On This Day
12th July
55 - Julius Caesar was born.
1543 – King Henry VIII of England married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr at Hampton Court Palace.
1812 – The United States invaded Canada at Windsor, Ontario.
1961 – The Panshet and Khadakvasala dams in India burst destroying most of the older sections of the city of Pune. Half of the city was submerged. More than 100,000 families dislocated and the death tally exceeded 2,000.
1962 – The Rolling Stones performed their first ever concert, at the Marquee Club in London.
1998 - Three young brothers, Richard Quinn, 11, Mark Quinn, 9, and Jason Quinn, 7, were murdered in a loyalist arson attack as the stand-off between Orangemen and police at Drumcree in Ireland.
2006 - Hezbollah guerrillas kidnapped two Israeli soldiers and killed eight others in a cross-border raid; Israel sent ground troops into Lebanon in response.
55 - Julius Caesar was born.
1543 – King Henry VIII of England married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr at Hampton Court Palace.
1812 – The United States invaded Canada at Windsor, Ontario.
1961 – The Panshet and Khadakvasala dams in India burst destroying most of the older sections of the city of Pune. Half of the city was submerged. More than 100,000 families dislocated and the death tally exceeded 2,000.
1962 – The Rolling Stones performed their first ever concert, at the Marquee Club in London.
1998 - Three young brothers, Richard Quinn, 11, Mark Quinn, 9, and Jason Quinn, 7, were murdered in a loyalist arson attack as the stand-off between Orangemen and police at Drumcree in Ireland.
2006 - Hezbollah guerrillas kidnapped two Israeli soldiers and killed eight others in a cross-border raid; Israel sent ground troops into Lebanon in response.