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Events on July 12

• 1806 By signing the Act of the Confederation of the Rhine, several southern and western German principalities break away from the Empire and found the Confederation of the Rhine, with Napoleon serving as its protector; Liechtenstein becomes a sovereign state.
• 1929 The flying boat Dornier Do X, by far the largest aircraft of its time, makes its maiden flight over Lake Constance.
• 1937 Pablo Picasso presents his painting Guernica to the public for the first time at the Paris World's Fair.
• 1953 In Stern magazine, Loriot's final cartoons appear under the title Gone to the Dogs, before the series is discontinued due to reader protests.
• 1962 The Rolling Stones make their first appearance at the Marquee Club in London (official band formation).
• 1975 In Rust in southern Baden, Europa-Park, today Germany's largest amusement park, opens.
• 1979 The mountaineers Reinhold Messner and Michael Dacher reach the summit of the K2, the world's second-highest mountain in the Karakoram, without oxygen equipment.
• 1991 The German women's national football team becomes European champion at the European Championship in Denmark with a 3:1 win over Norway.
• 1994 The Federal Constitutional Court rules that deployments of the Bundeswehr abroad under a UN mandate are constitutional.
• 1995 After Bosnian Serb troops under Ratko Mladić take over the UN safe zone guarded by the Dutch battalion, the multi-day massacre of Srebrenica begins in the Bosnian War, the gravest war crime in Europe since the end of the Second World War.
• 1997 In Berlin, the 9th Love Parade techno party takes place. At the same time, the Hate Parade is held as a protest against the musical exclusion and commercialization of the Love Parade, from which the Fuck Parade demonstration later develops.
• 1998 France defeats Brazil 3:0 at the home World Cup in Saint-Denis and thereby becomes world champions in football for the first time.

Born on July 12

• 1854 George Eastman, American inventor and industrialist
• 1856 Gisela von Österreich, Daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph
• 1904 Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and Nobel laureate in literature
• 1943 Christine McVie, British musician, singer and songwriter
• 1962 Bruno Kahl, German intelligence officer
• 1972 Andrea Ballschuh, German television and radio presenter
• 1980 Johanna Klum, German television presenter
• 1991 James Rodríguez, Colombian footballer
• 2000 Vinícius Júnior, Brazilian footballer
• 2002 Nico Williams, Spanish footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „12. Juli“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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