^B{^#!16!12 July^N! Orangeman's Day in Northern Ireland. Feast day of St John the Iberian, St Jason, Saints Hermagoras and Fortunatus, St John Gualbert, St John Jones, St Veronica, and St Felix.
^B{1543^B} Henry VIII married Catherine Parr, his sixth and last wife, at Hampton Court Palace. ^B{1794^B} British admiral Horatio Nelson lost his right eye at the siege of Calvi, in Corsica. ^B{1878^B} Cyprus was ceded to British administration by Turkey. ^B{1920^B} US President Wilson opened the Panama Canal. ^B{1930^B} Australian batsman Don Bradman scored a record 334 runs - of which a record 309 were scored in one day - against England at Leeds. ^B{1970^B} Thor Heyerdahl and his crew crossed the Atlantic in 57 days, in a papyrus boat. ^B{1991^B} Hitoshi Igarashi, the Japanese translator of Salman Rushdie's ^I{Satanic Verses^I}, was found stabbed to death in Tokyo.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Gaius Julius Caesar, Roman emperor, ^B{100 BC^B}; Henry Thoreau, US author, ^B{1817^B}; George Eastman, US photographic pioneer, ^B{1854^B}; Amadeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor, ^B{1884^B}; Bill Cosby, US comedian and actor, ^B{1937^B}; Jennifer Saunders, English comedienne and actress, ^B{1958^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch scholar, ^B{1536^B}; Titus Oates, British conspirator, ^B{1705^B}; Charles Stewart Rolls, British engineer and aviator, ^B{1910^B}; Mazo de la Roche, Canadian novelist, ^B{1961^B}; Kenneth More, British actor, ^B{1982^B}.
