What Happened In July 2012 In History

Historical Events for July, 2012

• 4th » The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN.
• 5th » The Shard in London is inaugurated as the List of tallest buildings in Europe called tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 metres (1,020 ft).
• 11th » Astronomers announce the discovery of Styx (moon) called Styx, the fifth moon of Pluto.
• 12th » The Turaymisah killings named Turaymisah massacre kills 250 people during a Syrian military operation in a village within the Hama Governorate.
• 18th » At least seven people are killed and 32 others are injured after a 2012 Burgas bus bombing called bomb explodes on an Israelis known as Israeli tour bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria.
• 21st » Erden Eruç completes the first solo Human-powered transport known as human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
• 31st » Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the List of multiple Olympic medalists called most medals won at the Olympics.

Famous Deaths for July 2012

• 1st » Peter E. Gillquist, American priest and author (b. 1938)
• 1st » Mike Hershberger, American baseball player (b. 1939)
• 1st » Ossie Hibbert, Jamaican-American keyboard player and producer (The Aggrovators and The Revolutionaries) (b. 1950)
• 1st » Evelyn Lear, American soprano and actress (b. 1926)
• 1st » Alan G. Poindexter, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1961)
• 1st » Jack Richardson (writer) e.g Jack Richardson, American author and playwright (b. 1934)
• 2nd » Maurice Chevit, French actor (b. 1923)
• 2nd » Ben Davidson, American football player and actor (b. 1940)
• 2nd » Julian Goodman, American journalist (b. 1922)
• 2nd » Tsutomu Koyama, Japanese volleyball player (b. 1936)
• 2nd » Angelo Mangiarotti, Italian architect and academic (b. 1921)
• 2nd » Ed Stroud, American baseball player (b. 1939)
• 3rd » Nguyễn Hữu Có, Vietnamese general and politician (b. 1925)
• 3rd » Andy Griffith, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1926)
• 3rd » Yvonne B. Miller, American politician (b. 1934)
• 3rd » Sergio Pininfarina, Italian automobile designer and politician (b. 1926)
• 3rd » Hollie Stevens, American porn actress (b. 1982)
• 3rd » Richard Alvin Tonry, American lawyer and politician (b. 1935)
• 4th » Scamper (horse) e.g Scamper, American horse (b. 1977)
• 4th » Hiren Bhattacharyya, Indian poet (b. 1932)
• 4th » Jimmy Bivins, American boxer (b. 1919)
• 4th » Jeong Min-hyeong, South Korean footballer (b. 1987)
• 4th » Eric Sykes, English actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
• 5th » Rob Goris, Belgian cyclist (b. 1982)
• 5th » Gerrit Komrij, Dutch author, poet, and playwright (b. 1944)
• 5th » Colin Marshall, Baron Marshall of Knightsbridge, English businessman and politician (b. 1933)
• 5th » Bob Rowland Smith, American politician (b. 1925)
• 5th » Ruud van Hemert, Dutch actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
• 6th » Hani al-Hassan, Palestinian engineer and politician (b. 1939)
• 6th » Charles Drake (American football) named Charles Drake American football player (b. 1981)
• 6th » James McKinley (American football) e.g James McKinley, American football player and coach (b. 1945)
• 6th » Bill Norrie, Canadian politician, 39th Mayor of Winnipeg (b. 1929)
• 6th » Angelo Paternoster, American football player (b. 1919)
• 6th » Anthony Sedlak, Canadian chef (b. 1983)
• 7th » Ronaldo Cunha Lima, Brazilian poet and politician (b. 1936)
• 7th » Mouss Diouf, Senegalese-French actor (b. 1964)
• 7th » Dennis Flemion, American drummer (The Frogs (band) e.g The Frogs) (b. 1955)
• 7th » Doris Neal, American baseball player (b. 1928)
• 7th » Jerry Norman, American sinologist and linguist (b. 1936)
• 7th » Leon Schlumpf, Swiss politician (b. 1927)
