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📌July 12, 2024
On this day
July 12, 1979: Between games of a baseball doubleheader involving the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers at Comiskey Park, disco records were blown up as part of a promotion dubbed Disco Demolition Night. Fans subsequently rushed the field, and as a result of the ensuing mayhem, the second game was forfeited to the Tigers.
July 12, 1975: The island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe was granted independence from Portugal.
July 12, 1962: Iconic British rock band the Rolling Stones performed their first show, billed as the Rollin' Stones, at a club in London.
July 12, 1904: Chilean poet, diplomat, and politician Pablo Neruda, perhaps the most important Latin American poet of the 20th century and the winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Parral.
July 12, 1884: Italian painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani, whose portraits are among the most important of the 20th century, was born.
July 12, 1862: The Medal of Honor, awarded for battlefield bravery, was created for the U.S. Army.
July 12, 1543: The English Parliament passed the Act of Supremacy, which declared King Henry VIII to be the Supreme Head of the Church in England. This effectively severed the English Church from the Roman Catholic Church and marked the beginning of the English Reformation. #OnThisDay
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