Browsing: July 12

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on July 12th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On July 12, 100 B.C., Julius Caesar was born by what many believe to have been the first Caesarian section. On July 12, 1543, King Henry VIII of England married Catherine Parr, his sixth and final wife. On July 12, 1561, St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow was consecrated. On July 12, 1776, famous explorer English Captain James Cook set sail from Plymouth…

A Brief History On July 12, 1979, the island nation of Kiribati came into being as the Republic of Kiribati, a group of islands in the Gilbert Island chain of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean.  Prior to independence, Kiribati was a territory of the United Kingdom. Digging Deeper Consisting of a single island and 32 coral atolls, the nation is home to about 120,000 residents.  It is the main island and capital you may be familiar with, Tarawa atoll, which itself is divided into North and South Tarawa Islands.  Half the population of Kiribati lives on Tarawa. World War II…

A Brief History On July 12, 2022, we acknowledge that we finally got around to trying the gourmet coffee offered by Coffee Brand Coffee.  As someone who drinks at least a pot of coffee each day, coffee is an incredibly important part of my life.  After growing up drinking coffee with cream and sugar, and then with only cream, the quality of the coffee was masked and did not matter so much.  After switching to drinking black coffee, a whole new world of discerning the quality of the coffee was discovered and became a critical part of my choice of…

A Brief History On July 12, 1776, famous explorer English Captain James Cook set sail from Plymouth on what was to be his final voyage.  The premier English explorer of the Pacific, Cook had taken voyages from 1768-1771 and 1772-1775, greatly expanding British knowledge of the Pacific, its islands, aits people.  Cook’s third voyage would take the route around Africa to the Indian Ocean and on to the Pacific. Digging Deeper Captain Cook was given the task of returning a young man named Omai (Mai in his native language) to his homeland of the island of Raiatea, one of the…

A Brief History On July 12, 1917, the local sheriff deputized 2000 men as a posse to do the dirty work for the local mining company, called Phelps Dodge Corporation, and forcibly and illegally “deported” 1300 people to New Mexico.  The deported people were striking miners and their supporters, most of which were Mexican Americans.  Echoes of this shameful event are evident today when we are on the precipice of another announced mass round up and deportation of undocumented (i.e., “illegal”) Mexicans from the United States, to be conducted legally by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) at the…