• 8th » Muhammed bin Saud Al Saud, Saudi Arabian politician (b. 1934)
• 8th » Lionel Batiste, American singer (Treme Brass Band) (b. 1931)
• 8th » Ernest Borgnine, American actor and singer (b. 1917)
• 8th » Gyang Dalyop Datong, Nigerian politician (b. 1959)
• 8th » Martin Pakledinaz, American costume designer (b. 1953)
• 8th » John Williams (offensive lineman) known as John Williams, American football player (b. 1947)
• 9th » Shin Jae-chul, South Korean-American martial artist (b. 1936)
• 9th » Chick King, American baseball player (b. 1930)
• 9th » Terepai Maoate, Cook Islander politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (b. 1934)
• 9th » Eugênio Sales, Brazilian cardinal (b. 1920)
• 9th » Brian Thomas (rugby player) e.g Brian Thomas, Welsh rugby player and manager (b. 1940)
• 9th » Isuzu Yamada, Japanese actress (b. 1917)
• 10th » Dolphy, Filipino actor, singer, and producer (b. 1928)
• 10th » Lol Coxhill, English saxophonist (b. 1932)
• 10th » Maria Cole, American singer (b. 1922)
• 10th » Peter Kyros, American lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
• 10th » Fritz Langanke, German lieutenant (b. 1919)
• 10th » Berthe Meijer, German-Dutch journalist and author (b. 1938)
• 10th » Viktor Suslin, Russian-German composer (b. 1942)
• 11th » Art Ceccarelli, American baseball player (b. 1930)
• 11th » Marion Cunningham (author) called Marion Cunningham, American author (b. 1922)
• 11th » Richard Scudder, American journalist and publisher, co-founded MediaNews Group (b. 1913)
• 11th » Donald J. Sobol, American soldier and author (b. 1924)
• 11th » Marvin Traub, American businessman and author (b. 1925)
• 12th » Alimuddin (cricketer) known as Alimuddin, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1930)
• 12th » Eddy Brown, English footballer and manager (b. 1926)
• 12th » Else Holmelund Minarik, Danish-American author and illustrator (b. 1920)
• 12th » Roger Payne (mountaineer) or Roger Payne, English mountaineer (b. 1956)
• 12th » Hamid Samandarian, Iranian director (b. 1931)
• 12th » Dara Singh, Indian wrestler and actor (b. 1928)
• 12th » George C. Stoney, American director and producer (b. 1916)
• 12th » Ginny Tyler, American voice actress and singer (b. 1925)
• 13th » Shlomo Bentin, Romanian-Israeli psychologist and academic (b. 1946)
• 13th » Polde Bibič, Slovenian actor and screenwriter (b. 1933)
• 13th » Warren Jabali, American basketball player (b. 1946)
• 13th » Jerzy Kulej, Polish boxer and politician (b. 1940)
• 13th » Sage Stallone, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1976)
• 13th » Richard D. Zanuck, American film producer (b. 1934)
• 13th » Ginny Tyler, American voice actress and singer (b. 1925)
• 14th » John Arbuthnott, 16th Viscount of Arbuthnott, Scottish businessman and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire (b. 1924)
• 14th » Barton Biggs, American businessman (b. 1932)
• 14th » Don Brinkley, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 14th » Frank R. Burns, American football player and coach (b. 1928)
• 14th » Bohuslav Ceplecha, Czech race car driver (b. 1977)
• 14th » King Hill, American football player (b. 1936)
• 14th » Sixten Jernberg, Swedish skier (b. 1929)
• 14th » Roy Shaw, English businessman and boxer (b. 1936)
• 15th » Boris Cebotari, Moldovan footballer (b. 1975)
• 15th » Tsilla Chelton, Israeli-French actress (b. 1919)
• 15th » Celeste Holm, American actress and singer (b. 1917)
• 15th » Yoichi Takabayashi, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
• 16th » William Asher, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 16th » Bob Babbitt, American bass player (The Funk Brothers) (b. 1937)
• 16th » Stephen Covey, American businessman and author (b. 1932)
• 16th » Gilbert Esau, American politician (b. 1919)
