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- 1863
- The Estrada de Ferro Dom Pedro II is completed to Rodeio, Rio de Janeiro.
- 1889
- A section of the Kansas City Cable Railway is completed in Kansas City, Missouri.
- 1898
- Ilfracombe Methodist Church in Ilfracombe, Devon, England.
- 1940
- The Hauptmarkthalle (main market hall) closes in Cologne.
- 1948
- A new and large Greyhound bus garage opens in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1967
- The Republic of Anguilla declares independence from the United Kingdom.
- 2022
- The Wallflower closes after 13 years in Vancouver, British Columbia.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on July 12, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on July 12 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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