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Home > Learning Calendar > This Day > July 12th

    J U L Y     12th    
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1984 - Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale announced he had chosen 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.

George Washington Carver born 1861

R. Buckminster Fuller born 1895

Andrew Wyeth born 1917

1817 - Henry David Thoreau (philosopher, writer: On Walden Pond) born

Bill Cosby born 1937

Oscar Hammerstein II born 1895

Panama Canal construction began (1920)

US Medal of Honor authorized (1862)

Thor Heyerdahl reached Barbados in the Ra-2 (1970)

1st Minimum Wage Law enacted ($0.33/hour; 1933)



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