• 16th » Ed Lincoln, Brazilian bassist, pianist, and composer (b. 1932)
• 16th » Jon Lord, English keyboard player and songwriter (Deep Purple, The Artwoods, The Flower Pot Men, and Paice Ashton Lord) (b. 1941)
• 16th » Masaharu Matsushita, Japanese businessman (b. 1913)
• 16th » Kitty Wells, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1919)
• 17th » Richard Evatt, English boxer (b. 1973)
• 17th » Forrest S. McCartney, American general (b. 1931)
• 17th » Ms. Melodie, American rapper (b. 1964)
• 17th » İlhan Mimaroğlu, Turkish-American composer (b. 1926)
• 17th » Morgan Paull, American actor (b. 1944)
• 17th » William Raspberry, American journalist and academic (b. 1935)
• 17th » Marsha Singh, Indian-English politician (b. 1954)
• 18th » Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, Lithuanian-Israeli rabbi (b. 1910)
• 18th » Jean François-Poncet, French politician, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (France) or Minister of Foreign Affairs for France (b. 1928)
• 18th » Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor, producer, politician (b. 1942)
• 18th » Pancho Martin, Cuban-American horse trainer (b. 1925)
• 18th » Jack Matthews, Welsh rugby player and physician (b. 1920)
• 18th » Dawoud Rajiha, Syrian general and politician, Ministry of Defense (Syria) named Minister of Defense for Syria (b. 1947)
• 18th » Assef Shawkat, Syrian general and politician (b. 1950)
• 18th » Hasan Turkmani, Syrian general and politician (b. 1935)
• 19th » Humayun Ahmed, Bangladeshi director and playwright (b. 1948)
• 19th » Tom Davis (comedian) known as Tom Davis, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1952)
• 19th » Mohammad Hassan Ganji, Iranian meteorologist and academic (b. 1912)
• 19th » Omar Suleiman, Egyptian general and politician, 16th Vice President of Egypt (b. 1935)
• 19th » E. V. Thompson, English author (b. 1931)
• 19th » Valiulla Yakupov, Islamic cleric (b. 1963)
• 20th » Alastair Burnet, English journalist (b. 1928)
• 20th » Andrew Davidson, 2nd Viscount Davidson, English politician (b. 1928)
• 20th » Jack Davis (athlete) called Jack Davis, American hurdler (b. 1930)
• 20th » Goldie Rogers, Canadian wrestler (b. 1950)
• 20th » Hisham Ikhtiyar, Syrian general (b. 1941)
• 20th » Sherman Pendergarst, American mixed martial artist (b. 1966)
• 20th » José Hermano Saraiva, Portuguese historian and jurist (b. 1919)
• 20th » Simon Ward, English actor (b. 1941)
• 21st » Alexander Cockburn, Scottish-American journalist and author (b. 1941)
• 21st » Marie Kruckel, American baseball player (b. 1924)
• 21st » Susanne Lothar, German actress (b. 1960)
• 21st » Ali Podrimja, Albanian poet and author (b. 1942)
• 21st » James D. Ramage, American admiral and pilot (b. 1916)
• 21st » Angharad Rees, English actress (b. 1949)
• 21st » Don Wilson (cricketer) e.g Don Wilson, English cricketer and coach (b. 1937)
• 22nd » Jim Carlen, American football player and coach (b. 1933)
• 22nd » Ernie Machin, English footballer (b. 1944)
• 22nd » George Armitage Miller, American psychologist and academic (b. 1920)
• 22nd » Oswaldo Payá, Cuban engineer and activist (b. 1952)
• 22nd » Fern Persons, American actress (b. 1910)
• 22nd » Frank Pierson, American director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
• 22nd » Ed Stevens (baseball) e.g Ed Stevens, American baseball player and coach (b. 1925)
• 22nd » Bohdan Stupka, Ukrainian actor (b. 1941)
• 23rd » Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen (b. 1926)
• 23rd » Margaret Mahy, New Zealand author (b. 1936)
• 23rd » Sally Ride, American physicist and astronaut (b. 1951)
• 23rd » Lakshmi Sahgal, Indian soldier and politician (b. 1914)
• 23rd » Esther Tusquets, Spanish publisher and author (b. 1936)
• 23rd » José Luis Uribarri, Spanish television host and director (b. 1936)
