| 79111 | July 12 | Event | 1962 – The Rolling Stones perform their first concert, at the Marquee Club in London, England, United Kingdom. |
| 79112 | July 12 | Event | 1963 – Pauline Reade, who was 16 years old, disappears on her way to a dance at the British Railways Club in Gorton, England, the first victim in the Moors murders. |
| 79113 | July 12 | Event | 1967 – The Newark riots begin in Newark, New Jersey. |
| 79114 | July 12 | Event | 1970 – A fire consumes the wooden home of Norwegian composer Geirr Tveitt and irretrievably destroys about 90 percent of his output. |
| 79115 | July 12 | Event | 1971 – The Australian Aboriginal Flag is flown for the first time. |
| 79116 | July 12 | Event | 1973 – A fire destroys the entire sixth floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States. |
| 79117 | July 12 | Event | 1975 – São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal. |
| 79118 | July 12 | Event | 1979 – The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from United Kingdom. |
| 79119 | July 12 | Event | 1989 – Lotte World Adventure opened in Seoul, South Korea. |
| 79120 | July 12 | Event | 2006 – Hezbollah initiates Operation True Promise. |
| 79121 | July 12 | Event | 2007 – U.S. Army Apache helicopters perform airstrikes in Baghdad, Iraq footage from the cockpit is later leaked to the Internet. |
| 79122 | July 12 | Event | 2012 – The Turaymisah massacre kills 250 people during a Syrian military operation in a village within the Hama Governorate. |
| 79123 | July 12 | Event | 2012 – A tank truck explosion kills more than 100 people in Okobie, Nigeria. |
| 79124 | July 12 | Event | 2013 – 6 people are killed and 200 injured in a passenger train derailment in Brétigny-sur-Orge, France. |
| 79125 | July 12 | Birth | 1394 – Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (d. 1441) |
| 79126 | July 12 | Birth | 1468 – Juan del Encina, Spanish poet, playwright, and composer (d. 1530) |
| 79127 | July 12 | Birth | 1596 – Michael I of Russia (d. 1645) |
| 79128 | July 12 | Birth | 1675 – Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1742) |
| 79129 | July 12 | Birth | 1730 – Josiah Wedgwood, English potter, founded the Wedgwood Company (d. 1795) |
| 79130 | July 12 | Birth | 1803 – Peter Chanel, French priest and saint (d. 1841) |
| 79131 | July 12 | Birth | 1807 – Thomas Hawksley, English engineer and academic (d. 1893) |
| 79132 | July 12 | Birth | 1813 – Claude Bernard, French physiologist and academic (d. 1878) |
| 79133 | July 12 | Birth | 1817 – Henry David Thoreau, American philosopher and author (d. 1862) |
| 79134 | July 12 | Birth | 1824 – Eugène Boudin, French painter (d. 1898) |
| 79135 | July 12 | Birth | 1828 – Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (d. 1889) |
| 79136 | July 12 | Birth | 1849 – William Osler, Canadian physician and author (d. 1919) |
| 79137 | July 12 | Birth | 1850 – Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist and academic (d. 1912) |
| 79138 | July 12 | Birth | 1852 – Hipólito Yrigoyen, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 19th President of Argentina (d. 1933) |
| 79139 | July 12 | Birth | 1854 – George Eastman, American businessman, founded Eastman Kodak (d. 1933) |
| 79140 | July 12 | Birth | 1855 – Ned Hanlan, Canadian rower, academic, and businessman (d. 1908) |