On July 12
No pivotal events are recorded on exactly July 12 in the Human Saga — here is the surrounding week in history.
This week in history (Jul 9 – Jul 15)
On 14 July 1789 a Parisian crowd seeking arms and gunpowder stormed the Bastille, a royal fortress-prison that symbolised Bourbon absolutism.
On 14 July 1889, the centenary of the storming of the Bastille, a Marxist International Socialist Congress convened in Paris and founded the Second International, a federation of socialist and labour parties drawn from some twenty…
The inaugural FIFA World Cup, the first global international association football tournament organised by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), was held in Uruguay from 13 to 30 July 1930.
In July 1995, during the final stages of the Bosnian War, units of the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska under General Ratko Mladic overran the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica, which the United Nations had declared a 'safe area'…
The African Union (AU) was formally launched on 9 July 2002 in Durban, South Africa, succeeding the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) that had been founded in 1963.
On 10 July 2008 Apple opened the App Store with around 500 applications, providing a single, curated platform where outside developers could distribute software directly to iPhone users and share in the revenue.
On 14 July 2015, after years of negotiation, Iran and the P5+1 group (the United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia, China and Germany, with the European Union) reached the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in Vienna.