• 23rd » Duane Wood, American football player (b. 1937)
• 24th » Chad Everett, American actor (b. 1936)
• 24th » Sherman Hemsley, American actor (b. 1938)
• 24th » Larry Hoppen, American singer and guitarist (Orleans (band) e.g Orleans) (b. 1951)
• 24th » Robert Ledley, American physiologist and physicist, invented the CT scanner (b. 1926)
• 24th » Themo Lobos, Chilean author and illustrator (b. 1928)
• 24th » John Atta Mills, Ghanaian politician, 3rd President of Ghana (b. 1944)
• 24th » Gregorio Peces-Barba, Spanish jurist and politician (b. 1938)
• 25th » David Barby, English antiques expert (b. 1943)
• 25th » Shelby Harris, American soldier (b. 1901)
• 25th » B. R. Ishara, Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1934)
• 25th » Barry Langford, English director and producer (b. 1926)
• 25th » Greg Mohns, American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1950)
• 25th » Franz West, Austrian painter and sculptor (b. 1947)
• 26th » Don Bagley, American bassist and composer (b. 1927)
• 26th » Miriam Ben-Porat, Russian-Israeli jurist (b. 1918)
• 26th » Karl Benjamin, American painter (b. 1925)
• 26th » Lupe Ontiveros, American actress (b. 1942)
• 26th » Pat Porter, American runner (b. 1959)
• 26th » Mary Tamm, English actress (b. 1950)
• 26th » James D. Watkins, American admiral and politician, 6th United States Secretary of Energy (b. 1927)
• 27th » Norman Alden, American actor (b. 1924)
• 27th » R. G. Armstrong, American actor and playwright (b. 1917)
• 27th » Darryl Cotton, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Zoot (band) known as Zoot and Cotton Keays & Morris) (b. 1949)
• 27th » Geoffrey Hughes, English actor (b. 1944)
• 27th » Tony Martin (American singer) e.g Tony Martin, American actor and singer (b. 1913)
• 27th » Jack Taylor (referee) called Jack Taylor, English footballer and referee (b. 1930)
• 27th » Carl-Ludwig Wagner, German politician (b. 1930)
• 28th » Adam Cullen, Australian painter (b. 1965)
• 28th » Colin Horsley, New Zealand-English pianist and educator (b. 1920)
• 28th » Carol Kendall, American author (b. 1917)
• 28th » Sepp Mayerl, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1937)
• 28th » William F. Milliken, Jr., American race car driver and engineer (b. 1911)
• 28th » Ruth Mott, English chef and author (b. 1917)
• 28th » David Thomas (cricketer, born 1959) or David Thomas, English cricketer (b. 1959)
• 29th » Tatiana Egorova, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1970)
• 29th » John P. Finnegan, American actor (b. 1926)
• 29th » August Kowalczyk, Polish actor and director (b. 1921)
• 29th » Chris Marker, French photographer and journalist (b. 1921)
• 29th » James Mellaart, English archaeologist and author (b. 1925)
• 29th » Vempati Chinna Satyam, Indian dancer and guru (b. 1929)
• 29th » John Stampe, Danish footballer and coach (b. 1957)
• 30th » Maeve Binchy, Irish author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1940)
• 30th » Bill Doss, American singer and guitarist (The Olivia Tremor Control, The Apples in Stereo, and The Sunshine Fix) (b. 1968)
• 30th » Stig Ossian Ericson, Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
• 30th » Les Green, English footballer and manager (b. 1941)
• 30th » Jonathan Hardy, New Zealand-Australian actor and screenwriter (b. 1940)
• 30th » Bill Kitchen (ice hockey) e.g Bill Kitchen, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1960)
• 30th » Mary Louise Rasmuson, American colonel (b. 1911)
• 31st » César Amaro, Uruguayan guitarist (b. 1948)
• 31st » Mollie Hunter, Scottish author (b. 1922)
• 31st » Lucio Quarantotto, Italian songwriter (b. 1957)
• 31st » Alfredo Ramos, Brazilian footballer and coach (b. 1924)
• 31st » Gore Vidal, American journalist, author, and screenwriter (b. 1925)

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