Today in History for 12th July 2016

Historical Events

1909 – 16th Amendment approved (power to tax incomes)
1949 – Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die
1950 – Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages, FH Van de Funten and F Fischer to death
1972 – Twelve years after the banning of the ANC and Pan Africanist Congress, a new political movement, the Black People Convention is formed after a three day long conference in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
1973 – A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States.
1992 – Betsy King wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament

Famous Birthdays

1895 – R Buckminster Fuller, architect/inventor (geodesic dome)
1902 – Gunther Anders, writer
1930 – Gordon Pinsent, Canadian actor, director, and writer
1945 – Dimitar Penev, Bulgaria soccer player/union coach (Lokomotiv/CSKA)
1962 – Stein Jorgesen, sprint kayak (Olympics-96), born in Los Angeles, California
1978 – Michelle Rodriguez, American actress

Famous Deaths

1712 – Richard Cromwell, English Lord Protector (1658-59), dies at 85
1962 – Roger Wolfe Kahn, American band leader (b. 1907)
1966 – D T Suzuki, Zen Buddhism scholar, dies in Tokyo Japan at 96
1990 – João Saldanha, Brazilian journalist and football manager (b. 1917)
1996 – Gottfried von Einem, composer, dies at 78
2010 – Harvey Pekar, American comic book writer (b. 1939)

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