A 15 year exploration contract was granted by the Authority to Nauru Ocean Resources Inc. on 22 July 2011 and to Tonga Offshore Mining Limited on 12th January 2012.

Louis Stephen St. Laurent, PC, CC, QC ( Saint-Laurent or St-Laurent in French, baptized Louis-Étienne St-Laurent ), ( 1 February 188225 July 1973 ) was the 12th Prime Minister of Canada from 15 November 1948, to 21 June 1957.

Regardless of the unceremonious end to the 1994 season, Kenny Rogers pitched the 12th perfect game in Major League history on July 28.

Their 12th album, The Else, was released July 10, 2007, on Idlewild Recordings ( and distributed by Zoë Records for the CD version ), with an earlier digital release on May 15 at the iTunes Store.

* July 23 – 12th Street Riot / Detroit Race Riots: In Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city: 43 are killed, 342 injured and 1, 400 buildings burned.

* July 27 – Tokugawa Ieyoshi, 12th shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan ( b. 1793 )

* 12th Series ( 1985 )-4 May-6 July episodes ( Kenny Everett replaces Graeme for two shows and Samantha makes her first appearance.

On July 25, 1880, Captain Joseph H. Hurst, of Company A, 12th Infantry, and Commanding Officer of Fort Bennett, asked Deputy U. S. Marshal Virgil Earp to help him track Cowboys who had stolen six U. S. Army mules from Camp Rucker.

On July 31, 2002, the Pope canonized Juan Diego before a crowd of 12 million, and later that year included in the General Calendar of the Roman Rite, as optional memorials, the liturgical celebrations of Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin ( December 9th ) and Our Lady of Guadalupe ( December 12th ).

The band had also began working on their 12th full length album in late 2007 / early 2008 and began recording in July 2008.

The Kronia was an Athenian festival held in honor of Cronus ( Greek Kronos ) on the 12th day of Hekatombaion, the first month of the Attic calendar and roughly equivalent to last part of July and first part of August.

As of July 2012, Microsoft Academic Search website ranks NTU's overall engineering, according to the number publications and H-Index criteria, as the world's 12th since the last 10 years.

Thomas West, 3rd and 12th Baron De La Warr ( 9 July 1577 – 7 June 1618 ) was the Englishman after whom the bay, the river, and, consequently, an American Indian people and U. S. state, all later called " Delaware ", were named.

The school, Johnnie John, Sr. School, is kindergarten through 12th grade and has approximately 30 students ( July, 2009 ).

On July 12th, 2012, ex-Mayor David Silva, 61, and former City Manager Angel Perales, 43, pleaded guilty to one count of bribery and extortion, according to plea agreements and they each face up to 30 years in prison.

The Protestant commanders decided they could not ignore the threat and combined their two largest armies near Augsburg on July the 12th, the Swabian-Alsatian Army under Gustav Horn and the so called Franconian Army under Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar.

On the 12th of July 2007, the City Council approved the development of 3000 households.

On 25 July 2007, Pratibha Patil was the 12th and also the first woman to serve in the office.

* 12th Government of Ireland ( November 1966 – July 1969 )

Philip also had a large standard made with the image of the painting on one side and the royal coat of arms on the other, brought out in processions each year on the 12th July.

The 12th Air Division moved to Ellsworth on 15 July 1988.

On 31 July 1990, SAC replaced the 12th Air Division with the Strategic Warfare Center ( SWC ), which provided operational command and administrative control over Ellsworth's subordinate units.

Ma Ying-jeou (; born 13 July 1950 ) is a Chinese politician and the 12th and 13th term President of the Republic of China ( Taiwan ), and the Chairman of the Kuomintang, also known as the Chinese Nationalist Party.

Italian submarines participated in the Battle of the Atlantic from this base which was also a major base for German U-boats as headquarters of 12th U-boat Flotilla.

The first cannon in Europe were probably used in Iberia in the 11 and 12th centuries, and English cannon were first deployed in the Hundred Years ' War, at the Battle of Crécy, in 1346.

The Sosso kingdom ( 12th to 13th centuries ) briefly flourished in the void but the Islamic Mandinka Mali Empire came to prominence when Soundiata Kéïta defeated the Sosso ruler, Soumangourou Kanté at the semi-historical Battle of Kirina in c. 1235.

