On This Day: July 12th

Gazpromavia Flight 9608 crashes in Russia's Kolomensky District near Kolomna, killing three.

Six people are killed and 200 injured in a French passenger train derailment in Brétigny-sur-Orge.

Syrian Civil War: Government forces target the homes of rebels and activists in Tremseh and kill anywhere between 68 and 150 people.

A tank truck explosion kills more than 100 people in Okobie, Nigeria.

U.S. Army Apache helicopters engage in airstrikes against armed insurgents in Baghdad, Iraq, where civilians are killed; footage from the cockpit is later leaked to the Internet.

A cross-border raid by Hezbollah militants starts the 2006 Lebanon War.

Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-104, carrying the Quest Joint Airlock to the International Space Station.

The Ulster Volunteer Force attack a house in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland with a petrol bomb, killing the Quinn brothers.

France win their first World Cup title, defeating defending champions Brazil 3–0.

Chinese seismologists successfully predict the 1995 Myanmar–China earthquake, reducing the number of casualties to 11.