalt God above all things (as had Christ) and remained in great joy for about a week.
Brainerd proceeded to enroll and study for his ministerial degree at Yale. However, he was not allowed to receive the degree he earned, having commented that one teacher had no more grace than a chair. He swore he had no recollection of making the remark but, offered, nonetheless to apologize. This was refused. Three professors who stood behind him resigned and helped found Princeton.
David Brainerd was, nonetheless, commissioned by the Scotland Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge as a missionary to the Indians. He labored for about three years among several tribes until ill-health forced him to leave. Engaged to marry one of Jonathan Edward's daughters, he was nursed in the preacher's home and died there October 9, 1747. Edwards preached Brainerd's funeral service and edited his journal with comments of his own under the title The Life of David Brainerd.
www.christianity.com/ChurchHistory/11630231/
A commemorative plate from 1790 shows a curate swearing the Constitution.
1790 The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is passed in France by the National Constituent Assembly
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Constitution_of_the_Clergy
Statue of Hamilton in the United States Capitol rotunda
1804 Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot in a duel.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton#Burr.E2.80.93Hamilton_duel
Map showing the northern theatre of the War of 1812
1812 War of 1812: The United States invades Canada at Windsor, Ontario.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Canada_(1812)#Invasions_of_Upper_and_Lower_Canada.2C_1812
1843 Mormon church founder Joseph Smith announced that a divine revelation had beengiven him sanctioning polygamy among his newly-organized religious followers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith#Polygamy
1859 Paper bag manufacturing machine patented by William Goodale, (Clinton, Massachusetts), a "Machine for Making Paper Bags" ("certain new and useful Improvements in Machinery for Making Paper Bags".
www.projectgreenbag.com/william-goodale-inventor-of-the-paper-bag-machine/
1862 The Medal of Honor is authorized by the United States Congress.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor
1882 First ocean pier in US completed, Washington, DC. In 1880, Charles S. Horn Sr. bought two building lots and in 1882 built a pier and pavilion. He sold souvenirs and eventually opened a movie theater in the city. The pier washed away during a hurricane in 1914.
1909 The House of Representatives joined the Senate in passing the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, allowing for a federal income tax, and submitted it to the states. (It was declared ratified in Feb. 1913.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Striking miners and others being deported from Bisbee on the morning of July 12, 1917. The men are boarding the cattle cars provided by the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad.[/center[
1917 The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisbee_Deportation
1931 Cubs & Cards hit a record 23 doubles in a game (2nd game of DH)
1943 During World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka --- German and Soviet forces engage in largest tank engagement of all time.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Prokhorovka
History of the federal minimum wage in real and nominal dollars.
1933 A U.S. industrial code was established to fix a minimum wage of 40 cents an hour.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_States
1946 "The Adventures of Sam Spade" debuts on ABC radio. In the forties, Spade was a staple of the airwaves, thanks to The Adventures of Sam Spade, a popular radio show, featuring Howard Duff in the lead role, and sponsored by Wildroot Hair Oil. In fact, a series of single-page comic strip/hair tonic ads appeared in magazines, newspapers and comic books, featuring Spade shilling for Wildroot Hair Oil.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Sam_Spade
1948 Arab–Israeli War: Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders the explusion of Palestinians from the towns of Lod and Ramla.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab-Israeli_Conflict#End_of_19th_century.C2.A0.E2.80.93_1948
1949 Football quarterback Norm Van Brocklin leaves college for the Los Angeles Rams. Van Brocklin left the University of Oregon, where he still had a year's eligibility remaining, to join the Rams in 1949. The only problem, from Van Brocklin's standpoint, was that the Rams already had one future Hall of Fame quarterback in Bob Waterfield. The net result was that two great quarterbacks had to share passing duties for a few seasons, a situation that any great competitor, which Norm certainly was, couldn't be expected to accept with any enthusiasm. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_Van_Brocklin
1952 "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" by Vera Lynn topped the charts. After the war ended Vera retired, only to return to show business in 1947, touring and hosting a new radio program. Her record label, Decca, promoted her in the U.S. during the musicians' strike of 1948 and she garnered a U.S. Top Ten hit with "You Can't Be True, Dear." She became the first British artist to hit number one on the U.S. charts with "Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart" in 1952. In 1954 she scored her first and only British number one with "My Son, My Son."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auf_Wiederseh%27n_Sweetheart
1957 First President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower. A Pennsylvania newspaper created an uproar when it reported that Eisenhower, an avid golfer, "will become so fond of this means of transportation he'll begin using the Rangers for trips to Burning Tree Country Club." The Air Force quickly countered by admitting that the President would fly in the helicopter during a major civil defense exercise called "Operation Alert." This admission quieted criticism of the helicopters as an extravagant and useless perk. "Operation Alert" began on July 12, 1957, and by mid-afternoon, Eisenhower had become the first U.S. President to fly on board a helicopter piloted by Maj. Barrett.
