Public Holidays on July 12

• 🌍 Orangemen's Day (Canada)

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On This Day in History — July 12

• 2013 — Six people are killed and 200 injured in a French passenger train derailment in Brétigny-sur-Orge.
• 2012 — The Turaymisah massacre kills 250 people during a Syrian military operation in a village within the Hama Governorate.
• 2012 — A tank truck explosion kills more than 100 people in Okobie, Nigeria.
• 2007 — U.S. Army Apache helicopters perform airstrikes in Baghdad, Iraq; footage from the cockpit is later leaked to the Internet.
• 2006 — Hezbollah initiates Operation True Promise.
• 2006 — Lebanon-Israel war begins.

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Notable Births on July 12

• 1997 — Daniel Lawrence, English cricketer
• 1997 — Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani-English activist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1996 — Moussa Dembélé, French footballer
• 1996 — Jordan Romero, American mountaineer
• 1995 — Luke Shaw, English footballer
• 1995 — Jordyn Wieber, American gymnast

Notable Deaths on July 12

• 2016 — Goran Hadžić, Serbian politician (b. 1958)
• 2015 — Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, Tibetan monk and activist (b. 1950)
• 2015 — Cheng Siwei, Chinese engineer, economist, and politician (b. 1935)
• 2015 — D'Army Bailey, American lawyer, judge, and actor (b. 1941)
• 2015 — Chenjerai Hove, Zimbabwean journalist, author, and poet (b. 1956)
• 2014 — Jamil Ahmad, Pakistani author (b. 1931)

Public Holidays on July 13

• 🌍 Battle of the Boyne (United Kingdom)

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On This Day in History — July 13

• 2016 — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron resigns, and is succeeded by Theresa May.
• 2013 — Typhoon Soulik kills at least nine people and affects more than 160 million in East China and Taiwan.
• 2011 — Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour, killing 26 and injuring 130.
• 2011 — United Nations Security Council Resolution 1999 is adopted, which admits South Sudan to member status of United Nations.
• 2008 — Battle of Wanat begins when Taliban and al-Qaeda guerrillas attack US Army and Afghan National Army troops in Afghanistan. The U.S. deaths were, at that time, the most in a single battle since the beginning of...
• 2003 — French DGSE personnel abort an operation to rescue Íngrid Betancourt from FARC rebels in Colombia, causing a political scandal when details are leaked to the press.

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Notable Births on July 13

• 1995 — Cody Bellinger, American baseball player
• 1993 — Daniel Bentley, English footballer
• 1992 — Elise Matthysen, Belgian swimmer
• 1990 — Kieran Foran, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1990 — Eduardo Salvio, Argentinian footballer
• 1989 — Justin Chua, Filipino basketball player

Notable Deaths on July 13

• 2017 — Liu Xiaobo, Chinese literary critic, human rights activist (b. 1955)
• 2015 — Philipp Mißfelder, German historian and politician (b. 1979)
• 2015 — Martin Litchfield West, English scholar, author, and academic (b. 1927)
• 2014 — Thomas Berger, American author and playwright (b. 1924)
• 2014 — Alfred de Grazia, American political scientist, author, and academic (b. 1919)
• 2014 — Nadine Gordimer, South African novelist, short story writer, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)