Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on July 12 throughout history.
On 12 July 2024, a Sukhoi Superjet 100 operated by Gazpromavia as Gazpromavia Flight 9608 crashed during a ferry flight from Tretyakovo Airport to Vnukovo International Airport. A…
Gazpromavia Flight 9608 crashes in Russia's Kolomensky District near Kolomna, killing three.
On 12 July 2013, a train crash in the commune of Brétigny-sur-Orge in the southern suburbs of Paris left seven people dead and 428 injured when a passenger train carrying 385 peop…
Six people are killed and 200 injured in a French passenger train derailment in Brétigny-sur-Orge.
The Syrian civil war was an armed conflict that began with the Syrian revolution in March 2011, when popular discontent with the Ba'athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad triggere…
Syrian Civil War: Government forces target the homes of rebels and activists in Tremseh and kill anywhere between 68…
This is a list of notable tank truck fires and explosions.
A tank truck explosion kills more than 100 people in Okobie, Nigeria.
The United States Army is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is designated as the army of the United States in the United States Constitution. As a part…
U.S. Army Apache helicopters engage in airstrikes against armed insurgents in Baghdad, Iraq, where civilians are…
The 2006 Hezbollah cross-border raid was a cross-border attack carried out by Lebanon-based Hezbollah militants on an Israeli military patrol on 12 July 2006 on Israeli territory.
A cross-border raid by Hezbollah militants starts the 2006 Lebanon War.
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transpo…
Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-104, carrying the Quest Joint Airlock to the…
The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group based in Northern Ireland. Formed in 1965, it first emerged in 1966. Its first leader was Gusty Spence, a…
The Ulster Volunteer Force attack a house in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland with a petrol bomb, killing…
The France national football team represents France in men's international football. It is controlled by the French Football Federation, the governing body for football in France.…
France win their first World Cup title, defeating defending champions Brazil 3–0.
Seismology is the scientific study of earthquakes and the generation and propagation of elastic waves through planetary bodies. It also includes studies of the environmental effec…
Chinese seismologists successfully predict the 1995 Myanmar–China earthquake, reducing the number of casualties to 11.
Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an archipelagic country spanning the Micronesia and Polynesia sub-regions of Oceania in the central Pacific Ocean. The state comp…
The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, is an island country in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa.…
São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal.
The National Personnel Records Center fire of 1973, also known as the 1973 National Archives fire, was a fire that occurred at the Military Personnel Records Center (MPRC) in the …
A fire destroys the entire sixth floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States.
The Australian Aboriginal flag is an official flag of Australia that represents Aboriginal Australians. It was granted official status in 1995 under the Flags Act 1953, together w…
The Australian Aboriginal flag is flown for the first time.
The 1967 Newark riots involved violent, armed conflict in the streets of Newark, New Jersey. Taking place over a four-day period, the Newark riots resulted in at least 26 deaths a…
Riots begin in Newark, New Jersey.
Gorton is an area of Manchester, in Greater Manchester, England; it lies to the south-east of the city centre. The population at the 2011 census was 36,055. Neighbouring areas inc…
Pauline Reade, 16, disappears in Gorton, England, the first victim in the Moors murders.
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the most populous country in the world and, since its independence …
Indian city Pune floods due to failure of the Khadakwasla and Panshet dams, killing at least two thousand people.
ČSA Flight 511 was a flight operated by an Ilyushin Il-18 that crashed near Casablanca-Anfa Airport in Morocco on July 12, 1961. All 72 people on board were killed. The cause of t…
ČSA Flight 511 crashes at Casablanca–Anfa Airport in Morocco, killing 72.
The Russian Children's Center "Orlyonok" is a federal state all-year camp for children aged 11–16. It is located in the Southern Federal District of Russia, on the eastern shore o…
Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
David Ben-Gurion was the primary national founder and first prime minister of the State of Israel. As head of the Jewish Agency from 1935, and later president of the Jewish Agency…
Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders the expulsion of Palestinians from the towns of Lod and Ramla.