Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 12

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 * 1561 – Saint Basil's Cathedral (pictured), located in Red Square, Moscow, was consecrated.
 * 1843 – Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, is said to have received a revelation recommending plural marriage.
 * 1913 – Second Balkan War: The Serbian Army began the Siege of Vidin, which they abandoned six days later when an armistice between the Serbs and Bulgarians was signed.
 * 1916 – First World War: Second Lieutenant Kléber Dupuy defeated a German attack on Fort Souville at a key moment of the Battle of Verdun.
 * 1918 – An explosion in the ammunition magazine of the Japanese battleship Kawachi resulted in the deaths of more than 600 officers and crewmen.
 * 1920 – The Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty was signed, with Soviet Russia agreeing to recognize an independent Lithuania.
 * 1943 – World War II: German and Soviet forces engaged each other at the Battle of Prokhorovka (tanks pictured), one of the largest tank battles in military history.
 * 1963 – Sixteen-year-old Pauline Reade, the first victim of serial killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, disappeared in Gorton, England.
 * 1979 – Rowdy fans at Comiskey Park in Chicago stormed the field during a Major League Baseball promotional event at which a crate of disco records was blown up.
 * 1997 – Hayao Miyazaki's animated film Princess Mononoke is released, becoming the highest-grossing film in Japan for a few months.
 * 2006 – Hezbollah forces crossed the Israel–Lebanon border and attacked Israeli military positions while firing rockets and mortars at Israeli towns, sparking a five-week war.
 * 2007 – Two U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopters conducted a series of air-to-ground attacks in Baghdad.
 * Born/died: | Bertrada of Laon |d|783| John Komnenos|d|1067| Margaret Theresa of Spain |b|1651|Charles Chalmot de Saint-Ruhe |d|1691| Josiah Wedgwood |b|1730| George Eastman |b|1854| Mary Glen-Haig |b|1918| Gertrude Bell |d|1926| Elsie de Wolfe |d|1950| Sanjay Manjrekar |b|1965| Anne-Sophie Pic |b|1969| Eila Campbell |d|1994| Malala Yousafzai|b|1997| Mau Piailug|d|2010|