Chicago Daily Tribune

ON JULY 12 ...

In 100 B.C. Roman dictator Julius Caesar was born.

In 1817 writer Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Mass.

In 1854 George Eastman, inventor of the Kodak camera, was born in Waterville, N.Y.

In 1862 Congress authorized the Medal of Honor.

In 1864 scientist and educator George Washington

Carver was born near Diamond Grove, Mo.

In 1976 U.S. Rep. Barbara Jordan of Texas became the first woman and the first African-American to give the keynote speech at a Democratic National Convention.

In 1979 “Disco Demolition Night” got out of hand at Comiskey Park, forcing the White Sox to forfeit to the Detroit Tigers.

In 1996 Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana agreed to the terms of their divorce, ending their 15year marriage.

In 2004 Wall Street brokerage Morgan Stanley settled a sex-discrimination suit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, agreeing to pay $54 million.

In 2005 Mohammed Bouyeri, a Muslim extremist on trial in the slaying of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, unexpectedly confessed in court, saying he was driven by religious conviction. (Bouyeri was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.)

In 2012 a scathing report by former FBI Director Louis Freeh said the late Joe Paterno and other top Penn State officials had buried child sexual abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky more than a decade earlier to avoid bad publicity.

In 2015 Mexico mounted an all-out manhunt for powerful drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who escaped through a milelong tunnel from a maximum security prison.

In 2017 an investor group led by former Chicago Ald. Edwin Eisendrath and the Chicago Federation of Labor bought the Chicago Sun-Times, keeping the city’s No. 2 paper in business and ending a bid by the Chicago Tribune’s owner to acquire its longtime rival.