Friday, July 12, 2013

This will be 193rd day of the year and 172 days will remain in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 5 Av 5773
Chinese calendar — the 5th day of the 6th month of 4711 (Kui Si)
Islamic calendar — (note)

July 12 Birthdays

Henry David Thoreau
1817–62, American author and naturalist, born in Concord, Massachusetts, graduate of Harvard, 1837.

Josiah Wedgwood
potter (1730)

George Eastman
inventor, industrialist (1854)

Amedeo Modigliani
painter (1884)

Oscar Hammerstein, 2d
lyricist (1895)

Pablo Neruda
poet, diplomat (1904)

Andrew Wyeth
painter (1917)

Bill Cosby
comedian (1937)

Kristi Yamaguchi
figure skater (1971)

July 2013

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	31

July 12 in History

1543

England's King Henry VIII married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr.

1690

Protestant William of Orange defeated Roman Catholic James II at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.

1862

Congress authorized the Medal of Honor.

1960

The first Etch-A-Sketch went on sale.

1979

Kiribati, formerly the Gilbert Islands, gained its independence from the United Kingdom.

1984

Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale became the first major-party candidate to choose a woman as a running mate when he announced his choice of Geraldine Ferraro.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.