Today in History: July 12, Disco Demolition Night
In the current era is Saturday July the rd day of There are days left in the year In current times in history On July as an angry reaction to the popularity of disco music the Chicago White Sox held the Disco Demolition Night promotion in which a crate of disco records was blown up on the field between games of a double-header the ensuing riot and damage to the field caused the White Sox to forfeit the second meeting Also on this date In England s King Henry VIII married his sixth and final wife Catherine Parr Related Articles FBI director Dan Bongino reportedly eyeing resignation Wildfires force evacuations at Grand Canyon and Black Canyon of the Gunnison parks Trump tariff on Canadian goods to go into effect Aug Who will and won t benefit from the bigger SALT deduction Son of El Chapo pleads guilty in US drug trafficking situation In United States forces led by Gen William Hull entered Canada during the War of against Britain However Hull retreated shortly thereafter to Detroit In during the Civil War President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill authorizing the Army Medal of Honor In the House of Representatives joined the Senate in passing the th Amendment to the U S Constitution allowing for a federal income tax and submitted it to the states It was declared ratified in February In the Rolling Stones played their first show at the Marquee Club in London In rioting erupted in Newark New Jersey over the police beating of a Black taxi driver people were killed in the five days of violence that followed In Democratic presidential candidate Walter F Mondale declared his choice of U S Rep Geraldine A Ferraro of New York to be his running mate Ferraro was the first woman to run for vice president on a major-party ticket In Japanese professor Hitoshi Igarashi who had translated Salman Rushdie s The Satanic Verses was discovered stabbed to death nine days after the novel s Italian translator was attacked in Milan In President Bill Clinton visiting Germany went to the eastern sector of Berlin the first U S president to do so since Harry Truman In the USS Ronald Reagan the first carrier named for a living president was commissioned in Norfolk Virginia In a scathing analysis by former FBI Director Louis Freeh noted the late Joe Paterno and other top Penn State leaders had buried child sexual abuse accusations against Jerry Sandusky more than a decade earlier to avoid bad publicity In Twitter sued Elon Musk to force him to complete the billion acquisition of the social media company after Musk disclosed he was backing off his agreement to buy the company He would eventually become Twitter s owner three months later Currently s Birthdays Writer Delia Ephron is Singer Walter Egan is Writer-producer Brian Grazer is Actor Cheryl Ladd is Gospel singer Ricky McKinnie The Blind Boys of Alabama is Gospel singer Sandi Patty is Actor Mel Harris is Boxing champion Julio Cesar Chavez is Rock singer Robin Wilson Gin Blossoms is Actor Lisa Nicole Carson is Olympic gold medal figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi is Actor Anna Friel is R B singer Tracie Spencer is Actor Topher Grace is Actor Michelle Rodriguez is Country singer-musician Kimberly Perry The Band Perry is Actor Natalie Martinez is Actor Ta Rhonda Jones is Actor Rachel Brosnahan is Olympic gold medal gymnast Jordyn Wieber is Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai is NBA guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is