1958 "Yakety Yak", by The Coasters, shared #1. Two new group members were recruited by the Coasters' prolific manager Lester Sill and shared leads on the first New York Coasters Atco effort, "Zing! Went the Strings Of My Heart." Both new-comers were former L.A. experienced group singers - Will "Dub" Jones, successful bass lead with the Cadets, born in Shreveport, Louisiana on May 14, 1928; and Cornell Gunter, lead with the Flairs, born November 14, 1938 in Coffeyville, Kansas. The two joined Gardner and Guy to establish the classic New York quartet that recorded all the other famous Coasters' golden million sellers: "Yakety Yak" (a # 1 Pop hit in 1958, which received a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999), "Charlie Brown" and "Along Came Jones" (1959) and the double-sider "Poison Ivy" b/w "I'm A Hog For You."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakety_Yak
1960 The Etch A Sketch Magic Screen drawing toy, invented by French electrician Andre Cassagnes, was first produced by the Ohio Art Co.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etch_A_Sketch
1963 Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth wrote in a letter: 'Do not stop testing andcorrecting your insights by holy scripture. Then, being sound in what really counts, youcan live and represent a comforted life.'
1966 Most rain fell in 1 day in Ohio, 10.5" in Sandusky
1966 US Treasury announces it will buy mutilated silver coins at silver bullion price
1967 The Newark riots erupt in Newark, New Jersey. Blacks engaged in looting, violence, and destruction, ultimately leaving 26 people dead, 725 people injured, and close to 1,500 arrested. Property damage exceeded $10 million.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newark_riots
1973 A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States.
1979 "Disco Demolition Night" at Comiskey Park. Local Chicago radio station WLUP-FM, dedicated to the cause of good old-fashioned rock music, sponsored the promotion to take place the night of July 12, 1979 between games of a twi-night doubleheader between the White Sox and Detroit Tigers at Old Comiskey Park. Every fan who showed up to the park with a record to be destroyed would be admitted for 98 cents. Between games came the demolition. Dahl and his entourage arrived through a gate in the center field wall in a jeep and circled the field before he took the mike and started the show. What appeared to be a small wooden crate and a large green dumpster were filled with disco records and DJ Dahl gave the signal to start the explosion. The crate went up modestly, like ordinary 4th of July fireworks, but the dumpster gave way with an enormous explosion, sending vinyl and paper hurtling into the air. Suddenly, thousands of fans decided it would be cool to be on the field. They stormed the infield until it could barely be seen. Finally Chicago's finest, complete in riot-gear, turned up. The fans in the stands actually cheered the police, and the field was cleared in about 3 minutes to the tune of "Na Na Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye." A short time later, the game was officially ruled a forfeit.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Demolition_Night
1982 The last of the distinctive-looking Checker taxicabs rolled off the assembly line. The Checker Taxi (Checker Cab) was the iconic American taxi produced by the Checker Motors Company of Kalamazoo, Michigan. With the Marathon thoroughly outmoded and no longer selling in viable quantities, and lacking the resources to develop a new model, Checker decided to leave the auto manufacturing business. The last models were produced for the 1982 model year.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_Motors_Corporation
1982 "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" broke all box-office records. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial is the immensely popular magical fantasy movie myth. Its estimated budget of $10 million was easily recouped when it became one of the box-office champion films of all time. Steven Spielberg's very personal, heartwarming sci-fi masterpiece (with special effects produced by George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic Company) was warmly accepted by film audiences for its portrayal of the love between a young, fatherless suburban boy and a lost, benevolent and homesick visitor from another planet who is mistakenly left stranded and orphaned on Earth - three million light years from home.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial
1987 Phillies Kent Tekulve pitches his 900th game in relief. Until Jesse Orosco broke his record in 1999, Tekulve was the all-time major league leader in relief appearances with 1,050. He went 10-1 as a set-up man for Goose Gossage in 1977, and took over as the Pirates' closer after Gossage signed with the Yankees that November. He established himself as one of baseball's most successful relievers, ranking among the all-time leaders in games, saves, and relief wins.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Tekulve
1990 Boris Yeltsin quit the Soviet Communist Party, saying he wanted to concentrate on his duties as president of the Russian republic.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin
1991 A Japanese professor (Hitoshi Igarashi) who had translated Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" was found stabbed to death, nine days after the novel's Italian translator was attacked in Milan
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitoshi_Igarashi
2000 In Philadelphia, a WPVI-TV news helicopter videotaped about a dozen police officers kicking and punching Thomas Jones, a wounded carjacking suspect. (Jones later pleaded guilty to carjacking and other crimes, and was sentenced to 18 to 36 years in prison; 13 police officers were later suspended for up to 15 days in connection with the incident.)