In 1938, Kalashnikov was conscripted into the Red Army, and became a tank driver and mechanic, achieving the rank of senior sergeant tank commander serving on the T-34s of the 24th Tank Regiment, 12th Tank Division stationed in Stryi before the regiment retreated after the Battle of Brody in June 1941.

In the 12th and 13th century, Guelders quickly expanded downstream along the sides of the Maas, Rhine, and IJssel rivers and even claimed the succession in the Duchy of Limburg, until it lost the 1288 Battle of Worringen against Berg and Brabant.

At its entrance, on the right bank of the river, lie the ruins of the 12th century castle of Rauheneck, and at its foot the Château Weilburg, built in 1820 – 1825 by Archduke Charles of Austria, the victor of the Aspern Battle.

** The 12th century Khmer temple Angkor Wat contains a dramatic depiction in bas-relief of the Battle of Lanka between Ravana's Rakshasas and Rama's monkeys.

David Ross, 12th of Balnagowan later led some of the clan at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651 where he was captured and imprisoned at the Tower of London.

* Battle of Mons Badonicus c. AD 496 ( 12th battle ) The date, location, and contestants of this battle are a matter of considerable debate.

The 12th ( HAC ) Regiment of Royal Horse Artillery took part in the Operation Torch landings and were in action at Thala in February 1943, where they halted a German advance following the Battle of the Kasserine Pass.

The Battle of Lanka is depicted in a famous bas-relief in the 12th century Khmer temple of Angkor Wat.

His family had been prominent in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire since the 12th century, the name appearing as Sent Cheveroll in the roll of Battle Abbey ; William inherited large estates from his father.

In 1945, the combined United States and Philippine Commonwealth ground troops together with the recognized guerrillas took in Cagayan by the attack from the Japanese troops during the liberated in Cagayan province was under the Filipino soldiers of the 1st, 2nd, 11th, 12th, 13th, 15th and 16th Infantry Division of the Philippine Commonwealth Army, 1st Infantry Regiment of the Philippine Constabulary and the 11th and 14th Infantry Regiment of the United States Armed Forces in the Philippines – Northern Luzon or USAFIP-NL from the Battle of Cagayan Valley during the Second World War.

After the success of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Chemulpo Bay on 9 February 1904, the way was clear for the Imperial Japanese Army to deploy the 2nd, the 12th, and the Guards Divisions of the Japanese 1st Army, commanded by Major-General Baron Tamemoto Kuroki, into Korea.

Similar town revolts led to the foundation of city-states throughout medieval Europe, such as in Russia ( Novgorod Republic, 12th century ), in Flanders ( Battle of Golden Spurs, 14th century ) in Switzerland ( the towns of the Old Swiss Confederacy, 14th century ), in Germany ( see the Hanseatic League, 14th-15th century ), and in Prussia ( Thirteen Years ' War, 15th century ).

Amongst them are some of the sea peoples spoken of in the Egyptian inscriptions previously mentioned, and many of the peoples who would later take part in the great migrations of the 12th century BC ( see Appendix A to the Battle of Qadesh ).

On April 8, 1968, Captain Cleland was the Battalion Signal Officer for the 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division during the Battle of Khe Sanh.

In a sleet storm on the 12th, Hohenzollern fought off the attacks of Masséna and Augereau in the Battle of Caldiero.

As a result the 12th Infantry suffered heavy casualties during the Battle of France and the subsequent retreat to and evacuation from Dunkirk.

When the Germans attacked during the Battle of the Bulge, First Army found itself on the north side of the salient, and thus isolated from 12th Army Group, its commanding authority.

Following the Battle of the Bulge, the Rhineland Campaign began, and First Army was transferred back to 12th Army Group.

On 11 June 1944 the Battle of Le Mesnil-Patry was fought to the east of the town, involving units of the 12th SS Panzer Division, 3rd Canadian Infantry Division and 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade.

Members of the 2 / 12th Battalion advance as Stuart tank s of the 2 / 6th Armoured Regiment, shell Japanese pillboxes in the final Battle of Buna-Gona | assault on Buna.

Members of " B " Company, 2 / 12th Battalion, who helped silence a Japanese mountain gun during the Battle of Prothero I & II.