12 July
Notable Births
Nico Williams
b. 2002
Spanish footballer (born 2002)
Kaylee McKeown
b. 2001
Australian swimmer (born 2001)
Vinícius Júnior
b. 2000
Brazilian footballer (born 2000)
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
b. 1998
Canadian basketball player (born 1998)
Spill Tab
b. 1997
French Korean musician (born 1997)
Jean-Kévin Duverne
b. 1997
Haitian footballer (born 1997)
Malala Yousafzai
b. 1997
Pakistani education activist (born 1997)
Moussa Dembélé (French footballer)
b. 1996
French footballer (born 1996)
Luke Shaw
b. 1995
English footballer (born 1995)
Moses Simon
b. 1995
Nigerian footballer (born 1995)
Jordyn Wieber
b. 1995
American artistic gymnast and coach (born 1995)
Kanako Momota
b. 1994
Japanese idol actress and singer (born 1994)
Bartosz Bereszyński
b. 1992
Polish footballer (born 1992)
Luke Berry
b. 1992
English footballer (born 1992)
Salih Dursun
b. 1991
Turkish footballer
James Rodríguez
b. 1991
Colombian footballer (born 1991)
Pablo Carreño Busta
b. 1991
Spanish tennis player (born 1991)
Bebé
b. 1990
Footballer (born 1990)
Rachel Brosnahan
b. 1990
American actress (born 1990)
William Osler
b. 1849
Canadian physician and co-founder of Johns Hopkins Hospital (1849–1919)
Notable Deaths
Tonke Dragt
d. 2024
Dutch children's writer and illustrator (1930–2024)
Bill Viola
d. 2024
American video and installation artist (1951–2024)
Ruth Westheimer
d. 2024
German-American sex therapist (1928–2024)
Evan Wright
d. 2024
American writer (1964–2024)
Noriko Ohara
d. 2024
Japanese voice actress (1935–2024)
Kelly Preston
d. 2020
American actress (1962–2020)
Wim Suurbier
d. 2020
Dutch footballer (1945–2020)
Annabelle Neilson
d. 2018
British socialite, fashion model, author, and television personality (1969–2018)
Goran Hadžić
d. 2016
Croatian Serb politician (1958–2016)
Chenjerai Hove
d. 2015
Zimbabwean poet (1956–2015)
Tenzin Delek Rinpoche
d. 2015
Cheng Siwei
d. 2015
Chinese economist (1935–2015)
Nestor Basterretxea
d. 2014
Basque artist
Emil Bobu
d. 2014
Romanian Communist activist and politician
Alfred de Grazia
d. 2014
American political scientist
Kenneth J. Gray
d. 2014
American businessman and politician (1924–2014)
Valeriya Novodvorskaya
d. 2014
Soviet dissident (1950–2014)
Amar Bose
d. 2013
American engineer (1929–2013)
Elaine Morgan
d. 2013
Welsh writer and evolutionist (1920–2013)
Gertrude Bell
d. 1926
English writer, traveller, political officer, and archaeologist
On This Day in History
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2024
Gazpromavia Flight 9608 crashes in Russia's Kolomensky District near Kolomna, killing three.
Gazpromavia Flight 9608
2013
Six people are killed and 200 injured in a French passenger train derailment in Brétigny-sur-Orge.
Brétigny-sur-Orge train crash
2012
Syrian Civil War: Government forces target the homes of rebels and activists in Tremseh and kill anywhere between 68 and 150 people.
Syrian civil war
2012
A tank truck explosion kills more than 100 people in Okobie, Nigeria.
List of tank truck fires and explosions
2007
U.S. Army Apache helicopters engage in airstrikes against armed insurgents in Baghdad, Iraq, where civilians are killed; footage from the cockpit is later leaked to the Internet.
United States Army
2006
The 2006 Lebanon War begins.
2006 Lebanon War
2001
Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-104, carrying the Quest Joint Airlock to the International Space Station.
Space Shuttle program
1998
The Ulster Volunteer Force attacked a house in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland with a petrol bomb, killing the Quinn brothers.
Ulster Volunteer Force
1998
France win their first World Cup title, defeating defending champions Brazil 3–0.
France national football team
1995
Chinese seismologists successfully predict the 1995 Myanmar–China earthquake, reducing the number of casualties to 11.
Seismology
1979
The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
Kiribati
1975
São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal.
São Tomé and Príncipe
1973
A fire destroys the entire sixth floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States.
National Personnel Records Center fire
1971
The Australian Aboriginal flag is flown for the first time.
Australian Aboriginal flag
1967
Riots begin in Newark, New Jersey.
1967 Newark riots
1963
Pauline Reade, 16, disappears in Gorton, England, the first victim in the Moors murders.
Gorton
1961
Indian city Pune floods due to failure of the Khadakwasla and Panshet dams, killing at least two thousand people.
India
1961
ČSA Flight 511 crashes at Casablanca–Anfa Airport in Morocco, killing 72.
ČSA Flight 511 (July 1961)
1960
Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
Orlyonok
1948
Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders the expulsion of Palestinians from the towns of Lod and Ramla.
David Ben-Gurion