2002 The Senate adopted a ban on personal loans from companies to their top officials, a practice that had benefited executives from Enron to WorldCom.
2005 Mohammed Bouyeri, a practitioner of that "religion of peace" on trial in the slaying of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, unexpectedly confessed in court, saying he was driven by religious conviction. (Bouyeri was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Bouyeri
2005 Prince Albert II of Monaco acceded to the throne of a 700-year-old dynasty
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Albert_II
2006 The Second Lebanon War began terrorist group Hezbollah fired rockets at Israeli border towns as a diversion for an anti-tank missile attack on two armored Humvees patrolling the Israeli side of the border fence. The ambush left three soldiers dead. Two additional soldiers, believed to have been killed outright or mortally wounded, were snatched by Hezbollah to Lebanon
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Lebanon_War
2007 U.S. Army Apache helicopters perform airstrikes in Baghdad, Iraq; footage from the cockpit is later leaked to the Internet.
2008 The U.S. government would assume the costly, exotic mortgages of 400,000 distressed homeowners under a housing crisis relief bill passed by the U.S. Senate. The measure would allow the U.S. purchase of adjustable-rate mortgages that were forcing many foreclosures
~~~~~BIRTHS~~~~~
1817 Henry David Thoreau, American writer and philosopher (d. 1862)
1825 Henry Blodget (d 1903) American, became a Congregational missionary to China. During his forty years of service, he helped translate the Bible into the Peking dialect of Mandarin.
1854 George Eastman, (d. 1932) American inventor and entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. Roll film was also the basis for the invention of motion picture film in 1888 by the world's first filmmakers Eadward Muybridge and Louis Le Prince, and a few years later by their followers Léon Bouly, Thomas Edison, the Lumière Brothers and Georges Méliès.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eastman
1880 – Tod Browning, American film director (d. 1962)
1884 – Louis B. Mayer, Russian-born Canadian American film producer (d. 1957)
1895 – Buckminster Fuller, American architect (d. 1983)
1895 – Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist (d. 1960)
1898 Peter Deyneka, missions pioneer. The Slavic Gospel Association, which he founded in 1934, undertakes evangelistic work in Europe and South America
www.sga.org/about/history/
1908 – Milton Berle, American comedian (d. 2002)
1908 – Paul Runyan, American professional golfer (d. 2002)
1909 – Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (d.1993)
1909 – Herbert Zim, The founder and editor in chief of the Golden Guides (d.1994)
1913 – Willis Lamb, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2008)
1917 – Andrew Wyeth, American artist (d. 2009)
1919 – George Weissman, American businessman (d. 2009)
1922 – Mark Hatfield, American politician (d. 2011)
1920 – Beah Richards, American actress (d. 2000)
1920 – Keith Andes, American actor (d. 2005)
1925 – Roger Smith, American automotive executive (d. 2007)
1927 – Conte Candoli, American jazz trumpeter, brother of Pete Candoli (d. 2001)
1928 – Elias James Corey, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1932 – Otis Davis, American middle distance runner
1932 – Monte Hellman, American Film Director producer, and film editor.
1933 – Donald E. Westlake, American novelist (d. 2008)
1934 – Van Cliburn, American pianist
1937 – Bill Cosby, American comedian and actor
1937 – Robert McFarlane, Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan, from 1983 through 1985.
1937 – Mickey Edwards, Republican congressman
1938 – Ron Fairly, American baseball player
1941 – Benny Parsons, American racing driver (d. 2007)
1941 – Joseph Whipp, American actor
1943 – Walter Murch, American film editor
1943 – Paul Silas, American basketball player and head coach
1944 – Denise Nicholas, American actress and activist
1947 – Loren Coleman, American cryptozoologist and author
1947 – Richard C. McCarty, American professor of psychology
1948 – Susan Blu, American voice actress
1948 – Ben Burtt, American sound designer
1948 – Walter Egan, American singer
1948 – Richard Simmons, American fitness trainer
1948 – Jay Thomas, American actor
1949 – Rick Hendrick, American NASCAR team owner
1950 – Eric Carr, American drummer (Kiss) (d. 1991)
1951 – Brian Grazer, American film producer
1951 – Cheryl Ladd, American actress
1951 – Jamey Sheridan, American actor
1952 – Philip Taylor Kramer, American bassist (Iron Butterfly) (d. 1995)
1954 – Eric Adams, American singer (Manowar)
1954 – Robert Carl, American composer
1955 – Bambi Woods, American porn actress
1955 – Jimmy LaFave, American singer-songwriter and folk musician
1956 – Sandi Patty, American singer
1956 – Mario Soto, Dominican baseball player
1956 – Mel Harris, American actress.
