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July 12

• 1994 - a Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules flies the 10,000th United Nations relief flight into Sarajevo

• 1945 – An Eastern Air Lines flight en route from Boston, Massachusetts to Miami with stops in Washington, DC and Columbia, SC collided with a US Army B-25 Mitchell bomber about 3,000 feet above Syracuse, SC (about 20 miles from Florence, SC). The commercial pilot, G. D. Davis, landed his craft in a cornfield nearby. One passenger, an infant, was killed. The bomber exploded; two died and one was able to parachute safely.

• 1937 - July 12-14 - Mikhail Gromov, A. B. Yumashev, and S. A. Danilin establish a new distance record of 10,148 km (6,303 miles) from Moscow to San Jacinto, California, USA via the North Pole.

• 1910 - Charles Rolls is killed in a crash at Bournemouth, becoming the first British aviation fatality

• 1849 - July 12 and July 25, balloons (Montgolfières) are used for bombardment for the first time, with Austrians bombing Venice.