📜 This Day in History

July 12

• 927King Æthelstan of England secured the submission of four northern rulers: Constantine II of Scotland, Hywel Dda of Deheubarth, Ealdred I of Bamburgh, and Owain ap Dyfnwal of Strathclyde, leading to seven years of peace.
• 1847Up to ten people died in a riot between Catholics and members of the Orange Order in Woodstock, New Brunswick.
• 1918An explosion in the ammunition magazine of the Japanese battleship Kawachi resulted in the deaths of more than 600 officers and crewmen.
• 1962The English rock band the Rolling Stones played their first concert at the Marquee Club in London.
• 1997Hayao Miyazaki's animated film Princess Mononoke is released, becoming the highest-grossing film in Japan for a few months.
• 2008An edit on the page of the coati nicknamed it the Brazilian aardvark, in which multiple news channels followed in pursuit.

Born on this day

• 100 BCJulius Caesar, Roman politician and general (died 44 BC)
• 1817Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, poet, and philosopher (died 1862)
• 1904Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1973)
• 1997Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani-English activist, Nobel Prize laureate