1957 – Rick Douglas Husband, American astronaut (d. 2003)
1957 – Taso N. Stavrakis, American actor and stuntman
1958 – J. D. Hayworth, Congressman from Arizona
1958 – Tonya Lee Williams, Canadian actress
1959 – Charlie Murphy, American actor and writer
1962 – Dan Murphy, American guitarist (Soul Asylum)
1966 – Jeff Bucknum, American auto racer
1967 – John Petrucci, American guitarist (Dream Theater)
1969 – Lisa Nicole Carson, American actress
1969 – Jesse Pintado, American guitarist (Napalm Death) (d. 2006)
1970 – Lee Byung-hun, South Korean actor
1970 – Juba Kalamka, American hip hop artist
1971 – Kristi Yamaguchi, American figure skater
1971 – Loni Love, American comedian
1972 – Travis Best, American basketball player
1972 – Brett Reed, American drummer (Rancid)
1972 – Patrick Hill, American sculptor
1973 – Magoo, American rapper
1974 – Gregory Helms, American professional wrestler
1975 – Cheyenne Jackson, American actor and singer
1976 – Tracie Spencer, American singer and songwriter
1977 – Neil Harris, English footballer
1977 – Steve Howey, American actor
1977 – Brock Lesnar, American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
1978 – Claire Chitham, New Zealand actress
1978 – Topher Grace, American actor
1978 – Michelle Rodriguez, American actress
1979 – Chris Campbell, American author
1980 – Richard Bennett, American guitarist
1982 – Tara Kirk, American swimmer
1984 – Jonathan Lewis, American football player
~~~~~Deaths~~~~~
1749 – Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois, Governor of New France (b. c. 1671)
1804 – Alexander Hamilton, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1755)
1849 – Dolley Madison, 4th First Lady Of The United States (b. 1768)
1870 – John A. Dahlgren, American Navy admiral (b. 1809)
1892 – Alexander Cartwright, American fireman and inventor of baseball (b. 1820)
1934 – Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-born American inventor and industrialist (b. 1877)
1944 – Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., American general, son of Theodore Roosevelt (b. 1887)
1947 – Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1902)
1950 – Elsie de Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator (b. 1865)
1962 – Roger Wolfe Kahn, American band leader (b. 1907)
1973 – Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor (b. 1906)
1975 – James Ormsbee Chapin, American painter and illustrator (b. 1887)
1979 – Minnie Riperton, American soul singer (b. 1947)
1996 – John Chancellor, American television journalist (b. 1927)
1996 – Jonathan Melvoin, American keyboardist (The Smashing Pumpkins) (b. 1961)
1998 – Serge Lemoyne, French Canadian artist (b. 1941)
1998 – Jimmy Driftwood, American folk songwriter and musician (b. 1907)
2001 – Fred Marcellino, American illustrator (b. 1939)
2003 – Benny Carter, American musician (b. 1907)
2007 – Mr. Butch, American homeless person (b. 1951)
2007 – Robert Burås, Norwegian guitar player (b. 1975)
2008 – Tony Snow, American press secretary for George W. Bush (b. 1955)
2008 – Bobby Murcer, American baseball player (b. 1946)
2010 – Harvey Pekar, American comic book writer (b. 1939)
2011 – Sherwood Schwartz, American television writer (b. 1916)
Holidays and observancesChristian Feast Day:
Hermagoras and Fortunatus
Jason of Tarsus (Catholic Church)
John Gualbert
Nabor and Felix
Veronica
Viventiolus
July 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
SaintsMartyrs Proclus and Hilarion of Ancyra (2nd century)
Venerable Michael of Maleinus, monk (962)
Martyr Golinduc of Persia, named Mary in holy baptism (591)
Martyrs Theodore of Kiev and his son John (983)
Saint Veronica, the woman with the issue of blood whom Jesus healed (1st century)
Blessed Serapion of Vladimir (1275)
Saint Arsenius of Novgorod, Fool-for-Christ (1570)
Saint Simon of Volomsk, abbot (1641)
Saints John and Gabriel of Svyatogorsk
Saint Anthony of Leokhnov in Novgorod, abbot
Martyrs Andrew the Soldier, Heraclius, Taustus, Menas, and others
Martyr Mamas near Sigmata
[edit] Other commemorationsIcon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Of the Three Hands"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics)
www.daysuntil.com/Election-Day/index.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12
www.amug.org/~jpaul/jul12.html
www.christianity.com/churchhistory/
www.scopesys.com/cgi-bin/today2.cgi